skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, our vision is quite bad at some stuff, for instance distance estimates have a high error rate. You can do a lot better than that.

Our distance estimates are quite good at human scales, especially when compared to vision based approaches. We don't have great precision (we will never say something like "it's 19.7m away") but we very rarely grossly misestimate (think something is 10m away when it's actually 200m away or 10cm away).

Of course, compared to a LIDAR or advanced techniques used in physics, we don't hold the tiniest candles (say, if we were to compare to LIGO's distance measurements).
It was the db used in one of the cs50 psets this year!
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We accounted for high margin things like drug producing plants and high value gastronomic things like mushrooms and leafy greens. These are the only viable crops and are exceptional, not normal.

This is like saying mice are a desirable pest because drug labs use them for research. Yes, sure but it’s a very specific use case, but don’t pretend it’s the norm.
Basically this is how you configure a compiler backend, in LLVM's case.

It specificies how the whole set of internal data structures for instructions actually map into real CPU instructions, and also guides the register allocation algorithms.
It’s actually not hard, like at all. Every other manufacturer solved it. The problem is that Elon dropped all sane forms of “vision” like lidar because he wants to squeeze out profits at the cost of consumer safety (not to mention Tesla kills motorcyclists hand over fist)

He’s hell bent on machine vision which can’t even identify a cyclist for fucks sake! And somehow this is legal to deploy on public roads!
OpenProject 13.1 has been released!

There are several great features and updates, incl.:
The possibility to share work packages with external users or groups (Enterprise add-on)
A OneDrive/SharePoint integration (Enterprise add-on)
Dynamic meetings and agenda items linked to work packages
Attribute help texts (released for Community)
Maybe because Go devs are more allergic to 'non-Go' solutions that Java devs are to 'non-Java' solutions? (Explain: Java's xerial driver is a DLL/SO wrapped in a Java library)
Your first question is answered in my original post. I grew up in an affluent community where almost nobody was economically insecure. The typical heroin addict was a high school kid with rich parents. Their parents would eventually cut them off financially and kick them out of the house after all the expensive rehabs failed. They'd usually drop out of high school and spend their time panhandling around touristy areas and then go to the projects to buy and use drugs. If they were a girl, prostitution was pretty likely at this phase as well. Many people I went to school with followed this pattern. Most are dead now, some in and out of jail and still bumming around.
I use AI dozens if not hundreds of times a day as part of my job... It certainly "solves" a lot of stuff for me :)
Not to mention the various licenses and insurances required to ferry people around.

Anyone who gave it a second thought probably didn't take it seriously, but that didn't stop a whole bunch of fans and stock market analysts to sketch out some far flung implications.
Neural network i guess
Tired of tip requests, consumers are getting stingy
The idea of vertical farming doesn't really appeal to me. I mean it sounds efficient, but as we see we are throwing electricity to simulate natural processes. With all the organic hype isn't there a much higher demand on traditional grown food in an organic way. The idea of growing food in a city laboratory seems counter-intuitive to me. Isn't there much more market in developing supportive technology for efficient classic organic farming? Or am I completely wrong here?
But the things that do involve Apples servers could have been implemented years ago and shouldn’t be dependent on installing an iOS update. Why would you not deserve to be protected as much as possible if you use a Mac with iCloud and an Android phone?
It is very cut-down compared to other processors of the time. Part of that was cost reduction, but part was also intended applications. I'm struggling to find it now, but I've got a transcript of an interview with I believe Chuck Peddle (may have been Bill Mensch) where they discuss it.
https://archive.ph/T2b2o
I was inspired by Hey.com’s screener feature but I didn’t want to move my existing Gmail accounts, so I created one for myself: https://app.inboxhero.org/

The idea is first-time senders will be moved out of your inbox and you will get a screener to manually whitelist/blacklist them.

Am now trying to productize it, my thesis is emails will becoming even spammier now that LLMs can pass the Turing test, so a feature like this will be key to restore sanity to your inbox.
>Land farming isn't financially viable either under market prices

Is that the reason subsidies exist?

From my experience in farming, subsidies exist to ensure I can stay afloat if a crop fails for whatever reason, or if the market tanks, or just ensures a minimum income to make sure I don't go out of business.

It seems like ag subsidies are one place we actually want government intervention (but I am surely biased). We don't really want our food supply to be open directly to the whims of both nature and direct market changes. There is too much of a ramp up time needed if a large share of farms go out of business. It's not like we don't need food next year just because we had a bumper crop this year that caused prices to tank, I guess is what I'm trying to say.

