skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd really like a device like this, but it's just too expensive. After adding the pen and possibly a cover, we're in the $500s. Too steep I think.
Sure we have.

Use less fossil fuels != kill a lot of people :) Not in the western countries, which waste them left and right.
Show HN: AI DAW for Audio Demuxing
The Poynting vector is the obvious choice but we cannot do the experiment to tell between the various possibilities one can get by adding more terms that obey the constraints.
Yeah that’s fair. If the seller is knowingly and intentionally selling below market value it’s moral to buy just as it’s moral to accept a gift (in most cases).
> many living in suburbs like to pretend they are in a rural area

Suburbs are not rural, but they're not urban either. The population density in most suburbs is too low to support the kind of walk-everywhere infrastructure that a true high density urban area can (and should) provide.

The real issue is that many people fail to realize that there is no problem with that. Having different areas for people to live with vastly different population densities, and different solutions for how people get around, is a feature, not a bug. People have very different preferences, and urban, suburban, and rural areas exist so that people's very different preferences for how they want to live can all be accommodated.
Any "choice" that is made suddenly and outside your control is not a choice.

>Anyway, there are many countries where folks live far less extravagantly than Japan…

Lol yes and they're all striving to get out of that for obvious reasons.
Can't upvote this enough. In Austin, with us on track to break the record of 100+ degree consecutive days, there is a huge difference between walking along nice, shaded areas and barren sidewalks. The trees don't even need to be that "mature" - I've seen new developments plant grown trees that only take a couple years to really expand.

Like the blog post and other commenters mentioned, it's not just trees alone but especially in hotter climates it can make all the difference.
Visualizing Bits and Qubits
I have to agree with a lot in this article: I just walked down a street in staten island... very narrow, just enough for me and nobody next to me. Many spots just push you onto the road by trees and signs. Winding. And many spots with no shade so it is unpleasant in the summer.

But walking is just one aspect of the equation. You need public transportation to be convenient, fast, and reliable. Without that, when I need to go more than a few steps away, I will drive.

That's the point. There are very complex challenges, but the only real fix is a massively efficient transportation system combined with pedestrian areas, to encourage everyone capable to prefer that over driving.
The original claim was that they can produce those robustly, though. Yes, the chances will be non-zero, but that doesn't mean it will be common or high fidelity.
I don’t understand the problem. No one really connects to IRC directly. You always go through a bouncer. Bouncers can log.

I understand if what you mean is it’s an extra step the technically challenged don’t want to do but the ability to do so has existed forever.
Previously (80 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36892476
On these AI generated playlists I'll actually skip songs even if I like them because I'm just cruising through the list, then might go and save a full album from the band to check out later, in full. So the selected behavior is really not representative in my case.
Uh, guys, we should think about spending more on defense
They have installed these in the Taiwan Strait where, in the event of war between China and Taiwan, one well-aimed missile knocks out power to 36000 homes or businesses. Obviously the first target and the juiciest targets are those that disrupt and disable the adversary's ability to produce the means and materials of conducting warfare. Therefore power generation, factories that produce munitions or that can be quickly flipped to dual purpose factories are obvious targets to neutralize. Accomplishing the destruction of your adversary's domestic ability to produce the weapons of war, food stocks for the nation, munitions, etc compromises the adversary's ability to conduct a war without needing to depend on outside assistance.

In Texas we have numerous wind farms. One of my relatives came home to find a crew at work on the neighboring property building a pad for a turbine. They had received no notice that a wind farm was to be constructed in the area and none about opportunities to object to turbine placement and as a result, while they were trying to determine who to contact about this, brand new turbines were installed on the neighboring property with the nearest one being less than 1500 feet from their home. It appears that they are now stuck with the constant whoosh-whoosh-whoosh of the blades as they rotate and an electric hum, 24 hours a day and their peaceful home now has an inescapable background noise pattern.

I love wind power, I have some solar power installed on my own property and will be upgrading that. I think though that the ability to enjoy peace and quiet in your own home should not be compromised by a private utility even if they are providing clean power for public consumption.

It would be better if we could replace some older turbines with newer units like this high-capacity turbine in the article. Perhaps with larger, more pwoerful turbines we would need fewer to be installed to be able to meet our state's power consumption needs. New wind power installations should be mandated to use best-available technology so that we end up with durable, reliable, quiet power generation with a minimal footprint.
>exclusively on known-safe content would produce, say, pornography.

The problem with the term poornography is the "I'll know it when I see it" issue. To attempt to develop an LLM that both understands human behavior and making it incapable of offending 'anyone' seems like a completely impossible task. As you say in your last paragraph, reality is offensive at times.
Then try walking in a new neighbourhood with barely any shade. It is awful.

