skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've used a GPS navigator you've used AI, Pathfinding is a type of AI. Saw mills use planning algorithms to extract the maximum amount of useful planks from lumber, that's AI.

The most popular text book in the subject might be a good starting place: https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
Well, unless your cutoff is between 100 and 104, if you were her you would have missed out on half of your skydiving opportunities, since her first jump was at 100.

Also, its probably a bit harder to arrange someone who will let you do that than a normal skydiving jump,
Presumably our sense of taste is not adapted to a world of abundance. In a world of scarcity, the problems caused by a diet rich in sugar are a far off concern when you're starving and looking for calories.
I don't know r/fuckcars but I can imagine the tiny fraction of people who frequent there don't like cars. And the tiny fraction of a fraction of those that post and comment there dislike cars even more.

I don't think that view should become the basis for anyone's understanding of people's general view.
It is sort of like browsing r/qanon and thinking that's conservatism.

> On that topic, I immediately discard the opinion of anyone who uses the word "stroad"

That's not a great way to approach conversation.
> Afterwards all the devs started to rely on it and I was stuck fixing CI problems for other people's projects without getting any thanks from management...

And you are pointing out the biggest problem in tech industry - an unskilled and lazy management that doesn't really know what makes engineering tick.
You can buy a two year old Android phone to do the same thing, which is very inexpensive. Just disable every app except the camera app.
The RICOH GRIII/GRIIIx is still alive and kickin'. Really nice sensor, super sharp lens, and small enough to fit into a pocket. I don't really use my iPhone camera anymore.
Nothing in their complaint would preclude the artist from using the technology.
Obviously you can, but in the grand scheme of things people should share more details about their method so people can improve on it in the future, no?
The dream is still human waste diversion and treatment (separation, treatment, reuse). There are a couple small-scale projects looking at feasibility.

Right now the norm is to combine wastes, add it to drinking water, and then spend a lot of money to get the water out of it again.
>If a random singer can duplicate the sound of a popular singer it's one thing; to use a process to clone the voice of that singer from the singer's own recordings is a theft of that person's unique talent.

in the end the outcome is the same and happens all the time in the industry. When a voice actor portraying another character for an animated series, the original actor doesn't get compensated. Cloned or exactly duplicated is indistinguishable to the outcome.

>Same principle as if I took a paparazzi photo of a celebrity and sold it as portraits due to the fame of that person and for legitimate news purposes.

Not sure I understand this. paparazzi takes photo and sells photos ? whats the issue ?
I use

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of course as first characters of lines. It appears indented here on HN.

I didn't know about the triple tilde.
Always Break Time is an AI anime on twitch that is pretty fun and should be included here too :)
Qualcomm proposed Zc* alternative for RISC-V application profile
If you make up definitions, anything can be anything. Words have meanings and should be used precisely, or if used in a different context or a different way, they should be explained. This helps people understand you, and allows them to interact with you in good faith. Unless you are not interested in having discussions with people in good faith, otherwise, I guess you can do whatever you want.

It's just like interacting with an LLM. You have to use things as "they understand them" - try to make up your own definitions to a word and see if an LLM can make sense of you. Of course they cannot (unless you do something like "this word now means this other word" which is pretty impressive, I have to say!)

The literal definition of "understanding" is "the capacity to apprehend general relations of particulars" (webster) which is expanded on by wikipedia "a cognitive process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to use concepts to model that object."

I would agree that a "model" is important here. I can model out code flow. A LLM doesn't seem to do this: it uses the code to predict more code (based on training data). This is painfully obvious in some cases, where no matter what you do, an LLM will start to "oscillate" between two wrong answers, or when you're trying to do something novel: LLMs can't come up with new concepts or new ways to apply existing concepts.

Now, talking about understanding a specific thing muddies the waters I think. There are plenty of things I do not "understand" or only "understand partially" but do I have the capability of general understanding? Of course. I argue that an LLM doesn't have understanding, but it can mimic understanding. In practice this may mean very little (LLMs certainly have more knowledge than I do on almost all subjects lol) but I think over time this will lead to a "wall" these systems will hit (if they haven't already).

It gets worse, that whenever someone comes up with a counterexample saying an LLM lacks understanding, the response is always "well, it just hasn't been trained enough, yet!"

Like, we agree - but for different reasons. I agree you can train it on that example (in the way that GPT4 seems to have been trained on chess games) and then it will start to look like it is "understanding" but I disagree it is capable of a intrinsic understanding. You can't teach LLMs a new grammar, for example.
Why replace suburbs if you can put a tram line or urban train and upzone parts of it close to the stations.
It’s also possible to simply abandon undesirable neighbourhoods and leave for someplace better. In the most extreme example, in the second half of the 20th century, half of Detroit’s population rapidly left the city, as quickly as they had arrived in the first half of the century.

