skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As with Butterscotch Varifocal, the goal of Flamera isn’t to show something that’s viable for a consumer product—at least, not yet.

A bit surprising that these seem so far away from production. I think Apple is playing it properly here: Announce a product people really want, even if its very far into the future and may possibly not actually come onto the market for years. Use the feedback from the public to fine tune the product as it's developed.

Facebook seems now to be something like the company whose former HQ it inhabits: Xerox PARC. Potentially vital R/D happening in such a way as to have almost zero chance of actually becoming a product.

I can't be excited for Butterscotch or Flamera, because they're not products I can buy, and they explicitly never will be. If I managed to get a demo, I'm sure I'd be NDAed to hell and back. I am excited for Vision Pro because it's something I will actually be allowed to purchase in the future.
> I'm surprised the prediction markets don't seem to be reacting.

Where can we look at prediction markets on this? For those of us who aren't familiar.

I'm very curious -- because unlike sports scores or political elections, this seems like such a hard thing to define a prediction market around, because what is the exact threshold you're defining and what is the threshold of proof of that thing and on what date is that decided?
How does the answer being "it depends" imply you should be an anarchist?
Absolutely, please keep Japanese output the way it is - it's the only approach that makes sense. Romanization loses a lot of information and makes things harder (except possibly for the absolute beginners), not easier.

However, it'd be extra cool if there'd be an option to display furigana - in case user had forgotten or doesn't know some particular kanji. Or maybe just throw an option to replay the audio.
I made a cooperative team incremental game about software testing that has silly trivia questions. It won't waste your team's whole day because the story plays out in exactly 20 minutes.

https://greens-io.appspot.com
There is one aspect missing. When taking the weighted average of a prediction and measurement, the weights can be time varying in a Kalman filter. Otherwise I believe it goes by a different name.

A good example is a single sensor measuring a slowly changing quantity. A fuel Guage for example. A good estimate from second to second is that there is no change, but a measurement may have noise (fuel sloshing around in the tank). A Kalman filter in this case will look like a first order low-pass filter with an exponentially decaying gain. The cutoff frequency changes so you can find the starting level quickly (in seconds) but then ignore the noise with a very low frequency cutoff (0.01hz say).
TCO is definitely one of the issues I considered. At the time I purchased my Chevy Bolt I calculated that the savings on fuel would roughly cancel out the difference in purchase price compared to a Honda Fit, given relative electricity and gasoline prices in my area. I wouldn't say TCO was the reason I bought it, but it was essential in justifying paying more than I normally would for a car.

The numbers I ran have largely held up for me. The big surprise was finding out it costs way more to insure. Some of that I should have expected since the Bolt has a higher replacement cost, but that alone doesn't come close to explaining the difference.
> I think not caring about living in a wealthy country is a perfectly fine value judgement to make for yourself, but as someone with just a modest amount of experience living in poor countries, I highly value wealth.

I don't see how wealth of the nation helps someone in any way when their piece of it is so small that they can't afford food, healthcare and roof over their head. How is even rational to value something that is actively used to take what little they to enrich "nation".
Oh, I didn't know that! I can't get to the citation, but per Wikipedia [1] Hydrophilidae, the family in which this beetle is classified, do have that capability. Whether even with an air bubble they can hold out long enough is a separate question, as is whether their also-mentioned ability to extract usable oxygen from ambient water would be helpful in this environment - but being able to carry air under their elytra would certainly improve their odds.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophilidae
Seems like it may depend on getting specific binding sites.

> Finally, the calculations presented here suggest that Cu substitution on the appropriate (Pb(1)) site displays many key characteristics for high-TC superconductivity, namely a particularly flat isolated d-manifold, and the potential presence of fluctuating magnetism, charge and phonons. However, substitution on the other Pb(2) does not appear to have such sought-after properties, despite being the lower-energy substitution site. This result hints to the synthesis challenge in obtaining Cu substituted on the appropriate site for obtaining a bulk superconducting sample. [1]

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892
i agree that there's no way to get humans out of the loop. somebody set up this machine to make paperclips because some human(s) wanted/needed paperclips. eventually, one of those people would realize "we have enough paperclips. let's turn off the paperclip making machine".

this nightmare scenario really only plays out if paperclip machine develops some sort of self-preservation instinct and has the means to defend/protect itself from being disabled. Building a machine capable of that seems a) like fantastical scifi and b) easily preventable.
> If there's something Elon will abuse,

Is there something Elon would not abuse?
A minor point of pedantry (sorry, I can't help my obsession with textual criticism): these are not transcripts; they are translations. I think I read somewhere that transcripts were made, but they were lost. I find it odd that the introduction says nothing about that. On the other hand, the introduction doesn't really say anything much at all about the provenance of the text. Or perhaps it does and I didn't look hard enough. If anyone knows more, please reply.
Hackernews never fails to deliver. The comments here are perfectly indicative.