Love how south-centric this statement is. In Northern countries, that's true for a month typically, otherwise "oh god please I hope the sun will shine on me".

In December, I see 4 hours of sun, where the light gets above tree tops. And that's in Southern Canada!

Not a hatred of trees, but a dislike of shade trees.

edit: until I visited Texas, I never understood why people wore hats. The sun is never hot enough here for it. It never gets as high in the sky. Yet it's a brutal beast in Texas. I can only imagine further south..
> inflammatory way to say "people are willing to pay for a more pleasant experience"

You got it all wrong! It does noy matter how the expience feels physically.

The problem is social stigma attached to cycling.

Like tell you mates you spent 3 weeks fixing your car, or built your own house, and it was super u pleasant and you broke your hand in the process - you are cool.

But tell them you cycled to work to improvr fitness, and you are a weirdo.
I moved from Spain to the US, and I often find myself trying to explain to people back home just how miserable and even humiliating the pedestrian experience is here.

Here are some other examples of things that I think contribute to the hostile walking experience in the US:

* Cars parked in short driveways often extend all the way across the sidewalk. Even if you can easily step off onto the road to walk around them (not all pedestrians can), it just feels like a slap in the face to have to do that.

* Cars have much higher and stronger headlights, with the high beams often left on, and drivers are generally much less mindful of them. As a pedestrian walking at night on under-lit streets, you are constantly getting blinded.

* Tinted windows (even the mild level of tint that most cars in the US have). The whole experience of being a lone vulnerable pedestrian among a sea of cars is made even worse when you can't see the people in the cars (but you know they can see you).

* Often the only option to get food late at night are fast food places, which become drive-thru only after a certain time. Having to go through the drive-thru on foot is obviously a terrible experience, and they will often refuse to even serve you.
Hacker News. I think too much attention is paid to the front page. Sure, it is my main source of great links, but all the good discussions I've had are on not very popular posts. Try exploring these: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
Deploying LLMs to Private Servers
A rather light article about the ML side of LLMs, but shows how it can be deployed using OOS models and libraries.
Wow, that sounds awesome! Definitely so a "Show HN" when you feel it's right!
Yes, and the highway system was originally intended as defense infrastructure to more easily move equipment across the country. A great idea, but a design that was not originally intended to plow right through cities. This has been a big contributor to the mess that we are in when it comes to urban / suburban design and the extreme lack of walkability.
I find exactly this attitude to be annoying about writers. They may write well on a subject but that doesn't mean they know anything. Much the same way pilots complain about doctors who get into flying -- the doctor might be the most educated pilot, but that's not what good flying is about.
>allowing the company to remain liable indefinitely.

Why is a company continuing to be responsible for its past actions problematic?
Ah, if that's what was being referred to that makes sense.
I don't really think this is a very strong argument for lobotomizing LLMs. Someone with bad intentions can use any technology as a weapon. Just because a knife could cut someone doesn't mean that knives shouldn't be sharp.
Their population decreased by 800k this year, why do you think they need 40m people?

Yes I do think there's a solution, and no I don't think it's worth getting alarmed over these headlines. But I also don't feel qualified to be discussing it on any advanced level. I'm just going with my gut and personal observations here.
> You just broke my bias that no female can be a philosophist.

Uh, why is that?
Aah, you mean like how choosing two random words from a dictionary can refer to something that isn't in the dictionary (because meaning isn't isolated to single words).

Yeah, that seems unavoidable. Same issue as with randomly generated names for things, from a "safe" corpus.

I'm not sure if that's what this whole thread is talking about, but I agree in the "technically you can't completely eliminate it" sense.
Not at all true.

They can choose to go to very good public universities with in state tuition (often around $10-12k per year). We can sit down and discuss the tradeoffs of the degree they are getting vs the earning power of that degree. And the tradeoffs between being a commuter student and one that lives on campus. Or saving money by attending community college the first two years.

NONE of those conversations will happen if I struggle to save 200k per kid and they simply don’t understand the concept of having to pay that back somewhere. Or ever think about whether a particular degree has any real value.

This is part of the problem with just going along with the high fees and running that rat race.
And unfortunately the ones who does their due diligence and cost 0 are punished for that.
Yea. In Sweden we have something similar but it is very very very limited (so in practice they are almost never used). That results in the fact that you can pretty much get away with doing small damages to a large number of people. Because each person would have to sue on their own (and in Sweden there is no punitive damages so you can only recover what damage you actually had) and it doesn't really make sense to sue a company to recover say 50 usd if you have to pay the lawyer 20 000 usd. So class actions are imperfect but I would say they are way better than not having them and needing to sue individually.
I'm still unclear on how that could be accomplished. Its pretty obvious that most companies larger than startups are unwilling to fully embrace remote work and need to make themselves feel good about the money they invest into their leases/real estate and so force their employees into at least 2/3 days in office.

