skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does a video differ from a stack of video frames? Isn’t that all a video is? A bunch of images stuck together and played back quickly?
All great points. I don't recall the valley being that diverse, nor is ... for example, Boulder, CO and they're still hot spots.

If tech is mostly "bro dudes", they're definitely not moving away from Austin due to "diversity or abortion rights". They moved to escape the CA state taxes & the politics of the area they left.

The article is trying to support an economic thesis with social / identity politic reasoning.
Yes, lots of truth by assertion in this article.
Thank you for creating this demo. This was the point I was trying to make when the Gemini launch happened. All that hoopla for no reason.

Yes - GPT-4V is a beast. I’d even encourage anyone who cares about vision or multi-modality to give LLaVA a serious shot (https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA). I have been playing with the 7B q5_k variant last couple of days and I am seriously impressed with it. Impressed enough to build a demo app/proof-of-concept for my employer (will have to check the license first or I might only use it for the internal demo to drive a point).
My family is Ahmedi. That should tell you everything you need to know about what “Islamists” would do to me.
I'm talking about Linux.

I've been using Linux desktop for 15 years. No viruses so far.

But if I just talked about my personal machines, would anyone listen? I've had a lot more opportunity to see what it looks like when a VM is compromized, compared to a desktop, because my desktop has never been compromized.
Great demo, I laughed at the final GPT response too.

Honestly: it would be fun to self-host some code hooked up to a mic and speakers to let kids, or whoever, play around with GPT4. I’m thinking of doing this on my own under an agency[0] I’m starting up on the side. Seems like a no-brainer as an application.

[0]: https://www.divinatetech.com
It's a good idea to limit it somewhere so you don't end up sending 10 MB every time it's fetched. The feed will be re-fetched to check for updates so the cost isn't paid just once.
> Also not sure how syncing through a cloud drive is any better than a cloud password manager.

The private keys stay on your machine
I've heard Asians are 'white adjacent' so maybe they don't count?
Does "diverse" just mean "not white"? If WA mostly "whites & Asian" then no - it is not diverse.
The hallucination may not be a bug but a form regularisation that will helps sample behaviour and that itself might be of great use as it might act as a proxy for focus groups
But if you are in that situation, you can also probably just choose a better place to live where women have rights too.
Or the Deus Ex “ai” which people praised as feeling very intelligent- but was just programmed scripted sequences based on what the player most likely would do.
Flipper 1.1.0
Lmao! So, presumably, they could have hired Greg to improvise almost the exact same demonstration, but with evidence it works. I don't know how much Greg costs, but I'll bet my ass it's less than the cost in investor sentiment after getting caught committing fraud. Not saying you're cheap. Just cheaper.
You can compare them if you have $1 to spend as a government and want to maximise the number of lives that $1 saves.
I’ve been using llava via https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile which runs on any modern system.
"Regardless of the specifics of the details, in the abstract, such a scheme is in some sense, possible. How should we consider it?

On the one hand, building a huge geothermal power station at Yellowstone would generate a large amount of (potentially cheap) electric power while simultaneously reducing a catastrophic risk. "

"On the other hand, in many ways Yellowstone is a particularly bad place to try to build such a plant. The harsh, corrosive conditions in and around the magma chamber would make drilling the wells especially difficult, and its location in the middle of nowhere would require the construction of enormous transmission lines"

"In any case, the debate is likely to remain academic for the foreseeable future. Using Yellowstone for geothermal power was made illegal by the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970"

So the answer is likely yes, in theory.
But there are lots of other places, where it makes more sense to build geothermal plants. (for energy, but also security, there are lots of other potential super vulcanos that are not as activly monitored like Yellowstone is)
This is an underrated capability (patching up requests) that many devops folks often take advantage of in platforms like haproxy, nginx, etc.

I once worked at a company where someone pushed a release that added timestamp based cache busters to every js/css file. We used a similar approach to just drop that query parameter at the edge, which allowed us to get cache hits and stop serving every single asset from object storage.
Lack of diversity in the sense of living under a state government aiming for 17th century christian theocracy as a role model of governance as opposed to more liberal states.
Generally diversity means multi racial, ethnic, cultural not just “more than white”.
I don't understand the statistics-vs-calculus debate at all. Probability theory is at the heart of statistics, and how can a student understand statements like 'the integral of a probability density function must equal one over its possible range' without taking some calculus?

The problem with calculus as taught today in most schools is that most of the mathematical tricks for integrating functions that they hammer the students with are essentially useless in real-world problems so you might as well just start with numerical methods of approximation right at the beginning, once basic concepts like 'the integral of a function corresponds to the area under the curve of that function' are grasped. I know many math purists are dedicated to the pencil and paper approach, but it's not all that useful for non-math majors who will certainly be building or using computational models almost exclusively.

