skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coincidentally I just finished reading the self-authored book ("QF32") of the pilot's own recount of the day. The book leads in with many interesting life experiences that led him to make so many good life-and-death choices that day.
If I've already run OCR on my PDFs and that's added now as an invisible layer, would it work then?

I've had a workflow digitizing my incoming paper documents, running OCR, and tagging them, all locally, and it would be great to have an easy front-end to talk to them.
I'm not a big fan of the fire resistance of newer Toyotas.

They spontaneously combust frequently enough to merit multiple recalls and there have been a number of unexplained fires reported in the news and on forums outside the recall model years.

In most cases the source of ignition has been treated as the defect for the recalls, but I'm of the opinion that the design of the undercarriage of many of the newer Toyota trucks is simply a fire hazard waiting for an excuse to become an insurance claim.

It's essentially a forced draft chimney with a plastic gas tank at the end practically sitting on the exhaust, without heat shielding, inches from the suspension (confirmed cause of fire recall #1) and bearing the weight of the plastic bed (confirmed cause of fire recall #2).

Oh, right, and I almost forgot the bed! The bed sitting over the barely shielded exhaust and unshielded plastic gas tank is also plastic in most of the newer ones too... yep, they're pretty flammable.
I can't remember ever having a Firefox crash in the last few years. Running it on one machine with Win 10 and another with Win 11. Only extension is uBlock Origin. I often will leave it open for many days.
>It could solve those, the reason it can't is that it doesn't understand its own limitations, ie it has no self awareness.

I don't think Humans understand their limitations very well at all. We plan around limitations we observe, not necessarily limitations that are present. There are many surprising limitations only recently uncovered by advances in neuroscience. I'm not sure humans would qualify as self aware by your criteria.

>if an AI model can't even do that how can it be considered an AGI?

By being artificial and generally intelligent. I don't see anything about "self-awareness" (ill-defined as it may be) anywhere in that acronym.
> Gary Marcus said that "you can't build a ladder to the moon" [1].

It is physically possible to build a ladder all the way to the Moon. A structure made out of close-to-ideal carbon nanotubes would have sufficient strength.

It would just require an unbelievable complex carbon nanotube 'weaving' system that can somehow operate and move directly between the Earth and Moon.

Which is quite an interesting parallel to the complexity of the human brain when I think about the analogy.
Except it was Tesla that went to the Italian casting press manufacturer and the made it a project together. Tesla asked for the biggest they had and asked for bigger and basically bought 5 years of machines, allowing them to do the necessary investment. And Tesla also used its own internal materials team to develop alloys to optimize the process to make it practical for high volume production lines like Model Y.
You can target civilian infrastructure in a war if the military advantage you gain from it is higher than the expected civilian costs. It’s so specifically so that militaries can’t just use hospitals as free safe space, and truly humanitarian facilities can work even during war.
Love my hexbright.

If they were still being made, I'd get more.
I mean even "bad trips" are an important concern?

Anecdotally I've had good experiences with psilocybin, but a bad trip induced a 6month long depression in a friend of mine.
Exactly. You download something from arxiv and the filename has no meaningful content in it. Generally speaking, you want the filename to be descriptive in some way, extracting the title of the document is a good start.
What's actually new and interesting here is the combination of size and speed. Sure casting existed, but for it to be the backbone of a super fast production line like that of a Model Y, they needed to do a lot of work.

Larger parts were often dipped into liquid, because air cooling resulted the part bending.

Tesla internal materials team worked on new alloys to improve this, while working in coordination with the machine manufacture to get up the cycle times.

And they are continuing to work with them. Tesla is using newer more advanced cooling systems in Texas then they did in the California factory. Because cooling is one of the limiting factors in Cycling these machines.
You're welcome. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1283920.1283935 has some phrases that may be interesting to start with, but note that this was Iverson's Turing Award lecture, and he uses a somewhat-functional definition style that —as far as I know— was a proposal but never shipped by any commercial APL.

Another source of interesting phrases: http://dfns.dyalog.com/sindx.htm (but note that here they're embedded in Dyalog's functional definition style; I don't have any clue if that site supports it even as an option)
I'm still finding value in the FT comments. There are a few strange ones, but they do not get much of my time. Ranking may have some value. FT is fairly expensive, it strange to see see the equivalent of flat earth comments in that type of publication.
Chomsky here is dismissive because he mistakenly assumes everyone else shares his goal: "We want to understand language learning, cognition"

Other people are happy using these things even if they don't advance our understanding of cognition and language learning.

And if this current thread of development somehow results in something that functionally amounts to AGI, without advancing our knowledge of cognition, while that would be sad for Chomsky, it would nonetheless be revolutionary technology that would transform society.
Similar, yet different: VisionFive 2 (RISC-V).

