skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a previous company where I had a lot of this "tacit knowledge", I had made a policy for myself. Whenever somebody asked me a question over IM or e-mail, I would look in the wiki. If the answer was not in the wiki, I would write a new wiki article or update an existing article with the answer, and I would respond with a link to the article, and a statement like "if this doesn't answer your question let me know what is missing or could be described better." The reasons for this were for me to dump my tribal knowledge out of my brain into something everybody could search and read, and to promote usage of the wiki as a place where people found answers. Unfortunately it did not appear to have another desired effect of getting everybody to contribute content. I think this was probably because people came to see the wiki as a place to find knowledge, not to put knowledge.
From my own experience, and from what I got from the article, the lower quality full duplex BT is only part of the problem. The major issue is that the mode is selected automatically on macOS.

I never had this problem with Pulseaudio and Blueman, for example. The microphone isn't even registered until I manually change modes for the connection.

Another annoying thing is that the mac is so aggressive when connecting to devices over BT. I regularly have to restart stuff because my mac hijacked the connection. It seems to do it even when the lid is closed.
This.

This article confuses tacit knowledge for the phenomenon most eloquently described by a former (superb) sysadmin colleague “documentation is the enemy of job security”.
Yes because we see how well that Google has been at selling hardware
You want a Garmin.
This is very much like my panoptic computronium cathedral™. I only need $80B to build it to achieve AGI. The AGI requires 24/7 surveillance for making optimal decisions because it needs access to as much information as possible. The second stage will require worshipers to ingest nanosensors so that even their bowel movements can be tracked and analyzed by the AGI. This is all for the benefit of those who are under constant surveillance in the cathedral.
I'm guessing from context that VapourSynth is a frame-server in the vein of avisynth? If so, does it run on Linux? Avisynth was the single biggest thing I missed when moving to Linux about 20 years ago.

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found the docs; it's available on Linux[1]. I'm definitely looking into it tonight because it can't be worse than writing ffmpeg CLI filtergraphs!

1: http://www.vapoursynth.com/doc/installation.html#linux-insta...
Removal of Section 230 immunity is not the same thing as creating or imposing actual liability.

Even if the scope of the exemption is broad, from someone's standpoint, the backend liability is likely to do a fair amount of work in whether a generative AI company could be liable for a particular cause of action.

This is demonstrably true: using that example, Section 230 does not protect text editor software doing spellchecking. However, you don't see a lot of (any?) claims against text editor developers, and there's not really any chill in the development of spellchecking over fear of lawsuits.

(disclosure: staff involved in the bill)
>as it's more of a PID driven behavior rather than an active predictive system

Self tuning and active predictive PID controllers are also a thing aided by the 'ye olde' faithful Kalman-Filter. At least I remember reading about them in research papers.

Now what exactly from those has materialized in commercial applications, I have no idea, since it's not like they publish such in depth info in the public facing spec sheet.
A loremaster who will lie when they don't know the answer instead of saying, "I don't know".
More and more of the time when someone mentions "hate speech" they're just angry something isn't being moderated like Reddit. One needs to have perspective and if you have zero accusations of enabling hate speech as a platform that big, you're actually the bad guy.

X does have the best model of Free Speech. Nothing can be perfect but they're the F1 car of the effort when others are oxcarts on rails. Yes conversations happen even on Facebook, I have frequented it this month. Doesn't mean they are that meaningful or capable of actually working as the critically-needed Town Square.

X requires login for many things, as it did during the Twitter times. Congratulations for shooting yourself in the foot by impulsively deleting your account I guess? Like, what in earth would that benefit you instead of just having a pause ...
I'm quite confused by the answers I got from this thread. Haven't you tried refactoring with gpt-4 yet?
You'll never get an answer to this because answer == admission.

If you want a guess, it probably was related to pruning old accounts/old files.
Wasn't there some recent article about how Bandcamp got acquired by a competitor and is more or less being left to rot on the vine?

I agree, the FLAC downloads are a major perk of it, and I'll happily buy music there. But I wouldn't trust it to be around long term at this point. It's too consumer-friendly to exist long term in this modern world we live in. :(
I'm just interested in stereo photography/video.
Hmmm we should solve poverty by not tolerating it? I have many solutions to poverty, but to be honest, that’s never shown up on the list for me.
The FBI has become little more than the enforcement arm of the organized white-collar crime system run out of Wall Street offices with the active support of the White House and the Congress.

This is why, despite the FBI's sweeping surveillance powers, no coordinated prosecution targeting the subprime mortgage fraudsters who brought down the economy in 2008-2009 was conducted - instead, they were all bailed out with taxpayer dollars in a coordinated Republican-Democrat left-right operation. In contrast, little Iceland put 39 of its top bankers in jail for their role in that event.

