skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forgive me if this is an insensitive question and feel free not to answer, but do you care about the way your food looks when it's done? I mean to say that many restaurants put a lot of time into how the dish looks, the way they put things on the plate. Do you completely disregard it or do you put the ingredients in a particular way that is convenient to eat?
They are closing stores in SanFrancisco due to high theft. There is your tipping point.
Isn't this already implemented in QEMU?
My Target mini-store downtown has no checkers at all. It's self-check or nothing (or steal I guess).

I hate self-check. Always buying that fruit or piece of lumber or whatever that won't scan or has no sticker or whatnot, then having to navigate the touchscreen to find it among their 1M items.

Fortunately this store ignores the scale (so no 'put item in bagging area' nag) and even though it shows you on a screen from a surveillance camera, those signals go no further than the station. No bandwidth in Target's in-store network for all that video; no storage for it either.

And the mini-store is made items, not a lot of produce for instance, meant for students and loft-residents to buy readymade lunch or whatever. So everything is coded.
Labor shortage? You realize it’s just the low pay that causes this impression. On such a low salary people can’t make rent even if they worked 12 hours per day. There’s a breaking point where nobody signs up for those jobs but as soon as you up the salary the shortage dissapears. I feel it’s more of a maximizing profit problem after all…
This also explains why it makes stuff up and confidently gives it as an answer instead of admitting when it doesn't know
It sounds too simplistic because it is. Many people have managed to circumvent the system prompts.
It was the first game I ever saw on a computer (it was on a TRS-80). It may well have been the spark that sent me down the path of programming.
This is great news. My mom in law has lung cancer that has spread to her liver. I will pass along to ask her doctor!
I think if we're gonna start picking and choosing which murder porn is okay based on state backing, we may as well start up the hunger games.
Nice. I learned this "at the knee" from my grandfather and father. A few things in no particular order... This skill takes practice, the sharpening systems only help to get the angle consistent; you'll be happier if you learn to do it without one, practice on knives and especially scissors you don't care too much about first, you'll need a few stones and probably end up with several before you find the ones that work best for you and your edges, razor-sharp is over-rated except for skinning, wood planes and chisels and it's harder to maintain; working-sharp is plenty.
If they tell people what the limitations are they won't be able to overhype their "AI" and make it seem way better than it actually is.

"If you can't convince, confuse"
> I think this is a poor analogy. The better comparison would be if people were buying my apples and extracting the seeds to plant their own trees, then selling their own apples at a lower price than me and putting me out of business

Thereby increasing the amount of apples available to the population, lowering prices, making them available to more people. A net gain for society as a whole.

This happen all the time, you benefit from it all the time. You only have a problem with it because for once this system is not working in your direct favour.
Yes but this derouted the engine.dll (or equivalent) code in userspace (not sure if that's the right term here). I agree that they probably whitelist or even just don't check the graphics or rendering related functions, since tons of mods allow you to do that without any widespread ban wave.
But when it's hooking to the core engine code, I think that's a different story. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
Depending on their upbringing many people don’t call people on bullshit
I don't think that's the right way to think about it.

It's not running an OCR-style algorithm to export data and then passing that data to the LLM for further processing.

Instead, the model itself has been trained on both text and images at the same time.

So the image features end up as a weird ball of floating point numbers mixed together with the floating point numbers for the textual representation of the words in the prompt.