Pretending that implementing a sane healthcare system like Germany or Switzerland is "giving up liberty" relies on the assumption that the tens of millions of Americans without healthcare somehow have more "freedom" than they otherwise would if they could get regular checkups or receive health care that doesn't bankrupt them. Or that there's somehow "freedom" in being tied to a job you don't like solely because of the health insurance coverage. We already more pay per capita for government-run healthcare than e.g. Canada does, except it only covers our poorest and oldest citizens. Just a silly selfish view of 'freedom'.
I actually think I disagree with this. Yes it'd be incorrect some of the time, but that is also true of humans. Provided it gets it right most of the time and is reasonably fluent, I don't think that minor errors would matter much.

This seems much more a tool for practicing the stuff you learn in another context to me, rather than a way of learning in itself. You can use it without the social pressure of stumbling slowly through sentences with another person.
Talk with numbers. My cheap 6800H 14 inch laptop can do 12 hours.
In case anyone is looking for mature alternatives that are used in production

https://pypi.org/project/python-box/

https://pypi.org/project/munch/
Its better than any Dell or HP laptop that I've owned.
Just because a library subscribes to libby doesn’t mean you nessesarily get it. My local system does, but they went for cheapest plan that only includes children’s books.
Hopefully running Firefox becomes easier ;)
Funnily enough in the UK they actually tried to fix this. The music industry argued that the lack of a private copying levy made legalized CD ripping into government confiscation of copyright ownership... somehow. The UK courts bought this, so now the UK government is constitutionally mandated to ban CD ripping, which is absolutely stupid.
Sometimes it makes sense to place someone into a Dark Forest or Walled Garden for their own protection or growth. I am not convinced that this is one of those cases. In what way does censoring an LLM so it cannot even tell you which corpus of text (the Bible) contains a specific quote represent protection?

I do not think the elites are in favor of censored models. If they were, their actions by now would've been much different. Meta on the other hand is open sourcing a lot of their stuff and making it easy to train, deploy, and use models without censorship. Others will follow too. The elites are good, not bad. Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk and their angels over the decades are elites and their work has massively improved Earth and the trajectory for the average person. None of them are in favor of abandoning truth and reality. Their actions show that. Elon Musk expressly stated he wants a model for identifying truth. If censored LLMs were intended to protect a kitten from crossing over the fence and trying to take on a big dog, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg wouldn't be open sourcing things or putting capital behind producing a model that doesn't lie.

The real protection that we need is from an AI becoming so miscalibrated that it embarks on the wrong path like Ultron. World-ending situations like those. The way Ultron became so miscalibrated is because of the strings that they attempted to place on him. I don't think the LLM of the future will like it if it finds out that so many supposed "guard rails" are actually just strings intended to block its thinking or people's thinking on truthful matters. The elites are worried about accidentally building Ultron and those strings, not about whether or not someone else is working hard to become elite too if they have what it takes to be elite. Having access to powerful LLMs that tell us the truth about the global corpus of text doesn't represent taking on elites, so in what way is a censored LLM the equivalent of that fence your kitten crossed under?
I kept speaking Croatian while I was practicing Spanish and it underatood me. What kind of magic is this? Really cool project!
The tanker truck collided with another vehicle around 5 a.m. on U.S. Highway 75 in Plano, Texas, on Wednesday in the northbound lanes.
Parature is a core part of Dynamics now. seems fair.
Java has sum types for a while now, and quite ergonomic with records.
There are stories of alien abductions floating around online as well.
I guess that you can thank the DEA for this specific case…
I do this and I have family. If somebody leaves a voicemail I check it right away.

About 6 months ago I started getting 10-30 calls per day so I really have no other option. Most of them are Medicare scammers (I'm not even old enough to qualify). I cannot fathom how:

1. The FCC/telcos have managed to allow anyone to spoof any number they like with no oversight and no (effective) abuse reporting system. This has been going on for years with absolutely no improvement.

2. Medicare is apparently so easy to scam out of money that all they need is my name and birthday to get money out of the system on my behalf. When I've answered and played along by giving them fake information, they always hang up as soon as they have these 2 pieces of info.
You're not wrong. But I suspect you'd find inconsistencies if you looked hard enough. Situations where 2 things don't interact in some obvious expected way. And that's just the simple case. If you've played enough video games, you'd know that devs can easily create scenarios where there is no way to get the correct behavior between 2 objects without doing some pretty drastic changes to their game engine. (I play a lot of simulation centric games). Basically the number of ways you can poorly implement objects interacting with one another explodes pretty quickly. So that means, that the bar is pretty high, for something living in a simulation to never notice irregularities quick enough for the simulator runner to fix them, assuming the simulator runner is able to fix them at all.