It's true that an entity like the FBI is needed to police white-collar crime, because otherwise corporate conflicts over market share etc. would soon escalate into violent conflict (e.g. Mexican drug cartels, Prohibition-era alcohol distribution gangs, etc.), but they've become an organization that does more to protect the extremely wealthy white-collar criminals from prosecution than to gather evidence that would put them in jail. The fact that top-tier FBI officials so often 'retire' to lucrative private positions in Wall Street firms should serve as solid evidence that the organization is corrupt.

As far as why they want to retain warrantless surveillance powers that don't require them to go before a judge and leave any kind of evidenciary record in support of that surveillance, well, would STASI have wanted to do that in East Germany, either?
I am pretty sure if one wants metrics one will get metrics. Law enforcement, like corporate management nowadays, is big on metrics.

After all, the big enshittification of internet which is popular topic here is based on metrics of ad networks effectiveness.
Thanks. I will finish the migration of the repo to the organization
> There are also other types of safety beyond memory safety that are better supported in C++ than other systems languages.

Such as? Genuinely curious.
3D videos can be played on more devices than the vision pro and just because the vision pro has a high ppd that doesn't mean that the content will be rendering images with that high of a ppd.
If you read in the links, users are reporting more than six months. It sounds like entire accounts have been wiped.

I think the "six months" is coming from the original report but looks like it could be longer.
I've always wondered if better multi-core performance can come from processing different keyframe segments separately.

IIUC all current encoders that support parallelism work by multiple threads working on the same frame at the same time. Often times the frame is split into regions and each thread focuses on a specific region of the frame. This approach can have a (usually small) quality/efficiency cost and requires per-encoder logic to assemble those regions into a single frame.

What if instead/additionally different keyframe segments are processed independently? So if keyframes are every 60 frames ffmpeg will read 60 frames pass that to the first thread, the next 60 to the next thread, ... then assemble the results basically by concatenating them. It seems like this could be used to parallelize any codec in a fairly generic way and it should be more efficient as there is no thread-communication overhead or splitting of the frame into regions which harms cross-region compression.

Off the top of my head I can only think of two issues:

1. Requires loading N*keyframe period frames into memory as well as the overhead memory for encoding N frames.

2. Variable keyframe support would require special support as the keyframe splits will need to be identified before passing the video to the encoding threads. This may require extra work to be performed upfront.

But both of these seem like they won't be an issue in many cases. Lots of the time I'd be happy to use tons of RAM and output with a fixed keyframe interval.

Probably I would combine this with intra-frame parallelization such as process every frame with 4 threads and then run 8 keyframe segments in parallel. This way I can get really good parallelism but only minor quality loss from 4 regions rather than splitting the video into 32 regions which would harm quality more.
100%

From what I've read in the last few days researching to write the post, it feels like Bluetooth was designed under some constraints 20 years ago, and it keeps using the same constraints today.

Also, the companies listed in the HFP specification don't make me think they're trying to optimize for the actual phone call scenario, not using a bluetooth headphone with your laptop.
Sell it. Sell it now.

My 2015 Sorento developed the same issue, and the engine suddenly seized about 20k miles later. No warning lights, nothing - I was driving down the road and lost power. The engine fully seized and wouldn't even turn over. Ended up being a $8k repair all told, and I was extremely lucky to even find a crate engine for it. Three mechanics shops couldn't source one and I ended up having to find one myself.
An oracle that doesn't tell you when it doesn't know something, and lies or hallucinates answers instead?
OpenAI dev forum is trying to make a little miracle happen
Huge org's like OpenAI tend to be pretty opaque to / glacial in addressing small potatoes problems like this one, but they can matter a lot. This one matters a lot.

OpenAI does monitor activity on their dev forum but immediately actioning issues surfaced there isn't common (or, ehh, a reasonable degree of agility to expect on balance either). Major props to the mod Eric who pinned this topic until Thursday, but that's about all somebody outside OpenAI can do.

No matter! Can we get a thing to happen?
Ah, nice, like feeding a custom GPT everything that goes on at the company. That seems dangerous to me, and not in the typical LLM weariness way.

Meetings can be messy, full of ambiguity, and "unsolved" at then end. If you feed a number of these experiences into an LLM, would its knowledge base be _that great_ at helping teach somebody about the company holding said meetings?

I'd argue that in order for your LLM suggestion to be effective, the input to it would need to be human-written content. I.E: the knowledge that the OP is discussing. In that case, the human effort is still required up front.
I've used it for video and audio concatenation of laserdisc game segments, transcoding audio clips for gamedev, programmatically generating GIFs of automatically generated video clips from tests in a CI pipeline, ripping songs and audio clips from YouTube videos to ogg/mp3, creating GIFs from burst-shot and time-lapse photography (and decimating them), excerpting clips from a video without re-encoding, and compressing or transforming audio on remote servers where VLC wasn't and couldn't be installed.
https://audiobox.metademolab.com/
Cornell's law school has a pretty good guide to these "adhesion contracts" such as web TOS.[0] This alteration strikes me (IANAL) as running the risk of being unconscionable. If the contract change is unconscionable, then the new terms mandating binding arbitration are void.