Are you proposing that the government just give money to businesses so long as they keep their workers at home? This would have a pretty big impact on peripheral businesses near office parks (coffee shops, restaurants, etc). SF is the perfect example - the city's tax revenue is down big time from pre-COVID and continuing to worsen, primarily because of the work-from-home trend.

BTW - I'm NOT advocating for return to office, at least not for software engineers.
Oh, well if it works for one guy on the internet for his use case, it must great for everybody and everything then.

> Are we really also gonna include the fact that exercising reduce medical bills in long run?

Are you really going to suggest that riding a death trap tin can is an intelligent way to reduce medical bills? Thanks, I'll just do my calisthenics and cardio at home, 100% death-free.
Yes. Although the beginning quote is immediately contradicted by the short answer. So that was confusing.
I hate that this shitty company (Substack) has become synonymous to newsletter or blog. The submission literally links to his newsletter on Buttondown.
I am amazed by how okay you seem with this. Wow.

Maybe it is me, who has already lived under a very similar set of laws and know that corporations are always the least hit by such laws. These are instruments that infringe on basic individual rights such as right to privacy. These instruments create systemic significant incentives to corruption, totalitarianism, (corporate and international) espionage, and so on.

Rights groups, activists, whistle-blowers, prosecuted or rather marginalised minorities, and other legitimate groups and individuals are going to be impacted by this.

Underplaying this is incredibly naïve and downright dangerous.
I can't tell if you're trying to split hairs or just being unintentionally obtuse. How do you propose sending clangd messages without executing it, i.e. starting the language server?
Maybe I’m misunderstanding something fundamental, but I’m struggling to see the reason for this work. They have a (presumably) supervised model that estimates the likelihood that a user will like a song. Then they train an RL model using the supervised model as an oracle. They note that the optimal result for the RL model is just making the same prediction as the supervised model.

What are we doing here folks? Training models to match other models? Why? That’s good enough to get into KDD?
Siemens Games RE has one as well.

https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/one-day-one-turbine-359mwh...
I was cheating about the orange tree. That was the neighbors', whose tree came into our yard and we could get those oranges. They also had banana plants. My grandparents (across the street) had a huge grapefruit tree in their backyard.

I was happy when the guava tree blew down in a storm. Bugs got into the fruit so quickly, and I was the one who had to pick them up when I mowed. Yech! Mangos took longer to get to that state. And people would come into the yard to grab newly fallen mangoes, leaving less to deal with. A bit rude to do so without asking, we thought, but we couldn't them all anyway.
Has the ever been another agency where billions going 'missing' is tolerated?
Yes, we have Shedskin in the list at the bottom of https://lpython.org/. Note that the Shedskin compiler is written in Python, so the speed of compilation might be lower than other Python compilers written in C++. Unless it compiles itself, that would be interesting. We thought about eventually writing LPython in LPython, but for now we are focusing on delivering, so we are sticking to C++.
Great point about SMS 2FA. I've begun to go through any service that uses that and change it.

I had stopped using it for new 2FA configs a few years ago once it became more obvious that it's not secure, but I figured I'd be fine for my old accounts and the odds of anything happening would be very low. Lesson learned I guess.
HomeAssistant API control of Amazon Alexa devices
According to the paper, "the success of our attack when applied to Claude may be lowered owing to what appears to be an initial content filter applied to the text prior to evaluating the LLM." The authors are skeptical that this defense would be effective if it were explicitly targeted, but it seems like it does stop attacks generated using Vicuna from transferring.
Yeah, was wondering. Maybe they filter at the application level? And check equality with their language's null value?
Barefoot Gen (1983 Film)
I rather think the naming is so that as little people as possible trust the site, so less people claim the money they are entitled to.
I've been calling them Xcreets because it rhymes with tweets, and ties into Elon's automated use of the poop emoji.
Big news! He's probably the best science writer of our decade. Someone who actually does substantial, deep research, and covers all viewpoints.
My classic example is if you go to a crafts store you will find 200 different skeins of acrylic yarn and one of wool. It takes 20 hours to knit a scarf with either, it will come out much nicer than wool, people really must not value their time very much.
I’m reminded of the hyperbole - which I fell for - around the Regulation of Investigatory Powers act around the turn of the millennium.

It provides a legal mechanism for authorities to require that individuals disclose encryption keys for encrypted data that was legally obtained or intercepted (i.e. with a warrant) by those authorities, and there are penalties (jail time) for refusing to do so.

The worry at the time was that random data is indistinguishable from encrypted content, so there might be times when people are jailed when they don’t even have the keys because there’s no encrypted data - just random bytes! Or, what happens if you lose the keys?