I'd love to understand this more. Strings of text get tokenized into a sequence of integer tokens - is there a similar tokenization step for image inputs? What does that look like?
One of my colleague's Ph.D. thesis was on how to achieve high-performance CPU implementations for bulk-synchronous programming models ("GPU programming")

http://impact.crhc.illinois.edu/shared/Thesis/dissertation-h...
Folks blaming the timid customer. But the blame belongs with self-checkout alone, changing a normal expected experience into chaos and frustration.
How LUTs Are Used as Storage Elements on an FPGA
Ask HN: Is anyone working on neuromorphic CPU architectures for AI?
Right now, we're emulating neural networks (which in nature, are largely asynchronous) on clock-signal-driven von Neumann computers solving matrix math. I'm not a machine learning expert, but I wonder whether the power consumption needs of this approach will become a barrier to faster, more efficient large language models. After all, the human brain seems to operate over 80 billion neurons on approximately 20 watts. Are there organisations, companies or labs working on neuromorphic CPU architectures that are better suited to run LLMs than general computing loads?
It's not pseudosience if the prompts are engineered according to the scientific method: formulate a hypothesis, experiment, reincorporate the results into your knowledge.

But it's a very fuzzy and soft science, almost on par with social sciences: your experimental results are not bounded by hard, unchanging physical reality; rather, you poke at a unknown and unknowable dynamic and self-reflexive system that in the most pathological cases behaves in an adversarial manner, trying to derail you or appropriating your own conclusions and changing its behavior to invalidate them. See, for example, economics as a science.
In my experience when a customer acts angrily they are often intentionally trying to do something wrong. In the case of innocent mistakes they are typically cordial.
Ha ha, got stuck here: "PRESS F1 FOR A LIST OF CONTROLS".
Publishing a derivative work of something you scraped is not permitted. The question is whether LLMs are derivative works, which has not been settled in courts yet.
> a throw away gmail account you don't care about losing with the aurora store

They also have a pool of accounts you can use by clicking “anonymous”. They do get banned frequently, and you have to re-login once in a while (for me it's almost every time I want to download something new again), but it is definitely usable.
The kind of over-cautious cowardice you are displaying is what drives societies to become conformity-enforcing police states.

"You're painting your fence beige instead of white? Are you sure that's a good idea? What if there's a crime committed in the neighborhood - beige-fenced deviants are the first that the police will look at!"
At least one of these words is also on a list of words that should never be used. "nonplus" has acquired two contradictory meanings. Nonplussed means both "surprised, confused" and "unperturbed". AFAICT most people only know one of the two meanings, and in my experience it's pretty evenly split between which meaning they know.
Shakespeare had an exceptionally large vocabulary. He constantly used words his audience / readers didn't understand. And that's okay with you, because he was "expressing and transferring ideas". Except that it's not okay with you, because he didn't "use the words that [his] readers will understand and that express [his] ideas the clearest".
> the user is able to mark parts of his input as "trusted" or "untrusted", and the AI is implemented to handle data this way.

That's exactly the solution I've been hoping for, but seeing as no-one has even come close to getting that to work yet my current intuition is that it's REALLY hard. Maybe even impossible with current LLM architectures?
Even in the US, the limited hardware support is a barrier right now, especially with having to find a unit that has an unblockable bootloader.

But it's still doable for many people. I most recently bought a second-hand Pixel 6a for GrapheneOS, and BYOD it to an inexpensive no-contract plan.

Pixel 6a units with unlockable bootloaders are currently $235+ on US eBay, which is less than new current Pixels and iPhones bought outright, but more than many lower-end devices, and more upfront than people pay for contract plans that toss in a phone.
Is it ill-intentioned? If so, why? Has anyone any idea?
When did he become an oracle instead of an asshat? Can we please go back to the days of Larry Ellison being the most obnoxious billionaire?
Serendipity, for instance?
If you want to watch their entire twitch stream this is part 1. I posted a highlight because most people aren't gonna watch a multi part recording of a twitch stream.

https://youtu.be/tgAgVwchKYE?si=XG3myxQDjdhijPv0
Is that like 'fresh frozen'? If it's Beta, then it's 'Beta Self-driving'. Not yet 'Full'. Obviously.

Still doubletalk. Still indefensible.
Perhaps I'm very naive in the ways of how these multi-modal LLMs work, I admit not having had time to look into how they're glued together.