Another prerequisite for statistics should be linear algebra, because without a grasp of vector representations of data and matrix operations on that data, a lot of statistical concepts, e.g. multivariate statistics, won't be very understandable.

Fundamentally, trying to use statistics without this deeper understanding of the mathematics underlying much of it can lead to all kinds of issues, like choosing the wrong statistical method for a given problem.
Enron left millions of people without power while poor social sciences research convinced millions of people that priming is real.

They're both wrong but I'm not sure they're so comparable
You probably should because the collateral damage here is like, a trillion dollars of other tax laws on the books that would also be ruled unconstitutional.
> Texas in general is having brain drain

Nope it's just the usual politics and media sensationalism. There are plenty of smart people in well paying jobs in Texas like anywhere else with such a large overall population. Just because it's not like California doesn't make it undesirable for people and businesses. Pretty much the opposite actually.
i'm glad you like it. i feel bad for not enjoying the current Pokemon games, but i also don't have the patience to play the old ones.
Those are not pictures with words on them?
Why Samsung factory workers in Vietnam are becoming beauticians
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Have you considered two other factors?

1) It's hot for any skin color, compared to most anywhere else in the country. Not everyone enjoys staying indoors for half the year (I have lived in TX.) Folks might move from coastal California and then learn that lesson the hard way.

2) If you are a woman, or woman adjacent, then the fact that religious extremists now set reproductive law might affect the desire to live in the state, if one has a choice.
I’m going to go on a limb and say that a fetus will be counted under interstate commerce jurisdiction of the US Constitution so there will be a federal law level decision on whether abortion is illegal or not if one doesn’t exist already. Because then I’d imagine that supremacy clause means that states actually do not have the right to restrict procedures like abortions either.
I miss when new tech was tested on military grunts and scientific r&d departments.

Leave the test pilot work, to test pilots.

Don't misrepresent the product to my family members so they can be your beta testers, at the cost of their lives when it goes wrong.
Because if we did we’d have to admit just how little real information we know in so many fields. We want to think that (as a culture) we’ve got it all just about figured out.
Yeah. I’ve moved for a job. My parents did too. So did my grandparents.
living fossils -- bacterial stromatolites in brine pools in the Atacama desert of argentina
Climate change is going to make that heat a bigger issue. Especially with the humidity.
Bellingham is not particularly diverse, no. Bellevue on the other hand is incredible.
I think iMessage is still using older attestations, but generally an attestation of this sort (App Attest, Play Protect API) represent a chain of the hardware, boot process, OS and application.

So iMessage is not going to be willing to hand out private keys or negotiate them for a third party application, and Beeper will not be trusted to register a private key itself.

Android iMessage support would be weird because there is no iMessage application - there is an application which lets you send SMS and to upgrade to MMS or iMessage when available. So, if there ever was an official Messages app for Android, I would somewhat expect it to also offer to take over being the default application for SMS/MMS.
I don't know if I'd want Linear Algebra proofs - they tend to veer into results over vector fields rather than the more useful "solve Ax=b" and "here is how AI works" parts (i.e we should teach real-world computational linear algebra rather than the pure parts of field).

That said, I think proofs are an important thing we should teach in high school - its more a flavor of "real math", and logical thinking involved is a better transferrable skill than the symbol manipulation and bag-of-tricks-you-never-really-use-in-the-real-world you get from high school calculus courses. I'd just focus it on something easier to grasp, like basic number system construction.
Nice snarky reply, but what you are saying is around 0.11% of Muslims can't talk here, but around 30% of Jews can't.

Not exactly comparable.
You can run DooM on anything - including DooM.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c6hnQ1RKhbo
The "magic" of the fake Gemini demo was the way it seemed like the LLM was continually receiving audio + video input and knew when to jump in with a response.

It appeared to be able to wait until the user had finished the drawing, or even jumping in slightly before the drawing finished. At one point the LLM was halfway through a response and then saw the user was now colouring the duck in blue, and started talking about how the duck appearing to be blue. The LLM also appeared to know when a response wasn't needed because the user was just agreeing with the LLM.

I'm not sure how many people noticed that on a conscious level, but I positive everyone noticed it subconsciously, and felt the interaction was much more natural, and much more advanced than current LLMs.

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Checking the source code, the demo takes screenshots of the video feed every 800ms, waits until the user finishes taking and then sends the last three screenshots.

While this demo is impressive, it kind of proves just how unnatural it feels to interact with an LLM in this manner when it doesn't have continuous audio-video input. It's been technically possible to do kind of thing for a while, but there is a good reason why nobody tried to present it as a product.
I think if it cost less than $20k new it would be the perfect second car.
> Does "diverse" just mean "not white"?

