skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not in the current state of the model, but judging by the rate of improvement we’re all seeing it’s just a matter of time (and data+compute+research obv).
Notably this is a cultural and sentencing problem. Killing pedestrians in a crosswalk should be vehicular manslaughter with serious prison time attached.

Perpetrators tend to be let off easily for cultural reasons. That's the real problem that needs to be addressed.

Drivers will respect pedestrians when the law is evenly enforced
Problem with whisper is its not really optimized for command recognition versus general dictation.

- Whisper processes 30 second audio chunks. So if you process 5 seconds of audio you have to pad it out with 25 seconds of silence. Hence a loss of efficiency with wasted CPU / GPU cycles on 25 seconds per chunk in the case above.

- Whisper most likely can't handle hundreds of commands much less than a thousand performantly.

- Whisper doesn't handle short commands very well with a degree of accuracy post processing commands from free dictation utterances.

Command dictation should be weighted higher than general dictation when decoding.

I work with a little under 1500 of commands dragon naturally speaking. DNS is hot garbage as a program despite it has the best accuracy to date with the feature of commands and dictation in one utterance. You get to pay $750 for the privilege m

I've yet to see a free and open source speech recognition engine that can handle both dictation and commands with a high degree of accuracy.

Please please let me know if there's alternatives out there. I would definitely pay to support an open source project like this that focuses on command and dictation.

Most solutions out there that are open source nowadays focus so much on iot command recognition with intents. That's not well suited for controlling your computer with grammars containing voice commands.
The blog post that this image is cherry picked from ("Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023") was posted 17 days ago[0] (275 points, 72 comments), not sure why this needs a duplicate post.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38263435
Booking.com hasn't paid some hotelliers for months, so there you have it. It's not comission fraud, it's either loss mitigation or the very same scam that the article describes.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/01/booking-com...

Having been scammed by booking.com car rentals myself, I see no surprises there.
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How's support for AMD GPUs? I only saw Nvidia listed.
I just assumed that the drive shaft between the motor and their uni wheel system would have a universal joint in it that would solve both of these issues, would it not? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_joint
Electric Vehicles Are Less Reliable Than Conventional Cars
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Where do you draw the line? I saw many funding proposals for extremely abstract category theory justified on the basis it helps number theorists solve problems related to cryptography and protect e-commerce. Between friends everyone knows this is not true. Am not against abstract research: given how cheap it is, I don't understand why we can just allow it to be funded without having to provide justification that makes everyone feel a bit of a criminal while writing the proposal. It should be seen sort of how we public commissions art.

Another type of mini-fraud: you could say almost 80% of applied machine learning papers contain serious methodical mistakes that are almost equivalent to falsifying data, and what's worse the authors are well aware of and even the reviewers. I am talking about the kaggle-type ones where you apply some kind of PCA or neural network on some relatively small dataset.
What the hell are "quantum particles"?
Scientific fraud makes me sad and angry.
> Additionally, I stipulate that looking for inscrutable clues in people's faces can instead be replaced with building a culture where you reward people for speaking (or writing down) their mind and all contributing towards the common goal, and there is a healthy amount of discussion (preferably written). As a technical manager, your role is to provide a clear goal to your teammates, and work with them to a good solution, not analyze their body language and making decisions based on that...

To add to that, a lot of engineering types are also very neurodivergent and just do not communicate on that level the same way as other people, leading to copious misunderstandings and miscommunications when it's not a "say what you mean, and mean what you say" sort of environment. That probably makes a certain other type of person uncomfortable, when their main skill is social hacking and not necessarily efficient management, planning, or collaboration.
So thankful for Typescript/VSCode _chiefly_ for this reason. Doing this in JS before was hard, if not impossible. Now it's so much easier to follow control flow.

That said, staying on topic with the article, I think the times where I have a difficult time following along are when it's just a monolithic function or class, and especially if it has implicit behaviors via decorators or mixins.
It might surprise you to learn that people are into leetcode too.
Maybe an M2 Mac mini?
He didn't get into his private prep school on a scholarship, I bet.
Oh, it's very much tangible. If you inherit 10M from your parents you can spend ~ 2% of it per year for the rest of your life and still hand down a larger nest egg to your children.
People enjoy _visiting_ dense cities (I do too!). Living there?

Not so much: https://www.builderonline.com/money/economics/80-percent-of-...
Power is safety critical. People die in the winter and summer without power. Solar and wind cannot deliver reliable power, particularly during critical emergency weather situations.

So comparing solar and nuclear is a bit like saying a broom is safer to the user than a gun, while ignoring the user is in a gunfight.
For my brain it's an incredible amount of noise to parse through compared to {}. Especially in addition to the amount of things you have to keep in your head since there is no typing to rely on.
I don't know what your definition of scam is, but every employer I've known has been very transparent about what unlimited vacation does and does not mean.

If someone actually thinks unlimited means working is optional, that's on them.
> Not one of them through inheritance

Gates grandfather was president of a bank. Gates left his prep school for Harvard with a million dollar trust fund. His mother was on a board with the chairman of IBM which helped launch Microsoft into the big time.

Buffett's father was a congressman. His grandparents owned a chain of grocery stores.

Zuckerberg's high school was Phillips Exeter Academy. Currently tuition is over $50,000 a year - for high school.
I think it should assume its hostile since physical harm could be done in the case of someone hijacking the app.

The users phone could be stolen, or the device compromised, or many other things. A compromised device should not be able to cause physical harm to a human!

edit: someone else already said basically the same thing but I didn't see it because I opened this tab a long time ago and didn't refresh it!
while you cannot pretend China, Russia, Iran, Israel, et al, are not mounting large online Agi-Prop campaigns -- cuz they sure are -- the ones impacting USA-ians the most are domestic.

