skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The above is a common anthropocentric take that has been repeatedly disproven by the last decade of deep learning research: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

Understanding audio with inputs in the frequency domain isn’t required for understanding frequencies in audio.

A large enough system with sufficient training data would definitely be able to come up with a Fourier transform (or something resembling one), if encoding it helped the loss go down.

> In computer vision, there has been a similar pattern. Early methods conceived of vision as searching for edges, or generalized cylinders, or in terms of SIFT features. But today all this is discarded. Modern deep-learning neural networks use only the notions of convolution and certain kinds of invariances, and perform much better.

Today’s diffusion models learn representations from raw pixels, without even the concept of convolutions.

Ditto for language - as long as the architecture is 1) capable of modeling long range dependencies and 2) can be scaled reasonably, whether you pass in tokens, individual characters, or raw ASCII bytes is irrelevant. Character based models perform just as well (or better than) token/word level models at a given parameter count/training corpus size - the main reason they aren’t common (yet) is due to memory limitations, not anything fundamental.

For further reading, I’d recommend literature on transformer circuits for learning arithmetic without axioms: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CJsxd8ofLjGFxkmAP/explaining...
Yes, the very important detail left off was needed to be 'on/off' rebooted. The boolean off by one error.

TZDATA reboot is not a recognized clock cleaning method.
> Who cares?

You should. Being able to understand that the world is nuanced, entertain positions that you disagree with, and consider different views is an important life skill; both when forming one's worldview and in normal social interactions. Ironically, it's precisely those sorts of skills that we need to prevent an atomic bomb from ever being dropped in the future.
I'd like to make a correction. I meant to say Midjourney. Midwinter was an interesting game set in a snow-covered post-apocalyptic world induced by a meteorite strike in 2040.
Which libraries are you using, in particular for the first step?
Wasn't safari the first browser to "simplify" the URL?
Slightly OT but is there a decent setup for sprite generation out there? Non phone, I mean. It certainly seems like there's been some work in maintaining consistent style and even subjects across runs, does that work with 'character A walking frame 1, character A walking frame 2' etc anywhere yet?
They're closing the main office?
I tried to quit shopping from Amazon, and I did find alternatives. But, where do you buy your electronics from? a TV, a GPU, a monitor? What's their return policy?

Amazon is 12 month 0% APR installments on anything >$50, 5% cash back on everything else, no questions asked drop-off at Whole Foods/UPS returns/pickups. Your money is back in your pocket that day.

I tried Best Buy, NewEgg, and eBay. NewEgg, you'd think, would be better. But their return policy is non-existent compared to the convenience Amazon provides.

I think how I feel Amazon.com has degraded is that they've made it so smooth to shop that I end up buying things I don't need. It feels like the site has spliced itself into my "oh yeah I can solve that" internal loop and makes me spend $30 on some crappy (cheap) solution and before I know it it's on my doorstep.
Yikes. About the discoverability issue. I can add a little story.

I can not for the love of my life get Siri to resume play in my native tongue. It is supported by Siri, I just have no clue on earth on what phrases she accepts. Tried many, started feeling dumb. Turned off Siri.
Federal government should get a 10% haircut too

300k eliminated. A thousand dollars in every taxpayer's pocket
Do you happen to know where one can find the best homebrew wares for xbox? Google returned websites from the early 2000s.
Thanks for posting that possible misinterpretation :)

Everything in my post was Alexa-specific. Someone who has the stated problem can follow that precise and non-obvious menu tree within the Alexa app, and it will solve their problem. It's a device-specific setting, so can be done on the kitchen Alexa without affecting other units.

Both "notification" [1] and "Do Not Disturb" [2] in my post were Alexa-specific terms that are unrelated to their mobile phone brethren.