In many cases, yes, it basically just means this. That's even a reasonable de facto definition for that term as it's used today, in any appearance without further qualification ("diversity of thought" e.g.)
You can run Doom inside (DOS) Doom, for real [video]
Likely unconstitutional for a number of reasons:
- the constitution guarantees freedom of movement within the states.
- the dormant commerce clause prohibits states from passing legislation that improperly burdens or discriminates against interstate commerce
- states cannot pass laws with extraterritorial jurisdiction. The constitution establishes a federal system in which states have sovereignty within their own borders but cannot exert authority in other states.
I'd guess you'd miss any audio that way. But otherwise, yeah a video is a stack of images.
Tech companies were too myopic only trying Austin. The DFW Metroplex area of Texas has much more room and scale, and is more business-friendly, lower cost, and has a much larger professional class population.

John Carmack is a famous transplant here who has never wanted to move since. It's also a few degrees cooler than Austin - though with all the new pavement the urban heat island effect might even that out.
Do you mean renpy? You might not have heard of it, but it's more or less the de facto engine for new visual novel games. Hence having so many games as well, the barrier to entry with using Python+mostly static images is basically non-existent.
Because knowing and interacting with minorities tends to make people less racist. That's why there's a huge difference between the level of racism that minorities have to encounter between cities and small towns.

For example https://www.reddit.com/r/okc/comments/12vli29/black_family_m...
What makes you think Indian labor is cheap? I've worked with Indians all my life and they did not earn less than other workers at similar levels.
In the Wickard v Filburn case the court ruled that a guy growing food on his own land to feed to animals on his own land was participating in interstate commerce. So it wouldn't be the first stretch of the term.
Related from earlier:

Is the Texas boom town of Austin losing its luster?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591726
Unfortunately, when I last tried this a couple of years ago (I think), it crashed frequently. It could be my fault since I was using nouveau drivers.
No it would not have had an effect. And I was younger and learned from those minor prangs. These fancy computerized features will only make new drivers less capable and dull the senses of older drivers. They become a crutch and may cause dangerous situations if these inept people driving vehicles without AEB and other features.

Just hearing the stories the people around me tell me to do with the computerized features like AEB and other stuff makes me keep my car purchases firmly in the 1990s, which coincidentally is one of the best decades for cars.

Like the woz says "never trust a computer you can't throw out a window"
I don't think it's necessarily 1 class of statistics vs 1 class of calculus, but the fact that your typical calculus ladder is 4 semesters worth, most of which being about symbolic solutions. Handling integration and derivation of simple polynomials is fine, but the majority of the computational part of calc 2 is just as detached from modern calculus as asking people to multiply five digit numbers in your head.

The useful parts of calculus are typically the easiest for students, and could be taught in a semester. Instead, your typical calculus track is 2 whole years.
If the question would be phrased as, I want to get proficient and get to learn how to build a full SaaS app from scratch knowing JS/HTML/CSS, what would be the answer then?
What makes Austin locals not happy about their houses gaining in value?
I took both statistics and pre-calc in highschool
There are no worry free businesses, but there are more and less sustainable business models and different attitudes to existential risk management.

Kagi at first seemed strategic with metered paid search, but choosing to go for growth and hoping most users will not search a lot feels like a downgrade from that.
It takes blog posts to discover these because Mastodon micro communities aren't discoverable and no one knows which ones to sign up for. Mastodon has no long term potential. We're still waiting for the Twitter replacement.
> This update places peak civilization around 2018 based on human development index, with slight but measurable decline since, and more decline in the forecast.

I read the footnotes, the Human Development Index peaked in 2019 based on data up 2021. In a purely coincidental and no way related development there was a global pandemic in 2020 and 2021.

So they're making projections based on a trend of 2 years driven by an unprecedented and no longer active global pandemic (but coincidentally the data for 2022 and 2023 isn't out yet). And you're taking this as fact?
are you saying the author was paid for this post? seems like an enthusiastic user to me. do you know what an advertisement is?
> Developers (not deployers) of foundation models need to register their models, with documentation, prior to making it available on the market or as a service.

No, thanks. Utterly insane, we are sliding backwards into the "code is a munitions export" territory that I so hoped we'd escaped after the 90s.

> If you take a foundation model, fine-tune it for a specialised purpose, and deploy it as a part of your software, it won’t count as a foundation model, and you’ll probably be fine, as long as the original provider of the foundation model was compliant.

This interpretation would render the whole exercise pointless, there is quite a blurry line between "fine-tuning" and "training".
Basically what we’ve found is that students need a better understanding of statistics, visualizations, etc.

But just because these are mathematical concepts why do they have to replace math in the curriculum? Logically, shouldn’t they replace the least valuable parts of the curriculum, irrespective of whether that’s math or not?

