skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compilers used to be a luxury. Programmers were expected to have an opcode table and write assembly by hand.

This is all the very small cost of backwards compatability.
I would say, David Lynch did a pretty good job.
I'm currently in Texas. Your brutally conservative will probably feel like a loosening of the belt.
It threatens the status quo for product managers!
> Source in that?

Me, I have personally met people doing it, while being a student myself.

From your link:
> In postgraduate programs, the proportion of Arab students rose 60% from 3.9% to 6.3%.

If you have 0 students and then you get one, it increases ∞%, but sometimes looking at the % in the title, which is just a Δ of the actual % doesn't tell the whole story.
Hasbro lays off nearly 20% of its workers
They sound eerily similar to the reporting done by Wikileaks over what the Americans did over in Iraq and Afghanistan.

1: Define all males killed or captured as combatants and thus valid military target.

2: Either redefine torture or outsource it.

3: Define every military operation as critical to counter terrorism and part of self defense.

The media response back then was that this is just normal part of the horrors of war, and that this kind of reporting "don't tell us much that we didn't already know in broad outline".
With that same logic you can justify the civilian deaths of almost any conflict. Every war crime will be justified. Japanese internment? Justified. Hiroshima? Justified. Agent Orange in Vietnam? Justified. Genocide of 2million Filipinos by the US Army? Justified.... It's exhausting just thinking about these atrocities so I'll take a break
I hate Cox with the passion of a thousand burning suns, but fuck me if there's actually a competitor.

When AT&T first started offering fiber I called them to ask about where was at because I was moving and wanted to factor it into my move. I was told they had an agreement with Cox not to reveal that information. You either happened to be in the right spot or you didn't.

To this day you still cannot call them and get that information.

fuck Cox.
Suspect it'll be the biggest gift to the public cloud providers. Firms who use VMWare rarely want to self-manage their virtualization tech.
> I no longer believe it is possible to have any thread about this remain civil.

I bet almost no one in this thread is able to juggle three balls either, even though learning how to do so doesn't take all that much practice. But it does take some practice.

Should we be surprised when people are unable to do something that requires practice and education, when they lack both?
Show HN: Real-time AI voice chat with Santa
Hey HN -

I'm a co-founder at Fixie, a Seattle-based AI startup. We're launching an experiment to showcase what's possible with Fixie's real-time LLM-powered voice platform. You can check it out at https://hisanta.ai - you can have live voice chats with Santa, Mrs. Claus, Rudolph, and other friends (toggle the naughty/nice switch at the top for some other characters!)

We'd love to get your help testing this and get any feedback -- especially from people with kids :-)

All the code for this app is open source: https://github.com/fixie-ai/hisanta.ai

This is not just a thin wrapper around LLMs. To get the performance to this level, we've had to do a lot of engineering to wire together ASR, LLMs, and TTS models efficiently, and are doing some clever things to hide latency. Happy to answer any questions about the technology.

The Fixie platform (https://fixie.ai) powers the app and embeds the logic for managing voice sessions with LLM agents, which can be built either through a no-code UI or using our AI.JSX (https://ai-jsx.com) framework for building LLM apps. We support a range of ASR and TTS models under the hood as well.

We'd love your feedback! Drop me a line or join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/tRMV7PW8f2

Thanks!
Matt on behalf of the Fixie team
Russia v Ukraine and Israel v Gaza are incomparable, except that they're both wars. A comparable war would be other counter-terrorist warzones like Mosul or Raqqa which in fact have much higher civilian death rate than Gaza.

And that's even taking the UNWRA/ Gaza Health numbers at face value, which somehow indicate zero combatants killed in airstrikes.
That’s interesting. I think it’s rich that Israel is a “victim” despite having nuclear arms and one of the most advanced militaries in the world, but there’s somehow still a need to torture villagers-turned-refugees en masse. Let alone the fact that antizionism is not antisemitism.
I signed up for AT&T internet. They told me I could get a phone line at no charge. (Why not, I thought). Several months later of daily spam calls and junk to the point where I just left my phone unplugged, they added a charge for the phone line. I called to cancel the phone line and just go internet only. I was then informed that they no longer offered internet-only plans. (Chris Farley pissed off face)

I called them with great joy a few months later letting them know I was moving and to cancel my service. Never going back to them.
The F-150 Lightning was the same size
All neighboring countries have a fair share of experiences with palestinian groups starting civil wars/trying to overthrow their governments. Even if it was not for keeping the conflict with Israel alive (which is a perfect tool for them to distract from their own problems), they would not want them in.
I pay roughly 160 for a gig each month, but the connection is never actually that. Always spotty as well. :(
That works until electric cars get popular and people start stealing their electricity (plug their car charger to the 220 extension cord with "free" electricity on tap).
> I suspect that Facebook just doesn't care because according to their stats it drives engagement

That's part of it, but I'm certain there's more to it.

