skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> expanding access to labor rights, labor organizations, and the government prosecuting traffickers is a more productive use of resources than the rhetorical solution to the “mountains of evidence” you pointed out

Except counties that have legalized prostitution have tried this and failed. Again, there is evidence that legalizing prostitution increases the amount and scope of sex trafficking operations in said counties which have legalized. It isn't "Labor trafficking issues" - it is sex trafficking, and a very specific issue with legalizing prostitution.

> obsessing over that is odd, if you're not doing that in the rest of the employment market too.

Can you expand on why? Sex trafficking is a very specific form of labor exploitation which is tied up with prostitution - and it has been seen to demonstrably get worse after prostitution becomes legal. Why should this evidence be ignored or tied up with the broader umbrella of "labor exploitation"?

> a better use of energy to exercise any discomfort around possibly trafficked people is allowing sex workers access to the same labor avenues as the rest of the employment market allows them agency to better navigate everything you’re (ostensibly) worried about. even expanding what those avenues are.

I think advocates of legal prostitution like yourself like to say things about legalized prostitution that they wish were true, but reality tells a difference story. If it was better and easier for law enforcement and/or prostitutes to navigate sex trafficking when prostitution is legal, one would think we wouldn't see a marked increase in sex trafficking when prostitution becomes legal. What you keep doing here repeating "it's better for prostitutes to operate in a legal environment" is ignoring reality and sticking your head in the sand regarding the very real consequences for the 150$ billion a year sex trafficking industry which has very brutal and effective ways for suppressing/exploiting/manipulating their victims even in regions where prostitution is perfectly legal.

Again, I totally agree that two consenting adults who aren't hurting anyone should have legal recourse to do what they want, as long as that situation exists in a vacuum. If there are huge externalities involved, such as 150 billion a year sex trafficking industries that can capitalize on legalization and which no country in the world has figured out how to suppress after legalization - well, that should at least be considered in any effort to legalize.
> none of that matters

I explicitly didn't intend to scope my brief comment about "the least funny people" to encapsulate the entirety of humanity and I don't care to discuss this pedantic claim that "well technically N>0; QED".

Most of the comment you're saying doesn't matter was just me talking about comedians because I like comedy. If you don't like comedy, don't continue the conversation. If you disagree with something I said in a human capacity, not a "prove me wrong" capacity, then say so. I'm not as invested in this "claim" as you are to disproving it, clearly.
There were technically curfews in big cities. But they were never enforced, to my knowledge.
Why should the government do anything about minimum wages and long working hours in a sweatshop? That's a voluntary exchange just like you buying cocaine at CVS is.
I used the assistant API for about 2 weeks before I realized I could do a better job with the raw completion API. For me, the Assistant API now feels like training wheels.

The manner in which long threads are managed over time will be domain-specific if we are seeking an ideal agent. I've got methods that can selectively omit data that is less relevant in our specific case. I doubt that OAI's solution can be this precise at scale.
It's obviously utter nonsense. No serious and/or somewhat intelligent person could interpret said figure to have any useful meaning or need this explained to them. It's just plain bullshit.
I just used AMQP routing to handle loads, and small limited-run programs that cache credentials like netflix biological inspired systems. We were never convinced gRPC could efficiently handle the periodic traffic spike-nature of our data streams (more of n! edges in fault tolerant mode concern). i.e. we run our intake like an insect colony to handle the various architecture roles, and each process instance is only handling a few network links at a time (i.e. gets rid of threading cleanup, busy credential store hits, and error routing.)

I wish they used Erlang/Elixir/Phoenix channels to reduce the system complexity,

https://dev.to/codecast/how-to-use-phoenix-channels-18k9

Sometimes we just need to keep a system running, and quietly replace it with version 2 later... Yet later usually never arrives... lol =)
I think this is a fallacy of thinking that we can easily explain everything and look at it through an anthropomorphic lens.

If you take away the humans, both the input and the output have no meaning. What the "AI" does is just a computation. If someone claimed that the OS on your laptop is AI you would say they're nuts - yet through the multiple layers of abstraction and the hardware/software synergy an external observer who does not understand how hardware and software work could reasonably make the assumption that it's alive and thinking.
The Psychology of Time (2016)
Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you. Designed with and for the blind and low vision community, this ongoing research project harnesses the power of AI to open up the visual world by describing nearby people, text and objects.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seeing-ai/id999062298
Static type checking. Javascript / TypeScript is not compiled either.
I'm not sure if this is one of the consensus primary causes but the most compelling explanation I've heard is capillary damage.

