skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at these old videos, it is fascinating how fast we've gone from heavier than air flight to space exploration.

The first heavier than air flight was in 1903. The first Moon landing was in 1969. The Shuttle videos are from early 80s. In the year 2000, we started permanently living in space on the ISS. One human lifetime from this [0] to this [1].

But we also lost a lot of the tech since the 70s. Quite many steps back technologically.

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_1
I can see that for some non-profit with more nebulous goals, but as a user of Processing, I'd assume all the foundation does is just further development, maintainance, bug fixes, and like managing the bug reports, the announcements on the website, and all that.

And maybe some work to market the foundation itself and try to increase the donations to it.

So really my expectations would be that it takes the money, and hires people to expand Processing, P5js, and the editor with new features, fix bugs, and maybe branch it out to new platforms. And it would maybe hire some people to manage the community issues.

And then the foundation members could discuss amongst themselves about what features are most important, if the editor needs more work this year, or if P5js needs more, or if they want to invest in a port to Rust, or whatever.

But it seems that there's a lot more money going towards things like outreach, grants to artists, events, workshops, etc.

I feel it goes against what I'd expect as a potential donor. And I feel it's also against what Ben Fey expects of the foundation.

He said himself:

> the project was always a 50-50 split between internal (software development) and external (the community, the documentation, examples, etc). The Foundation has lost all sense of balance

Implying that Software Development has almost spotted completely, and it's now all things around community building.
Remind me why they're called "meta" ? I think they're completely gone in terms of strategy. There's no more sense nor meaning to what they plan on doing.
"They predict the next word in a sequence based on correlations derived from a lot of training data."

This misinformation really needs to finally die.

They are trained based on correlations of next token prediction. But that does not mean that the resulting neural network is only doing that.

When Harvard and MIT researchers fed Othello moves into GPT, it was training based on the correlations of legal Othello moves.

But the version of the NN that performed the best at that task had created within that network dedicated structure representing a legal Othello board and tracking the state of moves - neither of which were things explicitly in the training data or goals the training was directly measuring.

You effectively came to exist by a training process of surviving to reproduce. But it wouldn't exactly be accurate to say that as complexity increased, the only thing you remain capable of is surviving to reproduce, even if many of your emergent capabilities happen to improve the success of being able to do so.

Training =/= Operation
With some CPU offloading I'm able to run SDXL at 1.5it/s on an RTX2070S w/ 8GB VRAM.

When used with ControlNet it still runs but more layers offloaded at 1.4s/it
> Individual landlords don't have market power.

The vast majority of rental units are owned by large companies, not individuals. Here in Texas all of the biggest landlord companies set rents to whatever the "YieldStar"[0] software tells them to. YieldStar is essentially used to outsource/whitewash pricing collusion.

Personally I'd expect a large % of individual small landlords to be using property management firms to handle their listings/rent collection/maintenance/etc, and for those property management firms to be using something like YieldStar to set their prices. If not now, then definitely soon enough.

0: https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...
Pixel "Watch": Mic, Speaker, Wi-Fi, LTE, GPS, Compass, Altimeter, SpO2, ECG, Heart Rate, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Ambient, Light, Conductance, Temp, Barometer, Magnetometer, Wireless Charging, 2GB RAM, 32GB Flash

...but its 12mm thick?! xD

And it's free with purchase of their flagship? Who could resist?

PS> I don't work for Google/Pixel or any affiliated group.
> People said this about calculators as well, or initial chess AI as well. "If computers can do this, then the remaining parts of intelligence is probably not hard to reproduce!".

People also said that chess computers would never beat the best humans. And then when that happened they said, "well they're just using sheer brute force, they will never produce beautiful chess". And then Alpha Zero came along, and showed that prediction was wrong as well.

Personally, I believe that silicon intelligence will evolve a lot faster than ours did. But regardless, I've yet to hear any convincing argument why it can't happen eventually.
1) Google is more going forward towards mediocre photography. You can't turn off HDR (HDR in 99% cases is bad), now they introduced AI-tool to replaces unsmiling \ awkward faces.

2) Pixels going toward cloud based smartphones (Video Boost feature) - is really bad, no future proof. My fathers 2 XL works fine without updates, but with cloud based features Pixels gonna come crippled
I went back and checked. I stand corrected. There is indeed a right-click context menu option for playback speed.
I came here because of that. I suspect it's mislabeled, since it looks like it would match the numbers if the labels at the bottom went low, mid, high instead of low, high, mid. But even more than that, I think the numbers demonstrate that some fluoride is better than none. And the low groups average is likely skewed by a single outlier, way at the top of the graph.

Poor study all around.
>They predict the next word in a sequence ...