I imagined simply tagging the tokens as command and data, ie say instead of just (43) as a token, it's (43, 1) for command and (43, 0) for data. Then ensure through adverserial training that whatever interprets say images does not spit out command tokens.

edit: or better yet, just have it spit ut plain tokens like (43) and ensure they're data tokens by manually converting them to data tokens (43, 0).
The judge could take it into account as a sign of contrition, and you save on legal fees?
This doesn't seem to line up anecdotally;

The first outlier I see is female health and PCOS, starting in mid 20s for women.

The next outlier I see is insulin resistance and pre and diabetes based metabolism decline.

From a hormone perspective, nose, ear, chin (femalr), and head hair seem to be going under significant change.
I was “detained” by CVS recently - was buying a reward for my kids, and after scanning the two items and paying by credit card, the checkout machine locked down. It took over 15 minutes for anyone to come help. When they did they immediately accused me of stealing which caused my children to think I was going to jail and freak out.

The woman put her code in and my PAID receipt spit out.

I should have left, but I had promised my kids whatever crap it was.
Super happy user of this [1] it's rather minimalistic but great.

[1] https://github.com/Ff00ff/mammoth
Maybe a third meaning: minus in George Orwell's Newspeak.
There is no way to make this distinction purely from userspace, you cannot "sandbox" a library you are loading into your process. Therefore they just keep a whitelist of graphic drivers that are allowed to load (and do whatever they want).

Anything else would just not work. You can't prevent the drivers from doing whatever they want or you would quickly hit a myriad crashes. You cannot rely on what the OS calls a "graphics driver" because then someone would implement their own drivers (wrapping NVs). Your only resort is to allow the well-known drivers and prevent everything else.

The same reasoning applies to all operating systems (e.g. OpenGL ICDs). It is not windows exclusive.

And btw, mods which change rendering related functions are some of the most classic cheating devices and therefore are of critical importance to block in the first place.
After enough road trips it pretty much is anyway.
Kinda sounds like it was a speedhack
I wrote a series of tutorials on compilation using LLVM from Python. Full source code included.
Also related as far as the programming model: C* on Connection Machines and the C dialect used on MasPar systems in the 1980s.

There is some discussion in the ispc paper: https://pharr.org/matt/assets/ispc.pdf
"Humans are spherical cows"
Not in my experience. I pumped gas, worked at Dunkin Donuts, scooped ice cream, worked in a retail chain pharmacy, and managed a massive high performance computing facility. Sometimes the nicest people are the ones robbing you.
Stupid and dangerous advice, too little documentation ALWAYS creates more problems and loss of time than too much

Figuring out completely missing information is harder than understanding even what a bad comment really meant, and especially what an outdated one did (git...)

Of course the right thing is indeeed to use code as expressive as possible, but then also to document carefully every useful thing that can't be explained by the code, and to keep the documentation up to date.

Yes, the current tooling makes it harder than it could be to notice, find and track the documentation you need, but dealing with that is on average a lot better than omitting informations
How long does it usually take for a feature, after being stabilized, to be included in a release?
Is this an American thing?

In Europe these "unexpected items in packing area" errors which require staff to come and clear are taken in stride and became a bit of a meme.
> the site is perfectly functional and not a PITA to use.

Been trying to get an EIN and the site tells me to call a customer service number. The number has a wait time of 1hr+.

Oh also the site has "working hours" Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

that's fucking wild
I don't use KDEConnect, but quite a while ago I got FUD about battery life from Play Protect concerning F-Droid itself. Never mind that F-Droid has never used more than trivial amounts of battery.
> A timer runs a unit. Which means that you can test any timer easily by just starting the unit itself whenever needed. With cron, to test things you need to fiddle with the configuration and schedule it to run in the next minute or two, wait, check the logs, adjust, rinse and repeat.

Not sure if I understand - a Cron "unit" is just a command that runs in a clean environment - you can test that without Cron.

