skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> some sort of high heat capacity bricks..., the matter of maintenance was forgotten.

Tangent: Startup Andora Energy claims to have solved the maintenance problem with some novel carbon bricks.

Further: Their next gen product plans to use thermophotovoltaics, converting heat into electricity, directly. That'd be spiffy.
Have every meeting in public, publish every document, and they'll still insist you're part of a Communist conspiracy to poison the tap water.

Or for a more modern one, examine the diverse accusations around 5G.

Some of it's just general paranoia and distrust, or outright mental illness.
Step 1 - Be an amazing photographer.

Step 2 - Give them anything to shoot with up to and including a literal potato.

Step 3 - Be amazed at how good of results they get.

Look, I love my iPhone and my Nikon. But at the end of the day in most photography forums you'll see the recommendation to "use what you have". Expensive body and fancy glass only goes so far. You can use the worlds most expensive camera and still take shitty pictures. You can use a Gameboy Camera and still take good pictures.

That all being said, I think these photos are a great demonstration of "use what you have". It doesn't really matter that it's the new iPhone 21 Pro Max Ultra w/ Quantum Tunneling. You can take amazing photos with a little bit of creativity and a practiced eye. In fact, "limitation breeds creativity" is doubly true with the many limitations of an iPhone camera.
You're not wrong but on the other hand, if the knife can't cut, that will hamper the chef.

Also Wu had this to say, “The iPhone 15 Pro is the best camera available for its size, and while it can’t replace bigger dedicated systems, it can create images which still push my own artistic vision and display them at gallery quality and sizes, and I was shocked how good the prints were.”

Pretty decent endorsement really.
I didn't mean that in all of them and everyone in any of them. But it has been always the case everywhere in the world. It's the mechanism how languages die - gravitation to the bigger languages. Hundreds of languages die in Russia not only because of limited education in regional languages, but because it's more fashionable to be russian than representative of smaller nation. In world level this gravitation is towards english mainly.

In my country it's especially fashionable not to know a native language for a people in tech. "It's impossible to talk about tech anyway in native languages, so we all should use english anyway in future" is very common. I tried to fight with it localizing/translating software for many years, but I've given up for now.
> LLMs have no understanding of the underlying reality

Not true. They are slowly gaining an understanding of reality by reverse engineering the relationships built into human languages. The only reason LLMs are getting better is because they are better modeling the world. At some point the only way to improve token prediction is to gain an understanding of the world.
I think the fact Steam / Valve has not jumped into that bandwagon speaks for itself. Its fine when Microsoft does like Xbox Game Pass because they have nothing to lose with it, and they gain people who may want to own some of those games, or who want it for the Microsoft games on the subscription.
> If we are on vacation, we can call up a friend and tell them a code so they can get in.

I love that I can give my family/friends a code and make it valid for a specific time period. Or remotely let them in. That’s the value I see in networked locks.
You might be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_car - otherwise, I mean, if you're not into Teslas, no one is making you buy one.. Not sure what your angle is.
I love linux and FOSS myself, not putting your angle down I just don't see your point exactly.
You can vote with your wallets, and everyone else can too.
Like any other car, if you have the physical key* you can open it and drive it.

You do need an account with Tesla to buy a new one though.

*and PIN if applicable
It’s actually the opposite: if we moved to storing source code in, say, sqlite and built tooling to make querying these databases easy, then it would become a lot easier to get a high-level understanding of a project. Especially if, in addition to the code, you stored links (e.g. from a function to the functions it calls; from a class to what it references).

I personally find Common Lisp and Clojure much easier to navigate because I can just ignore the filesystem layout and use the in-image database of code relationships to navigate.
Honestly doesn't get better in the reverse either. At Microsoft I'd sit in on calls with banks and other "big names", watching them pound the table and argue their way, usually involving something dangerous and borderline malicious use of the product, all the while thinking "we could buy your company with our cash on hand".

I think the key was that they're used to being the big dog in the room, and Microsoft made a point of not correcting them when that behavior was seen.
I feel like you are trying to say that you believe this comment to mean that they might try to sell access to the user data acquired from API usage, but I'm pretty sure the connection "and thus" is equating the APIs with user data, as companies paying for access to these APIs is--similar to having access to Facebook's APIs--giving them access to the user data that is accessible via those APIs.
Pure INS should be pretty rare these days, no?

I believe it's now usually a combination of multiple sources (e.g. ground-based navaids like VORs and DMEs, GNSSs/GPS, and INS to reject most spoofed signals or in case everything else fails).
Hmm you're right, I was basing that on the fact that he was in the contact book and the flight logs, but I can't find any official sources corroborating the flight logs. So an acquaintance.
A lot of really nice, focused polish items in this release that have real practical benefits. The corrective "healing" receive for example, ZFS has always been able self-heal when there is redundancy (either device level or using the copies attribute), and that's always been a core feature. And in its original incarnation there'd always be at least some redundancy. But as it gets wider use fact is the vast majority of systems have a single device and don't want to cut available storage in half for copies=1. Corruption can still be detected with a scrub thanks to checksums, so ZFS is still useful anyway. It's better to know about corruption asap, while you still have good backups. But being able to smoothly and very quickly repair that without any local redundancy using backups you should have anyway is a nice bit of polish and leveraging of the foundation.

