skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will call the code with an effect handler that records the effects and then check the recording has the properties you care about.
It cannot play audio and detect speech (caller's voice) simultaneously
We have developed our own AI agent, but it faces an issue: it cannot play audio and detect speech (caller's voice) simultaneously. Also, we are currently utilizing UniMRCP with FreeSWITCH.
In simpler terms, when the caller starts speaking, the bot is unable to interrupt.
Training on the contents will require a scraping. Thus, maybe looking up something about using the contents or scrapping it?
> I don't understand how brains work under the hood, but zoom into the brain

Come on, really? Are you comparing using your brain to using an LLM.

I didn’t even need to read the rest to know it was all nonsense.

LLMs aren’t magic. If you understand how they work, then you can understand the limitations of the approach. You seem to not.
> The historical start

"Historical" meaning going back to the Roman Republic:

> We can partly thank the Roman king Numa Pompilius. According to tradition, during his reign (c. 715–673 BCE) Numa revised the Roman republican calendar so that January replaced March as the first month. It was a fitting choice, since January was named after Janus, the Roman god of all beginnings; March celebrated Mars, the god of war. (Some sources claim that Numa also created the month of January.) However, there is evidence that January 1 was not made the official start of the Roman year until 153 BCE.

> In 46 BCE Julius Caesar introduced more changes, though the Julian calendar, as it became known, retained January 1 as the year’s opening date.

* https://www.britannica.com/story/why-does-the-new-year-start...

> The Romans did not have records of their early calendars but, like modern historians, assumed the year originally began in March on the basis of the names of the months following June. The consul M. Fulvius Nobilior (r. 189 BC) wrote a commentary on the calendar at his Temple of Hercules Musarum that claimed January had been named for Janus because the god faced both ways,[83][where?] suggesting it had been instituted as a first month.[citation needed] It was, however, usually said to have been instituted along with February, whose nature and festivals suggest it had originally been considered the last month of the year. The consuls' term of office—and thus the order of the years under the republic—seems to have changed several times. Their inaugurations were finally moved to January 1(Kal. Ian.) in 153 BC to allow Q. Fulvius Nobilior to attack Segeda in Spain during the Celtiberian Wars, before which they had occurred on March 15 (Eid. Mart.).[87] There is reason to believe the inauguration date had been May 1during the 3rd century BC until 222 BC[citation needed] and Livy mentions earlier inaugurations on May 15 (Eid. Mai.), July 1 (Kal. Qui.), August 1 (Kal. Sex.), October 1(Kal. Oct.), and December 15 (Eid. Dec.).[88][where?] Under the Julian calendar, the year began on January 1 but years of the Indiction cycle began on September 1.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar#Years
Climbing can help with flexibility/mobility of some parts of your body but I agree it requires to be added on for others.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March
Everything just works, this has been my setup since 2010, with either VMWare or Virtual Box, WSL makes it one less thing to care about installing.
Cloud is somewhat managed though so charging a premium makes some sense. The blank check factor of how they price their services is a major risk IMO. Also a turn off how every single bit of functionality becomes productized with its own pricing model.
Would love to hear an intelligent reply why? This is just my experience in my corner of the universe.

I am not saying it is the end of engineering or that layoffs are happening because of AI. There are huge incentives for investors to make AI tooling as best as possible because the possible cost reductions are significant. It does not apply to all areas of software engineering but it is certainly being implemented in acquired companies.
I am very tired of this quantum computing nonsense. I have been hearing about it overtaking everything for almost 20 years (when I did my PhD). While the EU and the US has been pumping money into quantum for all these years, they completely missed the AI revolution, and have been chronically underfunding basic research (e.g. what I'm partial to, formal methods). You can still get tons of money from funding agencies by _somehow_ incorporating "quantum" into your funding proposal. It's a joke.

I remember being at the SAT conference 2 years ago (co-located with all other formal methods conferences), and I raised my concern about the BS that was accepted as a research paper again doing some nonsense quantum stuff, and the person from Intel was like, we are almost at 100 qbits, end of the year! Pinky Promise! Of course none of that happened. They promised 1000s of qbits in just a decade 20 years ago.

Best part is that even when they have 10s of thousands of qbits they can't show me a single, actually useful, revolutionary application other than breaking RSA, which is laughable (yada-yada some optimization problems, sorry, but no, the more you dig, the more it's obvious it is nonsense). Billions of EUR into this fever dream and they got completely blind-sided by deep learning (which they _also_ under-funded until industry picked it up and made it work). It's the same idiots who demoted Katalin Kario who recently got the Nobel recently for mRNA vaccines. I sometimes really get tired of Academia.
If this happens that’s the end of Wendy’s for me .
> and about chaotic systems

Surely you mean complex adaptive systems.
The church of rust is infiltrating the government. They're worse than scientologists.
That's not a problem, that's a hangup you have.

We don't need a global definition of what a unit is, we just need to know what unit is being tested by a given unit test. This is important because it's how we understand coverage:

1. We need to understand what's within the unit (covered by the test) so we don't write redundant tests, and...

2. ...we need to understand what's not within the unit (not covered by the test) so we can write separate tests to cover that unit.

The unit can be anything, as long as we know what the unit we're testing when we read/write/run the test.

An integration test also needs to know what it's testing, but now you're looking at it from an outside perspective. You no longer care which specific areas of code (units) are within the integration, you just care what features are within the integration. Sometimes a refactor will mean that feature A no longer causes class B to call class C: that probably means changes to B's unit tests, because the code unit changed, but it doesn't mean changes to the integration test because the feature didn't change.