I've seen too many people and pages get their reach cut 100 fold over the last 7 or so years. The content was very engaging, had lots of likes and comments, then boom, they all started going from 5 or 6 figure posts down to 2 and 3 figures. Marianne Williamson, for example, hit 10% support nationally - then her Facebook posts went from 6 figures to 3 in a day.

Take Gaza, and the global calls for a ceasefire. Despite huge engagement, and the strong support of the vast majority of every countries population (bar Israel itself), I've seen virtually nothing about it on Facebook. On LinkedIn I've seen 1 single post concerning it since October 7th, and it had 0 likes. That's not natural. No fucking way.
That's a fair bit of rhetoric, but we're pretty much a single-party state. New York is about as hard blue as we are hard red, and they despise their citizens. At least here I have more freedom and less taxes.
Am I the only one who actually likes airplane turbulence?
Israel's early support of Hamas is no secret, they saw Hamas as a religious Islamist counterweight to the secular leftist PLO and explicitly funded them to divide Palestinian opinion. [1] Also no longer a secret is the fact that Netanyahu explicitly allowed other Arab governments to smuggle money to Hamas. [2] And the intelligence failures leave a lot of questions open, especially given the advanced state of the Israeli intelligence apparatus (Gazan are forced to be limited to 2G so they can be spied on easily). [3]

The only weak conspiracy theory here is that Israel explicitly let the attack happen, rather than the reality that they took unnecessary risks to achieve fascistic political aims that opened the possibility of retaliation.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-c...

[2] https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

[3] https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-surve...
FYI Reason magazine is owned by the Koch family which is heavily involved in oil extraction and are climate change deniers.

With out setting some sort of goal, nothing would be done at all.
> Instead of data going to models, we need models come to our data which is stored locally and stay locally.

That's the most important idea I've read since ChatGPT / last year.

I'll wait for this. Then build my own private AI. And share it / pair it for learning with other private AIs, like a blogroll.

As always, there will be two 'different' AIs: a.) the mainstream, centralized, ad/revenue-driven, capitalist, political, controlling / exploiting etc. b.) personal, trustworthy, polished on peer networks, fun, profitable for one / a small community.

If by chance, commercial models will be better than open source models, due to better access to computing power / data, please let me know. We can go back to SETI and share our idle computing power / existing knowledge
Regarding the effects of wealth, it's also worth pointing out that many people with significant wealth don't raise their own kids.

Every person I've ever met with net worth of many many millions (probably only 1/2 a dozen) didn't raise their own children. They had a full time staff of caregivers (nannies) who were the adults present with the children the overwhelming majority of the time.
Lobbying. Citizens United. Disinterested populace.

Do you need a longer list?
That's exactly why - we have a largely dysfunctional federal government (and most state governments aren't much better).

The biggest downside is the lawyers take a massive chunk of any award and the actual victims are often left with very little. Or, even worse, the victims get worthless coupons (like with many credit/PII breaches - the award will be 1-year of credit monitoring from the company that allowed the breach in the first place).
What did you say?

Increase volume when you lose money on every unit?

This isn't software... especially when you better accrue a giant pot of warranty money for the inevitable battery and system recalls over the early infant years.

I agree with your initial premise about actually introducing low-cost versions, but these must be subsidized by the high margin versions just like airline flights. Business travel pays for the infrastructure used by the masses.

The whole model depends on high-margin cash flow carrying the business forward into the high-volume, low-margin production. If there isn't any cash leftover, the whole thing crashes into the terminal at the end of the runway in a fireball.
Worth noting that 23andMe, plus many other low cost genealogy/health-focused companies do not sequence your DNA.

Instead, they perform what is called a genotyping microarray test, which looks at less than 0.1% of your genome.

To quote from 23andMe:
"In order to be genotyped, the amplified DNA is “cut” into smaller pieces, which are then applied to our DNA chip (also known as a microarray), a small glass slide with millions of microscopic “beads” on its surface. Each bead is attached to a “probe," a bit of DNA that matches one of the genetic variants that we test. The cut pieces of your DNA stick to the matching DNA probes. A fluorescent label on each probe identifies which version of that genetic variant your DNA corresponds to."

Source: https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/227968028...
Not the original commenter, but I took the response regarding bounced back to refer to retail commerce, not office occupancy. I would not expect office occupancy to EVER fully recover in the US.
Google is an advertising company masquerading as tech company. This disguise has served them well and they have made a lot of PR stunts to give the impression that Google is the leader in AI. Fortunately OpenAI and MS showed everyone what true AI is.

My prediction is Google will continue making PR stunts and some people will fall for it. Meanwhile OpenAI will get closer and closer to AGI. Whether that's good for humanity is a different discussion. But OpenAI's supremacy is beyond doubt at this point.
It doesn't, but competing with OpenAI does.

