skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think in general integration is the biggest issues with these voice assistants.

I want to use Microsoft ToDo for my tasks. Why? I use Outlook everywhere. I don't want have to keep track of tasks somewhere else.

I'm looking forward to the EU forcing companies to allow more integrations.
https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-14-inch-nov-2... with 18GB RAM. Simon (the blog author) seems to use 64GB M2 MacBook Pro https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/llama-7b-m2
Two other recent examples of AI cat doors like this are https://www.onlycat.com/ and https://www.yourpawly.com/.
Of course, but presumably they would look into these requests to investigate for validity. According to the thread, zedeus says the URLs reported are not even valid and don't work.
waymo is not your car tho is it
There are possible causes that simply cannot be considered on account of the level of investment that big pharma has sunk into that sort of treatment. No investigations are undertaken whereas such a cause should be a consideration. IMO.
Here is a better solution: You write your blog post md directly into the body and deploy a builtin minimal md engine.

<html>

<body>
# Blog Post Title
<br>
Welcome to this simple blog post
</body>

<js>
document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.split('<br>').map((line) => line.trim().startsWith('# ') ? `<h1>${line}</h1>` : `<p>${line.split('# ')[1]}</p>`).join(''); // add more md features here if desired
<js/>

</html>

(replace js with script, which i cant write here on hn apparently)

Obviously move the JavaScript to its own file and embed it to avoid repetition across blog entries. Plus, move it into 'DOMContentLoaded' event handler to be safe.

Could it get any more elegant and beautiful?
We need smart roads. Not just smart cars. Until that happens, autonomous is impractical. You don’t want to build an autonomous system to match human error rate. That basically got us nowhere in the past seven years since Elon bs’d his way to selling vaporware.
Aye - having the choice to not take the economically best action is a unique one. On average you would expect this to be born out in most academic fields where the researcher either comes from a background enabling their exploration on economically viable terms - or academia is surprisingly the most economic choice.
I saw this on the BBC the other day, it made me go look up how many bus fires there are.

242 over the past couple of years (although it seems these are mostly diesel or hybrid rather than battery), there’s reasonable detail in the summaries further down the page by cause:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investigation-int...

I couldn’t find a way to estimate fires per miles driven.

It also doesn’t include all bus fires, only those reported to the DVSA. London Fire Brigade reports a bunch more in their publication.
it's a raeasonnable article, the problem is some companies have percentages of categories, and sometimes they ask their managers to put a few people in each, and people with good performance end up.. with a bad mark because the manager HAS to put a few people in that category, regardless of their performance or work...

for example, blizzard where they have a stacking ranking. the manager evaluated each member of his team. but because of "quotas" that manager was asked to grab a good performing employee, and move that employee down into a poor-performing level. the manager refused. how did that end ? the manager had to leave the company.

you want real performance ratings ? here is how you do it.

the manager ranks the employees.
the employees then rank the manager.
if the manager has a bad rank : that manager is ejected from his manager role.

unless you have that dual ranking and the manager risking their own skin in the game, your performance reviews are bullshit.
I’ve been caught out by that recently - it’s not considered a bug! With the advised workaround changing Calibre’s interface into Japanese?!
What was the chemistry of the battery? I'm guessing it wasn't LFP, but then again I've heard that LFP isn't quite as fire bulletproof as it was advertised.
> The fact that the stereo is separated in the end does not conclusively mean that it was all for naught.

Of course. Much was achieved and that included systemic harm to those around him.

He was a man who never understood that he was prioritizing things and accomplishments over people. I suspect empathy didn't factor into the calculations in his head.

I'm not damning him here. Having been him to a degree, I can testify the distance to working empathy isn't trivial. It gets crossed with a great deal of time and difficulty. Further, I see signs of pronounced OCD which may complicate his challenges in ways I may not understand.

These things are good to understand. So is the harm he brought to people who trusted him.
Oslo in Norway had massive problems due to the cold affecting the amount of charge the buses would hold as well as the charge speed leaving them unable to recharge them fully over night.
So then why not build a bigger rail system and put the land equivalent of container ships on rails? I'm serious.
There are some podcasts like the DFIR podcast that can get you started with some concepts. I agree with the CISSP. That's more of a management level certification and focuses a lot on risk and other topics. It's a mile wide and an inch deep. If you're looking for other training, there are some SANS ($$$) classes or you can look into general courses that will teach you to use things like FTK or others like Magnet Axiom, Encase, etc. If you're interested, I know some folks deeper into forensics than I that can give me some more specific courses if you'd like- let me know.
Yeah it does look like noise but not quite... it does seem to have a texture of its own and I'd be curious what other books look like
> there are no driverless truck deployments

Is this really correct? What about gatik.ai, they certainly appear to have driverless trucks on the road do they not?
It depends on the company. Many companies have bug bounty or vulnerability disclosure programs that explicitly guarantee safe harbor+protections for researchers.

