skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if any other professional fields have found a way to improve their workflows with it?

It’s absolutely incredible for content creation in a few ways:

1. For content posts, a good prompt can turn a 2-hour writing session into a 15 minute editing session.

2. Creating texts in foreign languages. This can be content, ads… anything. It’s still better to run whatever you make by a native speaker, but they typically only need to edit rather than create. As such, the time/cost per unit of content is much lower.

3. Combine AIs to make multimedia content — for example, one AI for a script, another AI for voices, and another AI for images. We have only scratched the surface of what is possible here.

Fwiw, I just started a project using multiple AIs to develop content for foreign language learning. It’s incredibly powerful and ridiculously fast compared to previously existing methods.
For people in cold climates, level 1 charging won't even charge the car at all. If the battery is too cold, it can't take on a charge, and the 1800 watts it gets won't be enough to warm the battery.
Google’s New AI Art Watermark: Savior or Just a Signature?
This is obviously not true. If you're in a municipality in the US (if you're not, none of this matters anyways), you can probably go to the website for that municipality and look it up; the franchise contracts for mine are the first search result, and they spell out the fees that Comcast are required to charge.

The reason I'm on this hobby horse is that I serve on my local village telecom commission and, after 2 years of zoning out and playing solitaire whenever the "franchise agreement" came up as a topic, I finally paid attention and learned that we were making high six figures every year in our general fund charging Comcast users a Comcast tax. It's a thing my commission works on: just how much we should soak local ISP users.

We've gone for several years without a franchise contract renewal because, apparently, Comcast doesn't want to do this anymore. I don't blame them!
This is literally what's happening here. No one is cutting off the admin's personal Internet connection to get on the Internet. They're taking his website down because it's full of abuse.
>And if nobody will host them, it's not a totalitarian echo chamber, it's just "the people's will."

Thats framing that doesnt change the end result. There wont be any cleaving but anything differing from dominant doctrine no longer available. With no regard for who determines that other then the currently loudest screaming mob. That describes a totalitarian society in which truth has lost all meaning because people favor signaling despite knowing better.

I find it highly irresponsible to push for defacto censorship with a complete disregard for very clear threat, namely the power to censor not only getting abused but being by its very nature uncontrollable. Especially in this form. Nobody being able to even describe how this could function without ending in tragedy means its likely impossible. Which should surprise nobody.

edit: China described it as the peoples will as well if i am not mistaken. Which meant having a set ratio of the population that had to confess their reactionary thoughts in front of a screaming mob before being thrown into Gulags.
This is a very good point. There are many other ways to use OpenAI GPT including Bing Chat, Perplexity, Phind, You.com, to name just a few. Some of these services focus on the coding use case as well and may be more fit for purpose for that use case.
Slightly OT but I don't think that Deep blue's achievement against Kasparov is the milestone they make it to be, as the moves of the computer were still vetted by other grandmasters.

There's no doubt that if deep blue would've not beaten Kasparov another computer would've just few years later (I also think algos have made insane improvements since then, it's not just a matter of raw speed) but still that game is not the kind of achievement that it's touted imho.
I wouldn't want to play a shooter on it, but (say) Baldur's Gate 3 co-op with Xbox controllers worked great. Latency wasn't an issue.

I think the Bluetooth latency is going to be less than the wifi latency (Chromecast has no ethernet port) plus the roundtrip to the Nvidia servers anyway. (edit: Chromecast with Google TV, that is. Chromecast Ultra, a different device, does have ethernet)

I've also used GeForce Now on a hardwired gigabit fiber connection on my desktop, and even then I wouldn't consider the latency suitable for competitive first-person shooters. But it worked great for most other genres of games. Basically anything will work fine where a software cursor is used (where you don't update frames until a hover or a click), as opposed to a crosshaired 3D game that requires constant frame redraws on every mouse motion (shooters).