Google likes their ducks in a row. Google Search and YouTube are prime examples; every interaction is subsidized with an advertisement. It's not hard to look at a series of screenshots from either service and circle the spot where your attention was monetized. With ChatGPT, that is not possible. Worse yet, the infrastructure costs of providing GPT-3 scale models for free is massive. It's being subsidized by API and premium subscription profits, which is even more baffling since only a few of the ChatGPT users will become paying customers with their current offerings.

So, Google is apprehensive to release a competitor. It's not hard to imagine FAANG having "GPT-4 killers" in their labs, but engineering a way to make it all profitable is the hard part.
First they laugh at you, etc.
That's just the parameters? So 32 bit parameters? This blogpost is incredibly misleading by putting Gemini nano-2's "size" as larger than Phi-2 (in Table 2 displaying only the number of parameters) and saying "Phi-2 matches or outperforms the recently-announced Google Gemini Nano 2, despite being smaller in size." Because Gemini nano parameters are 4 bit. So Gemini nano-2 is 1.6 GB (3.25/2) in size compared to Phi-2's 10GB
The challenges with the post's suggestion are (1) it accounts only for the time of the person needing information, not the one providing it, and (2) a specific question takes a small time to answer, but pre-documenting everything that is needed to answer any question takes orders of magnitude more time.

Some of this is outlined in Snowden's (not that Snowden) Laws of Knowledge Management.

http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/km-seven-princ...

These two are especially relevant:

2. We only know what we know when we need to know it.

7. We always know more than we can say, and we always say more than we can write down.
Adapted to tv too:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_and_the_City_(TV_se...
It is very bad. There's more money and fame to be made by taking these two extreme stances. The media and the general public is eating up this discourse, that are polarizing the society, instead of educating.

> What things?

There are helpful developments and applications that go unnoticed and unfunded. And there are actual dangerous AI practices right now. Instead we talk about hypotheticals.
I’m renting a car and using the chargers in front/near restaurants and the mall. 20 minutes of level 3 charging lasts me a day on a Kia Niro. This car is an ev conversion on a 260v architecture. It’s about 90 minutes from 20-90% at 50kWh charging. On a level 2 in the same area a four hour dinner with friends netted me 20kWh or about 1/4 of the battery.

So long as you have a meaningful reason to use public chargers you can get away without a charging space, but I definitely enjoy being able to charge my car at home.
I believe parent is referencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on_t...
Is it any surprise that someone who personally owned more than 100 slaves would try to manufacture some other justification?
Didn't Chrome do this at the very beginning, when it was initially released? I faintly remember that being a feature.

Personally I would already be content if my browsers didn't forget their history all the time, both Firefox and Safari history is
way too short-lived.
When I said "HNers on the other side of the conflict" I had in mind users who aren't necessarily Palestinians but have strong identification with their plight. However, it's worth saying that HN has some valued members in Gaza (as well as in the West Bank, of course, and Palestinians in other places). Here's one memorable example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=daliaawad, My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26251143 - Feb 2021 (460 comments).

Someone who knows Dalia has been in touch with us, but at least at that time, they unfortunately had lost contact with her and don't know if she's still alive.

Also this YC startup:

Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25849054 - Jan 2021 (104 comments)

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Some other threads over the years (I just looked up Gaza, of course there are also many Palestinians on HN from the West Bank and other places):

Lifehacker: Tarek Loubani on 3D-Printing in Gaza - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20623545 - Aug 2019 (68 comments)

Gaza: Coding in a conflict zone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18128432 - Oct 2018 (88 comments)

Marc Benioff joins Valley notables backing Gaza’s first coding academy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13374027 - Jan 2017 (137 comments)

How to Get More Women in Tech: Lessons from a Hackathon in Gaza - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13240777 - Dec 2016 (12 comments)

Mentoring in Gaza's first hackathon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11858963 - June 2016 (152 comments)

Mentor startups in Gaza - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9267716 - March 2015 (63 comments)

Wireless in Gaza: the young entrepreneurs beating the blockades - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8715085 - Dec 2014 (54 comments)

What It's Like to Build a Startup in Gaza - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8404414 - Oct 2014 (80 comments)
That's the problem, isn't it? If you put yourself in the shoes of either side, you can see how they have very good reason to do what they do (except Israelian settlement policies, those basically amount to borderline ethnic cleansing, and force the IDF to move in after the fact, but that's a different beast).

And since both sides are "right", there is no way this can end without outside intervention. An intervention that won't come, becaues nobody who could intervene is neutral enough, nor willing to be drawn into this.
California wildfires created toxic Chromium, research finds
It sounds like you’re joking, but I can’t tell. Of course, there is such a thing as deregulation, it has a definition and history that doesn’t match your operative word choice of “rearranging”.