Red blood cells and capillaries have roughly the same diameter leading to constant friction. Your body repairs the capillaries but, given enough time, it makes mistakes. As these mistakes pile up your circulatory system, your body's supply chain, slowly gets less efficient. This leads to every cell in your body gets the energy it needs a little later, and has to hold onto waste for a little longer.
Driver takes Cybertruck into ocean after Musk says it floats
I upvoted to counteract the downvotes. The question is genuine and needs a thoughtful reply.

OP, the tech exists however contrary to expectations, to have multiple displays attached with a bandwidth constrained connection, the display tends to have all the special bits in it (contrast it with your “please stop having displays be 'special”)

To support no bits moving when image is static, the display must incorporate a framebuffer and once you add franebuffer to the display, it stops being a dumb display. Eg. You can add smarts to it and expose higher level primitives for “display acceleration” and reduce the bandwidth required further… and very quickly the display is just a computer with memory and video accelerator (aka graphics card) connected with a cable.

This is what RDP. Xdisplay and VNC accomplish. The basic complexity is not reduced but moved elsewhere. However the function gained is very useful so they exist and it’s a competitive landscape!
Very effective on single computers whose location you know. Not so much when you're trying to make sure you've got all the backup copies.
Blaming a reduction in transaction costs for increased consumption is seriously missing the mark. I don't know if there's data for this, but I can imagine that by improving the online shopping experience Shopify could have reduced the amount of unnecessary physical shopping trips thereby indirectly reducing carbon emissions.

This analysis out of MIT would support that theory: https://ctl.mit.edu/pub/thesis/environmental-analysis-us-onl...

Fortunately, you are not the dictator of "necessary" consumption.
Maybe consider just using Elixir / Phoenix? To the extent that there's any traction around web development with BEAM-based languages, it's around this stack and even then, market share is very small. Given what's perceived as less friendly syntax, I think you'd have a difficult time with a new Erlang-based web app framework.
haha, this site is awesome but keeping it open made my M2 fans turn on for the first time ever since I've owned it.
The Worst Tool for the Job
Is it up because it wants to be up or because of some resilient old school humans?
Yes, that is a concern that you might have if you read the incorrect statements in the article. The article says:

Now ERCOT has warned there is a 14.4 percent chance it will need to employ controlled outages in December, with the estimate rising to 16.8 percent in January.

That's not what the report says. The report runs various models, and in one of the models, there is a 14% chance. That model is based on weather and production assumptions, but does not assign a probability to those assumptions.
>despite knowing they have anti-features built in

Can you elaborate on that? I am on version 4 and don't see anything hostile. And there is always luci if you need something more advanced.
We've brushed +2C average vs 1900 baseline in the past few days. This means there's much more energy and moisture in the atmosphere, so what has been extreme will be par course. Summers will be hotter, but winters may see lower minimum temperatures, depends on how strong the polar vortex gets and how fast it breaks down - warmer planet means it can break down faster, to a first approximation.
I think it can vary depending on denomination but within the belief of the trinity, it is one god in the form of three persons (father, son, holy spirit). I am certainly no theologian, though, so take that with a grain of salt.
on mac as well. Completely froze everything. Lame
isn't it a low-fi slideshow presentation jam? how is that better
You aren’t forced to play the game like that though.
There's a reason airplanes were invented before helicopters.
You can also use Siri to enable/disable VoiceOver
I see releases like this so often these days.

I am early in my journey but I’m stumbling on the basic structure of these models.

Is this structurally a vanilla transformer (or encoder/decoder) with tweaks to the tokenizer, the loss function, the hyper parameters, and the method of training?

Is whatever this is representative of most of the publicized releases? For instance the recent Orca 2 paper didn’t seem to have any “structural” changes. Is there a better term for these distinctions?

I don’t mean to downplay the importance of those changes, I am merely trying to understand in a very broad sense what changes have what impacts.
> Sources have indicated to the BBC that the man suspected of carrying out the attack is an Irish citizen in his late 40s who has lived in the country for 20 years.

Do you really think that's saying otherwise? It's almost a confirmation.

Statements like this pour oil on the fire. "See, you can't trust what the BBC says."
Is there a business that has implemented SAP without customization? My experience has been the opposite and that vanilla SAP is usually stupid and wrong.
In Python, ... is an expression, so you can do

def will_implement_later():
...

Which I prefer over "pass" in this case because the incompleteness is a little more intuitive.

I think using asterisks for wildcardy-things like variadic args makes more sense too, coming from UNIX land.
Does it count as a national emergency if it starts to happen every year or two? At what point do we accept that energy companies will always neglect their infrastructure and the government has to actually invest in fixing it?
You challenge them to a game of go and the loser needs to relinquish control, duh /s
Especially if you can’t be bothered to click the link before commenting and assume that only corporations can own a word. When I read Decker I thought it might be related to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and be side stories about Deckard.
I don't think they actually struggle, I think they want to be seen as struggling (virtue signaling) to try to make some point they're afraid to come out and just say.
Agreed. I studied electroacoustic music at Simon Fraser in the late 90s, and even though I decided not to go into music as a career, the classes and the school's collection of rare recordings were a treasure trove.
>There will be no carrots. Only sticks.

