skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With AI devaluing human creativity and thought I wonder what is left to be proud of? One's body? It seems like humans will be valued more based on their looks than anything else. Apps like Tinder, Instagram, OnlyFans have already been pushing in this direction but AI will take it further and devalue the one valuable trait that the less attractive people could compete on. AI will also compete with porn but the tech for replacing physical human bodies is nowhere near as advanced. The winners will be attractive women and maybe plumbers. The losers will be everyone else but especially men.
A good rule of thumb is validate early and return early. Prevents endless if else nesting
Literally spent the last hour trying to figure out why my app was failing when Google can not even be bothered to put outages in Firebase console...

Pretty sure this affected Hacker News login as well
> All of those things break. Congratulations if you've managed to experience life without that.

Physical things wear out. That's an entirely different situation from a product that breaks because it was faulty when sold.

It's true that expecting perfection from any complex system is unrealistic, but good software should at least be lacking in crashing bugs that happen with common operations (such as dragging a tab).

Just to clarify, I'm not saying that FF (or Wayland) isn't good software. I'm just saying that nobody should just shrug their shoulders and say "that's life" when common operations cause a crash.
I don't get it. Isn't this just a live CD that setups nvmt like described here?
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/nvme-over-tcp
I have no right to complain but most people like to maintain the status quo.
I was fortunate but my kids will not know what farm like was like.
If you have a five-year head-start in an domain that every major tech company is trying to muscle in on, I'd say you actually hit the target dead on.
Depends on where you live and your expectations ... here's a bunch of grey haired pensioners on holidays in Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT5SlLRuBQ0

Their vehicle has pretty good suspension for that type of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4k1ZbJS80E
That's still good compared to the chat-only interfaces of the future.
I find I love the ideas of structure and routine, and fully grasp the importance of maintaining invariants and discipline, but utterly fail to apply those concepts to my life. Rather frustrating
People already lie. Microtargeting doesn’t change that. The claim is “microtargeting people in a democracy is extraordinarily dangerous.” Is there a hypothetical mechanism or actual evidence whereby poor outcomes are more likely than good ones?
They're not disabling support for X. Just enabling support for Wayland. It will still work exactly as it did before if you aren't using Wayland.
Then never say to yourself "AI is no big deal because it can't do X".

Say instead (for example) "It is important that I understand the differences between both the capabilities and internal mechanisms of AI and people, even if, over some period of time, the capabilities may appear to converge".
I kinda wish Linux would implement support for all the UEFI functionality. It would let you build micro systems which 'just worked' with no drivers.

The downside is that UEFI drivers tend to be barebones and not high performance. But it is a nice fallback to know that you will always at least have something that works.

For example, here is the API for disk access offered by UEFI: https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.10/13_Protocols_Media_Access.h...
The result of loopholes in regulations.
GPTs Are Like Masks
Sounds like a similar situation to someone named Mike Rowe starting a software company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft
He is doing exactly that! It's not as unique as Attenborough's voice, but it's nice to see every video being reuploaded slowly. He's even taken feedback from the previous videos into consideration to "remaster" them.
Hairdressers and telephone sanitisers will eventually get the last laugh.
Worked incredibly well for our first born, but 2nd child just wanted to talk like their sibling.

Almost 20 years later, I still know all the signs for baby food ;)
Culture jamming: subversion as protest (2020)
Some user posted here about how thinking of Earth as the origin of life is the last remaining piece of geocentrism and I can't stop thinking about it.
text-davinci-003 was awful compared to the ChatGPT model. You can try right now text-davinci-003 and gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct and the difference is monumental.
You are right, but there is no realistic scenario in the next 100 years where it will be more economical for a power plant to reprocess spent fuel than to use freshly mined uranium.
What layers do you mean that would remain?

I wouldn't expect the experience to be identical nor quite as accurate [1], but if audio and input latency could be made indistinguishable between a Raspberry Pi and a Mister FPGA that would already be quite a significant feat :)

[1] FPGA emulation is not intrinsically more accurate, but most Mister cores are considered to be more accurate than popular Retropie cores.
I built a similar library for Typescript: https://github.com/jumploops/magic

Please note: it requires the use of ttypescript or ts-patch, as Typescript transformers aren’t supported by default!
> It does for ara but not for all other implementations I could get my hands on (which all have a VLEN of 128 or 256, so relatively small).

I generally would expect it to have no effect, because it's difficult to base scheduling/forwarding decisions off a register value. Though for Ara2, given your other post, it sounds like it's really just a 512-bit vector processor that pretends to be 4096-bit, in which case, it can probably adapt to VL changes.

> Yeah, but there you can just use multiple LMUL=1 vrgathers

I never considered LMUL>1 - I've always been talking about LMUL=1.