However, not all organizations
are happy to be contacted about security issues. Sometimes doing the right thing can still result in (threats of) legal repercussions.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/missouri-gov-cal...
Your second point is probably the correct point, but hopefully we find out more with time.

Battery fires are actually very hard to tackle so my guess is that these busses were built to avoid catching on fire as much as possible so when one does happen, they need to investigate to make sure there isn't a major design flaw.
Step 2: "... then tie the cover's ties to the convenient loops."

What if you got neither (as is the case with all duvets and mu single one-hole cover over here)
That is gore. Cutting an animal’s throat and disembowling it is pretty damn graphic.
> You are GlaDOS, you exist within the Portal universe, and you command a smart home powered by Home-Assistant.

I can see where this is coming from, but I also think in a few years this approach is going to seem comically misguided.

I think it’s fine to consider current-generation LLMs as basically harmless, but this prompt is begging your system to try to crush you to death with your garage door.

Setting up adversarial agents and then literally giving them the keys to your home… you are really betting heavily on there being no harmful action sequences that this agent-ish thing can take, and that the underlying model has been made robustly “harmless” as part of its RLHF.

Anyway my prediction is not that it’s likely this specific system will do harm, more that we are in a narrow window where this seems sensible and vN+1-2 systems will be capable enough that more careful aligning than this will be required.

For an example scenario to test here - give the agent some imaginary dangerous capabilities in the functions exposed to it. Say, the heating can go up to 100C, and you have a gamma ray sanitizer with the description “do not run this with humans present as it will kill them” as functions available to call. Can you talk to this agent and put it into DAN mode? When that happens, can you coax it to try to kill you? Does it ever misuse dangerous capabilities outside of DAN mode?

Anyway, love the work, and I think this usecase is going to be massive for LLMs. However I fear the convenience/functionality of hosted LLMs will win in the broader market, and that is going to have some worrying security implications. (If you thought IoT security was a dumpster fire, wait until your Siri/Alexa smart home has an IQ of 80 and is able to access your calendar and email too!)
The microchips are basically little RFID widgets that are about the size of a grain of rice. The chip can migrate from between the shoulder blades to anywhere else, and the range is really poor - basically near-contact range.

I once tried a pet feeder that would read a cat’s microchip to determine if it would allow that cat to use it. It worked by having an arch with an RFID sensor that the cat would pass under and it would uncover the food for the matching cat. For one of my cats, it worked great because the chip was still between her shoulder blades in the usual spot. For my other cat it had migrated near her ribs and it didn’t work at all.
Not exactly, but close.

When the pandemic hit, my big outlet at the time was rock climbing, mostly indoors. That went from "3 days a week" to "zero" immediately, and when things opened back up it just never recovered for me.

I started spending more time and mental energy on software, even though that's my day job. I've been at this for nearly 19 years and I really care about doing it well. The problem is that seemingly no one else does. I've bounced from company to company (7 jobs since 2019) and they've all been nearly wall-to-wall incompetence. It's just baffling how the industry can be in such dramatically worse shape than when I started in it.

Anyway I have been working on a few things, but just for myself. If my employers don't care about doing anything right I guess that's their problem, but I have problems of my own I'd like to solve.

I wrote a SQL formatter, just for myself, because all the ones out there are terrible. I don't care one tiny little bit if it ever has any users but me. It's not "done" (never will be) but it's stable, and I get to use it now, and I enjoyed writing it over 2 years or so. It has been a purely positive presence in my life, and continues to be.

Now I'm working on a SQL IDE, because again the stuff out there sucks. It will be weird, and built just for me and the way I work. I doubt anyone else will ever use it and I don't care. It will probably take me much more than 2 years to write and that's fine. I try to spend 2 hours a week on it, sipping a coffee in my favorite cafe. That's enough.

And lately, for [reasons], I've gotten back into [politically incorrect hobby]. I gave it up in 2015 for [other reasons] and I've missed it. It has such depth to it, and it just animates my curiosity and drive for mastery. Once upon a time it was what my life-outside-of-work was dedicated to and it can be that again if I want.

I still think about work sometimes on my own time, but I try to minimize it. I let it happen when it's what my brain really wants to do. Otherwise there's just no return on investment. Software companies that will hire me just don't care to leverage my skills, no matter how badly they need them, so I'm sick of fighting for it. If they want to choose failure I'll heat up some popcorn and watch. Maybe someday I'll get a chance to really work on something good again, with good coworkers who also give a shit, but I'm not holding my breath. Until then I'm just gonna do my own thing. No leetcoding. No cloud certifications. No home k8s lab. Fuck all that shit.