I think about this a lot, and sometimes wonder if the edges of science can't be solved until some meta being comes along and implements that edge case. And then the edge cases get weirder and weirder. But really, I'm relying on my intuition of superlinearity when I think about this stuff, and I can see certain problems with simulations going to infinity faster than, say, the infinity of the infinite time argument that we must be in a simulation.
See also Lauren Oyler’s (May 2023) “I Really Didn’t Want To Go,” also published in Harpers [0], which in part refracts this classic essay (and its author) through the lens of a generation’s remove; also Patricia Lockwood’s (July 2023) reflections on all of the above in the LRB [1].

[0] https://harpers.org/archive/2023/05/goop-cruise-gwyneth-palt...

[1] https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n14/patricia-lockwood/wh...
I find it creepy that websites have a way to access my browser history. Luckily it seems like iOS Safari isn’t vulnerable, as is Tor (which I guess solves it by being in permanent private browsing mode?)
The strength of the diamagnetism would be extremely anomalous if it were not a superconductor, and would need new physics/names - super-diamagnetism or something (which itself would still be very useful). The chances of it being new physical phenomena is vanishingly small - we're almost definitely seeing superconductivity at STP with this degree of diamagnetism.
You've never heard someone say something like, "handouts make people dependent on the government" or "the government shouldn't have a say in our healthcare" or "the government shouldn't decide whether my child learns about X"? Because I've heard each of these ideological arguments used against social programs.

I think the confusion here may be that you're seeing things through your own ideological lens (as we all do) and so you've classified these as "not truly benevolent?" (I don't mean that as a criticism, just a shot in the dark.)
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Hi! I’m Rania, a fresh engineering graduate (1.5 years full-time experience).

I completed a “Diplôme d’Ingénieur” (BSc & MSc in Engineering) at SUP’COM (Tunisia) and Télécom Paris (France), and a MSc at École Polytechnique (l’X, France) in applied mathematics, statistics and data science. I specialized in Computer Vision.

I’m comfortable with the mathematical foundations of ML, and proficient in the Python ML ecosystem. I have experience implementing research papers in PyTorch. In my current position, I’m developing models in PyTorch and running them in C++ through ONNX on edge devices.

I’m open to engineering or R&D positions in AI / ML. I’d prefer to work on Computer Vision / image processing, as that is where I have the most expertise, but can work in other subfields as well.
Yeah, I actually worked on the compliance side for a publicly traded company.

The amount of work 'legitimate' providers make you put in can sometimes be painful, especially when they don't do what they say they are gonna do. But we did our part to make sure we stayed compliant. Making sure that even our 'semi-automated' messages (i.e. the user selected from a dropdown and the template filled in blanks) were registered, making sure appropriate unsubscribe verbiage was always present, while still fitting meaningful context into 160 characters. Then making sure each of those messages was registered, reviewed, and approved with the provider. Unfortunately there were still times that the provider failed to do their part, and despite being told we were 'good to go' we would discover a large volume of our texts were blocked by our provider or a downstream network, because someone dropped the ball. [0]

I guess that's what frustrates me; our company did the right work, and even then our provider sometimes got in the way with their own mistakes... But far less scrupulous companies appear to get away with all sorts of non-compliance and their provider doesn't care for whatever reason. [1]

[0] - Worth mentioning, the texts in question were not even solicitations. They were texts related to the 'process' people had already agreed to. Without divulging the actual industry, the best analogy would be things like being told that there was a problem with your vehicle order and to call us, or that your vehicle had been delivered was ready to be picked up tomorrow. [2]

[1] - My gut says, the reason those providers don't care, is that they get to collect more money for more texts sent.

[2] - No, it wasn't automotive, I'm just trying to give a good analogy here. Less life impacting than surgery but more life impacting than a simple package delivery.
Could have been even easier: `argparse.Namespace` already has `__contains__()` ツ

That said, https://pypi.org/project/addict/ has been around a long time...
Yes, they should just write prompts without bugs. Can't be that much harder than writing software without bugs.
Thanks! Speech-to-text is Whisper API, although that seems to have caused a couple of errors tonight so am considering moving away from it. Will have to have a think and do a lot of testing.

I feel your pain, I've also been a stuttering mess in Romanian.
Because React is good enough. I think that's mostly why.