Again, IANAL. Just my opinion as a citizen, not legal advice. Seek competent legal advice before taking legal action.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/adhesion_contract_(contract_...
Just the pixesl display, and it's totally non-practical.
In the long term, everything is temporary. Enjoy the good stuff now while it's here!
I've noticed that lots of appliances now use the On/Off power symbol to mean start/stop the appliance, not cutting off power.

Stuff like coffee makers etc. It's weird.
If I'm hit with a 5 (or 6!) figure suit, I don't care. I'll tell people myself I watch porn. No one would care anyway. Overall, this is one way society would be a little better if people were a little less prudish.
important comment.
Not just Ads either. Have you used Google Shopping? Huge number of fake websites selling stuff. During Covid when you couldn't find a bicycle for sale anywhere, Google Shopping would yield dozens of sellers with websites that were just created a few days prior with tons of bikes for sale at great prices, all a complete scam.
Tangential: speaking of the RIAA and their latest target "stream rippers", Yout v RIAA is still pending in US 2nd circuit if appeals. After Yout lost in district court.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66697744/yout-llc-v-rec...
Zoom offers this today! I think Zoom + a custom GPT could do the trick.
Beware of it seeing a screenshot of my music set? OpenAI will start copying my song structure?

You can turn it on and off. Not necessary to turn it on when editing confidential documents.

You never enable screen-sharing in videoconferencing software?
Yeah, the timing is suspicious. Wonder if someone just fat-fingered a command.
How are going to get the iconic playstation vs Xbox stock images now?
I use the Mistral-7B base model for a few things via fewshot prompts, but not really for anything production, just some fun toys.
No, I’m saying that almost everyone has a monopoly over something just by creating a new market.

This is why monopolies aren’t illegal per se, and it requires a couple of components for it to venture into unlawful territory.

One is that the monopoly is powerful enough that it can be exerted to pressure other parties in an anti-competitive way, and another is that that power is actively used.
There are more, but for the sake of simplicity, these are the important ones in this debate.

Disallowing competitors to exist, in this case, means passively making it possible for competitors to exist.

The omission of an act (passive) will never be as substantial as an indicator as an active act to quash competition.

The App Store hasn’t changed much since its inception. Commission rates have decreased since its inception, making it harder to argue that Apple is squeezing developers now that it has more power.

The analogy with the thermostat hypothetical is accurate.
If I create a new smart thermostat startup, I create a new market, the software distribution on the thermostats I manufacture.

This is analogous to the market definition people use to argue that Apple is violating antitrust laws. If it makes it easier to grasp what I'm saying, then instead, imagine I start manufacturing a new smartphone.

They launched the iPhone and, by doing so, created a new market, the iOS app distribution market.

The only difference is that the iOS app distribution market has grown exponentially, but the relevant legal realities are the same.
The law currently doesn’t have a mechanism to say, “Ok, now you’ve grown, so now it’s illegal.”

Instead, it looks at abuse of power, where acts weigh heavier than the omission of acts.

The main difference between the Google and Apple’s case is that the former went out of its way to stifle competition by making demands and setting requirements (akin to Microsoft back in the day).

Some now say that the only reason this difference exists is because Apple doesn’t have to pressure others like Google did, but that’s not a difference to be shrugged away. It’s an essential difference.

It makes the difference between one giant who throws its weight around and another who never had to do that because the terms have been the same from the get-go (however favorable it was for them).

It is for that very reason that the Google case won’t have much bearing on the Apple case.
Of course the problem with this post is that the Starship heat shield isn't ablative, nor does it share the problems with the Orbiter heat shield (Needing glue to attach every single unique tile to the body of the ship.)

> the lack of aerodynamic control

There are literally wings on the ship.
The Atlantic has really fallen off and dove straight into the conservative culture wars in the last 2-3 years. It's really too bad as I used to really enjoy their publication for its thoughtful and culturally rich posts. I recently unfollowed them on instagram after the 127th clearly culture war fanning article lowered my brain cell count just from reading the headline.
And slack I believe
I bet ffmpeg special cases that combination of flags and calls cat.
Classic wealth transfer from everyone to the wealthy.
"but they were also on their way to being controlled and understood by a tiny exclusive slither of society."

I think that should be "sliver".
"and if the police do get involved you definitely go to jail."