That's just me though... as a lifelong PC gamer, many actual consoles + smart TVs (especially when they're not in gaming mode) also have unacceptable latency to me, but I think millions of people wouldn't even notice. It's worth a shot, especially if you can just hook up an existing computer to your TV (via HDMI or whatever) and get a feel for it that way.

The Stadia controller thing over wifi thing was always bullshit. I had their controllers and it was never noticeably better or worse than a standard Xbox controller wirelessly connected to GeForce Now. And once Stadia died they enabled Bluetooth on it and it still works fine. shrug* Stadia's marketing made a lot of questionable, and sometimes demonstrably false, claims.
Russian malware authors agree with you.
> The police get pressure from above to make X group less represented in their criminal statistics irrespective of any reality-based bias

Yes that's what's unspoken but you've said it out loud. Although I think there is a lot of denial around it.
Even if you go through bookings.com, you still see a final $ amount before paying if they include the fees in the booking cost. That's their hack to show up higher when you look for low prices. Some places are so scammy that they charge the resort fee much later, in-person, as you're checking in or out.
Mux (YC W16) is hiring a Sr Platform Engineer to work on video infra at scale
I would say working another job is abuse sometimes. My job, and my employees think about the work in our off time. It’s a small team and we have big goals. If any of us had time for another job, we wouldn’t be giving this one our all.

Some companies and people are fine with that. Over-employment is worth consideration.

But I think something that is overlooked here is that if you aren’t doing good work, or going all in on everything you do - do something else.

I see no one arguing that. Just “I deserve to work from home because I want to” without any possible consideration to either objectivity of their time /output, reality that a LOT of people scam, or empathy with what these same people would do/think if it was them calling the shots.

WFH people never look bad. Look at this entire thread to find one person that bucks that trend.

If one side is always right, and the other side is always wrong - that just sounds like game to me.
I quoted the 4090 because this is the Mac Pro on the second gen of Apple Silicon in a desktop/workstation. In a few years Apple has nearly caught up to the flagship desktop GPU from Nvidia - who has been at this former niche for 15 years. 192GB is already enough RAM to finetune very large LLMs and we will be seeing more memory from Apple down the road.

192GB is 4 RTX A6000s or 2 A100/H110s ($20k just in GPUs)... A completely maxed out Mac Pro (with wheels and fancy mouse) is under $13k. Oh yeah and you can actually buy them.

The M3, M4, and beyond will have TFLOPS and RAM jumping by leaps and bounds. CoreML will start chipping at CUDA developer mindshare from academia on up - you can already run LLMs at more than reasonable speed on a $2000 Mac Book you already have laying around. Expect to see Mac Pros showing up in AI labs at universities and course work where every student just buys a Mac. Of course at this level it's mostly higher level frameworks anyway so transferrable knowledge to CUDA powered whatever.

As I noted, the big stuff from Nvidia will own the very high end (especially for training) for the foreseeable future and there's plenty of money to be made there as you noted.

But Apple is going to take big chunks out of Nvidia on the hardware side and a host of startups from the software/SaaS side. For hardware less demand on the low-mid side and less demand on the inference hosting side even for the big players.

For software leveraging foundational Apple models, dev tools, etc will make it so that any app developer can drop data in Xcode to tune/build a model for their app. Apps will be able to further finetune with user data on device.

See the links I provided - this is here (in beta) today.
This is the real price though. The customer doesn't care normally - the price is what they pay, not the weird partial amount that the ISP itself gets in the end.
You know what else would be nice? Being able to get a doctor's appointment in a reasonable amount of time.
Yes but if you label all the pass-through fees then everything else is a non pass through fee right?
what type of books do you like?
Except it doesn’t, really. You don’t usually want your user sitting around waiting for all those services to talk to each other before they a notification that the process is complete or not.

Further, those complex interactions between those various services will be much hard to debug and tweak when trying to provide support to end users. Can’t pay your bill because Cognito is down? Can’t grant access because Stripe is down? The data warehouse is doing an index build so you can’t do any transactions? Guess we should turn off the website between 2AM and 4AM ET to allow for data warehouse rebuilds.