Like, Fox News or Jezebel (or CNN, or Reddit, et al) are the ones causing these shifts, and foreign efforts are simply tapping into discussions and trends that have been pushed for years.
This probably didn't help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China
> That said I do wonder how much marketing a monopolist needs.

Marketing in this context means figuring out what the customer will buy, and making sure that the engineers build that.

It is very easy in this industry to build the wrong thing. Even the customer does not necessarily know what they will want or need in a few years.

A lot of the time it can mean predicting the future integration scheme, and deducing the future pain points from that. As you say, it's a very technical role, and you cannot succeed without a deep understanding of the entire process flow.

It's also a no-brainer to transition to strategic leadership, because that's basically what you've been doing the whole time.
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Keep in mind that gguf/llama.cpp, although highly performant and portable, is not the best performing way to launch certain models if you have a GPU. (even though llama.cpp does support GPU acceleration)

ExLLAmA v2 + elx2 quantization, and maybe tensorrt-llm might be the contender for the top performer
Cool.

Really liked it.
Are people going to be using the front camera whilst driving and is that even a good idea?
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It's not the best way. It's a really cool and technically interesting way. But embedding the model with the executable is terrible for anything beyond a demo. The best way would be just running llama.cpp (what llamafile uses) and loading external models. I get that compiling is too difficult for some people and llamafiles are great for them. Maybe even the best for them.

But it's far from best for people that actually want to explore LLM and play.
Spot on. The definitions have been stretched too thin to retain meaning. If these are acceptable definitions then every impermenant structure is all-weather proof. We just need to be clairvoyant enough to migrate the structure before weather happens!
Do you have a link?

I've been looking for some nice Perl solutions, I imagine it's pretty much the optimal language for many of these problems.
You don't really need that (and it would be too expensive), you just need to fix the incentives so that people do more replication.
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> That unearned boost is already available to anyone who manages to bequeath sufficient amounts of wealth to the next generation

> but being bequeathed a sizeable inheritance in the first place at least implies that one's attitude to managing wealth has already stood the test of time

I think twice in two paragraphs you managed to conflate the person leaving the inheritance and the person receiving it. The "unearned" part of the unearned boost is clearly only available to person receiving an inheritance, rather than the person who bequeaths anything to the next generation. A person being bequeathed an inheritance does not imply anything about that person's attitude or aptitude.
Another lesson we can learn from Sci-Fi is very often different species on a planet would have their tribal / local languages and dialects but all spoke a common tongue. I think this is the more humanizing approach, rather than delegate even more of our fleshly processing power to machines.
> 1. The author links to this file as an example: https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI/blob/49b9cbf47c1... . How would you structure it better than it currently is without using sections?

Dear God it's a 3300 line file. Any way but one long 3300 line file is a significant improvement. I'm being hyperbolic but seriously, instead of button.less it should be deduplicated (less can be much less verbose, pun intended) and be a button directory with several subcomponents in it, like each top level heading. Less is a serious language that you should use the semantic features to organize your code instead of just comments.

> So you have a class that has a bunch of getters and setters. Let's just assume that "generate them automatically" is not an option. You want to make it really easy to see the part of the class which is getters, and the part of the class which is setters, and then skim past that. How do you do it?

You put it into a getters file and import it into the parent class. Almost every language has features for this. Or you put each attribute into its own file, if any of the getters and setters has smarter logic than just x = parameters[x]. Ideally you build classes that don't have so many attributes that it's difficult to scroll past the getters/setters in the first place - N > 8 is a significant warning sign the code needs to be split unless it's a configuration class or equivalent.

> So you have a file that defines 3 data structures. Each data structure has a definition, a bunch of functions for parsing it, and a bunch of functions for serializing it. The author suggests that you split the file into 3 sections for the types, with subsections each for the definition, parsing, and serializing. How would you do it? Let's say the language is Rust or Typescript.

It should definitely be in 3 files, possibly 3 folders, in Typescript: (/thing/index.ts, /thing/parsing.ts, /thing/serializing/json.ts) It's so marvelously easy to import things, you should be using modules amply to split up your code. Obviously the 10-lines-of-import-for-3-lines-of-code is too much, but seriously, imports are easy and cheap.
The traditional terms for "catholicphobic" inlude "anti-Catholic", "anti-papist", and "anti-clerical".

Take https://www.monticello.org/research-education/for-scholars/i... as an example:

"Thomas Jefferson’s well known anti-clericalism is generally treated as part of his advocacy for intellectual freedom, but it is also a sign of his participation in a much broader culture of anti-popery. Evan Haefeli will set Jefferson’s much lauded hope that America would “be to the world . . . the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves,” within a longstanding anti-popish tradition that contrasted liberty, knowledge, and science with stereotypes usually associated with Roman Catholicism. More than just anti-Catholic prejudice, the religious and political values derived from this tradition fused had been a fundamental part of how British Americans understood their liberty."

The US had an anti-Catholic tradition up until at least the 1960s, which JFK had to address directly in his presidential election campaign.

Just because we say "physics" instead of "physicology" doesn't mean it's not the same as other -ologies.
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The term gets used in different ways but Wikipedia has able to do any task humans can, so an above average human I guess.
IMO it still makes some difference. E.g. Belarus is practically just another Russian oblast nowadays. But the people ain't fully culturally incorporated yet. Over 200 years later if we start counting by Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth partitions.

Another distinction that I want to make is that it's not Putin/Kremlin/Elite issue. The masses of the duchy of Moscow do support those policies.
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