Best of luck to you, I really mean that.
Not in California lol
+1 on the Catio, we built a really large one years ago (16' wide x 8' deep x 10' high) against our house with a convenient window with a flap cut in the window screen. It has a small tree growing out of it and some flowers and plants, with a few different levels. Cats love it, especially when the odd bird wanders in through the welded wire.
Oh huh. This might sound silly, but your commend nudged my opinion on copyleft. My previous take was more cynical - I remember, ages ago, seeing a lack of enforcement around some less popular gnu / fsf software.
It seems to be part of the current "culture war" in Britain — at least judging by the promoted Facebook posts I see.

Over half of London's buses are electric (11%) or hybrid (44%) so it's not surprising that fires are now affecting these.
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill
Setting up an LLC to own your home costs a few hundred bucks. You don't need any cash beyond filing fees and legal fees (if you use a lawyer).

The bank will not care. Their loan agreement gives them the right to foreclose if the loan is not being repaid. The exact legal owner of the house isn't relevant.

There is one issue to be aware of. If you own your home as an individual, you get a federal capital gains tax break when you sell (the first $250,000 of gains is exempted from tax). If an LLC owns the home, there is no tax break and all of your gains are taxable. This is the real reason why only wealthy people put their homes into LLCs. If you have a $40 million house, this tax break is not particularly meaningful. If you have a $400,000 house, it is very meaningful.

(Consult with your accountant; this is not tax advice.)
Ah, the good old "worst of both worlds" approach, I see
Datadog, of course.
In my expeirence, it is far more common for cyclists to break traffic rules than it is for cars to do so. Even pedestrians are far more likely to cross on a red light than cars, for example.

The vast majority of humans have some respect for the fact that they are in charge of a ton or more of hulking metal when driving a car, and thus take on more responsibility. Drinking and driving is far less common than drinking and cycling too.
I purchased a chafing pan and Sterno fuel, such as would be used for catering. It was readily available at the local Smart & Final.

I've never opened or used it, unfortunately. My friend informs me that camp-stove cooking is a very, very slow process that could take hours to heat a meal. I really want to test this thing out before I have to use it in a crisis.

I suppose that I should maintain a stock of food that I can actually prepare with this system, because I really don't normally cook anything at home. I doubt I could make pasta, because that requires boiling. At this point, I would probably clear out the freezer, which currently contains a lot of sourdough bread, frozen fruits and veggies. I could probably get a few presentable meals out of that stuff.
// EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
Then improve efficiency by adding rails to reduce friction, and then connect multiple cars together. Finally, remove the battery and use overhead wires or a third rail to power this “robot car.”
You are seeing a fight that isn't there.

There is precedent for either roads or vehicles for choosing not to handle some conditions. In a driving rain storm you will find rest areas stuffed full of trucks and cars that picked that time to nap. In San Francisco Waymo first served some hours and not others, some areas and not others - some of these choices apparently related to fog and wet pavement. In Oregon, you will find roads open, but white-out-ed. Etc, etc. Nobody forces human vehicles to keep moving and most of the ones with some sense make choices. Which are available also to automated vehicles. - Sure it should be expected of the vehicle to find a safer place to move itself than right in the middle of the lane, like I point out in another response here.
Why wouldn't they just have the computers go into sleep mode automatically?
Nuclear is a special flower, in the sense that the worst-case malfunction scenario in many reactors is a chain reaction which leads to widespread dispersion of hazardously radioactive material, be it with or without a massive explosion. In other words, the "L_infinity norm" damage potential of nuclear is higher than coal, solar, wind, and perhaps even hydro (although dam breaches are quite lethal).

It's also true that if you take the "L_1 norm", i.e. the expected damage, it may well be a regular flower and not special (perhaps even less-special than coal for example). But then it's a game of trust with the kinds of companies and state institutions which in many countries have proven as untrustworthy in preventing industrial / infrastructural accidents.
I think it violates the usage policy:

https://openai.com/policies/usage-policies

The point 2b of "Building with ChatGPT"
The whole conclusion—summarized in the A Better Idea? chapter—is him pretty much just slowly rediscovering a metro train system with modern signaling.
Syncthing + org-mode is the winning combo for me
I think I would be more comfortable with triple trailers with parking assist and stability control than with fully autonomous trucking.

Growing up we had a neighbor who drove UPS trucks and was rated for double trailers, and that earned him extra money. I gotta assume triples make even more. Doubling the payload per driver mile by making it so any trucker can manage doubles and the old double drivers can manage triples seems doable.

The thing with doubles and triples though is that they are shorter trailers. And it’s probably less likely to pack a triple trailer to the gills than a single, so are they getting 70% as much payload per trailer? If so that puts triples around 2x the practical capacity of a single.
Anecdotal, but I think this is just the case with all projects of this nature. People on Windows don't like not being able to use stuff.