There’s a reason we don’t do things this way.
What makes them much better than MS, with Bing, especially when a small company like perplexity.ai is providing something that's years ahead of Google?
A development flag...that was found in a production car. That it requires developer access to enable is irrelevant, since it was clearly enabled in a production car traversing public streets in the video Musk shared this past weekend.
I wonder why that's something worth wondering about.

Maybe they like it? It's a perfectly reasonable systems language, even if it's not my personal favorite. It might be something questionable if they used Fortran or Algol-68, sure.
Opt-out Facebook's AI training
I'm gonna kick myself later for this.

Why?
>Buddhism came about primarily as a response to Hindu orthodoxy and the caste system.

AFAIK, it did not. It came about from the Buddha's teachings, which were not about caste, but about suffering and its cessation via attaining nirvana (but I am not an expert on Buddhism; we only learned some about it in school).

My guess is that, instead, later, many people may have converted to it, maybe some due to orthodoxy.

I am talking about olden times. In recent times, neo-Buddhists definitely may have converted due to the caste system. I have read something about that earlier. See Dr. Ambedkar.
Timing of lifespan influences on brain and cognition
Some developers are a cancer too of course - want to do things they way they choose, taking the time they choose. A lot don't want to lose their specialisation or ownership of some portion of the code.

You get the senior devs who have been a law unto themselves for years and they certainly don't like anything that distributes power across the team. It might mean they have to do work they don't like sometimes.

From the start they're out to sink the whole scheme and even one of those in a team makes it very difficult to achieve any change.

That's just ontop of the fact that middle management don't like a method that removes their ability to interfere with the details or put pressure on individuals.

And of course in the end there are those developers who expect to do nothing but write beautiful lines of code all day long and consider every other part of delivering software to be beneath them - reviewing other people's code, writing tests, working on requirements, maintaining old code.
There is a lot of dox on Kiwifarms and I am not linking directly to it and getting my HN account banned. You have to look for it yourself. Don't wait around.
The anti-nuclear lobby may have a point but this paper is an embarrassment to their cause.

The author says directly and without supporting evidence that "nuclear power itself will deliver virtually nothing to the climate emergency’s resolution." The subtitle of the paper is "Diversion from climate action" without any explanation.

This is an extraordinary claim - the author holds the sole viable plan to save the climate and anyone who dares say otherwise is causing a diversion. It's made more extraordinary by the fact that nowhere in this entire rambling 54 page document do they provide evidence why nuclear and climate are fundamentally in opposition.

The author seems weirdly obsessed with identifying who supports nuclear energy so he can build up a political enemy. Most of the text involves naming names and casting speculative doubts on their motives - precious little time discussing the actual substance of the debate.
https://github.com/OpenDroneMap/ODM

You take a drone, point the camera mostly down (a narrow angle, not straight down), take photos of land, with some overlap, preferably from different angles, load the software, and it creates an ortophoto, 3d model, height map, all georeferenced
What exactly is your point then? It's just another word for "disadvantaged", "underprivileged" or "oppressed".
Climate change exacerbating conflict and poverty – IMF
Hm this is at the bottom of the second page when a minute ago it was at the top of the first page? Doesn't seem particularly contentious or anything.
Blue Pills and Black Pills are popular with the DIY mechanical keyboard crowd as the brains of a keyboard circuit. The Arduino Pro Micro is also popular. I imagine that nowadays people also use the Raspberry Pi RP2040.

The common feature among these boards is that they have relatively full-featured USB client support in hardware. This is different from other hobbyist embedded boards, such as most Arduinos, for example, which have only a USB virtual serial interface via a discrete chip for the purpose of uploading and debugging firmware. So if you can make the board look like a USB keyboard, and it has enough I/O to handle a matrix of keyboard switches, then with the right firmware like QMK, you've got yourself the building blocks of a custom keyboard.