SystemD require a "unit" wrapper around your command line - and is tricky to test without systemD? (No copy paste of the command and arguments - you would have to manually parse the ini file back into a command line).
It’s not just dimensionally equivalent. It is precisely that: area x pressure difference = work, take the time derivative and you get power.
I'm not joking. Obviously there's a difference but it's not one of kind. There is a projection of the world in text.

>Yes, but an LLM isn't a bird any more than it is a human. LLMs don't experience anything.

Who is arguing whether LLMs are humans ? That's such an irrelevant point. The question is whether they are intelligent and understand which they are by any criteria that is actually testable. Nobody cares about building an artificial human.

>LLMs don't experience anything.

You don't know that
Walmarts will literally have 25 checkout lanes and it will be one of the busiest shopping days of the year like December 23rd and they'll only have 3 checkout lanes open.

I'll take 25 self checkouts please.

Plus the people they hire as cashiers couldn't possibly be slower at their jobs. I'd rather have zero humans involved in my checkouts. They only waste my time.

In the other hand we have businesses like Best Buy which has a "scan and checkout from the app" feature that doesn't work and the employees know nothing about it. I tried to use it in front of them and we followed the steps on the signage and it just orders an item for pickup, which you can't take with you even if you have it in your hand, because they need someone from the back of the store to receive the order and pick it for you...

Meanwhile I can walk into an Apple Store, never make eye contact with any humans if I don't want to, walk to the shelf, scan an item and pay on the spot, and leave without any friction.
In Europe list price includes all applicable taxes in most cases.
They read game state from memory for a number of things they might've done visually (health bars). Recognizing when the player has entered a new screen seems inbounds. Humans can recognize that easily.
Retailers compete with each other on low single digit profit margins. If they increase their payroll, they would have to increase their prices.

Of course, knowing exactly what level of service people are willing to pay for is not an exact science, so the pendulum can swing a bit too far, but I assume the business managers are best positioned to bet on what people are willing to pay before they choose to shop somewhere else.
Yes, and it's not just the chlorinated water, but also the atmosphere in a swimming pool that causes problems.

https://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/sims/cactus/5_02_18.h...
Netflixland
ISPC is great software. It's a shame in many ways Intel didn't put more resources behind it.
California Allows Cities to Catch Speeding Drivers with Automated Cameras
I’ve read of multiple instances where Target specifically saves recordings of customers at self checkout to wait until a customer steals enough to get to felony theft at which time loss prevention sets in. I am apt to believe target stores all their self checkout video, or simply has other cameras not connected to the kiosk that record individual customers actions at self checkout.
I can't really comment on that but what I know is that play store also has KDE connect available and this issue is not happening for the people who got it from there. Perhaps it's someone who has some sort of play signing enabled with uploading unknown apps and the signature difference between play and fdroid versions might have created a false positive.
Content-free article. Repeats essentially randomly-plucked-from-the-air rations of fatty acids with no evidence nor support. From 'gurus' and biased folks with books to sell. No information here; move on.
You can take it off the web. Frankly these concerns confuse me. You published so people can find value, no?
The losses are over twice as big as those seen in 1981 when 10-year yields neared 16%.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/bonds/treasury-bond...

A little more detail:

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2023/10/the-worst-bond-bear...
This is the biggest problem in cyber security. You can tell someone to NEVER give out their TFA code over the phone and they will still do it when prompted by a phone call from their boss.
How does local first comply with CCPA or GDPR?
Let's say I query for some user profiles and then keep the results in sync via some local first solution (that's likely backed by some CRDT in sqlite). Or maybe they just get all the user profiles synced to their computer. What if a user asked for their profile to be deleted and I needed to comply with CCPA or GDPR? Would the profile be stuck in some append-only log?
Does it matter why someone else does with their ram?

Maybe I run 20VMs at once or 200 Chrome tabs or 3 electron instances.