One question if anyone who follows it more closely knows: are there any efforts to work specifically on ZVOL performance? They're very handy for iSCSI and other features, but my understanding is they haven't gotten much focus for quite awhile now. Maybe that just doesn't have any real company backing right now for R&D but I hope it gets some attention eventually.
I’ve come around to using btrfs as basically ext4++ but ZFS is head and shoulders a better product.

This article is somewhat outdated but the author is knowledgeable on the subject https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linu...
MetaCreations had product called MetaStream which was an early 3D technology for the web. It's logo (ca. 1999)[1] looks interestingly similar to another more recent Meta's logo. ;)

[1] https://imgur.com/a/FnGz2Gl

MetaStream had a some really neat features like progressive enhancement too.
That's very generous of you.
I never liked that the term "hallucinating" ended up sticking.

The AI doesn't know something so it just invents something. We usually call that "bullshitting", or in more polite crowds, "lying".
Hey HN, Marc co-founder & CEO of scalar here!

Thanks so much for your thoughtful feedback and giving our first open sourced tool a try. Please don't hesitate to reach out here or email me directly at marc@scalar.com if you have any feedback or if I can help you in any way shape or form with your API.
(2) is interesting, it would be cool if LSP evolved a sort of “file system server” ability that could be integrated into things like TRAMP in emacs
With Microsoft track record of poorly managing its acquisitions, I don't think anything will get meaningfully worse.
When I was at Cisco (over 10 years ago), one of the clauses in the PSB (Product Security Baseline) was "No default credentials". Back then, most of the issues arose in products that were produced by companies that Cisco subsequently purchased. I can't find the PSB that I was familiar with, but this is a variant that Cisco uses for Linux: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/security/intelligenc...

Cisco isn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but the corporation cares about security even if some of the individual employees don't care to the same extent.
> Since Hamas is deliberately hiding inside the citizen population

And where should Hamas be? Hamas is a government of Gaza. They are part of the citizenry. It's not some third party entity. Entirety of Gaza is either populated, or consists of small areas of agricultural land, so there's no other place they can be, than among other population. Any armed group in Gaza will have to live among the population.

> its best the citizen population that can move away to the south do that

How so? If people concentrate in one place, they'll just be easier to kill. They'll not even have their house to cover them from shrapnel and bombs, because a lot of people will be forced to stay in streets if Israel has its way and forces 1 mil. of people south. And Israel will not stop the bombings in the south, either.
Regardless of incentive; every company I just mentioned already does more to let users run LLMs than Apple. Google wrote Tensorflow, Meta designed Pytorch, Nvidia wrote CUDA and the fundamental AI papers, and Microsoft distributes ONNX.

By comparison, Apple...

- Doesn't support PCIe inferencing hardware

- Refuses to sign their competitor's drivers

- Ships a neural engine they ignore for significant tasks

- Doubled-down on the proprietary CoreML API and model format

- Cut funding for OpenCL, their original Open Source GPGPU effort

- Doesn't provide Open Source GPU compute primatives for their own GPU hardware

- Actively ignores efforts to Open Source said hardware with better Open Source drivers

- Continues converting models to their own format instead of fixing Apple hardware as a compute target

...and you mean to tell me that the M2 "predicted" LLMs? By supporting more memory?

Apple was the last company out of everyone mentioned that even started working with AI. It's fine if you enjoy your Apple Silicon Mac, but it no more "predicted the rise of local LLMs" than AVX and SSE did in 1999. You made no effort to correlate the two ideas, and Apple's antagonistic role in open standards development kinda offsets whatever slight victory you can claim. Even Nvidia does more for local LLM development, and that's sad.
I'm not Faang but I am OG SV and the problem with a lot of these large, very flat companies is that once you reach a certain level you are stuck and it really takes an ask of god to get a promotion. That said we're paid well and the job is a place where you can stay for a decade or two if you want. As far as doing your own thing, have you talked to your partner about this? When I was young and trying to make a lot of money quickly my now wife was happy to work a steady job and provide the health insurance while I chased startup after startup. In the event that one of those startup took an unexpected crash she could cover the bills. If I was the sole source of income I likely would have taken a much safer route, taking care of my family is my priority, making a killing is nice but not required. If I were you I'd stay at your well paying job and see what you can do during your free time, when you get to the point where you can no longer do both then quit but until then you'll have an income -I had a business once where for the first three years we didn't break even so I'd be the boss during the day and then go baby sit a data center for the second shift, it was how my employees got paid, as a business owner you do what you have to do to keep the doors open.
The human mind is arguably proof that AGI is possible.
Let's say crate B depends on crate A with a pinned dependency, and uses one of its types in a public interface.