For example - look at pork in the 90's. The price fell, and hard, causing most family pork farms went out. This is the reason we have like 2-3 producers of pork for the US now with mega factory pork farms. Is that good? I can't be convinced it is.
Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
> CLI: I wanted to download songs from youtube, but they were often stitched as complete albums - so I wrote a youtube-cue generator that generates cuesheets that can then be used to split and tag the yt-dlp downloaded audio file. (https://github.com/captn3m0/youtube-cue)

Thanks for this! I need to do some testing, this might automate the last manual step of my own script for converting YT mixes into distinct tracks. The problem I faced is that often the timestamps are not in the description, but instead in a comment, sometimes not even the pinned/top voted comment. That is why I paste it in via stdin for now.

As this fits the thread topic, a short description of this script. I enjoy YT mixes and wanted to listen to them in my car. I can use an USB stick with media files and playlists which are displayed decently by the infotainment system. I wrote a script that takes in a YT URL (or anything supported by yt-dlp), downloads & converts it to mp3, splits the mp3 file based on a list of timestamps, recognizes (tries to anyway) the songs via SongRec [0], tags & names the files correctly and finally generates an M3U playlist in the format recognized by my car. I use song recognition instead of parsing out the names from the timestamped list as the format of Artist - Title is nearly always slightly different. It was easier to use SongRec instead and get everything I need for tagging with >90% hit rate.

The heavy lifting is done by calling out to yt-dlp, ffmpeg and SongRec. I just glued them together with Python. I like your approach of a do one thing well and might add youtube-cue to the toolset.

[0] https://github.com/marin-m/SongRec
Should be interesting once Steamboat Willy enters the public domain.
Okay how about we make cars that can fully self-drive, and then remove hardware crutches afterwards. Some blind people can ride a bike safely (with echolocation), but I'd strongly recommend you use eyes too if you have them.
Don't worry about sustainability. There was life before YouTube and Facebook and there will be life after. I am not sacrificing my mental well-being for a false economy. If the internet rots out its own Ponzi Scheme, we will build something else
caused by a half male and half female.... conplete it with me...
> Also the "logic" of "Tesla is just trying to generate news" because they are fighting government in court is just...

Is just what?
Great link, thanks.

“Word crimes” is a great song indeed. More than learning English, I am a Weird Al fan.

In this case, it translates well to ”nearly disappeared”. Which matches a sibling comment explanation that it means “everything happened for it to disappear except it didn’t quite disappeared yet”. But also makes sense another sibling comment explanation that it is a hedge. Like “for all purposes it actually disappeared, but let me say it nearly disappeared for those who will point out that the site and the company still technically exists”.
Thank you for linking this insightful discussion.

I am not sure why I never ran into this problem, unfortunately I don't have access to my notes anymore because I no longer work on this.

This approach has solved so many problems for me. I can do full vacuum, I can change integer columns to bigint, I can do major version upgrades, I can even move instances across AWS regions all with minimal downtime.

It's really great to see that people continue to tinker with it and that there are active discussions on the mailing list to keep improving logical replication. It's come a long way since the first implementation. Thanks for your contribution!
I believe there is already a very decisive lever for the negative ecological (and to some extent also health-related) effects of agriculture. However, this is less on the supply side than on the demand side: less animal protein and more plant protein would solve a lot of problems at once.
It’s an oversimplification to conclude that the drop in deaths is just from “nannyifying” cars. There have been major improvements to vehicle frames, roll safety, crumple zones, etc that all play a major role in that graph.

And adding safety features to cars is one thing. Indiscriminately slamming on the brakes without context is another.

A feature has to actually lead to safer outcomes. Braking hard when opening the door is highly questionable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_monitoring_system
My aftermarket Carplay adapter works 100% of the time. Need to make sure both the car and phone Bluetooth aren't paired, then works great.
DRM isn't magic. It's still bound by the browsers' security policies, and those policies do not allow tracking by one domain of activity on others that aren't opting in somehow. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and my pre-existing hatred for Elsevier isn't evidence of them having capabilities that would make the NSA drool.

If students were regularly installing a native app or a browser extension, the tracking claim would make sense, but neither you nor TFA have suggested a valid mechanism for the supposed tracking.
What I understood from GP was the possibility of some fragment of consciousness in that small bit of tissue. Humanity isn't in the fragments, though, it's in the structure of the whole. It doesn't matter much if it was human brain tissue or animal brain tissue, at the levels we seem to be talking about they work identically.
We also found klap being a good overall choice, but it lacks on the performance side. Kinda had to wait for quite a while until it was possible to download videos.
What? So many people are using AI to solve real problems right now.

GitHub Copilot is a good example. It may just be a glorified autocomplete, but it's really good and sometimes predicts 20 line functions exactly as I'd have written them.

Really good stochastic parrots are useful.
Much better than other even more arcane tools, like DSLs based on C macros.

