skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was interested in the "Elektro" robot mentioned in the last newspaper article and saw that there was footage of it as part of a movie [0].

> Several minutes of color sound footage of Elektro in action can be seen at 33:55 in the movie, "The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair", a fully-produced hour-long movie made by Westinghouse, which showcased the Westinghouse pavilion

The link [1] from Wikipedia was rough quality so here is a better quality link (queued up) [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektro

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T35A3g_GvSg

[2] https://youtu.be/Q6TQEoDS-fQ?t=2028
Uh no.

If you're a professor at a state school, and part of your job involves research into the effectiveness of drug policies in harm prevention, then you're not only allowed to make derogatory comments about your employer but compelled to do so if that is where your research takes you.

This is not about party-political point scoring: lives are literally at stake, never mind fundamental academic freedoms.
Well from the privacy policy :

> Why do we collect personal data?
> Protect against fraud, or implement additional security measures.

Another play on the verified human angle ?
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It's possible. You just need to start manufacturing CCTVs, and encourage hotels to install them in their bathrooms to lower costs!
I think if someone tries to tow 14k lbs with a cybertruck, it's going to be ripped in half.
Whilst authentication was generally lacking, PGP was available and tended to be used for, e.g., security announcements.

Not widely adopted, of course.
All models are wrong, some models are useful.

The goal of technical analysis is to find pools of supply and demand at different price points, much like a clustering algorithm. It is reductive by its very nature but it's still a useful approximation because big interpretable clusters can absolutely drive price action and it's helpful to have a model for that. On a good day, you might get the biggest 2 or 3 clusters correct to within 10% and miss several others totaling 1000000x the size and importance of a hypothetical bozo trading based on a coin flip, and this highly imperfect outcome would still be enormously valuable and worth pursuing.

It's like politicians assembling a platform by considering the sizes and interests of voting blocs. This strategy was always going to be a reductive, imperfect, noisy mess but that doesn't make it irrational or useless.
Can't believe this is coming from PhD students from Princeton University! It's so obviously flawed.
The idea that OpenAI was intentionally watermarking its output to avoid training data back-contamination should be thoroughly discredited now.
How to Make a Superconductor at Home (2015)
Pegasus was much, much more intrusive than a targeted payload from the Play Store and it took years before that was discovered.

Note that Signal is specifically not allowed to be distributed outside of their own apk download and Google/Apple. They have made that repeatedly clear and will take measures against such distribution.

Security is not a scalar. It is probably better for the mass audience but worse if your adversaries includes Google employees.

Take note of your threat model. From what we know of three letter agencies, they probably won't bother. They prefer spyware-like control of the end device. That way they don't need to target the encryption of individual apps, it is far more effective to collect communications after it is decrypted and read by the target.
Of course that exploited the pervasive POTS network over which we could tunnel ISP traffic.

What is the replacement? Mesh wifi? Guerilla fiber deployments? Or just a bunch of VPN tunnel brokers trying to evade blocklists on the corp-approved ISPs you have to keep using in place of POTS?
Same on android firefox, but you can close it by clicking outside of the modal
I'm really not sure who this is for.

> Plasticity is the ultimate tool for creative professionals in the video game industry, product design, and beyond. Say goodbye to clunky CAD workflows designed for manufacturability.

Creatives are already NOT using "clunky CAD workflows designed for manufacturability". They're using Maya and Blender and Cinema 4D and 3DS Max, none of those are aimed at assets that are meant to be manufactured.

This product is like someone thought CGI artists were using Catia or Solidworks and made something better from that perspective.

And from the other perspective "product design" well the manufacturing stuff for physical product design is actually super important.

