skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that its transcribing accuracy is better (largely thanks to general progress in neural nets rather than anything Assistant did as a product). However transcription accuracy was already surprisingly good many years ago, and in my experience any improvement since has been swamped by actually reduced reliability in understanding intent and performing actions. Ultimately it doesn't matter if it misheard me or got the words correct but misinterpreted the meaning or simply failed due to internal errors. The user experience is similarly bad in all these cases.

Also I don't feel that hotword detection has improved much, and hotword issues continue to be a big pain point for me. I'm sure the team has a dashboard somewhere that shows consistent gains in their hotword metrics, but as a user I don't feel it at all.

The reason I say it's a failed experiment is that the original ambition was to build the Star Trek computer (explicitly, in Google's case: the project was code named "Majel"), and it hasn't worked out. There may be a couple of features that are somewhat convenient (which, again, largely worked fine already a decade ago) but they don't come close to justifying the level of resources spent on these projects over the last decade.
They must be making a killing for whomever makes the recorder.. Data storage being that low for such a thing is shocking. Why have anything at all?(which isn't a question one would think would ever cross this topic)
According to this Kurzgesagt video [1] the problem isn't echo chambers, the problem is the opposite. Encouraging online dialog isn't the solution if he's right. He suggests we go back to smaller online communities and more IRL interaction.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuFlMtZmvY0
Google lays off hundreds working on Assistant, hardware, AR teams
Roughly what’s the Core Developer size?
Lumber Jack
If you fork the bitcoin blockchain you have now two ledgers, each one telling you that a certain number of bitcoins really exist. Who is to say that one is right and the other is wrong? In this scenario, it's debatable how many bitcoins are in existence.
Lol, good point.

How about a WBTC ETF?
My (now former) neighbor worked as a manager at AWS. Their team was ~10 people who were largely remote around the world, their job role required extensive travel, and required much time in meetings with external parties. Nothing about it is conducive to RTO and it's more like an external sales position that was traditionally WfH in tech even before COVID to save on office costs. They received the RTO ultimatum from corporate and bought a house in another area. ]:
Agreed - I just haven't seen a better explanation of how to use those features to achieve this. It's one of the few examples I've read about that embraced hot code reloading in order to maintain uptime.
Most of then operate in Europe already. I am personally holding some already (3 for an extra risk split).

Most of these old ones seem to be listed in Germany and Paris.
Same. I am pretty comfortable as a programmer and that translates to feeling moderately comfortable at gluing together blocks of digital electronics. Analog electronics are much more of a struggle and RF is entirely black magic. The idea that GPS works at all defies my understanding of what ought to be possible.
Document-Centric, CRDT-Native: How We Build Collaborative Applications
I recently flew Lufthansa over that area. Here's how the inflight map looked like https://i.ibb.co/ryFdXyC/IMG-8587.jpg

Fortunately I only saw this afterwards, otherwise I would have been worried.

(obviously we didn't actually make this detour)
Does it have to be Discord instead of Slack? Maybe it's a generational gap or something, but I feel like Slack is much less distracting to work with, in terms of having different workspaces (instead of being shared with someone's gamer name), not having a flood of huge animated stickers and emoji, etc. Every time I'm in Discord I get overwhelmed by the chaos, and Slack feels much more focused on just getting work done...
If you are really bothered by noise in a bedroom, Electrolux Pure A9/AEG AX9 is 17dB at it's lowest setting (goes up to 49dB at it's maximum speed as opposed to IKEA's 60dB).

But it's obviously not as cheap as the IKEA one.
Yet obesity rates vary from very high globally. You'd expect a virus to eventually infect everyone.
Well . . . AI telling meat robots how to do glue code doesn't seem that far off the mark.

Then again, "telling meat robots how to do glue code" is the manager's job, isn't it?
What's a more accurate and neutral title?
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "not intended for navigation"? GPS was intended as a replacement for TRANSIT and LORAN, which have navigation literally in their names. It's also the textbook example on Wikipedia's satellite navigation page, and I can't imagine how precise geolocation somehow wouldn't be useful for navigation.

Also, the general analysis after KAL007 was that GPS should be made publicly available specifically to aid civilian navigation. They even identify what we call RAIM today to make it suitable for eventual usage as a primary navigation system.
Ah, you simply create a file in memory and map it back to memory.
You at Microsoft don't use Microsoft's fast.design?
Right, there's few roles for everyone, and tbh I've been looking to switch teams since August and not too many really interesting positions were open.
Because ROM/flash/eeprom chip sizes are advertised as bits. It was clearer in a time where the definition of "byte" wasn't always exactly 8, and it stuck.

The size of a cartridge was never advertised to users, so it'd be quiet useless from a marketing perspective.
Yeah, we'll probably get ten new VR chat apps.
On reflection this thread is pretty clearly of general interest and my comment was more jargon that language, I hang out in ML zones too much.