[1] https://storables.com/home-appliances/home-automation-appliances/how-to-turn-off-notification-on-alexa/
[2] https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-use-alexa-do-not-disturb-mode-4788343
You’re absolutely welcome in my home, I’m not going to doc myself on the internet, but Xenia requires being friendly to travelers and guests.
It's Amazon's signature style to make the bad press go away without addressing the underlying issue that generated the bad press to begin with. Their culture is to hand everyone a pager and pull them in to fix the "problem" through just-in-time heroics rather than spend the money to build a system that's resilient to suckage in the first place. And "fixing" means tediously swatting down specific instances that are made public.

1. Allow 20,000 bads to happen through systemic enshittification

2. Get called out on 20 of the bads

3. Hurry up and have some poor sap manually "fix" the bads being highlighted in the public forum

4. "We've fixed every bad we've been informed of!"

5. ???

6. Profit
The other secret is that Vienna’a population is comparable (2.0 million) in 1910 versus today in (1.99 million) 2023. This means that there’s plenty of existing housing already, before even considering the expanded suburbs.
I'd like to say this code is bad, but it's nothing compared with what I put up with on a daily basis.
Amazon has gone from being good to mostly worse than useless except as joke/meme material. Not for everything, though. Still pretty good for books - prob some other things too.
How is there no picture of the drone in action in the article?!
Cat kills are basically indiscriminate, from anecdotal evidence I'd say that turbine strikes are probably not and certain species are more likely to get hit. In Australia at least there's species who routinely get hit by cars and others which rarely do.

That said, the enormous delta in raw numbers makes this line of argument quite spurious. Wind turbine bird strikes are magnitudes smaller than deaths from domestic cats.

> Collectively, roaming pet cats kill 546 million animals per year in Australia

https://invasives.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Pet-cat-...

> Cats kill more than a million birds every day across Australia, according to our new estimate — the first robust attempt to quantify the problem on a nationwide scale.

> By combining data on the cat population, hunting rates and spatial distribution, we calculate that they kill 377 million birds a year.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-04/cats-killing-one-mill...

> a report on bird and avifauna mortality commissioned by AGL
Energy for its Macarthur Wind Farm found that 10.19 birds were killed by each
turbine in a 12 month period. This equates to over 1 400 birds killed at the Macarthur
Wind Farm alone and over 21 000 if extrapolated across the country.

This is likely underestimated due to scavenging but still magnitudes of difference.

https://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/sen...
There’s plenty of room in the country, and arguably I have plenty of room in my home. Come on by, I usually have beer.
Agreed, no advantage, I just run a larger k8s cluster instead of having docker systems laying around now.
Please post this as a chart or supply the data. It would be great to have a more accurate picture of what's happening.
Researchers sequence first genome of myxini, lineage that had no ref. genome
The people who still care enough to discuss after this long are mostly the optimists, the sceptics mostly got bored and stopped discussing half a year ago since no significant advancement has happened since then.
Why Amazon is not able to actually verify sellers real identities and terminate their accounts? I would imagine that they should be able to force them to supply verifiable national identification/bank account etc. How do these sellers get away with these?
No, there is no distinction between “IRB-style experiments” and “colloquial-style experiments.” Exactly the same experiment could be subject to IRB or not depending on who was running it. The distinction you’re trying to make does not exist.
The qemu TCG parts that it presumably links to are GPLv2, so the combined project is GPLv2 by necessity[1]. I think that's all they're trying to get across.

[1]: apart from viral licenses being pretty much meaningless under EU copyright law
Why not limit AI training to scientific subjects and leave the arts to humans?
Yeah, the Compatibility section states 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max only.
I've used something similar for tissue segmentation from hyperspectral images of animals where I know there should be K different tissue types I care about.
I think some of the offline-first chat/social networks will work this way - briar? serval?
customer obsession, but the customer they're obsessed with is the scammy marketplace seller, because that's who they really make money off of.
Let me guess, you're making it even more crap than it already is

It's like when you get the "we're updating our privacy policy" email
Reflective materials and irrigated trees: cool hottest cities by 4.5°C
> redirect validation

This is an incredibly efficient footgun factory all by itself.
I wouldn't touch Firebase. I've had issues with lost data and unexpected/unknown BigQuery bills. Very unintuitive and a ton of footguns, no support
> If they can't deliver, they're in trouble

How are you protected against losing your investment if they can not deliver?