Crate C depends on them both. It now can't bring in updates to A until B does, and when B updates that's a breaking change, so it better bump its major version.

Take a look at this trick, for example, for foundational crates updating their major version: https://github.com/dtolnay/semver-trick

Now imagine that being an issue every single patch update.
Actually, the empeg had features that still don't exist on other players to this day.

I could shuffle my entire music library, then if I heard a song I liked, i could hit a single button to "unshuffle" around that artist (playing their songs in order) or around that album, or whatever, for example.
Interesting. If the computer can simulate things that a human wouldn't have thought up, great, but if it's considering things that any sane person knows wouldn't work and passing them off as correct, framing it that way is laughable.

That's not brilliant, it's just wrong. If your AI behaves in a way that makes me not trust what it tells me, that's a bug not a feature.

But then again, many discoveries have been made because someone trying something that shouldn't work.
Yes, you can drive the car without a Tesla.com account. You miss out on important features such as software updates, remote monitoring/alerting, and the ability to SuperCharge. However you can charge at home or at other Level 2 chargers. And once the NACS plug becomes more widespread you should be able to DC fast charge at non-SuperCharger locations.
Wrong. As someone else said, the fact that the police could observe you masturbating in your back yard or plotting a crime, for instance, doesn't mean that they could prosecute you for it. Because you have the aforementioned expectation.

For the "plotting" thing they'd need a warrant.
Avoid? Odds are extremely good that, if you live in “tornado alley” and never take any measures to avoid tornadoes, you’ll still not get hit by one your whole life. Good chance you’ll never even see one.

High-wind thunderstorms with bad hail, yes, you’ll certainly get hit by a few of those, and I would be curious how they coped with them.
We need self-hosted AI assistants that filter out the noise for us. Only the most impactful news stories, podcast episodes, etc. All under our full, personal control to train.
Telegram CEO says app will continue to host 'war-related content'
I’m having a lot trouble navigating it on Safari for iOS on iPad.

- The top bar disappears behind the navigation bar of Safari and there doesn’t seem to be a way to get it to reappear.
- I tried to refresh the page to see if it would re-render and put the bar below the navigation bar, but I can’t pull down to refresh. Something is floating a window inside the window and I’m just pulling that around.
- Tried clicking refresh in the nav bar and it didn’t fix the hidden top bar.
- It’d be nice to be able to collapse the swagger editor in the reference view. Right now the left navigation is separated from the documentation and request tester on the right by 1/3rd of the screen (that is not being used at all).
The fossil fuel industry has a vested interest in suppressing both solar power and perpetual motion machines. This does not make the claim “I invented perpetual motion” on equal footing to “I invented solar panels”.

The argument “established media will not be a fan of upstarts” does not mean the Epoch Times is automatically good journalism.
As opposed to "I used a few random English words, but I'm not going to tell anyone what they were, good luck trying to guess them". Would it be less transparent to say "We combined the output of our hardware RNG at this site and one at another lab across the country to help eliminate bias, here's the two input strings, and here is the final string we came up with".
The sad sight of Japanese camera manufacturers entirely missing the software revolution. Farewell...
I would hope that nobody uses this particular map for actual navigation!

And how many people looking at maps on the internet really perform (globe-scale) navigation where it would even matter?

Getting a sense for distances and/or proportions is arguably the most common use case, with “a sense for the precise bearing” a distant follower.
I've found the AI generally more forgiving on anything "art". This lets you get away with things like a nip slip on a statue or provocative situations in a painting for instance. The second you try and make it in a "realistic" setting though, you get the dog or worse.
Fantastical doesn't, and is great.
I've been doing that for a while with my own car because their API (like other OEM's) is just an OAuth2 REST API with unofficial documentation. So I think this is more "Tesla is launching their developer API documentation and officially letting people develop against it".

Fwiw Tesla's has been the best to work with in my limited experience. Ford's is also decent but the most important remote commands (like start/stop charging) seem to be hidden behind obfuscated endpoints. I spent quite some days trying to reverse engineer them but ultimately gave up.
Carrefour sticks price warnings on food to shame suppliers (about shrinkflation)
While I agree with what you say and it's a worthwhile point to make, it's still notable when a tool can be used in such a way by an artist. Wu could have taken amazing photos with an iPhone 1, but he (most likely) couldn't have taken these specific images due to resolution and exposure performance/control differences.
I had an empeg in my '95 M3 from around 2001-2004 (?)

It was a 20GB version, if memory serves, which was the largest available at the time without going to a 2 hard disk version (2.5" HDDs).