It’s quite possible that some suburban areas will experience the same boom and bust, now that dense cities are no longer polluted industrial hell-holes.
> Without that, you’re stuck with these small clips of 4 seconds.

Considering how many cuts are in modern movies, 4 seconds might be all we need.
Will they do a China style internet and attempt to lock it down to only approved websites? The cat is out of the bag and there is no stopping it. Personally I welcome this technology. Just this morning I listened to Drake and The Weekend with my kids it’s an okay song. My bet is we will see Drake and The Weekend actually perform this song live. I suggest they find a way to embrace this.
To me the hell is in the middle.

Your own single-family home but so close to the neighbors that it's basically "I'm not touching you!" with enough space for the HOA-paid lawn service to squeak their mowers through twice a week.

Perfectly manicured grass, and no trees except a few sproutlings along the road because they were all cut down to raise the fill for the new roads and houses.

Your friend could live half a mile away as the crow flies, but they live in a different gated HOA community than you do, and you'd have to trespass through yards to walk directly there, so the route by road is more like 5 miles.

Every task you may want to do requires getting in your car and sitting at three traffic lights minimum.

The car pickup line at the elementary school overflows onto the main road everyday at 3pm with hundreds of Chevy Tahoes each picking up one child. These children may live within a few miles of the school but sending them out to walk or bike along the 50mph six-lane road that connects all of the gated communities is of course outright dangerous.

Shops and restaurants are dominated by chains because there's so little spontaneity of finding a new place, and not enough concentration of population or foot traffic for cool local businesses to find a niche.

...

I'm totally cool with living out in the woods, in a true rural lifestyle. I also like being places where maybe my personal living space is a bit more closed in but I get something in return for that. Walkable amenities. A sense of neighborhood or town community. Walking and biking trails. Cool local restaurants and shops and breweries that couldn't survive in the low-density rural environment or in the suburban hellscape.

It's that weird in-between that the US loved to build for the last 50 years, and is still building in a lot of places, that just seems dystopian to me.

Edit: And ironically lots of us Americans love visiting both of those other ends of the spectrum, and talk about what a lovely time they had, and then go back to their gated HOA suburb and get ready for the next day's school run.
How is what an AI does any different?
Does anyone know if any of these tools support emulating wifi radios such that a person could test, say, hostapd configurations, independently or in the context of a network to make sure all the pieces are working together? (That is, without ever connecting anything to a live wireless card)
There are good reasons for the Emacs default that relate to atomic operations in typical file systems, reliability in shady hardware, or power losses and recovery. The argument of the author about hard links breaking is a matter of choice; some people want this copy on write semantics, others call it broken. Most people would want to avoid hard links to editable files anyways.
was this something to do with Djykstra's work?
A 2000 year old city has a much better chance of being walkable than an American city. Take a look at something like the Dallas/Fort Worth area. It’s an enormous sprawling web of low density suburbs. To make it walkable would require a very large amount of effort and that effort would likely be wasted due to the climate. Even a five minute walk down the street is going to leave you exhausted and dripping with sweat on most summer days there.
"TYPE" is a non-reserved keyword (hence the lack of an (R) in your link), it is also non-reserved in standard SQL. So it's only a keyword in some contexts, and it's generally available as an identifier.

From the wording of TFA, it probably only lists reserved keywords.

create table type (
type integer
);

insert into type (type) values (1), (2);

select type from type;

works perfectly fine in all of sqlite, postgres, mysql, and sql server (at least according to onecompiler.com).
What's with the "mascots" in this space being camelids? Would make sense if the main language in the LLM space was OCaml, but, sadly, it's Python
Resistance Begins at Home (Le Silence de La Mer)
Ignoring what the market wants doesn't work. If you maximize the return on investment of building more housing, then more people will build houses.

If you make housing construction unprofitable, then fewer people will build houses.

Also, people act like a glut of luxury housing would be a problem. It absolutely wouldn't. It would displace and therefore depress prices for midrange units. If the developers end up losing money selling their new luxury housing at a loss, then they've effectively just subsidized the US housing supply.

That's much less expensive for taxpayers than having the government subsidize + force people to build housing that sells for less than construction costs.
Are the people that live in walkable neighborhoods wealthier than the average US citizen? Maybe it’s not the neighborhood but the freedom from financial stress.
What's a good pet insurance carrier/plan, that's not just a straight up scam that just cover's the yearly stuff and some select things? Legit asking because with two super active GSD's I'd sign up in a heart beat if I found one.
I wish all anti-motorist activists could go live in this utopian city and be happy, as opposed to lobbying for measures that make my family life more difficult.

* My parents live 50 miles away, impossible to reach to on public transport with kids and related paraphernalia

* My young kids are in different school/childcare settings requiring us to drive

* We do regular large supermarket/DIY shops that cannot be taken on public transport

* We explore different rural and coastal areas with our kids that aren't practically reachable by public transport.