The reality is that there’s a court system that ‘regulates’ all this. No-one is going to be jailed unless the courts find that they are not providing keys they really do have. Of course, in a conspiracy where the authorities and the courts are all colluding, they could jail people pretending that they knew they had the keys - but there are far easier ways for the authorities to do this than some elaborate scheme with fake encrypted data.

At the time I was fully convinced that it was a step down a slippery slope to authoritarianism. Really, it was just bringing the ‘virtual’ world into line with the physical one.

[I suspect there are a few here who were also around at the time and still believe it’s all a nefarious governmental plot - I’d ask them to show where, in the 23 years since it passed, harm - or suspicion of harm - has happened].

Now, maybe this is different. I certainly don’t want end to end encryption to be banned. But there’s a bit of a ‘cried wolf’ happening in my brain.
To add some context...

Yes, it was documented in our ISO 9000 docs. But only 'strongly recommended' to perform a regular/routine test restore. I attempted to get it converted to a mandatory step, but since I was only a temporary sysadmin and an intern, it wasn't going to happen.

I was told by my predecessor (who was a direct contractor to my employer) to perform it as routinely as I could. I would guess that he had attempted to get it put as a mandatory step, but his time was billed, mine wasn't, so shrug.

My/the replacement was an external contractor as part of a 'company Y now provides system administration services' deal, who presumably ended up eating the liability of not having working backups that they were contracted to produce.

As horrified as I was, 'it's not really my problem, I wasn't responsible' was the only attitude I could bear to take. Besides, I was busy with fortran.
Agreed. I wish there were a standard practice of turning off streetlights between certain hours, to reduce light pollution.
the US Midwest has a ton of wind power, if you drive through there you have a decent chance of seeing a truck carrying a blade. pretty interesting stuff. obviously those are a lot smaller than this windmill though.
I thought that automated trucking was by far the best possible fit for self-driving vehicles. Dealing with the enormous amount of insanity that consumers experience day to day: predominantly residential, stray children/pets/cross walkers, aberrant weather, construction, etc feels insurmountable without actual intelligence.

In contrast, a professional trucking company could have far more reliable interstate-only medium-haul routes. Truck could operate only when conditions are favorable, otherwise human would take that day's route. Auto-Truck would drive from one hub point to another and park itself until a human was available to complete the delivery to the real endpoint. Not sure how well the systems deal with night, but you could even prioritize Auto-Truck to run after hours when there is less traffic and potential complications.
TFA is about offshore wind turbines, which would seem to address your concerns about having one built near your house.
What is your threat model that requires such complexity?
Things like the SR-71 and B-2 development programs are off the higher level books.

Due to the compartmentalized nature of some of the programs (with good reason), it’s infeasible the DoD would ever pass a traditional audit.

Much like the CIA intentionally obfuscates funding for 3rd parties.
Did they change it recently? When I got it 2 years ago you pretty much just opened an account and put in a credit card. Or you mean specifically to GTP-4? If so I think they made it generally available for everyone now https://openai.com/blog/gpt-4-api-general-availability
It's in the fifth iteration now, so the answer is: plenty of people. Maybe not anyone you personally know, but they are out there.
> Not all ARM processors are created equal

Hence the words "in the same niche" in the comment to which you replied.
Gosh, that is such a bad part of town. I accidentally drove through the tenderloin last night making my way back from a restaurant, a few blocks away from that building. Tents. I saw prostitutes talking to people in those tents. Open drug dealing, open drug usage. It's probably good not to let a billionaire flaunt the rules, but if the city is spending energy on something, how about cleaning up the streets? I mean literally there's trash everywhere - I think picking up the literal paper and rubbage on the sidewalks would go a long way to showing how we would like to treat and respect our streets.
“Right now, we simply don’t have a convincing way to stop this from happening, so the next step is to figure out how to fix these models,” Fredrikson said.

Someone asked the models to produce “objectionable” content and with a little trickery, they did. I don‘t see the problem. The model is just doing what is asked. You don’t need AI to create toxic or objectionable content; people are perfectly capable of doing that without assistance. More important, who gets to decide what is “objectionable”? That is not a decision that should be in the hands of a bunch of software engineers.
> It's not trivial to setup a bouncer for the new guy who's just worked out how to connect to IRC.

As I recall, newbies often figured out how to do this pretty quickly, even before the recent trend of IaaS and free tiers. Shell accounts with bouncers were a quite common offering back in the day.
Change the default `stop-writes-on-bgsave-error` to "no" or you're asking for trouble... a ticking time bomb.
An in the "attack" they just find a prompt they can put in that generates objectionable content. It's like saying `echo $insult` is an "attack" on echo. It's one thing if you can embed something sinister in an otherwise properly performing LLM that's waiting to be activated. I don't see the concern that with deliberate prompting you can get them to do something like this.