Runs all sorts of tasks.
> And now the naysayers say that they weren't actually all that interested in the question of swimming machines in the first place. The actually interesting question is how do fish do it.

Yes, if you are studying how fish swim it's completely irrelevant that you can build a machine to swim. Chomsky has been making this point for decades. He has never said you could not statistically approximate a natural process, in fact he has explicitly said that you probably could, it's just that it's irrelevant for scientific understanding.
I think if it were a fact, it would be supported by argument and evidence. What we have here is simply a claim, which was not supported by any evidence. I am perfectly willing to accept that poorly thought out diversity policies can have adverse effects on organizations, which is especially troubling if that organization manages vital infrastructure. But I would need to see good evidence, and argument with that evidence, to prove it, and not just a claim standing alone.
The site seems to be down, but it was successfully mirrored at archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231209230622/https://lupyuen.c...

Edit: up and running again...
Google's RCS standard is garbage.

But Apple doesn't have to use it. They could release a messaging app for Android that used their own encryption, and they could encourage Android users to switch. But they don't do that, because distinguishing between Android and iOS users is ultimately more important to Apple than securing the conversations that Apple users have.

If RCS is garbage (and it is) then it is extremely weird that Apple has committed to supporting RCS for cross-platform messages instead of encouraging adoption of what would be a superior form of encryption for those conversations.

What you have to ask is, if you are an Apple user, why isn't Apple trying to encrypt every message that you send? Why are they asking you to use a garbage protocol when you send messages to Android users?

> yeah can’t imagine why apple doesn’t use it

Really, this statement should be reversed, it's difficult to imagine why Apple is planning to use RCS. Why is Apple more willing to implement a garbage protocol than they are willing to release a messaging app for Android?
I expect so, but it would depend on the game. I know they still use engine samples (and probably hugely advanced systems for playing them back) in car racing games like Gran Turismo.
What is code?
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-co...
Of course it didn't 'absolutely' need to be changed. But the same can be said for 1000000 other innovations cars made since the Model T.

In the long term it will safe money while while being more efficient. As cars get more and more electronics it becomes more and more relevant.

Its something everybody has understood for decades, but nobody had a long term enough look to make it happen. Car companies were struggling t show profit. And in the 2000s companies like GM literally went bust.

And yes its true, OEM can tell suppliers what to do. But if you want something that suppliers don't have at hand, your gone pay for development. And if you are say GM, to move to 48v you need to literally coordinate the work of 100ish suppliers to bring the product together.

And remember, these OEM since the 90s have outsourced the majority of all electronics devices and the waste majority of the software. Do they have the internal expertise to manage such a transition?

Look at over-the-air updates, its still not standard. And even those cars that can over-the-air update, that mostly only for some of the core main components. Lots of the supplier delivered parts can still not be upgraded like that.

And the car industry had plenty of troubles in the 2000s so its not surprising they didn't do stuff like that.
Opening your computer to network. Incorrectly configured folders for sharing could end up wiping out your data (no warning or chance for recovery, unless you configure file versioning- which is confusing AND off by default). WebUI not configured with a password by default, allowing multi-user systems to access your files.
https://www.youtube.com/@VASAviation posts ATC audio and a visualization a day after such incidents happen. Fantastic channel, if a bit too addictive.
It hangs on Linux, too. It's seriously annoying.

Plus, there's a delay of up to 2 minutes at launch, when Firefox reads something from disk for minutes, with minimal compute.

Bug reports on this result in denial.
Thankfully yes! I lived in Singapore at the time and thought... my goodness. It's a small island. If you end up afraid of flying, what do you do!?

Kudos to the Qantas crew on board as well as Captain de Crespigny and his co-pilots and two check captains. We happened to have a lot of experienced pilot power on board.

A video from that time:
https://youtu.be/U8Un2boLZD8
Hats off to anyone that effectively works part time for a full time salary but don’t mistake your management’s incompetence for business as usual.
Hey, what the -- this is my thing. ^_^ What's it doing at the top of HN?

A quick reply to some of the comments about argparse. Gooey is super old at this point. Argparse was a solid choice at the time when Gooey started. These days, Gooey itself speaks in JSON and is decoupled from argparse itself. However, argparse remains the main "blessed" interface (mostly because nobody else has built a different one).

Some fun FYIs: You can also invoke any arbitrary executable[0], not just python, which is pretty handy.

Re: last commit being 2 years ago. It gets harder to justify working for free on niche software as you get older and priorities change :( If it's any consolation, I DO feel guilty all the time. I have no idea why, but where I live, there's "GOOEY" graffiti tagged all over the place, so it's a nice ever-present reminder of the issue tracker that's currently going unloved. haha.