In the UK, anti-motorist lobbyists have been successful in pushing for punitive measures (e.g. roadblocks AKA "LTN", road narrowing, modal filters, road closures, mass-surveillance-based road charging AKA "ULEZ", absurd blanket 20mph speed limits on inappropriate roads) and we need to push back.

Reject propaganda pushed by The Guardian and similar metro-leftie publications. It's deeply unrepresentative and manipulative.
Did you read the page? It explicitly says LAN mode only support.
Stable LM 3B full technical report
This may just be my inexperience with the intricacies of C++, but it seems like a decent number of the problems raised here could be fixed by allowing one to name default args like proper keyword arguments. Consider the first issue discussed and how naming the argument just fixes it:

print_square('*');
print_square(fill='*'); // Hypothetical fix

It also seems to be an issue exacerbated by C++ implicitly converting a char into an int.

> The client programmer doesn’t want a “puzzling” print_square(x) that treats x sometimes as a side length and sometimes as a fill character!

This is also fixed if C++ allowed you to name keyword arguments explicitly (and didn't sometimes implicitly convert types, but that's baked in pretty hard by now).

> The “boolean parameter tarpit”

Again, imagine how much more understandable it would be if you could write:

doTask(task1, 100s, catchStderr=true);

I wonder whether the author would change their stance on default args if they were made to be more usable.
> With its high bit depth and dynamic range, log footage has many of the benefits of raw. But Apple Log is not raw, and not even “straight off the sensor.” It’s still heavily processed — denoised, tone-mapped, and color adjusted.

I wonder if this is because, at the end of the day, it is still a tiny little camera with a small sensor and small lens, and so with none of the processing magic the image would look pretty terrible under most circumstancdes.
That actually gives me some appreciation for some seemingly pointless vertical posts my city put into a bridge near me.
I LOLed hard at this.
Also the data in the article that supports the headline that "People are happier" is a quote from the developer.
That seems a somewhat extreme take. Do you feel the same about copyright? Should I be able to record someone else speaking or singing and sell it?
The advantage Playwright has is that it isn't a startup trying to leverage an open source project into a money-maker. (It's Microsoft)
To minimize radiation exposure, the mat turns wifi broadcasting off when it senses you are in bed. So dynamic wakeup is off the table. I also find this setup annoying because there are times where I'm still in bed and trying to decide if I need more sleep, but it won't update until I physically get out of bed. It can do smart lighting control, but there is a delay when it has to connect to the wifi.

I would have preferred the wifi disabling being optional, or a bluetooth link to my phone, or even an ethernet port!
Yea, this is a detail that Emacs gets right and a lot of other programs fail at. I really recommend not setting `backup-by-copying` because it introduces extra risks. Of course, I also recommend that every computer have a UPS and ECC ram. Defense in depth!
An even bigger issue is internet purchases and car purchases. Cars are taxed at the local sales tax rate of where the buyer lives. Internet sales are taxed at the state sales tax rate where the buyer lives.
Interesting.

For my "canned mainframe" (https://github.com/rbanffy/vm370) ARM images, I'm using Debian as a base, since it has the armv6 architecture listed and I didn't notice any adverse effects.

I wonder if I should have used an RPi-specific base image.

OTOH, that'd render the container image incompatible with other 32-bit ARM boards.
> every photo is now a crafted work of art by the machine.

This was always the case. Unless you have a very specific camera setup where you're trying to avoid this, there have always been certain characteristics that come through in photos from cameras. In fact, it's the main selling point of some cameras. Hasselblad, polaroid, cannon, sony all have their own 'looks' when it comes to output.

> The cop says "I couldn't see the guy's face" but the body camera shows the face clear as day.

I'll use a similar but opposite argument here. Ever since iPhones came out they could never really capture dark-skinned people as we see them through our eyes. Unless you had perfect lighting, you could clearly see issues with the sensor catching the contrast in their face. With all the retouching you speak of, iPhones have gotten much better at showing some people more closely to how we see them in reality. So when that cop claims "I couldn't see the guy's face, the damn camera is too good!", I'd be very hesitant to believe him.
This is exactly right. Like most things, looking at topics as "supply and demand" enables the right understanding. New luxury construction takes demand (and thus dollars) from the next-best-thing so it becomes less expensive. That enables the people who previously could not afford it to seek it, which makes the next-next-best thing less expensive in turn.

The flip side of this is when demand outstrips supply, so you have people paying several thousands per month for a studio in a walkup in Hell's Kitchen. But to be very clear, it would cost even more if not for the new high-rises within that square mile.
I'd argue that the increase occurred earlier. Everything we're learning about other human species is showing they also had intelligence and were around before Erectus came to be.
Llama1 --> 1.0T
Llama2 --> 2.0T
Mistral --> ??