It has been ages since I delved into GCC internals, think GCC vs egcs days, but if I am not mistaken it was either DSL based on C macros, or some variation of GIMPLE.
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You should probably read the article first, before jumping into politics:

“This particular example of bilateral gynandromorphy – male one side and female the other – shows that, as in several other species, either side of the bird can be male or female.

“The phenomenon arises from an error during female cell division to produce an egg, followed by double-fertilization by two sperm,” he explains.
You mean the ratings that show a language model you can run on consumer hardware today within 100 ELO points of Industry SOTA?
It's weird how design systems are so rote, yet so difficult
I suffer from the same problem and my new solution has been to install a Firefox extension that, when I have more than 5 tabs open, closes any tabs that’s been idle longer than 5 minutes.

I found that with this approach I still get the dopamine hit without getting stuck sifting through 30 articles.
The schism between AI accelerationists and doomers is reminiscent of the rift between people who are pro- and anti- widespread entheogen use. I see both as a way to contact nonhuman intelligences, and I predict that if anyone cares to do a survey, they'd find that concerns about doing so via DMT will correlate tightly with concerns about doing so via concerns about doing so via LLMs. The major difference being that entheogens are a fairly mature technology and LLMs are the new scary thing.

As someone who is perhaps a bit unbalanced to the accelerationist camp I perceive the argument for caution a concern about too much change too quickly, particularly to existing authority structures. It's easy to dismiss most of those arguments as fear of the existing authority to losing control of a population with different priorities. Are there arguments from that side that aren't vulnerable to that dismissal?
> Attacking a post because of the author, even one who is habitually flagged, just doesn't seem to be in the right spirit.

It's a good point, and I agree. I see what your earlier comment was referring to a little more clearly now.
Why do you need to charge a phone every minute?

Most car trips are under an hour long, and many phones have batteries that last 18-24 hours.

Personally, I mostly never use a car charger unless my phone missed the wireless charger that night.
You’d be amazed at what your average SWE is unaware of.
How about capsaicin induced pain? That should be very safe as long as you don't go crazy with the most extreme peppers/extractions.
I feel that way about laptops and tablets. Like, I can't understand why anyone would pay much more money for much less performance, and either chose between bad ergonomy or flimsy docking setups.

My desktop allows me to have a base in life, where my stuff is, and I get to have hundreds of gigabytes of memory and many terabytes of storage for relatively cheap. It's where I can drive my high resolution monitors at high refresh rates.

The desktop computer is where I build my little sanctuary in this world, where everything is just so, and set up just as I want, a place I never really want to leave. It's my comfort zone, and I don't know, the image of a little laptop on that desk, seems sad and empty to me.

Sure, I own a laptop, it's perpetually not charged, and I need to remind myself to plug it in before I have to go somewhere and use it, but that's only once or twice per year.

There's not a lot of text in that article, and yet I found no case being made against the desktop, even if the title claimed so.
For the same reason you need a stack or a queue for depth/breadth first search. Open tabs represent yet to be completed work. It took work in the first place to open those tabs. If you close them you lose that work.
Just for the people reading in the US,
if you are unsure,
you do NOT have "a right to remain silent"
at least not in the sense I think of it.

You must actively assert BOTH your fifth and sixth amendment rights

More is on the book "you have the right to remain innocent"
which I must confess I have not completely read
but the gist is
fifth and sixth amendment.

> He argues that because of Salinas v. Texas, the fact that someone has asserted the Fifth Amendment can be used as evidence against them in court, so he suggests criminal defendants and interrogatees instead invoke the Sixth Amendment, the right to legal counsel.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Have_the_Right_to_Remain_I...
> I'm always amazed when startups operate like this.

I'm not. This is just people trying to acquire other people's money as efficiently as possible. Siphon off as much as you can and then disappear.
I meant a Django template, e.g.: https://www.valentinog.com/blog/django-project/
With stratosphere full of burned deorbited satellites, we might see more colors in future.
> Those with kids now need to reset how they think of trade jobs and hands on work.

This is already true even in the absence of AI.
with an MDM and Apple's Device Enrollment Program you don't even need to worry about this anymore[0]

[0]: https://www.apple.com/mx/business-docs/DEP_Guide.pdf
It seems like a lot of people want to jump in and start making political points, before taking time to read the article.
Like a poster in a previous thread say, the "only" in "only metadata" is outright malicious. It's more than enough.
Obviously Redhat will die a slow death when owned by a company with such outrageous behavior. We all need to listen to Milei before it’s too late. Social justice is the biggest injustice and the path to destroying wealth just as it did in Argentina.
You can find some data through a casual search. [1] and similar articles cite a 70% drop in Chinese video game illustrator jobs in just one year, partly due to adoption of AI tools, as confirmed by both studios and illustrators.