Who is your ideal customer and what are they trying to do, how does your product help them?
I was having a conversation with a family friend from church; he was 12 or 14 or so. He mentioned having a lot of trouble finding a Linux wireless driver for his laptop. He said he couldn't even find one on GitHub. Then I felt sorry for him, poking around on strangers' repos on GitHub for kernel-mode stuff. Who knows what you could pick up in those dark corners.
I think of it in the same way as JavaScript. Clearly, it has issues, but if you want to work on the web, it is what you have available. If you want to speak to Oracle/MySQL/SQL Server/Postgres database you are writing SQL. New entrants, could make a new language, but now they are fighting a battle on two fronts: the novel technology +query language.
Not the author. Just thought I'd post this here.
If something is free, you're the product.
>Yea it’s strange to be framing this as a first amendment issue.

How so? this is like a textbook example of a first amendment issue from con law in a 1L curriculum
This is a good discussion of concepts. However, a lot of the folks worried about superintelligence miss an important division within the concept of "intelligence." Specifically with respect to the current generation of LLMs.

Namely, there's a huge difference between the concept of intelligence and an intelligent agent.

You could make the argument that current LLMs have some level of intelligence. But (without a lot of supporting infrastructure) they are not agents, they have no built in mechanism for having any kind of intent or even short-term memory. Because they fundamentally just generate a single token at once, they don't even exist "within time" the way we normally would think of an intelligent entity as doing... they're more like a mathematical function that you can invoke on demand. Perhaps to get an "intelligent" result, but conflating that kind of intelligence with an intelligent entity or actor seems like a mistake.

To use the analogy in the OP, it would be like calling a single hydraulic piston "strong". Sure, but unless you attach it to something it's not the same kind of strong as a bodybuilder is.
Awesome! What are some good resources on making a simple UNIX like operating system? I know osdev wiki exists, anything else?
> To this day I still wonder if I was really the one unprofessional and that I should just force myself to "work".

I've grown to interpret "unprofessional" in the scope of resignations as code-word for "it inconveniences your manager". Your higher-ups aren't fending accusations of being unprofessional for fostering hostile work environments that are hazardous to their employees' health. Why should you fend off similar accusations for avoiding the harm they are doing to their workforce?

Complaining how an employee dismisses himself is particularly hypocritical when it happens in jurisdictions where at-will employment is the norm.
It isn't just this one. There are a hundred different "AI detectors" sold online that are all basically snake oil, but overzealous professors and school administrators will keep paying for them regardless.
They were also able to pay peanuts to send humans into harrowing situations to get the tunnels and tracks and etc. made, collapses or flooding or other injury-inducing hells be damned.

America does build infrastructure painfully slowly and bureaucratically, but I don't think we're ever getting the early-1900s esque speed of building back at a price public entities will pay (or a price private entities could ever realisticlaly recoup). Enough rules have been written in blood to ensure that.
Let's see if she gets tenure, though.
Very cool. I wish I could have visited. I miss wacky theme bars like this.

One of my favorite theme bars was a place in Mexico City called "Bang Bang" (closed down years ago).

It was Stanley Kubrick themed. There were little black and white TVs everywhere playing weird stuff. Then in the back was a replica 2001: A Space Odyssey bedroom; from the end of the movie. With a glowing white floor. Many people would pile into the bed to smoke, drink, and make out.
Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2023 Results [pdf]
The company reported EPS of $1.44 vs. Consensus of $1.34 and Revenues of $74.6 Billion vs. $72.85 Consensus.
Actually that isn't quite correct. A router is needed to route packets both directions, in your case and in a no-NAT scenario. The ISP could make everything a flat L2 network between consumers (you'd plug a switch into your ISP handoff), but that would be a bad idea on a lot of levels.
I didn't know that. Well, I suspected it, because something is clearly wrong, yeah, but.. you know what I mean?
> In a two-car accident, the larger car is likely to fare better

If you've ever heard about the numerous SUV rollovers in the 90s - especially on poorly designed roads (see: reduced-turning-radius cloverleaf intersections) - you would realize that collisions with other vehicles are a mere fraction of the accidents you can have.