> Price tracking

Does Bitcoin support a high enough frequency of transactions for long enough to make this possible for years into the future? Does it not become too hard to mine at some point?
Research reveals an immune cell that can attack cancer
This technology has clear military applications. It is amazing watching the nature of war changing literally year by year.

I assume this is what it was like in the World War I & II era watching tanks being developed.
This is exactly what I learned working on Internet scale data. A new dude will walk in, proclaim that a simple rule will solve all your problems.
Because we're aiming for AGI
If I were to guess, this is a result of the NYT lawsuit.
Embeddings is just SentenceTransformers: https://www.sbert.net/

I used the bge-large-en-v1.5 model (https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5) because I could, but the common all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model is sufficient. The trick is to batch generate the embeddings on a GPU, which SentenceTransformers mostly does by default.

Other libraries are the typical ones (umap for UMAP, scikit-learn for k-means/DBSCAN, chatgpt-python for ChatGPT interfacing, plotly for viz, pandas for some ETL). You don't need to use a bespoke AI/ML package for these workflows and they aren't too complicated.
Doesn't seem like anybody is actively working on it: https://github.com/daly/axiom/commits/master/

The only open source CAS that has survived for half a century seems to be maxima. The development seems to be active: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/code/ci/master/tree/ But, yeah, it's still on sourceforge.
System16 is correct; you can select a part of the domain, and Safari will not alter it when you copy the string to the clipboard.
Subletting rent controlled apartments at market rates is common wherever there is rent control.
Amazon is getting flooded with ChatGPT generated spam.
Are you really suggesting that learning from watching others, going to library, taking in the public domain, etc. is a form a theft?
Nobody remotely agrees with the barter economy thing. She also completely omitted any mention of the political economy, while basically saying the solution to climate change is the political economy. Like, really, why does she think a carbon tax hasn't already been implemented? Political economy.
> It is well-known that Boeing's engineering staff is greying. Many of the engineers are within 10-15 years of retirement age - and most of those are counting the years, months, days, hours and minutes until that magical time. Trust us when we say that there has already been a huge loss of "tribal knowledge" that can never be recovered. In 5-10 years, when these greying engineers begin to retire, the resulting knowledge loss may well prove fatal to Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

> The Boeing Company is headed down a dark and dangerous path. It is heading down this path at a reckless pace with little regard to long-term consequences. High-level executives are making decisions that, on paper, may look promising, but are in truth destroying the company. The safety and quality of Boeing airplanes is at jeopardy because of the foolhardy actions of Boeing's senior management.
So much of this bot store ships from Amazon... It's mind boggling to imagine how much waste this physical spam introduces, from manufacturing, to shipping to the Amazon warehouse, to warehousing. All for low-quality dupes that aren't even represented by a real business.
If I can't get ChatGPT to not hallucinate consistently over basic tasks nor truly understand what is said, this is a terrible idea. Forever getting "my apologies" as constantly correcting it. Total waste of time for most things, but that isn't to say that AI/ML as a field is a waste of time, far from it—I just think LLMs are largely all sizzle and very little steak.
Just until last months people were asking where is all AI spam. It was slow and then sudden.
There is a Twitch streamer Tsoding who posted a video of himself implementing K-means clustering in C recently [1]. He also does a follow up 3d visualization of the algorithm in progress using raylib [2].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH-hqG34ylA&t=4788s&ab_chann...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7hWqxC_7Mw&ab_channel=Tsodi...
How does it protect a small artist against a large corporation profiting off their work?

I don’t even have the means to start litigation, let alone see it through.