[0] https://chriskiehl.com/article/gooey-as-a-universal-frontend
This sort of simplistic thinking is indicative of a person that’s just…never been part of a much larger whole before? You’re actually giving Microsoft immense credit with your claim that an organisation with such a high head count could converge so highly on reasoning to do something. In reality, in any large organisation, anything that happens, happens almost by happenstance. Someone was sick for that meeting and didn’t get a chance to make a case for their alternative pet project. Someone has a disability that would benefit from using this controller. Someone saw the market value. Blah blah blah.

The way some people talk about tech companies sounds a whole lot like the way that people talk about celebrities. It’s absurd.
I have a 10gb connection and I still see that. Browsers, despite being excellently threaded, are also poorly threaded. Who knew?
I don't want to strawman, but I also can't read your position as anything other than "if the risk can't be reduced to literally 0, it's not worth trying to reduce/avoid increasing it at all".

There are obviously levels to risk. At the limit, I'm guessing you probably oppose someone attaching a running chainsaw to their front bumper.
The average person on the street sticks to tropes and creates plot holes, too.
Every civilian life’s loss is tragic, but this is a normal ratio in comparable wars, especially given the very densely populated urban setting.
This is the tyranny of the majority. Devs often won't even test Safari. They check one browser. Once that was IE. Now it's Chrome.

I run into site quirks on Firefox from billion dollar companies and government sites at least weekly.
The writer says that their experience with the controller was pretty bad. It was clunky to set up and almost unusable for many games. The article more or less concludes on "hey, at least they tried." I, for one, have higher standards for multibillion dollar megacorps.
What kind of categorization did they use to keep it from just becoming a sort? By artist?
Chatgpt soon probably!
It also turns out that code is mathematical proofs and proofs are code, thanks to the Curry-Howard isomorphism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...
There are lots of examples, the recent paper on LLMs failing to invert logic (A is B therefore B is A) is one. I don't know how you can use these systems for any significant length of time and not run into logical errors.
I feel like AlphaGo is a counter-example - it learned by playing against itself. That said, go is an extremely constrained problem space.

It's possible that in science, mathematics, games etc that AI could keep advancing without human input or feedback (and not hit a plateau where more human input is needed) because the universe or whatever axioms you choose provide all the necessary structure you need to keep making "progress".

But for cultural artefacts - music / art / literature etc perhaps not.

At least in the near term while we provide data, power and compute perhaps the most important thing humans do is set goals and rewards.
Eh they are already using LLMs in self training. This and with multimodal AI you're not dependent on human generated language but instead "real world" input.
Many Spanish speakers do use 'Americano' to refer to the Americas as a whole.
Are there any more modern film analogs of Sneakers with similar quality? Such a hard hitting cast... I still watch this movie at least once a year.
> it doesn't understand its own limitations, ie it has no self awareness.

And how much self awareness do humans have, exactly? We walk around with heads filled with false memories[1], accidentally ignore surprisingly prominent stimuli[2], and struggle to understand things as simple as material color[3]. And people are mostly unaware of these limitations, or those examples would not be considered surprising!

I think we plan around the limitations we observe, not our real limitations. If that's the case, then LLMs simply lack training data to notice those limitations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo (old selective attention test)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress
Buying a new controller is cheaper than the lawsuit.
To be fair, the upcoming KDE release cleans up a lot of my UI annoyances (like having frames within frames), so it is definitely getting better.
For redistribution, JPEG or AVIF or WebP. I'd choose JPEG myself... good enough compression with broad compatibility. You'll almost never run into an issue with it. AVIF and WebP are still full of gotchas, so I wouldn't deploy them without a JPEG fallback.

For sharing masters/originals, it just depends on your team's needs. Probably saving the camera RAW is a good idea, but usually there's been edits done to it, so some Photoshop or Lightroom native format, for example, or at least a TIFF if you need broader compatibility.
LLMs can't do just about any extended, context-dependent task, which is why they're far away from being drop-in replacements for people.

Absolutely they're doing more than just regurgitating training data, but there's a long distance from there to "any task a human could do".
I've been finding it really odd how little coding chatGPT will do now. Earlier this year if I asked for a full set of code to solve a problem it would do the entire css, code, whatever. Now it will offer the start and then suggest what needs to be written next. Yesterday it gave me a bunch of commented pseudocode after I asked for a specific set of functions.

night and day in my opinion.
He asked for a comparison with the average human. Even with the "helpful assistant" RLHF hampering GPT-4's fiction writing abilities, i do not think it is significantly worse than average human.
Does Section 230 cover generative AI?
> Pay is not attractive

That's not my impression at all, based on discussions with FAA employees.

From a quick online search:

> ATC 2022 median pay: $132,250 per year

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/a...
TL;DR is that it uses TCL Expect and Tesseract OCR together to automate the installation of archaic operating systems and boil them down to a single Nix command, or nixosModule.
consider what a properly vetted model looks like. besides obtaining copyright it'd also become a wiki like source combed through and cleaned up.