Speaking from personal experience, I know a guy whose firm has sharply reduced headcount in art/design and another guy whose firm used to hire illustrators but has since stopped because AI-generated illustrations (not central to their product) are considered good enough.

> with the new tools you can be more productive as an artist and sell more

I don't see a demand explosion outside of enthusiast circles (largely pr0n, to be honest). Sure you can make more, but you have no one to sell to, and unit price won't be the same when there's very cheap competition.

Anyway, we’re getting pretty offtopic.

[1] https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-image-china-video-game-layof...
Yeah, but those aren't Jira alternatives to start with, as they don't compete in the same target market.
If you search "topic:jdbc topic:sqlite" on GitHub [0] (and look closely, since most results are not relevant) you'll see there are more than one (e.g. [1]). xerial may be the defacto SQLite driver for Java. mattn/go-sqlite3 is the defacto SQLite driver for Go. But there are other options.

[0] https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Ajdbc%20topic%3Asqlite&ty...

[1] https://github.com/gwenn/sqlite-jna
Like with the Pepsi jet commercial?
Since autopilot is used on a substantial fraction (one third?) of miles driven by Teslas, this is another way of saying that Teslas are not yet invincible to crashes.
Not just Safari. Most any two apps that support passing things from one app to the next (e.g. via Share Sheet, or a deep link, or etc.), the next app has a back to first app.
I worked on these systems when I worked there. I can tell you they have audit logs, but they're restricted to certain groups within Apple to see them
I've recently developed a money manager application for Android. I haven't uploaded it to Github yet. The purpose of this project was to get back into android development and have an app that doesn't sell your data. Also, the best thing about making your own app is that you can add any feature you want and make it work just how you like.

Presently, I'm working on an app to selectively enable/disable silent profile for contacts. It involves leveraging Android's contact groups to establish user profiles. When you activate a profile, silent mode will be activated for contacts not in it.
And a lot of messaging programs send push notifications for highly dubious reasons, like when you read your own messages (so that the other devices mute their notifications). Element does this.
Pfizer found out it was a protease inhibitor and made a new expensive patent drug based off this completely useless and dangerous right wing propaganda. This completely pointless and horrible unsafe ivermectin's effects were amplified to cure COVID.
Congrats to the team on the launch.
Bad Apple! They don’t even fix flaws they don’t know about!
> mainly focused on Simplified Chinese as it is spoken in Mainland China

> and Traditional Chinese/the Taiwanese variant is just an afterthought

> only has Chinese to English, but no monolingual definitions which are preferable for advanced learners

I don't quite get it. You can distinguish "Mandarin Chinese as spoken in China" from "Mandarin Chinese as spoken in Taiwan"; for example, the concept "the day after [a contextual event]" is translated 隔天 in the Taiwanese dub of We Don't Talk About Bruno, but it's 第二天 in the mainland dub. This reflects real usage differences, but this is mostly a matter of what phrasing people are likely to use; to the best of my knowledge, what you might consider characteristically Taiwanese usages are mostly still valid on the mainland, and vice versa. I'm not getting lost trying to understand Taiwanese music, or at least not more so than for mainland music. Mainlanders have no problems speaking to locals in Taiwan; Taiwanese have no problems speaking to locals on the mainland.

But that has nothing to do with simplified vs traditional characters, which is a spelling difference, not a language difference. Any electronic dictionary will handle that seamlessly.

(And I'm a little concerned... how do you study Chinese for "a few years" without knowing the difference between a language and a spelling system? In Hong Kong they use traditional characters too, and they use them to write Cantonese!)

And then, of your other points, they all seem to be complaints about the dictionary, not about the software. Get dictionaries that are relevant to you!

> Instead of Hanyu Pinyin, Willow utilizes Zhuyin, the phonetic system used in Taiwan, to aid in accurate pronunciation learning.

Pinyin and zhuyin are exactly equivalent. Every syllable in one system corresponds to a single syllable in the other system. How does one better aid accurate pronunciation learning than the other?

Pinyin is used on the mainland and zhuyin is used in Taiwan; you're certainly better off learning zhuyin if you're planning to live in Taiwan. But on your assumption that you already know both systems, what does one do that the other one doesn't?
Maybe Discord just works for chat. Not for support.

They claim 150 million monthly active users. Not close to most people.

How would you expect someone to tell you they don't want to create an account? Most maintainers would consider opening an issue inappropriate I think.
Tweet source: https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1734940445824937993
I think it makes sense in terms of 'v1.2.3 recall', whatever the version is, i.e. that particular version may no longer be shipped; shipped instances of it/licences for it will be 'recalled', however unlike hardware recalls where it needs to be physically taken in for servicing it may be possible to perform this remotely.