It only protects those who are already moneyed and/or famous enough to negatively impact a large corporation’s reputation - and even in those cases it’s mostly for the benefit of the lawyers and bureaucrats who make a living off it.
Man sues 'Are we dating the same guy?' Facebook page
Oligarchs gunna Oligarch.

But the consolidation and the .001% have really gottten in bed together in a way that they never could before. With all their assets intrisincly entangled in the global economy, AI is here to bring the next level of wealth extraction for them, greater authoritarianism and a globalisation like we havent seen.

The wars we are fighting are for who is going to be in charge of the dominant AI entanglements in finance, industry, pharma/health, media, tech, defense, security.

I am optimistic that it will be another tier in the tech evolution I've seen in my life - but a Rising tide of control of how a populous uses/benefits/consumes/produces in a complete AI entangled world, raises all authoritarian systems.

Its bleak for anyone who cant integrate into the Entanglement.
I'm kind of sick this perspective on every single announcement of every single open source project.

Clearly the people developing it aren't happy enough with Gnome or KDE and want something different. What matters is not total amount of dev effort, but if what comes out of that is something you like or not.
if I can break into tech? then maybe it's me.
Capturing greenhouse gases with the help of light
It's just SentenceTransformers, but: the wrong model is common because no one read SentenceTransformers. MiniLM-L6-V2 is for symmetric search (target document has same wording as source document) MiniLM-L6-V3 is for asymmetric search (target document is likely to contain material matching query in source document)
True, but this works in a completely uncustomized shell which is pretty nice - I can hop on a coworkers keyboard or a machine without my .bashrc and it just works. It mostly just replaces spamming the up arrow to find commands I already ran.
Sorry, but this isn't brand new stuff.

As a small business owner, you should have had DMARC, SPF, and DKIM set up already to ensure your mail gets delivered properly.
require more specific instructions to access less popular feature? I will never understand companies breaking their own products.
How much life has ever existed on Earth?
I once interviewed someone working in the Google Assistant org. His job was to build technology that would detect "unusual sounds" that the microphone picks up while awaiting a "Hey Google" prompt.

I went home from that interview and threw my Google Home device in the trash.
It's far more beneficial to warm the coldest climates. An order of magnitude more deaths due occur due to cold.
but who? how does it begin? what are your thoughts on 2024-2028
Costco for TVs and monitors. GPUs are a bit harder to find in stores, admittedly.
A decade-old Steam bug
Hello HN,

this is my first detailed blog post about one of the most annoying bugs I have ever come across in my life.

Hope you like it and I'd love to get feedback :)
You’d expect a product advertised as intelligent and potentially world ending can do better than a template engine squirting ‘${context} ${solution|answer} ${conclusion|disclaimer}’. Because that how text generators sound like - so easy to detect.
Big-ticket items are easily bought directly from the brands.

I had the choice of buying my 65" LG from Amazon, sure, I have an account already. But someone (Reddit?) suggested to buy directly from LG to make sure you get a factory-fresh box. Seeing all the Amazon shenanigans, it was an easy decision. 10 minutes and I checked out the new TV from LG directly.

I buy small household items from Amazon, floor wipe refills, batteries - and these are not at risk of being scammy products in the first place, unless someone is a total dolt.

As for return policies - that's just a matter of doing your homework. I don't think I ever returned anything to Amazon.
FirebaseError: Quota exceeded
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>One concern is supply chain

Esp32 is available at every major Western distributor (digikey mouser etc) this hasn't been a real concern for many years
Is the idea that in a vertical version of this the motive force pushing the stack into the nozzle would be provided from the rocket's own acceleration?

Would that negate some of the controlability characteristics?

And would it need to be carefully tuned to the launch profile? (I assume deviations wouldn't be self-correcting eg. if acceleration is reduced there's less injection force presumably leading to less thrust).
Throes of a dying industry
The copyright issue seems unchanged. Anyone taking wholesale quotes from another entity is likely in violation of copyright law. If someone uses AI, and posts the output from it as their own work, and that work contains copyrighted material, the person who posted it is in violation of copyright. AI is just a tool they chose to use and they remain responsible for remaining in compliance with copyright law.