My info is stale as of the start of the pandemic, when I gave up my mechanical-keyboard hobby and pivoted to DSLR-based videoconferencing.
A better solution would be to use a program that does what most people think of when they hear the word photogrammetry these days, 3D reconstruction from multiple images, and then make an orthorectified image from that.

OpenDroneMap can do that for example.

https://www.opendronemap.org/webodm/
I use it for everything. Random questions/research, generating code, documentation, short stories for the kids/fun, etc. Good enough it is quite often good enough.

It only three current limits, or I'd use it even more:

- Length

- Ability to import data/documents (Data Analysis is limited)

- Nothing newer than 2021.
ah I saw you on tildes.net

https://tildes.net/~comp/19wc/what_programming_technical_pro...

small world
That's extremely unusual. Very few companies do that for obvious reasons.
"Parity Experience" is largely subjective, and I'm not sure that I can answer that.

Especially with the complicated twist that "Visual Studio for Mac" for many was not close to "parity" with (regular) Visual Studio either.

This announcement means VS Code plus C# Dev Kit (and optionally the MAUI extension) will be the only officially supported experience on macOS and Linux, nothing to directly compare "parity" to. Whether or not the experience feels "parity" on Windows versus (regular) Visual Studio may be irrelevant.
In principle, yes, but you'd need something additional to act as a Bluetooth host. You'd probably be better off using a part that can do both, like an ESP32.
We dug into data to disprove a myth about women in STEM
Yep. We're probably seeing a return to the natural mean and it doesn't look too bad for ChatGPT.

I think the main issue they'll have is competition with other models vs AI tools going away. If they can lockin/innovate, I think they'll be in a fine position.
I haven't written any Ruby. Maybe one gets used to this after some time, but this honestly looks like it will enable you to write extremely clever and succinct code that makes perfect sense at the time, but a chore for anyone else to read and grok quickly (including the writer themselves a few weeks later). I could be wrong though.
I wonder how that's work?

Something like auto export slack history each week, get a word frequency. Then mantually assign a bunch of expansions based on what you see?
My experience is in northern California. Probably no one can speak for the experience across the entire US. FWIW, this guy in Minnesota seems to have had a very similar experience to what I’ve seen:

https://youtu.be/ZJOfyMCEzjQ?si=zPqg88sE9kfZCLXE
While it's certainly a comical thought to imagine a business opening their doors and waiting years to onboard a single customer, that an upstream swiftly cancels on their behalf, it's nothing more than a far-fetched story that you're telling. Do you genuinely believe that both of these businesses exist to support a single customer?

Abuse complaints have to be valid. Submitting opinion pieces to our inbox is good reading, but beyond that, relatively pointless without links to actual unlawful content. I can't speak on behalf of Crunchbits since we simply lease hardware from them, but they likely subscribe to the same policy that most service providers do.
Procedurally generating worlds with wave function collapse
Yes? Onlive had its own console, GeForce Now lets you do that with any browser-enabled phone or computer or Google TV, etc. (Nvidia also has its own Shield device, which is basically a much more powerful Google TV). xCloud worked that way too. I played them on my phone and on my projector by connecting a dongle of some sort. They'd also work on any Android TV or cheap no-name Android streaming stick.

Most of those used Bluetooth instead of WiFi for the controllers, but that never really mattered (I tried all of them, the Stadia wifi controllers made no difference).
No, it would be fair to summarize this as “’Scrum’ is used so inconsistency that trying to evaluate ‘Scrum’ is of no value; it is worth evaluate specific practices and well-defined collections of practices including ‘the set of practices described in the Scrum Guide’, and, if you are evaluating that particular set of practices, it is worth noting that the example cited is not an example of them.”

Much less TLDRish, but zooming out to take a broader perspective:

There seems to be an intense agreement with both of the following statements:

1. The practices in the industry that the people imposing them call “Scrum” are often quite bad, and

2. The practices in the industry that the people imposing them call “Scrum” often bear very little relationship to the methodology laid out in any version of the Scrum Guide.