People buy big because they can afford it - guess what, economy sucks and the used market is crazy so there is incentive for new smaller cars.
I first learned about alpine because I saw a project use it for their containers.
It's literally rated for 14,000 lbs, so no, it won't.
Just a note that you have to have at least 12GB VRAM for it to be worth even trying to use your GPU for LLaMA 2.

The 7B model quantized to 4 bits can fit in 8GB VRAM with room for the context, but is pretty useless for getting good results in my experience. 13B is better but still not anything near as good as the 70B, which would require >35GB VRAM to use at 4 bit quantization.

My solution for playing with this was just to upgrade my PC's RAM to 64GB. It's slower than the GPU, but it was way cheaper and I can run the 70B model easily.
Exactly which is why it’s a huge problem when the tech companies act in lock step with government officials.
Intel AVX10.2 ISA to enable AVX-512 capabilities on E-cores
This is a problem, that needs to be fixed in tech management. Tech managers need to trust their dev talent. It's like a self fulfilling prophecy.

Elixir is risky, so let's move off of it ==> devs leave. Elixir seems risky.

And then the devs/ecosystem gets blamed.
Well-respected scientists taking a weird, cranky turn late career is a thing (for whatever reason). It makes me wonder: are there examples where the weird turn actually winds up being correct in the long term? I.e. where the mainstream consensus eventually endorses the late-career turn?
Quoting from #1:

> Git puts a lot of emphasis on maintaining a "clean" check-in history. Extraneous and experimental branches by individual developers often never make it into the main repository. Branches may be rebased before being pushed to make it appear as if development had been linear, or "squashed" to make it appear that multiple commits were made as a single commit. There are other history rewriting mechanisms in Git as well. Git strives to record what the development of a project should have looked like had there been no mistakes.

Right, exactly, because the mistakes often aren't interesting. Where mistakes made in development were interesting, then you should write up the interesting details in you code or commit commentary or other documentation.

> Fossil, in contrast, puts more emphasis on recording exactly what happened, including all of the messy errors, dead-ends, experimental branches, and so forth. One might argue that this makes the history of a Fossil project "messy," but another point of view is that this makes the history "accurate." In actual practice, the superior reporting tools available in Fossil mean that this incidental mess is not a factor.

But that's just so much noise! Some devs will make much more noise than others. Devs who commit often, for example, will make more noise. Noise noise noise. If I'm spelunking through the history I don't want noise -- I want signal. Even if I'm looking through history to find out who is a better developer it may not be helpful because some devs will commit more often.

I mean, why not just record your interactive sessions and then play them back when you want to look at the history? Where would the madness stop?

IMO the madness stops at the upstream, where only linear history should exist.

And again, if I want to look at a project's internal history I can look at their archived clone of the upstream. Even in project "gates" (as we called them at Sun) we kept linear history (some projects had very long history, like ZFS and SMF for example). Very few people looked through archived gates -- I did, from time to time, especially the old SEAM (Kerberized NFS) gates from 1999-2000, but not only. Some archives did get lost -- especially really old ones, the ones that matter more to historians than to current developers, so that sort of loss is a problem, but not one that threatens the ability to do work.
> When Microsoft bundled IE with Windows that was terrible.

Microsoft was a monopolist (the government went after them for misuse of their monopoly power).

> Apple bundling Safari and locking out competing browsers? That's just what's best for the customer.

I'm not sure how common that sentiment is, but no sane person would argue that Apple has a monopoly on basically anything.
Now repeat what you did
nice story - reminds me of "When Walmart settled in Germany." and after opening up every employee had to answer the boss screaming 'Who is the king ?' The choir responded 'The customer !'. That did not go for long :)
Just so everyone is on the same page, static passive diamagnetic levitation is possible with materials like pyrolytic graphite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamagnetism

https://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?p=diamagnetic-levitatio...

...and superconductors are usually perfectly diamagnetic.
Because a study lays out a more thorough and detailed argument, not because someone's real name or credentials are attached.