> I think most lookup table uses of vrgather fit within 128 or 256 bits, 4 byte lut is greate for character matching.

Ideally yes, but the problem is that there's no way to actually do just this under RVV. According to spec, vrgather must consider the full vector, regardless of VL. In other words, if your VLMAX is 4096b, so is your lookup table.

And this is a major criticism I have about RVV in general. They tout support up to 65536-bit vectors, however the spec includes aspects which are difficult to scale to large vectors. IMO, SVE2/2.1 does a much better job.
Yeah it's a pretty unfortunate headline. Reads as "COBOL for (GCC Development)" when it's being used to mean "(COBOL for GCC) Development".
Because Postgres has been profiled and tuned for performance for decades?

All hail Michael Stonebraker and Tom Lane. The Turing award and Wikipedia cannot be wrong.
Did Trump marry his daughter? I'm out of touch with American politics.
The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America'
The article is actually incorrect. There is no 1970 427. There was a 350 and a 454. Considering the amount of torque it put down, it would likely be a good bit faster with modern tires. You do have to also realize that the 1970 vette was right when emissions controls started destroying performance - the 69 427 put down a good bit more power than the 70 454.
The Photorealism Mindset: What About the Physical Camera? [video]
Framed pls
Wow that image looks completely primitive, like something out of Bioshock. I’m actually surprised our medical system is not able to do something better than that.
Good suggestion! Right now the planner works by asking your age, weight, goals (losing weight, gaining muscle etc), gender, experience with weight lifting, and how many times per week you'd like to workout.

It then sends it off to the OpenAI API and fills in a gym plan that it suggests.

It also unlocks the AI session creator, which is more for creating a singular session where it asks you what areas youd like to work out and how much intensity.
I'm a bit confused as I seem to have removed the MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 from my configs a while ago, but Firefox is still using Wayland on my system.
Larger vehicles are so much safer to their 1-6 occupants that the greater risk to their thousands of non-occupants doesn't matter...
I'm gonna defend the article from this claim (despite disagreeing with most people on this thread who see this article as some vindication of their victimhood mentality).

I think the article comes from a good place, if a bit out-of-touch. If you grow up in an area that has no overt racism (or no racism against your race and you don't notice it against other races) then it's possible for somebody (especially us pedantic and socially imperceptive nerds) to think that the "cure" (political correctness) is more frustrating than the disease.

Then hopefully you grow up, and realize that only a small part of the world is even a democracy, and that at least half the world is racist (e.g. apparently 30% of chinese were comfortable saying some races are better than others) [1]. Hopefully along the way you learn a little bit more about America too (even 1/20 Americans admitted to not believing in interracial marriage in 2021). [2]

But not everybody moves out of their hometown, or reads the news.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage
I'm proud to say I was the first to implement this exact concept: https://future.attejuvonen.fi
Everything you stated is already the case with non-microtargeting. The claim is “microtargeting people in a democracy is extraordinarily dangerous.” Why reply if you can’t address the claim?
I believe the answer is almost certainly yes under current law.

Whenever the topic of copying material for model training purposes arises on hn, however, a number of folks seem convinced such use falls under the rubric of “transformative” and will be considered fair use.
grosspresionist?
It's not about the overall dimensions, note how much lower the floors are (and the driver's seat): https://www.route-one.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Mercede...
The lab was Air Traffic controllers. Same brain structures, but much, much higher functioning. I had many conversations with the psychologists about ADHD, but we were focused on measuring cognitive workload based on UI changes--measuring prefrontal cortex loading. I did most of the physiological event extraction from the terabyte event databases. Ironic (in a twisted fashion) that I would miss an interaction because ADHD, but the human factors engineer could pick it up right away. I tried the unregulated modafinil prodrug adrafinil but never asked the Doc to prescribe it. Our subjects probably didn't have ADHD.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Elon challenges Jim Farley to a BJJ cage fight to settle this.
I wrote a cli wrapper for assistants (GPTs) to make it easier to test out these features https://github.com/HumanAssistedIntelligence/OAICLI

I had some trouble forcing assistants to use the tool {"type": "retrieval"}. However, you can be explicit in your prompts and messages, and I found it to work quite well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQuiso493ro&t=3309s

"Have you seen the paper that's called Modern Language Models Refute Chomsky's Approach to
Language? The one by Steven Piantadosi. If so, what do you make of it?