To your point, I have no doubt that some deregulation has been spin for regulatory capture and/or anti-competitive behavior. Unfortunately, perhaps especially for the environment, that’s not an accurate summary of all deregulation, nor of the US conservative party’s official stance on regulation.
Order of the Smile
It's kind of difficult to understand what this even means. Who would be the accused and how can you prove intent?
Torrent and terabytes of data on hard disk ftw!
Was it, rather, about AI Executives?

Cause I BELIEVE in the future.

–Common B. Citizen
"continue to be able to purchase and use our favorite desktop hypervisor apps the same way they have been for the past several years" infers "perpetual license keys", so fingers crossed.

I assume it'll just be the same old same old "each new version is an upgrade release from your current license".
I have a tangential question: my dad is old. I would love to be able to have this feature, or any voice access to an LLM, available to him via an easy-to-press external button. Kind of like the big "easy button" from staples. Is there anything like that, that can be made to trigger a keypress perhaps?
https://archive.ph/xkFum
No, I compared when I moved from a blue state, chose here because it's much more conservative. Texas is almost a swing state at this point. I'm friends with our former lieutenant governor, and I can assure you that it's not all show, either.
Offline media curate user submissions. They don't just blindly publish anything sent to them. No magazine is accidentally publishing CSAM because someone sent it in.

In any case, we can, in fact, believe it. The entire point of the statute is to cover user-generated content, which is exactly what social media is.
Unprovoked? Israel has been massacring innocent civilians for over 75 years.

Israel was built just like the US, by massacring native people and stealing their land, which is still happening to this very day, including in the West Bank where Hamas doesn't exist.
Given that most farmers already use chemical fertilizer rather than shit, we're not short on data for analysis.

One benefit you overlooked is knowing exactly what and how much you're putting in your soil. A bag of ammonium nitrate gives you a known quantity to factor with while shit is far from homogeneous in its makeup.
> You are reading very selectively (and I think fir a reason):

I've wrote what is in Overview section in the article. Which is "The rockets have killed 28 people and injured hundreds more."

> Please at least try to stay true to the facts, even if you are not willing to steelman the other's arguments.

Please don't imply intentions that were not mine. When I skimmed the article, I literally didn't see the information you mentioned. What would even be the point of that "selective reading"? Are we discussing a difference of 10-20 people against a figure of 17,000? This doesn't make sense.
Google is being alerted, more details here https://support.google.com/photos/thread/248175937
As a large language model, I cannot help points as they may be harmful to humans.
This looks great! The UI and docs look very nice. Of course long-term reliability is what really matters in this space. I can definitely see incorporating this into client proposals.

A few things I can't immediately see from the docs: do you support subsetting a data source -- only sync records matching criteria? Do you support to/from different instances of the same connector (e.g. Salesforce to Salesforce)? Can you perform any transformations like map over the data, normalize or denormalize tables, etc?

Many clients I can think of this being most useful for would rather host it themselves, is that an option?

One critique: I can't imagine recommending this to a client without SSL support. I'd highly recommend just baking that in to every tier. It would demonstrate that you're serious about keeping your customers' data secure.
Yeah, it used to be bad enough. Now it’s terrible. Almost no reviews can be trusted now because the market power of reviewers has been eroded to the point where producers can and do treat any individual reviewer, and all of them in aggregate, as extensions of their own marketing departments. The powerless “reviewers” let this happen because if they go against the grain, they’ll be blacklisted and become even more irrelevant. I’m extremely selective these days about whose advice I place any trust in. I’ve found that I frequently wait on new products until they e been in real people’s hands for a bit and then search for their complaints.
I know the IDF uses Gaza as a testing ground for battle testing new weapons, so it goes both ways.
Fair but entertaining.
Not an inch of land on this planet isn't soaked with the blood of conquerors and the conquered alike.
Very much this.

What they write in English is completely different to their main audience and internal audience. There's enough information out there to back this up. Go and do some research with this in mind and formulate your own conclusions.
If prisoner well-being was Qatar's concern, it would be best to bring accusations during diplomatic discussions. This is more like Russia Today calling out prisoner abuse in Guantanamo Bay. I don't think Israelis see Al Jazeera as a neutral player here, and are now less likely to demand better of the IDF.
Do you think the cartels have never kidnapped an american citizen or killed DEA agents?
Remember, LLMs are purely language AIs. They can and will lie because "an answer " has been weighted high enough that it'll do anything to satisfy that requirement. The purpose of them is to create natural sounding language in response to what it parses the input to be. That's it.

It's similar with what I call "action AIs", where an AI tries to learn to walk, or race a car, optimally, through a track. It will often repeat mistakes, because short term it gains a higher score and takes time to learn that short term gains, in some cases, harm long term gains.

People are using a hammer to install screws. Technically it works, but that's not the droid they were really looking for.