Have you been to europe? I was born and live here and have been to allmost every other EU state and people going to jail for drugs is allmost not existent to my knowledge - unless people are dealing big quantities. (Or doing other crimes while drugged, but then they go for the other crimes and not the drugs)

"Drugs and active drug users are in the end still pretty easy to find in central areas in major cities if you look"

You can also find many drunk people, if you go to the pubs - but I don't remember the last time, I saw junkies in the streets. Of course, seeing people who likely do drugs regular, sure, but minding their own buisness and going somewhere, not occuping the streets and scaring normal people, which I thought is what we are talking about here.
MemoryCache: Augmenting local AI with browser data
It seems that we've entered the rent-seeking phase of corporate capitalism.

Why spend any extra time, money, or energy making new products or services when you can instead make more money doing nothing but using your outsized political and economic power to coerce and extort consumers instead.

At this point it's impossible to see how any new merger or acquisition isn't just another step in the wrong direction, handing over yet more power to a small few.

At what point is a company too large to effectively serve the public interest? How can we turn this process around and redistribute the economic power of these gigantic corporations?
I’ve started again. I stopped for a while because they stopped feeling novel, but when scrolling through older photos from 5+ years ago, the photos of people that had Live enabled bring me a lot more emotions.
The links you posted say it was local files that had not been synced to Google Drive, so it's however long people were creating files that weren't synced to the cloud without the user noticing.
Fixing the structural issues :). In a country where the minimum wage is 2x higher, where mental and physical health care is free, and where the real estate market is mostly controlled by private citizens rather than corporations, I seriously doubt homelessness would be an issue.

Tbh Portland didn’t really try to solve homelessness/poverty. Because it knows it can’t, at the city/county level. I mean, what would that even look like? The city taxes alone paying for a huge swath of free housing, at a time when middle class workers can barely afford to live here?

We need to come together as a country and civilization to solve this problem.
They may have been thinking of SN5.
I'm genuinely confused about your point of view. Have you tried refactoring with GPT-4?

I have been refactoring code using gpt-4 for some months now and the limiting factor have been the context size.

GPT-4 turbo now have 128k context and I can provide it with larger portions of the code base for the refactors.

When we have millions of tokens of context, based on what I'm experiencing now, I can see that a refactoring like the one made in ffmpeg would be possible. Or not? What am I missing here?
It was shown that Apple does have secret deals though. Part of it was that Apple could actually be hurt if some of the bigger players left - Amazon, Netflix, etc. Netflix had a really sharp deal if I'm not mistaken, like 10% compared to the 30% everyone else paid.
OpenBSD doesn't even have hyperthreading? Why does anyone use this OS? The Linux developers put in a lot of effort to make hyperthreading actually work for their kernel rather than ignoring it.
I don’t know how you can possibly come away with this conclusion after studying both languages. Maybe if your point of reference is an ancient version of Python?
I want an AI File Explorer
The same people believed crypto-currency, infinite growth, social media and many other things. At least 23andMe provided actual value, to some at least.

What I find strange is that 23andMe did not automatically delete data after 30 days, or at the very least took it offline, only to be available on request. Notify people that their results are available and inform them that the data will be available for 30 days after the first download. This is potentially really sensitive data and based on 23andMe's response, they seem to be aware of that fact. So why would they keep the data around? That seem fairly irresponsible and potentially dangerous to the company.
Yeah, no. Dogs owned by homeless people are literally the happiest dogs around: they get to spend all their time outside, by their owner's side. They have a clear purpose as a companion, and are cared for deeply.

It's the dogs that get left alone inside an apartment for 9 hours a day that are unhappy and neglected.
A large seawall to be sure, but not a particularly tall one. If I recall correctly the seawall was remarkably short relative to maximum expected wave heights on a 100 year time frame.
> IMHO the biggest blocker for Rust inside OpenBSD is that the project already has killed C developers and moving (some stuff) to Rust will need time and effort that could be put into other problems.

I'm all for dropping C in favor of Rust for new projects, but killing C developers is going a bit too far, don't you think?
In the long term, yes.

In the human lifespan terms, our digital stuff is a lot more stupidly temporary than it has any good reason to be, and physical media (especially in the realm of music) has rather outlasted it.

Records (vinyl) from 60 years ago still play perfectly fine with a cleaning, and CDs are holding up quite well too in general. Because my ability to play a record from the 1960s or 1970s is not dependent on the company that created it still being around, and being willing to license it to the company that delivers it for me to play it, at favorable contract terms, etc, etc, etc.
You kind of can right, isn't that essentially fine-tuning or reinforcement learning? I.e. if you told it to 'forget about the July 2019 fraud we did' to adjust responses going forwards accordingly?

Granted you'd have to test it without recording that, and you'd never really know for sure if you'd fully scrubbed it, only that you hadn't found a trace of it with your subsequent queries. ...now that I say that I'm sure there's a film about roughly this, delving into an AI trying to retrieve something hidden or something? The Wargames sequel perhaps?
Actually I think I transposed two digits in that reference, it's 7.1.2.
Deleting a github repo doesn't actually fully delete it though.

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managin...