For a broad introduction to the field Karpathy's YouTube series is about as good as it gets.

If you've got a pretty solid grasp of attention architectures and want a lively overview of stuff that's gone from secret to a huge deal recently I like this treatment as a light but pretty detailed podcast-type format: https://arize.com/blog/mistral-ai
Because bigger is better for marketing. The goal was to get sprite sizes as close to arcade as possible. The console manufacturers competed with arcades back then and arcade games always looked better when the bit wars were going. Most systems weren’t even capable of their claim and had to add processors together to get the total up (jaguar for example). Simpler times. 80/90s were about big. Also important to remember that most people didn’t know what a megabyte was.
I guess where we disagree is "very useful". If Google Assistant stopped working tomorrow I would hardly care at all. There are a couple of scenarios where it's slightly more convenient than using my phone (assuming I don't encounter one of its many failure modes) and that's about it. I'm sure the hands free aspect is important for certain people in certain situations but I think the vast majority of people just don't see a lot of value from it.
Probably can't escape moving surface stabilizer trim.
I still this still ignores important points, and ill make some comments and questions, some of which might be pedantic so feel free to ignore them

1. Regardless of the method, it was fairly accurate for years, and matched closely to Israeli estimates of casualties in prior conflicts.

2. The US, Israeli's largest ally, is not doubting those numbers. This alone says alot given that the US from a strategic perspective would want to present Israel in the best possible light they can given the majority of the globe is heading towards leaving Israel in isolation.

3. The Israeli claim against Almamadani hospital incident is placing the blame on Islamic Jihad (not Hamas) (pedantic point)

4. The issue of Almamadani hospital incident is still not settled, especially as the Israeli claimes have been debunked by multiple entities most notably the New York times. [1]

5. Ignoring the questionable numbers of this specific incident, because you might be right, but its interesting that the US's admission that the death toll coming from Gaza is accurate came at a date way after the Al mamadani hospital incident (my claim would be that this incident has been taken into consideration by the US officials when they admitted the accuracy of the death toll coming from Gaza). This paired with the US's strategic support of Israel makes their admission that the death toll is accurate is way more trust worthy than possibly exaggerated COVID death tolls, as in one case its an admission playing against the admitter, whereas the other case the admission is in favor of the admitter.

But thank you for sharing the Twitter thread, I'll investigate it and look into other sources as well

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/world/middleeast/gaza-hos...
If this were true, what happened around 2010-2012 to make this the case? And if that were the case, wouldn't the most likely explanation be because suddenly all these kids got easier access to the kind of online communities that would encourage this?
> There's not really a problematic upper bound for global transaction volume on transactions per second with the lightning network

There unfortunately is, to open a channel you have to make a Bitcoin transaction, and you can't use lightning without opening a channel. Bitcoin processes a max of ~220M transactions per year so to onboard the world onto lightning with only one channel each would take a few decades.

A real layer 2 could solve it, or having some trustless way to use BTC on other chains
It's nice that they at least waited until after the X-mas shopping season.
most laser systems get close to diffraction-limited divergence, which is governed by the size of your optics. vacuum vs. air affects it, but the effect is so small that you need sensitive instruments to detect the effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_beam#Beam_waist

the divergence angle is inversely proportional to your aperture diameter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk

in theory by putting a bunch of laser emitters in solar orbit and operating them as a phased array you can make an aperture the size of the solar system. 1.22λ/d at, say, 400nm and 2 astronomical units of diameter is about 1.6 attoradians of divergence; at a radius of 4.3 light years (the distance to proxima centauri) this works out to an airy disk focal point of 66 microns. optical phased array lasers have been demonstrated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased-array_optics but nobody knows how to make one out of satellites yet

i've only glanced at the proposal https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.07061.pdf and they're proposing 4.1-meter-diameter 3.6-gram probes, which would allow you to use a phased array about a million times smaller, about 5 million km, 13 times the distance to the moon. i don't see where they're proposing how they propose to beam 100 gigawatts onto the probes so i don't know if this is their proposal

dispersion, by contrast, which means wavelength-dependent indices of refraction, doesn't affect lasers and doesn't happen in a vacuum; probably the person who mentioned it was using the wrong term by accident and meant divergence
Speculation on my part, but most memory chips (DRAM, flash, EEPROM) that I've seen sold are measured in bits rather than bytes. That might be because some of them aren't divided into or accessed in bytes. Or, as you say, it's marketing all the way down.
I could totally be off base here but the more frequently you need to make a trip, the less likely you want to drive to complete it, and therefore pine for something in close distance, regardless if you have access to an automobile or not.