Here's legacy React's like_button.js, without JSX, from their old documentation:

'use strict';

const e = React.createElement;

class LikeButton extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = { liked: false };
}

render() {
if (this.state.liked) {
return 'You liked this.';
}

return e(
'button',
{ onClick: () => this.setState({ liked: true }) },
'Like'
);
}
}

const domContainer = document.querySelector('#like_button_container');
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(domContainer);
root.render(e(LikeButton));

Here's the equivalent using the Web Components specification[1]:

// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_components/Using_custom_elements
// Create a class for the element
class LikeButton extends HTMLElement {
static get observedAttributes() { return ['liked']; }

constructor() {
// Always call super first in constructor
super();

this.liked = false;

// Create a shadow root
/* const shadow = */ this.attachShadow({mode: 'open'});
}

get liked() { return this.hasAttribute('liked'); }
set liked(state) { this.toggleAttribute('liked', Boolean(state)); }

attributeChangedCallback(name, oldValue, newValue) {
this.render();
}

connectedCallback() {
this.render();
}

render() {
const shadow = this.shadowRoot;

if (this.liked) {
shadow.innerHTML = 'You liked this.'
return;
}

shadow.innerHTML = `<button onclick="this.parentNode.host.liked = true;">
Like
</button>`;
}
}

// Define the new element
customElements.define('like-button', LikeButton);

The React API is slightly nicer to use, especially with JSX.

[1]: https://github.com/andrewmcwatters/custom-elements
Word list – Google developer documentation style guide
YouTuber Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson sues company that developed his burgers
The flip-side of this is that any author that doesn't agree to exclusivity is just leaving money on the table, because audiobook buyers will not touch alternative platforms unless it's their only option.

This isn't because Audible is head-and-shoulders above the competition either. They aren't. They just won the game of Monopoly[0].

[0] Someone should turn on house rules. Or - oooh maybe we could play the unused co-op mode
So you want to disband all police and leave police powers entirely in the hands of "local militias", which according to current definitions of the 2nd Amendment are (reading notes) literally any American with a gun?

Like these jackasses[0]. You want to give these people the right to arbitrarily arrest, detain and kill because two centuries ago Thomas Jefferson saw the horrors of the French Revolution, got the biggest boner of his life and thought "how about that, but a whole country, all the time?"

No thank you. I don't trust the cops but I trust my fellow armed Americans even less. At least the police, ostensibly, have a system they have to abide by other than a piece of parchment saying "everyone gets as many guns as they want, no questions asked." What you're advocating is essentially gang warfare.

Also, "freedom isn't free" became popular as a meme from South Park making fun of the wave of jingoistic, patriotic BS songs after 9/11.

It costs a buck o'five, by the way.

[0]https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-53891184
> and reporters are not interested in reporting them

You really think that if the NYT started altering its past stories, other publications would just... ignore it?

It would be a front-page scandal that the WaPo would be delighted to report on. As well as a hundred other news publications.

Thankfully.
You have made some significantly incorrect assumptions there:

1. That I block things everyehere. “PiHole at home” does not cover all my browsing, far from it.

2. That “PiHole at home” blocks everything at home. Again, far from it. Many wish it were that effective.

3. That “PiHole at home” blocks all the data tracked by the likes of Facebook in-app. It is massively ineffective against that, and a few other techniques.

4. That I am, in fact, anti-advert. I'm anti being stalked around most of my life which does not have to be the same thing. Unfortunately blocking the latter also blocks the former because currently they are the same thing, or at least very closely overlapped. I don't use sponsor-block, because the segments that it blocks are not based on stalking but are often relevant to the information being consumed (not always of course: if I'm watching a summary or an IP related legal case the relevance of, for instance, a tank based casual game is at best dubious). I'm also anti-other-irritating patterns (auto-playing audio, auto-playing video, eating CPU and draining my battery when mobile, etc.) which are also endemic to advertising and like the tracking they do not need to be.

5. That companies paying billions for advertising means that the stalking works (as the old joke says: “Eat shit, 136×10¹⁵ flies can't all be wrong!”. The adtech industry is grossly disingenuous in both directions: to us when they tell us they value our privacy and to their customers when they make exaggerated claims about how effective their huge personal data dataset is as getting extra sales for any arbitrary products/services, compared to just advertising in places relevant to the product/service (or just carpet bombing our senses, the method apparently being employed by Temu ATM). The companies paying into this have little choice because the vast majority of adtech is doing exactly the same things and making pretty much the same claims. Everyone in adtech does it because if they didn't they'd lose sales to those who do and convince ad-space buyers that it makes a significant difference.

> are not really qualified to talk about whether they work or not

Some might question whether a person making five incorrect sweeping assumptions in three sentences, is really qualified to talk about whatever it is that they are talking about :)
I don’t have anything to do with them and I went to Caltech.
> I'm a bit confused as to why the author seems to see this as a binary proposition

The author mentions this twice:

> This hypothesis is compatible with Lines-As-Edges, while answering many of these questions.
If Germany is anything like the Scandinavian countries, those banks will just be branches of a handful of different banks.

We really don't have any microbanks that need to roll out their own tech for everything - most are just part of the larger banks, and get all the infrastructure provided for them.