Well, I mean, unlike a lot of people who write about this, he does know about
large language models, but the article makes absolutely no sense. It has a minor problem
and a major problem. The minor problem is that it's beyond absurdity to think that you can
learn anything about a two
bunch of supercomputers scanning 50 terabytes of data, looking for statistical regularities,
and stringing them together. To think that from that you can learn anything about an infant is
so beyond absurdity that it's not worth talking about. That's the minor problem.
The major problem is that, in principle, you can learn nothing. In principle,
make it 100 terabytes, use 20 supercomputers. Just bring out the, in principle, impossibility.
Even worse, for more clearly, for a very simple reason, these systems work just as well for
impossible languages that children can't acquire as they do for possible languages that children
do acquire. It's kind of as if a physicist came along and said, I've got a great new theory.
It accounts for a lot of things that happen, a lot of things that can't possibly happen,
and I can't make any distinction among them. We would just laugh. I mean, any explanation of
anything says, here's why things happen, here's why other things don't happen. You can't make
that distinction. You're doing nothing. That's irremediable. It's built into the nature of the
systems. The more sophisticated they become at dealing with actual language, the more it's
demonstrated that they're telling us nothing, in principle, about language, about learning,
or about cognition. So, there's a minor problem with this paper, and a major one.
The minor problem is the simple absurdity of thinking that looking at anything of the scale
could tell you about what's happening. The major problem is you can't do it in principle.
Yes, I heard you describe this as if a physicist came along and said,
I have a theory, and it's two words. Anything goes.
Well, that's basically the large language models. You give it a system that's designed in order to
violate the principles of language, it'll do just as well. Maybe better, because it can use simple
algorithms that aren't used by natural language. So, it's basically, like I said, or like I say,
suppose some guy comes along with an improvement on the periodic table,
says I got a theory that includes all the possible elements, even those that haven't
been discovered, and all kinds of impossible ones, and I can't tell any difference.
It's not an improvement on the periodic table. That's telling you nothing about chemistry.
That's built into the design of the system. It's not remediable."
There is a theory that doctors won’t try as hard to save you if you’re an organ donor.
Once again WINE is the stable Linux ABI
Depends on who you are.

For towing, no.

As a farm truck in steep terrain, the ability to get up and down rough tracks on steep slopes is absolutely part of the brief.
You just need motors large enough to break traction. After that, it's irrelevant. Doesn't seem impossible to me.
This is good advice but with a caveat: some of the muscle control required for particular signs is not able to be learned by children until they're a bit older.

For example, voluntary supination/pronation of the forearm is generally not something a 9month old can do. If you try and teach them a common sign for "enough/finished" (fist closed, thumb pointed out, then rotation of the forearm back and forth), or "done" and "more" in the parent link, they probably won't be able to do it properly. They can copy something close to that (thumb out and wobbling their hand around? good enough!) so you have to go with the flow.

There are quite a few signs like that actually, so try and think about how many muscles move together, and how controlled or complex that is. Simple stuff is good -- and doable.
Now you're being sued for defamation though.
If you'd like to see sushi belts pushed to absurd levels, check out DoshDoshington:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bRi1ykIeHg
Now I won't be able to stop thinking about that too. It is an interesting way to frame that idea.
Does NVMe-TCP have any support on Windows?

Windows supports iSCSI clients/servers... Isn't it easier to emulate that and then you have a much wider range of possible clients?
Seeing the AI art might've thrown my senses off, but a lot of this reads like ChatGPT-writing.
My observations:

6 of the top 10 are rust.
4 of the top 10 are postgres.

Postgres needs little explanation given its history and Stonebraker's reputation.

I now understand why teams I've occupied had the strange loop crowd resigning to go work on rust.
It blows my mind that not only are Apple, Nvidia, and all other enormous "chip makers" fabless... but there's ONE single company actually making the majority of all their chips.

Why aren't any other companies entering this space? TSMC's growth and profits are immense, it's not like the market couldn't bear more competitors.

Also, the current situation is geopolitical insanity. It feels like China and the U.S. are on a path to war in the next decade or so. China is itching to retake Taiwan... and if you thought the U.S. fought a lot of wars over oil, there's NO WAY we wouldn't go to war to prevent all the world's most important semiconductors falling exclusively under PROC control. It's the 21st century, we would have no choice. I know that TSMC is diversifying and building fabs in the U.S. and Germany, and hopefully that will reduce the risk of war. But it's just nuts that this is even a risk. How does one company control so much of the global market?
"One of the two "slacks" I'm a member of recently got a UI update - and the other didn't."

This is because major changes at basically all business software companies are rolled out on a team-by-team basis, rather than per user account.

Also note that from the screenshots that he is on Free tier Slack teams in both instances. When you do not pay for a business communication tool, you should not really have expectations of stability or coherence. You're getting a free sample of a product that is meant to be paid for. What he was experiencing was a beta or gradual rollout where Free teams were being used as test subjects to see how the redesign impacts user engagement. If you don't pay for a product, you are the product.
Honestly both are abysmal. Even the F-150 is slipping like crazy in areas where it shouldn't matter. Locking differentials are really required for this sort of thing - or a four wheel motor setup where a motor is dedicated to each wheel and can apply power equally. Afaik none of the EV trucks have a mechanical locker or even a limited slip?