It retailed for $2000 but I bought it for about $400 new. It was the v2 with the airplane wing looking screen, and it was 2 acquisitions in. I think SonicBlue then Rio? Or Diamond multimedia? I can't remember anymore.

Used it for a few years, and sold it on eBay for, I think, more than I paid for it.
> But as it gets wider use fact is the vast majority of systems have a single device and don't want to cut available storage in half for copies=1

I'm still patiently holding out for the first (current, usable) filesystem that let's us set a parity fraction and let me use FEC to heal small errors.
Lol, ZFS is supposed to be this super reliable filesystem that does your laundry. But if you hard drive disconnects for a moment tough luck.
This is a good write-up below, but why not just say AGI is something that is indistinguishable from a human? That definition seems to work.

https://towardsdatascience.com/beyond-the-turing-test-two-sc...
> If those points under "Nature of the Action" are merely points raised by Twitter, how can I trust them?

You see Elons side and evaluate their followup. You follow the back and forth and evaluate who has the stronger argument.

When it gets to the point that the judge is literally reprimanding Elon Musk's council for breaking rules and shenanigans, you start buying TWTR and short selling TSLA.

You're grossly overcomplicating this. You don't come up with arguments in a trial, that's the lawyers jobs. Your job as a reader is simply to pick out the side with the better argument.

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If you are worried about form, that's not your job. That's the judges job. And if you are worried about not understanding the complete argument, that's not even your job. That's the opposing lawyers job to make a cohesive and full argument.

At this stage of the trial, it's simply reading.
Most of the complaints in this story have been pretty dumb, but you have a really solid idea here. I am guessing Apple has an agreement with Wu to prevent it, but it would be cool to see.

I think it would inspire other photographers to not sweat the equipment factor too much.
Or... roads are a community utility, not your personal playground.
skims article

Nope, they summarized it without reading it. Useful enough for those who want to keep a finger to the pulse of AI without a huge time investment.

God save me from having to read every article on HN.
Wow looks like you weren't kidding.

They also don't look half bad.

[1]:https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/09/10/fashion/07LOCKHEE...

[2]:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/style/lockheed-martin-fas...

Love this quote from the NY Times article: “They stopped killing people for just a second to help you kill those looks”
Hey Ryan! Love Nebula, miss you at the day job
X's Sneaky New Ads Might Be Illegal
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview/

Lighthouse is already built into Chrome amongst many other tools. Lighthouse scores are already a factor for search result rankings. The fact of the matter is, those junk sites don't care.

Even if these scores were exposed to the user by default instead of hidden away in a dev tool, it's just not a strong enough incentive for those sites to change or users to care. Rankings are more strongly affected by adwords, time-to-first-byte, link juice, etc.
One thing I see as an ancient PC Gamer is that Activision also sits on one of the largest hoards of IPs. Not just "cool" IPs from today's games (a lot of people are mentioning Activision's odd/bad stewardship of Blizzard, of course), but Activision bought a lot of the classic publishers in its history as a massive M&A shop. The legacies of Infocom, Sierra, Knowledge Adventure, Davidson, and many more both well known and almost forgotten to history developers and publishers have all been locked into Activision's forgetful vaults. It's such a huge swath of classic PC games. Some of that catalog Activision eventually allowed onto at least GOG (with GOG allegedly doing a lot of the preservation work to make them run), if not Steam, but there's still so much of gaming history that Activision has either claimed to have lost (No One Lives Forever, as one commonly discussed franchise) or just seems disinterested in the IP they own because they can't figure out how to build mobile games from it.

I don't know if Microsoft will be a better custodian of all that gaming history, but as the company most synonymous with the PC today, maybe they will. (If so, among other possibilities PC Game Pass could get very interestingly different from Xbox Game Pass.)
Language models (the computation) "care" about making "correct" predictions (correct of course being determined by the data).
This is why the simplest solution to reducing hallucinations is just making them more competent/better predictors (more neurons, more data). If the prediction can benefit from all the knowledge/reasoning it has accumulated from training, it'll tap that first. One of the biggest tells of hallucinations is if the model is saying something completely different each generation vs being consistent.

What they just don't care about is communicating being out of distribution or making whack predictions. This becomes a problem for humans because they're perfectly fine making things up when the above fail.

But by all accounts, they do learn to distinguish these things. The computation is very much aware when it is going way off base.

GPT-4 logits calibration pre RLHF - https://imgur.com/a/3gYel9r

Just Ask for Calibration: Strategies for Eliciting Calibrated Confidence Scores from Language Models Fine-Tuned with Human Feedback - https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14975

Teaching Models to Express Their Uncertainty in Words - https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14334

Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know - https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05221

The Geometry of Truth: Emergent Linear Structure in Large Language Model Representations of True/False Datasets - https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06824