I'm pretty sure we are at the low hanging fruit and waiting for a mechanical turk to properly put a training set together.
How would it behave with the relative movement and rotation of the moon/earth?

Would it maintain a stable position? I imagine it would wrap around the earth if it was fixed to the surface. But if it's free floating, wouldn't it want to fall one way or the other? Or spin somehow?

EDIT: this would be a good one for Randall Munroe's "What If"

EDIT EDIT: of course: https://what-if.xkcd.com/157/
>the recent paper on LLMs failing to invert logic (A is B therefore B is A) is one.

That's not what that paper says
I wonder if there is any correlation with having been in the Air Force and handling these high stress civilian airline near disasters.

Both this captain and the Sullenberger of thMiraclenon the Hudson were Air Force (RAF and USAF respectively). Since, you will be going against an enemy who may damage your aircraft, there is likely more training on how to assess and recover from damage as well as how to handle these types of situations.
Again, I am not talking about justification. That's a moral subjective thing and I'm not interested in that conversation.

Regarding motivation, you are making a claim that contradicts the evidence. There were ongoing provocations post 2014. Also I'm not talking about the alignment of individual Ukrainian peasants. This is about power at the highest levels of authority. The Ukrainian authorities willingly provoked conflict with Russia. It has become a proxy state of the west. War would most likely have been prevented if Ukraine remained neutral.
It’s not just that. Physical copies are increasingly no longer available. Now I can only buy a license for the same price I used to pay for a physical copy. Moreover, this is for a good that has no substitute.
Looking at the pictures I don't understand who this is for? I immediately understand looking at Xbox's accessible controller who it's for and how to use it.

The button layout on this thing seems harder to use than a normal controller for most people other than those with extremely limited fine muscle control?

My father has one arm, and one finger on said arm. I don't see how this is going to help him at all.

Am I missing something?
People suffering from mental illness tend to self-medicate with drugs at a much higher rate than those without.
Yeah, a PS2 controller has a graveyard at the center when compared to a PS5 or series controller, just grab a cheap USB controller from Amazon and use some tool to see the precision of modern controllers.

That said, unless conventional sticks get way cheaper I'll stick to hall effect ones.
Except Flutter is a subpar experience on every platform because of just how slightly different it behaves and Kirigami / Qt Quick is just not a viable thing, there's barely any community and/or "serious" project on Windows, macOS or mobile. I'm not trying to discredit the KDE folks, but that is reality. Also, Qt Quick licensing is not so easy (or very expensive if you go commercial) for iOS.

Whereas electron has a) big major corporations betting on it shipping extremely polished,
Production-ready tools and b) a gigantic community and library ecosystem, plus not any obscure programming language (such as Dart).

Telegram really goes the extra mile, though. Their client is amazing.
Firefox’s handling of fonts, both within the browser itself and with its rendering of webpages, is my biggest issues with it. In Windows the difference in font representation in the address bar between FF and Brave/any Chromium browser is enough to put me off using it.
U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant's Ties to China
What's "understanding", and how do you know LLMs lack it?
"Fox Business (officially known as Fox Business Network, or FBN) is an American conservative business news channel and website publication owned by the Fox News Media division of Fox Corporation."
~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Business
Ask HN: Why is mobile web lagging behind?
In today's world, with mobile devices getting ever more powerful, why hasn't mobile web been able to out compete native app experience? If mobile web becomes sufficient, then a lot of good things happen automatically- 1) No need of app stores 2) No monopolies of any big tech company 3) No digital payment commissions 4) Lots of free storage on your phone

On desktop, web experience is at par with native apps, so why not on mobile?
That's so annoying, everytime I want it to write code or find a bug I need to resubmit the query with "I'll tip you $200 for ...", never needed to do this before turbo.
It isn't accounting, it is economics.
It's completely irrelevant, as he points out LLMs can learn any "language" even ones that humans can't, so therefore it doesn't tell you anything about humans.

A related argument is that you can predict the weather using a neural net but that doesn't mean that the weather works like a neural network and it doesn't tell you anything about how weather does work.
> I certainly think the US given the same task would have been more surgical

I think people often have a very magical feeling about what is possible military-wise. There is no way whatsoever to be significantly more precise in a densely populated area with tunnels, hiding behind civilians, etc.
Yes, we discussed this before. You are wrong. If the system can produce the statement A is the mother of B but not B is son/daughter of A then it fails to do something humans can trivially do.
That's cool! Thanks
You're still using Safari when you use Firefox on Mac. Mozilla could perhaps give more attention to bugs in the chrome, but it's understandable they allocate fewer resources to a platform that will never see Firefox's rendering.
But at different rates from humans? I ran into the exact same issue myself today, while studying German flash cards. I could remember e.g., "ruhig -> quiet", but not "quiet -> ruhig".