15 minute city lifestyle IS the carrot. When the zone is nice and convenient, one rarely cares about the sticks. Commerce reorients with land use patterns. Shops do magically relocate towards density. That's the default development pattern pre-car in human history. Pivotting back to less car-centric, walkable mix use doesn't mean no cars but less cars and different (smaller) cars in exchange for transit/pedestrian priority.
Off-topic, but I thought Black Friday was next week, because all the shops here in Dubai are currently having a White Friday sales.

Turns out black didn't ring well in the middle east and they renamed it white: https://advertising.amazon.com/library/guides/white-friday
I also wondered about this but could not find anything definitive on that.

They seem to be a bit "stealth" about the technologies in use at least based on reading their job offers:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp/6a5108f4-8605-4a67-9446-ea05f1...

> Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java
In this case it’s not the sex that’s the issue but the betrayal of a commitment. You can have marital infidelity that doesn’t include intercourse and it’s still just as much a betrayal and leads to divorce etc.
+1. This sentence gives me very Emacs-y vibes.
I liked Stephen Wolfram's piece.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
This just got added to some lists of interview questions.
Yeah, I’m definitely curious too. From what I know Ramp is primarily a Python shop on the backend.

I just love to see functional programming being used in industry and seeing the thought process behind it.

Also, I agree. I’m a big fan of Pablo’s posts.
The point is to hook people who want to “do AI” into Microsoft’s cloud API ecosystem.
I for one welcome our new crustacean pets.
Good point, and yes, feedback is critical in CNS networks at several levels.

But much of neural network analyses started with neural retina (retina is a fun word that is derived from reticulum = net). And the retina is mainly a feed-forward system or was perceived as such in the 1950s through 1970s.

Even the cortex was and still is crudely modeled using mainly feed-forward connections.

But the more you know about CNS structure and function, the more you see and appreciate feedback. Horizontal cells in retina provide a strong feedback integration/bias signal back to rod photoreceptors. Reciprocal dendro-dendritic synapses are key in many systems. Presynaptic terminals also respond to the same and transmitters that they release and the ion fluxes that they induce.

At the level of connectomes the recursion is deep and hierarchical—see the lovely work by David van Essen and colleagues on the laughably complex connections among the dozens of cortical regions that respond to visual input from thalamus and midbrain (by the way—true, this is even in mouse).

The ultimate feedback is of course generated by our own behavior——whether a blink, a saccade, or our own movements.

Plunk an LLM in a Roomba but add with more input modes and more recursive self-prompting. That is a non-threatening start at what could also become SkyNet.
We don't have any existent examples of AGI from which to be as confident as you are about what they will "want".

And I don't think we need sentience for AGI, so "want" may be the wrong term anyway. You could argue that the reward function is close enough ("do submarines swim?" etc.), but a human-made reward function is almost certainly going to be designed to be as close to aligned with our interests as we can manage.
Definitely a factor, but Japan and Hong Kong were going pretty strong compared to the rest, so there's at least that. Would've expected Taiwan to show up in a similar fashion, but also almost nothing there.
setup voice over, siri, BeMyEyes as first things. More details here https://www.applevis.com/guides/beginners-guide-using-ios-vo...
and more articles/podcasts here https://www.applevis.com/new-to-ios

For android I do the following things:
1. assign swipe with 4 fingers left and right to FirstItem and LastItem on screen, respectively, in talkback settings > customize gestures

a. download labels and icons so unlabeled buttons with icons can be guessed and spoken

b. in advance settings, choose typing preference as hold and double tap (any key). Also turn on "speak passwords"

2. set auto rrotate to off in notification window

3. turn on google assistant by tapping and holding the home key

a. setup your voice by saying ok google and following the prompts to train on your voice

4. install google keyboard

a. in its settings > preferences, turn on number row (show always)

b. make sure suggestion strip is not off in text correction as it won't longer show voice input on the keyboard as well0

c. make sure in emojis, stickers and gifs, the predictive suggestion content is off

5. install lookout app for object/text/currency/etc recognition

a. download food labels/images caption/currency (for your country)

6. Place frequently used apps like Whatsapp/Phone/Messages/etc on the bottom favorites tray

Also must learn and practice gestures in the tutorial app.