Apparently because consensus is a bad thing and there aren’t enough real issues to argue about, some people who agree on points #1 and #2 seem to have squared off into a weird tribal battle over whether “Scrum” is bad due to #1 specifically that mostly turns on whether or not the One True Meaning of “Scrum”” is the thing they agree is very often bad in #1 or the thing they agree that thing differ differs from in #2. My position is that this is mostly silly, especially since there are very few contexts where both of those things are meaningful to consider: the first is so inconsistent in terms of actual practices that it is useless describe as a single thing in the context of concrete development practice, though it may be interesting to discuss as an industry cultural phenomenon, whereas particular practices or combinations of practices within its ambit can be discussed more productively when the focus is on concrete development practice; the second is specific enough to be useful to discuss in the context of concrete development practices, but not much else, except maybe in terms of its historical role in relation to the cultural phenomenon. With a little care to being clear what they are talking about and the what it is people are looking for from a discussion, the whole semantic side-debate can be avoided.
That's a big reason why I went with them. I did a ton of research to see where I felt most comfortable but ultimately went with IVPN because of how transparent they seemed about who they were and what they could/couldn't do. Mullvad was my second choice but at 3 years at a time IVPN was more cost effective. I usually connect via the NY, NJ, and IL gateways and get good speeds. I've got a 500/500 line and pretty consistently get in the 400's each way.
There are faster acting insulins creatively named "faster aspart" and "ultra rapid lispro" with the latter beginning to appear in the bloodstream at 2 minutes and reaching 50% effect around 20 minutes.

With that said the difference between CGM/pumps and the human body's mechanisms of blood glucose regulation is not purely due to pharmacokinetics, regulation of blood sugar is very complex and we still don't fully understand them but there are multiple hormones and factors affecting blood glucose regulation.

As one example some incretins are released in response to ingested food content and stimulate insulin secretion before blood glucose levels rise. We can't replicate that just by measuring blood glucose (not that we necessarily have to).

The homeostatic mechanisms of the human body are fascinatingly complex.
By definition totalitarian and will of the people are disjoint. Totalitarian systems are centralized. The people deciding, each of their own, to shun that which their consciences tell them is harmful to their society is the opposite of totalitarian. If KF can't find a home with any provider, and if providers they do find a home with are themselves shunned... That's just two tribes circling the wagons. Totalitarianism would look a lot more like some force external to those operators stepping in and forcing them to interact, regardless of their will.

And that's the rub. If we don't trust the owners of the machinery to decide how it is used, what's the proposed alternative?

If we pass laws to tie the hands of corporations on who's data they must carry, then we've taken the cudgel away from the Hurricane Electics of the world and given it to the Richard Blumenthals.

I trust corporations about as far as I can throw them, but I trust them more to decide what bits are on the wire than I trust governments.
Gambler's ruin where the prize is nuclear holocaust does attract a certain type
It's become way less useful than when it first came out. Now i cringe at the thought of asking it any question because it just says "well as a LLM i can't answer that with any information that you'd care about".
On a very high level you chain it together like so:

llama.cpp >> OpenAI translation server (included in llama git) >> Continue extension in vscode
Evan Wallace (former CTO) was a WASM pioneer IMO, he has plenty of excellent explorations and works shared on GitHub. I don't know Evan, but I've greatly appreciated stumbling into his works when exploring SharedArrayBuffer and what was once bleeding edge browser performance.

https://github.com/evanw
Yes I did use it. I'm not saying VS Mac was comparable to VS Windows in fact I had my doubts about M$'s cross-platform development hype throughout the VS Mac saga. The point is the M$ don't give a **ck about anything other than restoring their monopoly position through Windows. Their concession to Linux happened whilst they were fleecing Red Hat and SuSe with bogus Linux patents and financing SCO's disastrous UNIX lawsuit. M$ will never change.