Every time my mind takes this overplayed sequence of words as input, I can't help but feel the author refutes their own point...
what do you do? and for how many years
In code review, explain what can go wrong and offer suggestions for how to write it such that it doesn't have those problems?
> Is there any chance at all that we humans are are also just predicting the next word in the sentence

No, humans live in a world and use their intelligence to manipulate the world. When we generate word sequence we usually generate those to communicate information about the world, not to try to parrot what others have said. Humans can use their intelligence to parrot what others say, many do, but we know for sure it is not all humans do.
After letting the anecdote percolate for a bit, none of it makes sense.

The idea that the other person is getting more and more humiliated, as their losses go from 98 dollars to 99 to 99.50 doesn't really track.
Seriously? Windows has had this bizarre “working set” concept effectively forever. I thought it was weird when Windows 2000 was new, and I still think it’s weird. In the land of page replacement algorithms, there are many of various degrees of cleverness, and then there’s “we exceeded an arbitrarily limit — nothing else needed that memory, but we’re going to zap it out of the page tables anyway!”

(x86 has had “accessed” tracking for a long long time. What would be wrong with keeping over-the-working-set pages present but not “accessed” and tracking accesses without causing page faults? Or at least only trying to expire pages when there’s some degree of memory pressure.)
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. You're not being actively hostile, just voicing conerns.

But I feel you're not extending your own question far enough to answer it for yourself. Why do in Finland what is cheaper to do in Cyprus? Why do in Cyprus what is cheaper to do in Laos? Etc, etc. The answer is usually not "The economy is wrong and I am right".

Logistics-wise, it is true that we are farther away from places, but it's also true the price of logistics has fallen over the past 100 years by several orders of magnitude -- and that we have a giant sea on our western flank which makes it even cheaper to move huge amounts of freight. I don't think you can look at the sophistication of modern logistical operations and deem that that is going to be the dealkiller for people. Doubly so when you consider the rising tide of self-driving technologies of all kind -- triply so when you consider Finland is one of the few states in Europe still actively investing in nuclear power. A self guided, nuclear powered cargo fleet is the kind of thing I dream about at night.

But again - that wouldn't be specific to Finland, that would be a boon to any state with a coastline. So I just don't really see it as all that relevant from a comparative advantage viewpoint. There has to be more to the story than the raw logistics of it, much like there has to be more to the story of Python being more popular than x86 these days even though x86 is closer to the metal.
I'm still rockin a 3a. It marches on like the day I bought it.
personally it's hard when the stuff I do doesn't seem that cool to me. What for others looks like "cool Lego set build" for me might be "I arranged blocks in expected manner" and my mind wouldn't even consider that as a possible answer.
> I believe static typing is better

Like most of us here it seems. But do you prefer TypeScript over JavaScript? What is your belief / feeling?
The same can happen in a live game. Apparently LAN games don't check for consistency in game state so you can just diverge over time. One of the observers in ASL desynced in the RO8 just the other day so it travelled over into remastered.
I always sort of imagine it's a selling point less for the adventure aspect and more for the 'dropped in the toilet' angle.

i've yet to be so unfortunate, but i've met a lot of people with a 'I dropped my phone in the toilet so it's in a bag of rice' story.

let's hope they throw that rice out at the end of the process.
> I've yet to hear any convincing argument why it can't happen eventually.

That is a strawman, basically nobody argues this.

> People also said that chess computers would never beat the best humans

How many did say this? I see way more overly optimistic "humans are stupid" messages than I see "computers will never beat humans" messages. The argument is mostly between "humans are obsolete in a decade at most" versus "we would be lucky to see general intelligence in our lifetime", not that it it is impossible.
It needs to be renamed as the Tablet Theorem.
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best!
Yeah I hear a lot of people bring up the battery life thing but the Apple Watch and wearOS devices are fully functional computers in their own right. If you do want a fitness appliance of sorts it's really not these devices.

Regardless, I find a fast charger while showering makes the watch last plenty long.
I fully agree with this perspective. The terminology will change as the field continues to evolve. As long as any anthropomorphizing terms are chosen carefully and are not aggrandizing, it shouldn't be a problem. IIRC "hallucinate" was a term previously used to describe characteristics other network types such as RBMs and had just been carried over to LLMs.
Tsunami advisory issued for Japan’s Izu islands after 6.6M quake
problem is, the scalpers run bots and take all the tickets before someone like me can make a purchase, then they jack up the price

there may be a "market", but it's not a healthy one, nor should there be one

I want to do business with the band and venue, unfortunately, some grifters like the post want to abuse the system
Most of the people who repeat this have hardly any background in neuroscience... so they actually have no clue at all what the process they're claiming LLMs don't mirror is.

Meanwhile the people who are in neuroscience have posited a Bayesian model to human cognitive function as far back as the 1800s, well before any convenient targets for anthropomorphization existed, and it continued as an area of study until today: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/bayesian-rationality...