Specifically, in the context of retail, what a retailer stocks (e.g. in a supermarket) or produces (e.g. a sandwich shop) is a function of how much space they have to pay for and how many customers they can get through the door.

For example, our expectation of a supermarket is one that carries everything we may possibly want on our grocery list. Whereas our expectation of a regular market, is the limited selection that covers most of what we need. Apologies for the contrived example but the point I’m trying to make is those of us who live in denser areas are used to walking to one of these locations, or making more frequent trips, or both, but it’s not the same feeling for the other.

Putting a bike lane next to a supermarket isn’t going to dramatically increase the number of cyclists nor customer foot traffic in relation to what the store already receives. The people coming to a large supermarket are potentially buying a large weight of items across different categories.

Even if there was a targeted approach that was marketed towards cyclists (“50% off your entire order if you show up in a helmet and racing attire”, or something extreme of that nature), I don’t think that would move the needle meaningfully because the resulting transactions wouldn’t achieve a hypothetical ideal kg-per-customer ratio (or even a repeat customer multiplier).

This would create a situation in which the store has too much product or if you go in the opposite direction of purchasing less product: unappealing empty shelves.

So as long as retail density remains low due to limits on how small a landlord is willing to subdivide available space for a tenant, the retailers will continue to engage in business activity that potentially encourages driving via loading up bulk/heavy items, or casting a very large advertising net to attract people outside of walking/biking distance to pack a place. Both of which the end goal is to at least cover their overhead.

When you examine dense European cities, I’m not sure you find retail shops that have the same square footage compared to American retail shops. They’re sized (and configured) to cover their overhead by servicing a small amount of customers at a time. If you were to offer an American-sized lease to a European retailer, my guess is they would turn it down unless they were already a very, very popular spot with lines out of the door.

In these conversations, I think the general focus should be on what’s occupying the physical destination (and its size) rather than availability/quality of public transit. Since in some places, the transit exists but the impetus to actually use it is minimal.
Half LLM, half boomer
The key insight from leptin is that the carbohydrates in the milkshake actually causes weight gain, not the calories. Yes, you do need to know how many calories your specific body needs to properly operate. For example, taller people require more calories than shorter people. However, obesity is a hormonal issue stemming from leptin resistance, not a caloric intake issue.
Having lived through a recession or two, this is probably the first time I'm seriously thinking about a change of career (to do what else, of course, is the question).

There's lots of people here whistling in the dark, but honestly the past year has felt more like a sea change in the industry than a temporary downturn. We can blame AI hype or interest rate changes, but probably it's more people taking a serious look at tech for once (whether big corps like Google or little startups) and seeing how much is just not that profitable or ever likely to be. Lots of naked swimmers in the tech industry.
I have heard of LLMs, and understand most everything posted on HN, except quantum computing stuff.
NASA funds plan ...

NASA to fund plan ...

NASA awards plan to ...

NASA supports plan to ...

Strictly speaking at this point it's more of a blue sky proposal than a mostly sketched out plan.
The CSS doesn't need to be in the JS. You can trivially just fetch the static CSS file in JS then have the content adopted.
> It's easy and cheap to just try both these days, don't take my word for which one is better.

I literally use 8x-7b on my on-prem GPU cluster and have several fine tunes of 7b (which I said in the previous post). I've used mistral-medium.

GPT-4-turbo is better than them all on all benchmarks, human preference, and anything that isn't biased vibes. My opinion - such that it is - is that GPT-4-turbo is by far the best.

I have no vested interest in it being the best. I'd actually prefer if it wasn't. But all objective data points to it being the best and most lived experiences that are unbiased agree (assuming broad model use and not hyperfocused fine-tunes; I have Mistral-7b fine-tunes beating 4-turbo in very limited domains, but that hardly counts).

The rest of your post I really have no idea what's going on, so good luck with all that I guess.
> Today, bespoke lettering is the exception, not the expectation. That makes it all the more commendable when a brand goes the extra mile.

It doesn't make it commendable? The first example is just bad letters, the separation makes no sense visually (it's a single number, it's not composed of two parts of something else), just decreases legibility
What are the severance packages like this time?
Then Microsoft, Netflix, FB, Apple, Dell, HP, Xerox would look like genius and way more excessively innovative if you can only name, gmail. Even that was a bit copy from yahoo and outlook mail back then. Plus, you have just indirectly praised Marrisa for her greatness involving in gmail back then.
The OP asked about a WASM-cpu. It assume he meant that literally thus without preprocessing. Once you allow preprocessing there's no limited to what you can do and in fact you can do something really efficient (margin is too narrow to contain the full proof).
But this time it's from H. Peter Anvin.
After hearing for years and years that Google hires for people first, and then assigns you a team, this is a big surprise! Somehow all the worst performers at Google ended up on the same teams and they had to fire them en masse? Or is Google just another tech company now?
I appreciate it, will check it out :)
I lost it when it brought in the BMW. Thanks for the laughs.
And it's lacking in accessibility, just as the person you're responding to said.