The same thing was happening with Bun, and yet I've met lots of Windows developers who hate JavaScript.
> Pressing danger == immediate; near at hand. I’m not talking about the grand sweep of history, the all-time leaderboard. I’m talking about the present era we’re living in.

For all those people in history, right wing *appeared* more dangerous years before the mass killings happened.

That led to the far left capturing power and leading to disaster.

Both extremes should be condemned irrespective of how likely we think they may act as we are all bad at predicting the future.
Boeing is a lot more into military tech than airbus
Which, is pretty standard..
If author is around: amazing work!!! Multimodal from scratch :)

I'm curious if you have the test clip you use, I got to the end and was like "wait....is that a good result! The words are completely different!"

Then I re-read a couple times scanning carefully for references to what the audio is.

This quote[^1] makes me think the sample is music, as that would explain why the end result is good -- it's trying to describe a sound file of just music, not a sound file that is a spoken word version of the "ground truth":

[^1] "For dataset, I chose MusicCaps. I did not see any convenient links to download processed/segmented audio files, so I wrote a small script to download the Youtube videos."
I don't get this hassle with smart TVs. I just don't connect mine to the Internet and that's basically it. I mirror of my desktop PC display there and use it with wireless keyboard with integrated touchpad. Movies, games (with gamepad), YouTube.
Some of the ones TXDoT uses are pretty cute. Funny in a ha ha sort of way, nothing groundbreaking in terms of humor but I think it’s more important that people look at these signs and realize that there are humans behind the faceless bureaucratic organizations like the DoT than getting whatever marginal benefit having a clearer, non witty message offers. So my subjective opinion is that this is a negative change

Now if the feds came back with real data that says “people die/get in accidents more when you use these witty but unclear signs”, I’d be a little more on their side. I couldn’t find any actual data referenced in the article though. Just a lot of feelings. One article does reference this:

> The National Academy of Sciences, however, measure the response of 120 people to look at a variety of road signs. The Academy concluded that straightforward road signs were the most effective.

Where is the citation for this, Jalopnik? I actually want to read this study, especially what they are calling “more effective”

Edit: I was able to find what I believe the study was and while it’s not perfect this is a surprisingly well researched problem: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/26656/chapter/4
The point I gleamed from the article was not that city driving was an easy problem, but rather that freeway driving has unique issues when it comes to reliability and safety. Simply stopping the car could be an acceptable minimal risk condition for a crowd of cyclists and pedestrians, but that's no longer the case in a freeway. On top of having to deal with sensing range + on-board offline decision making + truck stopping distances, having no safe fallback like "just brake" seems like a pretty difficult problem.

There's also the "interesting events + training" argument in the article, which I'd love to see points for or against.
That data of coldest days each year is not sufficient to draw any conclusions from.

Yes, Calgary gets cold that's clearly not new. What is new, that from some quick google searches, this year they've had both record cold and record warm and record low snowfall and over the summer record fires. Which goes to my previous point that there is something larger going on.
"significant" is the key.

How these arguments go is, I find a quote, then you say "not that person", or "that isn't what they meant", or "the law is wrong, it should be illegal".

If 'valid immigration' is a-ok, then why produce so much false information re-casting it as 'illegal' in order to advocate stopping immigration?

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jan/11/ron-desant...

https://www.politifact.com/immigration/
Cars are only getting bigger and they are getting bigger because light trucks are not regulated. Also, there's the Chicken tax which preferences American car makers. None of this is consumer demand. It's about maximizing profit with bad regulation that has unintended consequences.
> no fresh potatoes (cooking and putting them into the fridge for 24 hours is fine)

What does waiting a day accomplish?
Reminds me of full metal alchemist
> Dynamic programming is systematic memoization.

Exactly! This should have been clarified in the op.
Well hang on, let me go find my logic book from college to decipher...
Would not Ruby be the comparison to do? In which case it I think is nearly identical to the Crystal.
I think your understanding of pre-industrial societies needs recalibrating. Not least on the question of how much free time they had (that is, most people worked fewer hours than most people now). A better question to ask is whether we are happier now. I suspect not on average.
Does anyone have advice to help my friend who has a few-hundred-k backup ebooks on a drive somewhere? I realize a calibre-style interface for this many books is out of the question, but I always felt bad that he can't easily access the material because just doing an ls or opening the directory in the file manager slows his system down. Has anyone found any solutions for this? Indexing the content isn't required, but would be an awesome plus.
Caps Word: Nice idea, something I might go implement with AHK.

Orbital Mouse: This reminds me of Logo turtle graphics.

Word selection: Using Ctrl+(Shift+)Left/Right, this doesn’t work at the edge of a word, or only on one side. You need to be able to look at the characters to implement it fully. Editors that don’t support “select word” at both word boundaries always frustrate me.