Essentially, in typical techie fashion people with barely any understanding of a topic assume to have mastery ahead of people are the forefront of a non-tech field.

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This a sort of objectification seems equally as rooted in emotion and feelings as the anthropropmization crowd: We don't actually know the answer to the question of if there is some layer of human cognitive function that mirrors LLMs, but it'd cause me great cognitive dissonance/discomfort if the answer is not <insert preferred answer> so I will vehemently fight against any claims to the contrary.

To me the answer is to simply accept we don't know, and take whatever tools let us make progress on working with the LLM. If that's borrowing words like "reasoning" and "understanding" and "confabulate" so be it, it's of no loss to anyone.
Man missing after reported Point Reyes shark attack was S.F. Entrepreneur
Michael Lewis's Big Contrarian Bet on SBF
My affordable Fitbit inspire’s battery life is also more than 2 weeks that I have to set a reminder to charge it because the battery life is so long.
The claim is that you cannot determine whether a system has a 'world model' through inspection of it's abstract token inputs/outputs.
I would use this opportunity to figure what multiple of minimum wage people need to be paid in order for the robots to be cost effective.
https://archive.ph/vLLXu
Thanks for the comment! Our method is model-agnostic. It can be easily adapted to any LLM (aka the text-encode) and any text-to-image models.

For example, the method was originally tested in Stable Diffusion 1.4. But we can easily apply it to Stable Diffusion-XL (or any finetuned model like ANIMAGINE-XL) even though the new model has a different text encoder and U-Net weights.
> That is a strawman, basically nobody argues this.

Some people do. Some people believe that intelligence is much more fundamental to the universe, and not capable of being reproduced mechanistically.

But if you grant that it is possible, all we're talking about is when; which is anyone's guess. It could be tomorrow, it could take a million years. I'm not pretending to know, just offering a different perspective than the original comment.
Wow, nice. Bookmarked for when I get my desktop back up.
GCam HDR is a horrible thing and you can't disable it anymore :(

AI editor with "everyone smilling" trend reminded me Black Mirror :)
ClimateNeRF: Extreme Weather Synthesis in Neural Radiance Field
How is it “physical waste”? No one is forcing you to buy a new phone and in the case of iPhones, Apple has released security updates in the past year for all iPhones introduced in the last decade.

I have an iPhone 12 Pro Max that is three generations behind now. While there is nothing I have to have, the always on display, the USB 3 speed, and video out to my portable USB-C monitor on the iPhone 15 Pro would be nice.
They're also returning like $6 billion/year to their shareholders via dividends -- if they had just hoarded that cash, their share price would obviously be much higher.
The poster's assumption that this is caused by the Apple product could be incorrect. The emissions could be caused by the supply equipment noise propagating down the cable. The load presented by the Apple product could induce the supply equipment to emit noise at that frequency.
Reminds me Black Mirror vibes :)
Not having to reach for the phone is pretty convenient, I can just leave my phone on my bed while cooking or working or whatever else and thus only care about truly important notifications, and because it doesn't involve a full "context switch" of pulling out a phone, it doesn't really feel intrusive, being just enough info for me to be able to determine if it justifies pausing what I'm doing and reaching for a phone or just making a mental note to get back to it after finishing what I'm doing.

Also, if my hands are full/dirty I can still control media playback (granted that using the nose to tap on a watch probably looks pretty funny), and have weather right on my wrist (which is surprisingly handy).

Edit: Also it turns out to be the best kind of alarm for me. Audio alarms are annoying (also to anyone else who has to hear it) and don't really tend to wake me up nicely. Turns out the slight vibration of the watch wakes me up pretty nicely without bothering people in other rooms.
> That is a strawman, basically nobody argues this.

I mean, people do-- even smart people like Penrose.
Questions I ask during 1:1 with my direct reports
You'd be surprised, even +5C during the day will turn that shallow frozen water back to liquid.

But when it hits, it happens quickly. Every year people dogsled on a lake outside Whitehorse, Yukon in November. Often it's pure liquid on November 20th, and yet they will dogsled on it before the last day of the month.
People routinely ruined phones via submersion or splashed water. I drowned a phone in my pocket while biking in a rainstorm as recently as 2018. You never hear about this anymore.
Hn is social media
But those "some people" aren't here. What we are discussing is how close LLM are to human reasoning. Many argue LLM are already there, "what evidence do you have that humans aren't essentially just an LLM?" basically. You see such posts in this very thread.
Garmin smartwatches support installable apps.

https://apps.garmin.com/
I didn't find the categorization of friendships offered by the article all that useful. It seems far too simplistic and superficial to be the state-of-the-art in sociology: terms like trust, confidence, outgroup, ingroup seem curiously absent. But I could easily be wrong about that, as I don't know much about sociology in the first place.