The crux of my disagreement was his claim a name attached to an argument a priori makes it more valid than one that is anonymous.

In a highly politicized environment, it can possibly be argue that a real name makes it less credible and more likely to be consensus. Putting that aside, it certainly doesn't it make it more credible.
Another good one from Katsuhiro Otomo - older than Memories (1995), newer than Construction Order Cancellation (1987):

Roujin Z (1991)

If you've seen Stink Bomb in Memories, or Akira, you might notice some visual similarities in how the stories are told.
> Almost any recipe can be made vegan. Fat, salt, acid, temperature, spices. World is full of good vegan foods. See Indian, Ethiopean or Mexican cuisine for example. Many foods in Greece/Italy are vegan.

Those are all lovely, but what about chicken breast?
>Your regular reminder that the biggest threat to free speech is the government.

The only thing the first amendment protects you from is the government.
> You get usable laptops

[citation needed]; how many bricks can you expect from having middle-schoolers monkey around with low-level firmware stuff?
First page of google: 93 percent of police departments in cities with populations of 1 million or more use their own ALPR systems
Photoshop.

On reality, you would need a good computer with a large set of sound emitters just outside of the screen and a huge lot of tries. It would be a project for a small team and many months of work.

Or maybe a few transparent wires and less photoshop.

I do think the easiest way to fake a video like that would be to use a cool superconductor and change the atmosphere so nobody notices its temperature.
I also really enjoy Dylan Beattie's work. For those with some spare time, who might like to see a true "rockstar" programmer, you may like "The Art of Code"[0].

[0] https://youtu.be/6avJHaC3C2U
How does this compare with https://github.com/dancrossnyc/rxv64 ? From its README.md:

rxv64 is a pedagogical operating system written in Rust that targets multiprocessor x86_64 machines. It is a reimplementation of the xv6 operating system from MIT.
I think it would be nice if everyone can decide for themselves which software they prefer. Some people prefer Latex, others prefer Word or InDesign etc.

I would prefer not to have gatekeeping either way, both "It was written using Word, it must be fake" and "Latex should never have been invented."
What does this comment have to do with the article?
I counter the argument that just because it is still around it is the best solution. Many things stick around just because of inertia, for example, the QWERTY keyboard.
The abstract says that T_c is 127 C, which should be comfortably above room temperature for most of the planet
Nicer to type on is subjective - for me the Model M is about as good as it gets, in terms of feel. To be honest (hot take) I even prefer it to the Model F.

That said: yes, they're extraordinarily loud. OP you're barking up the wrong tree if what you don't like about other keebs is their noise.
With ICE cars the best deal was always buying a gently used car that was just a couple of years old. Is that not still the case with EVs?
You think this team would jeopardize their reputations by faking this data with such easily verifiable and thus refutable claims?
I work arch in a modern TS Angular Client for a larger education org and I'm shocked by the number of amateur devs and external contractors who think the solution for everything is 'just add a package'. Need to filter arrays in a pipe in one spot? Package. Paginate an array into a set of defined length arrays so you can do faux pagination in the ui? Package. Need a button of the design in our design system? Material UI and a hell of a lot of CSS, here we come!

I basically act as a middleman whose job is 'THIS IS A ONE LINE PIPE!'
Intelligence is compression.

Intelligence is achieving goals.

Intelligence is the process of discovering which goals are worth achieving.

- - - -

Q: What's GAI?

A: When the computer asks, "What's in it for me?"
Education Dept. opens inquiry into Harvard legacy admissions
They are loud. I have a Unicomp I bought about 18 years ago. It has been rock solid, but if you don't want loud this isn't they keyboard to get.
There's plenty of trade secrets in TA as well though. A lot of it comes out because eventually it's beneficial to have fundamentals understood by a larger population so that there's a pool of people to develop the internal tools. Only some of the fundamental TA is common knowledge.
Actually, these two things are orthogonal.