Additionally, I keep screen lock turned off and instead use Secure Folder (Samsung) for critical apps like banking, though I wouldn't recommend this unless you are sure that you have no prying eyes around at all times.
Google Fuchsia powers the Nest Hub sitting on my desk acting as a photo frame right now.
That link is a HuggingFace "space". The owner of the space selects what GPU is available to the space and pays for all GPU usage.
I know of two HN previous discussions on the topic, I suggest going through them as they're full of good advice:

3 months ago, 133 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37293002

8 years ago, 81 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9546311

My mom never got the hang out of using her iPhone with VoiceOver, but she uses Siri regularly ("Hey Siri, send a new WhatsApp message to Tom"). Siri is sometimes annoying because it will answer "this is what I found, take a look" which, unfortunate wording aside, is difficult for her to follow because (again) she never really got the hang of touch-only iPhone and therefore cannot scroll well through the options. It depends on how technical your grandfather is.

I wanted to set an Alexa as a music+podcasts+audiobooks station but the awful integration between Alexa in Spanish and Kindle cut that short. But you may have better luck.
To add to this: can't this happen and be triggered by old fashioned humans using old fasioned hacking? Why would we need a magical computer?
I'd suspect that actually fixed-price agreements are very common, and represent the overwhelming majority of contracts for residents/individuals.

I know that after the war started spot-prices rose sharply and a lot of people made the jump. Some, unfortunately, locking themselves into relatively expensive prices.
Learning language is not that impressive as a cognitive/educational feat. It is mostly a simple matter of practice. School reform is not going to change this. Case in point, Canada where schools are good and French is mandatory struggles to actually teach anyone how to speak French.
For Europeans the standard second language is English which is pretty straightforward as a result of globalization. Adding a third language that is spoke by everyone an hour train ride away is not that much extra.
I throw my cat across the room all the time and she definitely doesn't stop walking on my fucking keyboard as a result.
Yep it’s still being used as our card authorizer service! The features have expanded, although the primary backend monolith is still in python.
You’ve got that the wrong way around and your airline analogy isn’t apt.

In the first place, rights are not granted by interpretation of the law. They exist naturally unless circumscribed by it.

In the second place, airlines are private companies and have a wide mandate to deny service based on various conditions stated in their terms.
Are we going to go all the way back to the partition of the Ottoman Empire? I think i might agree with you we should give all the land back to Turkey aka NATO.
I just want people to stop speeding and driving while scrolling
No need to waste power melting snow, instead we can all turn on our (electric) saunas!
The real aerial battles that inspired Star Wars (2020)
Wow, this is really significantly better than Mistral 7B and other 13B models I tried. And runs on my M1 max at decent speed.
Makes perfect sense. Cars are incredibly deadly and should have a remote way to turn them off.

Don't like it? Choose a method of transportation that doesn't have a huge potential to kill people.
I don't know, Google integrated the mainline Linux kernel a while ago. Probably most of the modern ones.

PostmarketOS fills the plaything niche like the Librium 5 and pinephone do but much cheaper with much better old hardware. Aside from a checkmark of running the latest kernel and hardware switches what can the librem 5 do an Android phone can't do much better? They aren't good phones.
Both sets of my grandparents came to the US (New York) from Italy in the 1920's. They learned very broken English, and discouraged my young parents from speaking Italian. All four grandparents felt this way. My parents aren't sure of the reasons, they were just told not to speak Italian outside the house.
Assistive Access is new in iOS 17 and might also be helpful for simplifying the UI: https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/set-...
Consider your deaths as penance for not automating construction.
Using Drizzle ORM with SvelteKit
My recommendation (in addition to the specific technology advice on this thread) is to connect (or help him connect) with an organization that helps blind folks adapt to blindness and specializes in using and training folks in using assistive technology.

If you are in the Bay Area, an organization like lighthouse for the blind would be a good place to start:
https://lighthouse-sf.org/about/getting-started/ -- there are many regional organizations similar to this filled with good people who want to help.

Or:
https://nfb.org/programs-services

Organizations like NFB and Lighthouse for the blind offer rehabilitation services and training, and might be able to provide some recommendations as well.

Also, you likely already know this, but there are many degrees of legal blindness, so the technology tooling varies based on specific challenge to overcome, and only 10% of the blind population knows braille.

If you really want to go down the technology rabbit hole, the CSUN conference in March is like the CES for assistive technology:
https://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/sessions/

Assistive tech is a pretty fascinating area. I expect this area to grow as we have more aging tech savvy folks who want to keep using technology as they age.
Learnings from Building a Simple Authorization System (ABAC)
That 180B is also too large for the free inference API:

https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-180B-chat

HF has a spare capacity based free inference tier
Don't know about the needles, but the poop thing is real in San Francisco: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=b6fab72091...

(Zoom in on the big icons to see the individual instances reported)
Just use llama.ccp and run the quantized model like yi-34b-chat.Q4_K_M.gguf (you will need a 32GB Macbook, likely).