But I do know a few things about linguistics, and I'm well aware that the oldest meaning of friend wasn't "ally" in Rome. Amicus means "loved one", and its application to allies is a mere Lakoffian metaphor, and by no means, as claimed by the article, the origin of the concept.

While recognizing the author's expertise in sociology, when I take into account Gell-Mann amnesia, I was much less able to take his explanations seriously after that introduction. The writing style didn't help either: it imitates that genre of 2010s SAT essays where the student has to demonstrate familiarity with the Western canon by strenously relating random events in books they read to inane questions such as "Are people defined by their occupations?"
Oof. I forgot about how much better Samsung's sonic FP readers were. Yeah completely forgot about that from the S10e. I will say for the Pixel it's a little bit better now than it was at launch.
You really don’t think people accidentally jump in pool, drop their phone in a puddle, in the sink, in the toilet etc?
That clear tape Mario up down is genius!
In 7, you mean?
OK, so the guy had a breakdown and tripped out on everyone around. Doesn't make his project bad.
Sums up the issues with democracy too, and a ton of other stuff
I think the social pressure relates to people forcing _you_ to use a language that you wouldn't personally go with. Pretty sure the pressure is highest with TypeScript currently.
I have an impression that if you accuse any of the chat models of being wrong they well tend to confess and apologize.

I guess I should spearhead a study, “how right does an LLM have to be, before it will defend its position”.

I guess step one is to ask chatgpt how to quantify correctness.
I've never had one give correct information after being told it's incorrect, unless it was prompted with the correct info. It's usually the same incorrect answer stated slightly differently, or after a few complaints, stated exactly the same way.
I'm pretty sure that was a humorous exaggeration, and just means "conspiratorial bent". I don't think anyone really believes in Lizard People except David Icke.
Simplistic stories that are easy to translate without needing much context would make selling in China easy. But I don't understand the woke part.
Hints and Principles for Computer System Design (2020) [pdf]
You have to pay in full to the developer. By taking out a loan which consists of a downpayment.
The developer now has 100% of the money. And the buyer has nothing but debt.
The developers are either never breaking ground or never completing the building. Using the money to buy more land and sell more homes.
When they file for bankruptcy. The banks still need the money back from the buyer. Since the buyer has no home because it was never finished they effectively lose their investment and their lives as debt collection takes their cars, live-in home. Etc.
Stop spreading misinformation that buyers aren’t suffering.
> They might just want a prober; ask every server for cloudflare.com every minute. If that errors, there are big problems.

Yeah this was my first thought too. Why don't they have such a system in place for as many permutations of their public services as they can think of? We're a small company and we've had this for critical stuff for several years.
I got rid of my Pixel 3 because I wanted the new-sexy... I wish like hell I'd stayed. Best phone I've owned since the dumbphone days. I hate pressing my thumb to the print reader on a screen; feels so wrong compared to the little divot on the back.
This looks nice. Where does it get the syncronized lyrics from?
My preferred solution would be phone -> local backup (for safety) -> Google Photos (for convenience). If the sync to local is about as good as google this would be the best for me.

Distant Plan b: phone -> google photos -> local backup. The problem here is that the only way to get your originals out of google photos is to use google takeout which is basically a dealbreaker here.
The former issue will be easier to fix than the latter.

After all going against the establishment generally results in failure.

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity may not agree with each other but they both have destroyed mountains of attempts to disprove them.

I am not being rosy I am on the side of "we have to do something" contrasted against "all science is bad".

Not saying you are saying that but some posters are.

We can certainly improve things on many vectors but throwing away all existing science isn't the way forward either.
According to the article, this layoff was targeted at the wearable custom chips. I think this is more a reaction to the Vision Pro and conceding the high end solutions to Apple.
this is why I prefer a hybrid watch over a smartwatch. My Amazfit T-Rex and Withings Steel HR batteries last a month
Fleeting form of nitrogen stretches nuclear theory to its limits
I keep hearing people repeat they are much more productive working from home. I guess with all that extra productivity these companies can keep fewer people working.
Why can't I run that signature algorithm on my deepfaked video?
I'm using DDG as the primary browser on iOS.

Using Google as the primary search engine with Private Relay and content blockers turned on is a terrible experience. I had to identify so many traffic lights and buses.
Totally agree with you. I think Google targets to housewifes (mediocre photography taste):
- Bright photos
- Smiling faces
- Vivid unnatural colors

I hate that they removed ability to disable thair **ing HDR.

p.s: Pixel 6 owner
But a large majority of people who say "LLMs are nothing like humans" are not making that argument. If you look through these kind of threads on HN you see maybe one post making that argument among hundreds, that is "basically nobody" to me given how often that strawman is used against people who are skeptical about LLMs potential capabilities.
It is the same system. It's multicast
Pixel Buds Pro update will bring conversation detection and listen stats
What, specifically, makes you believe it won't? What's your 5 year timeline for eliminating coding?