If you require some kind of authentication process to prove your identity, it doesn't matter whether your device has TPM-supported device attestation or not. If Apple or Google wanted to do that, they already have the in-browser infrastructure for it in the form of login with Apple or login with Google. Making such a thing anonymous for third parties (so they just know it's a human, rather than which human) would be trivial.
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Hmm fascinating! So the real "best of both worlds" here is to try and stall the march of entropy where the services we rely on "tun to shit" as you say.

One way i've been thinking of this is crowd sourced alternatives to major apps but the problem with this is the backends. Lets say you make a anti-enshittified youtube client. Well youtube is just gonna change their backend to break the app. Well now you gotta have crowdsourced efforts to constantly reverse engineer their backend.
I use the WASD compact keyboard and am quite happy with it. Got the quiet red switches with the rubber dampers and it is almost completely silent. Quieter than the buttons on my mouse anyway.
Is there a new trend to give AI/tech products common women's names, (Alexa, Macie, Ada, Clara, Julia, etc)? The only male named tech product I can think of really is Watson, and that's old hat by now. It honestly kind of weirds me out and I feel for people who have to share their names with a product. At least Siri and Cortana seem pretty unique in that respect. Fwiw, I'm sure plenty of products with traditionally male names exist, I just can't recall encountering many at work or casually.
Depends on which model. I haven't bothered doing it on my 8GB because the only model that would fit is the 7B model quantized to 4 bits, and that model at that size is pretty bad for most things. I think you could have fun with 13B with 12GB VRAM. The full size model would require >35GB even quantized.
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If it's turing complete, it's a programming language. That's it. There's no other requirements.
Like the Native Americans who were actively raiding settlements and engaging in pretty brutal (by both parties) conflict with the settlers who often responded by generating local militias from normal folk who were then tasked with attacking the native americans.

But no, instead we should pretend it had something to do with shooting a president you don't like. Because that's what "freedom from tyranny" is.
"As for medical, the only coverage I want is catastrophic, and if I could just just get that then health care would be way cheaper. Health care providers generally have much lower prices when you have no insurance and pay out of pocket."

I've had several chronic issues, including cancer surgery and the followon therapies, that I in no way wanted, that stretched out years, ensuring that we (the family) spent our ~$10K deductible for several years running. I've seen this with quite a few other people, as well. It is certain that we would have been bankrupted w/o middling quality corp health insurance. We have also had many $1000s in dental bills, in a year, quite a few times.

The idea that you could self finance these yearly cash flow (up to, what, $100K?) is absurd, unless you are really rich, but you seem to be somewhat price sensitive, so I dunno.

OTOH my sister-in-law makes > $500K/y as an anesthesiologist, and her spouse is a pathologist sadly making somewhat less, so on average the family must be doing great!

Yeah no, my Euro-fruends are aghast at the medical situation here in the US, and we all do view it as a massive effective tax on the unlucky that Europeans more or less don't have to worry about.
Do you have any sources? I looked at the closest community college for me (De Anza) and it's tuition is 19,950 including 11,796 for room and board. Without that, since most college kids can live with parents, it's less than 8000[1]. And this is in SV, one of the most expensive places in the US.

[1] https://www.deanza.edu/financialaid/apply/cost.html
I think it's less about "prediction" and more about mapped cohort behaviors and opinions, especially those that change slowly over time. The LLM model will likely be a picture of how the population and each demographic group behaved and what they believed at a specific time window (i.e. when the data set was collected), and will produce answers that reflect that. It will most likely be lagging behind new trends and how they shape population behaviors and beliefs over time. In any case I think even the most experienced market research professionals would agree that discovering new trends before they become mainstream is really challenging.
If you're purchasing through a reputable marketplace from a seller with good reviews this won't happen, if you go on the streets maybe.
Ha yes, name your TSR keylogger REMalt+255.COM , put it into AUTOEXEC.BAT , it looks like an innocent comment.
Probably just a caching issue
Companies are families like the Mafia is families.