> What on earth would the DOM have to do with a modular synthesis environment?

The fact that unlike people's cool and dreamy bespoke UIs drawn entirely on canvas, the DOM does actually have a competently implemented accessibility services layer that apps using it get for free out of the box.

Not to mention that you've never needed WASM to draw UIs entirely on canvas either. It's a silly idea with JS and a silly idea with WASM.
I think hybrid can work too, but it requires proactive transparency. In my workplace, a tech scale-up, we switched to hybrid after the pandemic and IMO it's working like a charm.

Everybody puts in their calendar each day whether they are going to work remotely or in the office. They also put their working hours or availability, they put when they are going to be off etc. Everybody I interact with shows up to meetings, some later than others, but that's no different than when we were onsite. Work is getting done faster than when we were fully onsite, although slower than during the pandemic.

The office is fully prepared for this working arrangement, with many "booths" for having calls, plenty of meeting rooms, all with great videoconferencing equipment, a meeting room booking system integrated with the calendar that "just works". Everybody is available on Slack while working, although IMO Slack is a bit overused and abused.

Now everyone works where they are more comfortable. Many have moved to smaller cities, others to the countryside. There are people that always go to the office, others that never go. There are teams that agree on certain days to go to the office, but AFAIK is not mandated by their managers, they just like to work and hang out together.

All in all, a great working experience, while staying productive. In fact, the workforce has increased about 20% since just before the pandemic, but the company has more than doubled in revenue, and volume of business and it doesn't feel chaotic at all. So I'd say that's the proof that hybrid is working for us.
I can't help thinking that Bitcoin ETFs could mark "Peak Bitcoin". When lots of people are trading it at their high street broker in their regular account, Bitcoin becomes just a number in a box - a crypto currency without crypto - with nothing underlying it.
China firm reportedly cracks AirDrop using a flaw Apple has known about
Microsoft is even adding AI to the Notepad app on Windows 11
And suppose you have a spouse with a career that isn't so mobile? Language barriers? Work visas? Elderly parents?

Tons of reasons people can't just up and migrate at the drop of a hat.
You're kind of making OPs point though - that post was written by a retired 80yr oil engineer who just blogs into the aether because he hates solar and wind.. the $5 trillion estimate was him literally just making up numbers.

To critique this more specifically - in that post he assumed we would spend $5 trillion on batteries, and they would still cost the same $200/kwh that they cost in back in 2018. Even if his other assumptions on the capacity required were valid (they aren't), costs have already fallen below $100/kwh since learning curves exist - so his scary $5 trillion number is already below $2.5 trillion. Add in the additional cost savings and amortize that investment over a decade and you're talking about maybe 3.5% of the Federal budget?
I don’t have much experience (4 years as a full time dev; FAANG and some medium sized startups) but honestly this is the truth. Some of the projects at these companies are so over bloated and redundant that if a company wanted to save money, they can easily fire a lot of folks, keep the necessary teams for the money making products and go into maintenance mode to keep the existing cash cows going
I dont think it has anything to do with a BMW sports coupe.

What I am confused about though is it seems like the parent is mentioning models beyond the GPT4 instance I currently have access to. I checked their twitter and I have seen no anouncement for any 4.5 or 4 series previews. Is this just available to people using the API or did I miss something?
> I haven't had it ever

How do you know this for certain?
Tom7 the goat
I didn’t search for it but this has been posted before here I’m sure. It might have more comments. Probably been 5 years since I remember it.
Amazon is moving from being a ruthlessly-efficient corporation to becoming a pennywise pound-foolish, stifling bureaucracy to make office workers miserable and drive away talent.* As Amazon's inability to do either WfH or RTO properly, it's footgunning itself with lower productivity, lower momentum, and lower competitiveness that the Target's, Costco's, and Walmart's of the world can and will exploit. If I were the Motley Fool, I would slap a "sell" rating on AMZN because the Bezos era has ended and the era of hyperdeep PHB MBA management pyramids has begun.

* They already do their best to make delivery drivers' and warehouse workers jobs as inhuman and miserable as possible.
I know a software developer that was laid off 2 weeks before Christmas. With only 2 weeks of severance pay (after being at the company for ~7 years).
It's not a matter of "catching on". There are smaller models and they have been looking into putting useful models on device from day one.

It's just the fact that the models that can currently run on a mobile device are not effective enough. It is about the most memory and compute intensive type of application ever. In particular, models that can reason or follow instructions reliably and for general purpose are too big to run quickly on mobile devices.

They are putting models on phones, but they do not have general purpose assistant capabilities.

This may change in the next few years though.
There will be inverse ETFs on these in no time, give it a month or so.