This might be as easy as a software update for both.

Reducing tire pressures and better/correct tires is also important - but lockers are can make up for that and even the best tires will fail if one wheel is slipping and taking all the torque.

No one is gonna be doing this sort of thing with an EV though. There is no charging infrastructure out in the boonies.
Everyone: Please stop using ‘#’ as an href placeholder. Don’t make your ‘<a>’ elements rely on events. If you want to replace their events with others, go for it. But please make them work at the base level.
Capitalism comes to the rescue. With h100's at 40K its obvious that other players want to drive that price down.
Not much I can add to that, but it's very interesting to hear about that sort of work!
The question is: does polly really want a cracker?
you could do that in linux using usb networking and then sharing files (or block whole devices) over that connection. NFS, SMB or even iSCSI.

I think that iSCSI is involved here, as "target" reminds me of the iSCSI terminology.

I guess that (as usual) mac os just hides a lot of the details and gives you a nice gui to do that automatically.
... For Workgroups
> I owe nothing to Morgan Freeman just because I sound like him

What if a company chooses you as a voice artist largely on the basis that you sound like Morgan Freeman?
We did this with our boys. The oldest picked up a sign we weren't even trying to teach: whenever I changed his poopy diaper I'd say "phoo phoo phoo!" jokingly and fan my noise. One day he was playing on the other side of the room and fanned his nose. He'd pooped and was telling us. Super cool.
When did you do this? This is absolutely not the case currently.
This is a variation of the “golden rule of software quality”

https://www.haskellforall.com/2020/07/the-golden-rule-of-sof...
Just counter this with a little more anecdata, I'm a regular GP visitor in Australia and have found them to be great. The only antibiotics I've been prescribed in the past decade were for a particularly persistent parasite infection.
> No one is gonna be doing this sort of thing with an EV though. There is no charging infrastructure out in the boonies.

You don't think people have access to electricity in these places...?
But isn't the entirety of OpenAI compute on Azure?
Imagine that for some reason and by some unknown agency, somebody in 1068 could build something that was functionally equivalent to one of the contemporary LLMs of today (it would likely be mechanical and thus slower, but let's just ignore speed because that's mostly a substrate artifact).

OK, time to train up our LLM.

Oops. Printing not yet invented. Books are scarce, and frequently not copied. We have almost no input data to give to our analog LLM.

Will it be of any use whatsoever? I think we can say with a high degree of confidence that it will not.

However, contrast a somewhat typical human from the same era. Will they suffer from any fundamental limitation compared to someone alive today? Will there be skills they cannot acquire? Languages they cannot learn? It's not quite so easy to be completely confident about the answer to this, but I think there's a strong case for "no".

The data dependence of LLMs compared to human (or ravens) makes a compelling argument that they are not operating in the same way (or, if they are, they have somehow reduced the data dependency in an incredibly dramatic way, such that it may still be reasonable to differentiate the mechanisms).
Re: 'never-nesting', I'm not especially dogmatic, but I've never empirically seen a situation where this:

match (condition_a, condition_b){
(true, true) => fn_a()
(true, false) => fn_b()
(false, true) => fn_c()
(false, false) => fn_d()
}

isn't preferable to this:

if condition_a {
if condition_b {
fn_a()
} else {
fn_b()
}
else if condition_b {
fn_c()
} else {
fn_d()
}

(Assuming the syntax is available)
Lord Binary, Zeroth of his name, King of the Hex Isles and of the First Bootloaders, Protector of the seven networks, and Father of Kernels. The indexer of the great vast object store, the decompiled, the breaker of solvers.
>ALL simulated voices sound like some real person somewhere

By the same logic, all simulated faces look like some real person somewhere, but I wouldn't expect to simulate a face that looks like Brad Pitt and then use it in a TV commercial
Dark matter's biggest competitor might just have been falsified [video]
Yeah more screenshots on your official website would be helpful :)
You remind me of the following.

At about the same age, I bought my son a mango lassi. He looked suspiciously at it, but took a sip. With a look of shocked delight he tilted it back, back, back, and emptied the cup!

Then he put it down, looked at me, and said, "Want more!"

I'm looking forward to kids out of the house. But there are some moments that I treasure.
Technically a 3rd party app iOS app could control Messages running on a remote Mac. But it would be misleading to say 3rd party iOS apps are allowed to send iMessage messages.

Apple should ban SMS relay apps and 3rd party email apps by your logic.
Lack of suspension travel under compression is a common issue off-road for air suspension vehicles like the Grand Cherokee and to a lesser extent Range Rovers. Maybe same for the Cybertruck.
I don't see concrete in that video.