They do not publish how many tokens it is pre-trained on, additionally to sharing no info on datasets used (except for fine-tuning).

To my knowledge, no one has trained a larger LLM (>250M) to the capacity limit.
As discussed in the original GPT3 paper (https://twitter.com/gneubig/status/1286731711150280705?s=20)

TinyLlama is trying to do that for 1.1B: https://github.com/jzhang38/TinyLlama

As long as we are not at the capacity limit, we will have a few of these 7B beats 13B (or 7B beats 70B) moments.
Unit-testing shell scripts and tools with shtk
Ha, just asked - approx £10.91
What if there is an AI built from the best impersonators without the input of the original? What if someone goes through enough effort to even get them to agree for their voice to be used as such?
> I need it to take clear pictures that accurately represent things that I see. We are now moving away from auto-focus and auto shutter speeds toward on-the-fly retouching, editing, of material by the camera. This is dangerous.

You could argue that up until now you were not able to take photos or video that accurately represented the world you see but instead only using the rose color lenses of the device manufacturer. The photos and videos that you take today with your phones or cameras have distortions applied automatically based on presets provided by the software used to capture the media. Sometimes you get options like Vibrant, Indoor, Portrait, and Landscape mode to choose how the images or video are manipulated. You don't get to see what the camera actually saw, only what the device manufacturer wants you to see.

Log video is like Raw photos. As this capability becomes more prevalent, I could see it becoming a requirement for criminal investigators and other to capture evidence using a Log or Raw mode.

What I would argue is that, if it's not there already, we need signatures and metadata stored in the EXIF of photos and video captured that tells how the image was capture. With that you could determine to what extent the media has been manipulated.
Fine. But I was very sad that the questioner didn't do some googling before they introduced a spurious question about vaccines into a comment thread about long covid.

20% of the US population remain unvaccinated. I think that 60 million people is a sufficient control sample to be able to tell the difference between long covid issues and vaccine issues.
Please, no. A camera need to be ready to shoot the moment I flip it on.

I also don't want it to have reduced battery life just so that I can use the god-awful playstore on it.
> We don't know what "intelligence" means, but we know it isn't matrix multiplication

What makes you believe “intelligence” can’t emerge from lots of matrix multiplications? Unless you believe in some more mystical explanation, human intelligence is just electrochemical processes not that unlike computers.
This is rad, ish. Slick with style I'd love to see more of.

> Most websites use a mix of WebGL and HTML.

"Most"? Bold claim. I don't think so.

> However, the Lens refraction requires all images and text to be WebGL.

This breaks a bunch of conventions. I wonder how this breaks accessibility. At the very least, it broke clean copy and pasting.
“Just a bunch of matrix multiplications” is also a bit odd because lots of jobs have been automated out of existence by tools way less complicated than matrix multiplications.

The weird thing, I think, about these matrix multiplications, seems to be that they might be coming for the jobs of people who are generally in the same field that invented them (programmers) and also they might be coming for the jobs of reporters, creatives, and hot-take authors. People with bigger platforms than factory workers.
You could always fork packages (or make your own) if you don't want to use the open source stuff.

I love the node ecosystem, personally. Way less reinventing the wheel for basic things. But I do wish there was a curation/vetting system for them. I bet there's a ton of malware floating around that we don't notice... :/
This approach (eliminating fossil fuels from the nitrogen fertilizer pipeline) will inevitably become the global norm. For Africa in particular, it's the only plausible route to long-term food stability as there simply isn't enough fossil fuel available to allow Africa to industrialize (and if there was, we'd be doubling the rate of CO2 increase in the atmosphere). Africa has the opportunity to go directly from pre-industrial agrarian economy to a renewable energy-powered industrial economy.
Of those three, Vulkan is the only one that is cross platform, and the only one that natively targets Linux.
It's not "access to trees" so much as "access to large, old growth trees". The old ones with tight growth rings, large widths and long straight trunks are actually kinda rare these days. The farmed stuff is not the same, compare the growth ring per-inch
I really, really, really appreciate these types of posts. FWIW, I had to tweak things a tad but I got it running perfectly on my Debian 11 box :)
Act test scores fall to lowest levels in 32 years
In most of the world, most of the time, people peacefully coexist in public places with little or no disruption.

If a person insists on zero disruption, they likely will avoid shared spaces all together, since even shared private spaces can't provide protection from all disruption all of the time.
If editors make such a decision, how would that be any different than a publication deciding to set a readability bar based on something like Flesch–Kincaid?
> At best, a system like that is an “expert system.” It’s not artificially-intelligent in any way.

“Expert system” was adopted for that particular form of AI (which it was also considered when it was developed) because “expertise” is a combination of both intelligence and knowledge.

So, if “AI” is misleading for it, “expert system” is more misleading.