So the question really shouldn’t be statistics vs calculus (or advanced algebra) but rather statistics vs whatever is considered the weakest part of the curriculum across the board, not just limited to the field statistics belongs to.
That's not a real source. They are well known for having an intense anti-Israel bias. They are so well known they have a mutli-page Wikipedia article on them, including things like hiring known terrorists to lead them.

The article you linked said that blockading Gaza (before the war) is somehow Apartheid, that's just ludicrous on the surface, and is representative of the nonsense they peddle.
> working less is good
> blog by “Slack”

True or false, the jokes write themselves sometimes
In many countries there is already a market for buying and selling real world identities of penniless students and homeless alcoholics to use for nefarious ends, e.g. financial fraud or registering shell companies. Given enough financial incentive, Proof of Identity is insufficient.
My best hours worked start at 7pm when the world is quieter and my peers arent around to disrupt me.

Plus it feels good that the next time I see someone I have conjured a deliverable.

Meanwhile, if you give me daily 9am meetings I am not functional at any point in the day
My experience is that before Musk, I felt like I was shadow-banned. No engagement. Also, as a consumer, the content was basically the same junk as all other media platforms. Now I feel like I'm getting all the latest news and things are actually happening. Small interactions between regular people are taking place again. It's not just some centralized mainstream broadcast platform as it used to be. It's way better.
I took both ap statistics and ap calculus, got a 4 on statistics and a 5 in calculus, and in my opinion the calculus was way more helpful in college. But at the same time, I didn't feel like I was unprepared for college math.

And I got a degree in an engineering field at Georgia Tech, so I don't think the classes were just easy or anything.

So in my opinion people have to take a look at the standardized test scores, and not just 'this teacher chose to give them an A'.
>We’re moving to a future where AI can conduct arbitrary information-processing tasks based on natural-language instructions from any reasonably intelligent human who understands the problem they’re trying to solve.

AKA programming, but compared to my current efforts to instruct my compiler via very specific instructions (nothing like ambiguous natural language), I find that although I consider myself reasonably intelligent, it can take me a long time to fully understand any non-trivial problem I'm trying to solve, during which AI "help" often sends me on a wild goose chase (because the "I" in AI is still very much absent). Overall AI might help me more than hinder, but I think the claimed "future" end of the software industry might be a long way off. Current AI gives me the impression there might be as much industry growth to fix AI errors as there will be industry shrinkage due to AI assistance.
Tessell – Database as a Service
Is there real non marketing evidence that android is less secure?
Stomach contents of dinosaur found preserved in Alberta
Yeah I'm not talking about being "on call". I don't know anything about Amazon other than it's probably full of bad culture. Nowhere I've worked has ever been like that except a handful of emergencies.

I'm talking about working at a relaxed place because everyone actually gets their stuff done 9 to 5. A place that's fun and interesting enough that you feel happy to randomly think about work in the middle of the night for an hour or two or whenever else motivation strikes to keep it that way.

I'm saying that these little nudges from the team where extra hours are silently worked prevents being forced to pick up the slack that shouldn't be there in the first place. Slack comes from miserable people regardless of how many hours they do or don't work.
I don't know - I agree with the xkcd that the period of AI development I find most scary is not when it is smarter than humans, but when it isn't yet smarter but improving all kinds of human tasks like warfare or aiding corporate oil maximizers, etc.

I know those endeavors are stupid long term, but apparently enough of humanity doesn't such that AI only as smart as humanity at large will be aiding and abetting quite a lot of horrors that I have a harder time imagining something smarter than humanity aiding unconditionally.

Dumb AI is much scarier to me than smart AI.
Am I a good programmer? (2022) [video]
I've heard there are more than one type of Asian - more even than two types.

More even than just the Sama-Bajau and Minangkabau.

Who'd have thought, hey?
I think probably training on pause tokens or something similar would be the key to something like this. Maybe it's not even necessary. Maybe if you just tell GPT-4 to output something like .... every time it thinks it should wait for a response (you wouldn't need to wait for the user to finish then), things would be a lot smoother.
Is there a way that I can do programming on my phone?
Please add categories to blog feeds
Thank you. Is it correct to say the book parent comment suggested solves item one in your list

> how to design a good UI

And my issue is exactly your second point - how to implement a given UI design. I came across multiple React UI Framework but haven't been able to fully understand the 'big picture' per say on using them.
Fabien is a Hacker News darling, I'd highly recommend both the DOOM black book and Wolfenstein black book, I have them and love every page. Give him your support!

Masters of Doom is also required reading for any hacker.
>Right now we have maybe one or two layers of detection at best.

The article is a typical example showing how we routinely have zero to one layer at the most.