What we need is a reasonable way for people using AI to determine which parts of the text or images they have are subject to copyright.
I’ve been getting back into starcraft 1, and although there’s automatic matchmaking now there are still several old-style communities
Searching the "I'm sorry" line led to this....scam? https://www.amazon.com/complete-information-provided-provide...
I dunno. That didn’t even register as a one on a scale of one out of ten of heated business discussions.

The word bullshit didn’t even register, never mind offensive in its usage or delivery. If anything it was direct and succinct. She was being given generic spiel which where just words with no information likely from a script to close the call meeting minimal obligations as soon as possible then forget about that person.

The woman had just lost her job with others unexpectedly, she was shocked but calm and wanted a clear simple answer. If that was classed as heated the people delivering the news were clearly out of their depth and unprepared. There response served nothing other than agitating the woman as they wanted out of a hard conversation instead of having and managing a hard conversation.

They could have been honest “We’re sorry, we don’t personally know you, we’ve never met or spoke before. We’ve been given a list of people to call the company has had to make redundant which has come as a shock to us as much as you. We personally do not know the information you are asking as it hasn’t been provided to us personally at this time, we know as much as you. We’ll try to provide and find the information you are asking and contact you as soon as we have it, in the meantime here are my contact details feel free to contact me if you have and questions in the meantime”.

Straight talking honesty goes a long way instead avoiding hard conversations at all costs.
I think the observer in that era was watching it change in the streets if they were lucky enough to survive.
You can also play around in the playground or with the API with your own system prompts and see that you can jailbreak them to report the prompt.
I remember when i first learned k-means, it opened the door for so many projects. Two that are on my GitHub to this day are a python script that groups your images by similarly (histogram) and one that classify your expenses based on previous data. I had so much fun working on those.
Yeah gotta work out that snag ;-). Could always stage the booster just before booster.
How does locking away most of the knowledge, research and learning materials in the private vaults of a few publishing houses for their personal profit promote the progress of science I wonder?

Even scientists are tired of the predatory and rent seeking behaviour of the publishers they have fallen prey to and are looking for any way out.

This is not promoting progress this is the opposite of it
Does setting up DMARC for the forwarding service address this? Or is forwarding literally impossible now?
You could probably put some low effort cables from the engine to the top of the stack and add pressure as needed without too much effort
I'd agree with your characterization for "most", but the fact that something like the G650 series exists (~20 passengers, Mach 0.95, 10k+ km range) and sells implies that long range, high speed is also a viable niche.
So at least one person here doesn't know what droll means.

You're getting my upvote because you were able to control yourself and not say get off my lawn.

Also, you said what I was going to say.

Finally, I wonder if the author is using the literary technique called "hyperbole"? These days, it is hard to know.
We also have to consider the cost of enforcement. We can’t be soaking up millions and billions of taxpayer dollars to protect copyrights or field complaints that aim to protect mutated copies of said works…just like you don’t send a swat team to enforce parking tickets, we have to consider what is at loss for the New York Times or other copyright holders before clogging up the courts.

There’s a reason lawyers are so quick to file a suit and it’s because it cost nothing to sic the dogs of the American justice system on others.
From a stock perspective, yes.
Some university networks are run tightly, others are rather loose when it comes to security, monitoring and debugging network cables that are syncing up at lower speeds. Really depends on who is staffing the IT team...

Many older universities give you a public IPv4 address with no NAT when you plug into a network port.

OP, one neat thing you should try is broadcasting a /25 through /29 and seeing which ISPs this is routable from (eg: Lumen (aka Centurylink/Quantum), Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, Comcast, etc). There are a number of blocks smaller than /24's being broadcast, and it would be quite interesting to see which ISPs are willing to route traffic to smaller blocks.