You buy as little as you need let others buy how much they need.
Google has moved a lot of capability from the core operating system to updatable libraries. For example, the system browser isn't linked to the OS. So if your Android version is a few versions behind you're generally not missing too many capabilities, nor do you run into too much app incompatibility. So if the vendor only updates the core OS for 3 years, it's still generally quite usable for a few years more. Sure, it'd be better if the core OS updated too, but IMO it's not a major annoyance.
Seems fine, I have one of these Arc cards doing transcoding

I haven't been able to prove it yet but it seems to crash when I unplug the temporary display I have on the rack

It's either this or unfortunate timing/panics from this old ZFS release candidate/kernel
Too bad this isn't directly supported in ~/.config/ it would make it very easy in combination with GNU stow or another dotfiles manager.
>* scancodes (what the hardware actually sends). Nobody should really touch this directly these days. Note that this is variable-length and encodes press and release differently.

I politely disagree here, sometimes you do want scan codes. I am working (very slowly lol) on a QWOP-like browser game. I want to hit the keys that are positioned like Q, W, O, and P. I use the dvorak keyboard layout. Using scancodes means that I still capture the right keys for non-QWERTY layouts.

Of course, my FIPS key at work seems to use scan codes to press laid out keys, so it sends all the wrong characters (over the network, not on my local machine for whatever reason) unless I first switch back to QWERTY first.
Sounds like a local LLM, coupled with a periodic wake up signal, will be your pony. Presumably even a small one could run a schedule under those (very reasonable) constraints. Maybe not general pathological cases, but ordinary cases. You'd probably want things to run in one big prompt over time and the tricky part would be finding the minimum size required to properly execute the schedule. Too small, and it loses knowledge of the past. Too large, and it won't function at all.

EDIT: I believe in sysadmin llms and think they will become common and obvious in the next few years. I will look back at the downvotes on this comment with great pride. So, thanks and keep them coming!
Pentesting LLM Apps 101
As adoption grows, we are seeing many applications integrated with LLMs (such as Open AI). This post helps Pentesters get started in testing LLM apps.
> value of chat gpt convo as a source in the abstract

The ChatGPT conversation has zero value as a source in the abstract.

> It feels just somewhat like when I was told not to use wikipedia in my early school days.

Do you understand why you should not cite Wikipedia?
this is what I was going to say. in fact it's the same principle in real life, if you are polite with people they will be polite back. The LLM has just learned statistically that blocks of text with polite language generally continues.
Do you mean something like room 641A?
Of course, doing stupid things is also the problem with being stupid; Occam’s Razor probably points more to stupidity than brilliance in this instance.
Particular criticisms, certainly. I read the paper and it claims that all violence is entirely the fault of the Israeli government.

That’s poppycock.

I think that both sides are in the wrong in that mistakes have been made. But to say Hamas is chopping up ravers because of the Israeli government is not only incorrect, but, even worse, stupid.

I’m typically not one to complain about “tone deaf,” but it reminds me of someone standing on George Floyd’s corpse and saying “all lives matter.” Of course all lives matter, but that’s not the point.

Israel and Palestine doing dumb stuff for 50 years, yes. People excusing Hamas’ behavior because of Israel, ridiculous.
I had low testosterone due to a brain injury, and going on TRT was absolutely life changing. I do wonder if it could be largely beneficial for older men in the same way hormone replacement therapy for post menopausal women is.

That said, permanently messing with your hormones as a younger person for no good reason is insane and I would try to talk anyone I knew out of it.

Fun fact: I had an endocrinologist at the University of Minnesota medical clinic tell me that going on TRT wouldn’t affect my fertility. Cue IVF 8 years later…
Very succinctly put - this captures my view but I couldn’t have put it in these words; thanks!
In the article they say "Mostly those who are trying to scam the registers are the ones who get upset the most.".

We would need some study to confirm it.
Both my internal model and an LLM are built from sensory data. My model knows what a river is from having experienced it through sensors that an LLM doesn't currently have, but don't expect that limitation to last.

Also, given how many words humans have written describing every part of the experience, LLMs can generate a pretty good understanding of it as-is.
seems like the same thing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37874587