The important thing is to understand what's being tested by a given test.

For example, a project I'm working on has integration tests which are written with Selenium and run in a headless browser. Most of these tests involve users, but most of these tests aren't testing user creation, so I don't care how the users get created. Instead of going through the signup interface using Selenium, I'm just injecting the users into the database directly because that's faster and easier. The one exception is I'm not injecting the users into the database in my signup/login integration tests, because whether the user gets created is part of the feature under test.

Of course there are significant overlaps between these two categories, that is to say, there are some unit tests that are also integration tests.
Here in Lithuania we had one day below -20c this winter. Usually we have at least one or two weeks like that. Now the snow has melted and it's spring, feels around 6 weeks too early.
only time and guilt
I got quite salty with Gemini yesterday, I think a cooling off period will do us both good.
The USA is a wholesale exporter of violence, funds terror across the globe, uses its intelligence services to subjugate politics across the map, and commits crimes against humanity and war crimes, on average, every twenty minutes - and has done so for twenty years. It has literally destroyed countless sovereign nations it deems inferior, invades on false premises, and does not prosecute its war criminals.

No thanks. Totally heinous. Let the Russians fix Russia, and Americans: FIX AMERICA - JAIL YOUR WAR CRIMINALS.
You should be very skeptical of all those applications except Shor.

HHL: Here's a quote from Ewin Tang [1]: "We know that quantum computers can “efficiently solve” high-dimensional linear algebra problems; however, this assumes that we have some way to evolve a quantum system precisely according to input data, a much harder problem than the linear algebra itself."

[1] https://ewintang.com/blog/2019/01/28/an-overview-of-quantum-...

Grover's search: This is a speed-up from 2^n to 2^sqrt(n). Impressive, but there's not a lot of exp-time algorithms that people ever run. They go for heuristics instead.

Quantum fourier transforms: This is a tool, it's cool, but needs an application. I haven't seen a serious proposal for using it somewhere where a classical algorithm wouldn't do better.
Well, there's more to it than that: the leap day is really February 24th; there are "two" February 24ths.

> Except that isn’t exactly true. The Romans did not add an extra day on February 29, but on February 24, which is where the more complicated answer begins. The Romans kept a calendar by counting backwards from specific set times of the month, the kalends (March 1), the nones (March 7) and the ides (March 15). Julius Caesar was famously told in Shakespeare’s play to: “Beware the ides of March,” also known as March 15, the day of his murder.

> If the Romans started counting on the first day of March, which they called the kalends and moved backwards, then their days would progress retrospectively like this: the kalends is March 1, second kalends is February 28, third kalends is February 27 and so on until February 24 is the sixth kalends of March. On a leap day, they added a second sixth kalends of March, which they called the “bissextile day”, that is the second sixth day. In older writings of various kinds, you will still see people call the leap day, February 29, the bissextile day.

What the article doesn't explain, and I don't know either, is why they chose the sixth calends of March specifically, because there are "higher" calends, so it's not really the natural place to stick it.

The Romans actually added January and February to the beginning of the year very early on, according to Livy, in the time of King Numa, second legendary king of Rome. The article doesn't mention this, but even during almost all of what we know as Rome, the months were numbered wrong!

ed: what a mess! the answer appears to be here:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Johnson_s_Universal_Cyc...

Basically, the last days of February were already "past" the end of the religious year and placed in a special intercalary period, so the sixths calends of February was the last day of the "real" religious year in his time, which did not end at the same time as the business or calendar year. I think. This source also claims Caesar put January at the beginning of the year, which I am fairly sure is not correct.

ed2: apparently authorities differ on month ordering timelines: Wikipedia cites Plutarch (not Livy) as saying it was King Numa who placed January at the begiining, Livy placing it centuries later during the late Republic, and others putting it in the time of the decemvirs, but I think it is still the case that even after the ordering was done the religious observances for the "end" of the year continued to take place in the beginning of the calendar year.
Both major cases of regulatory lack of oversight in USA involved presidential mandate to "deregulate" and "free" the airliner market (DC-8 cargo door failure history, and 737-MAX)
There's No Bargains Left Anywhere
For a simple use case this is not an issue.

- you add your ssh public key to the hosting provider, so any new VM will have it automatically

- you use the snapshot service of your hosting provider for backups. If you have a database, run a cronjob that dumps it so it's in the snapshots as well. Alternatively use any backup tool to backup files to somewhere else

- you do not need a separate network for simple use cases. Just encrypt traffic if you have multiple servers, odds are you only have one here anyway.
The same author has a great similar piece on mechanical watches. Love the format!

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
Ye, especially with something like Netlify or Vercel, I'd bet the vast majority of the costs are CDN bandwidth, and it never even touches the functions themselves. Could just as easily be in this situation with AWS CloudFront and an S3 bucket.

I have seen AWS Lambda generate large bills even with the 1000 concurrent executions limit, but with the help of upstream services. My memory of it is hazy, but I think over a weekend, a function with some dodgy retry logic managed to generate something like 21TB of CloudWatch logs.
I'm speculating on the medium term especially because I don't see much of an impact on the short term. While that logic sounds okay, I'm not seeing it right now, the productivity gains seems to be used to produce even more stuff.

I've never been in a company where the roadmap isn't full to the brim, there doesn't seem to be a limiting factor on this side.
So its like a API but less reliable and harder to use than if someone bothered to wire up a button or two.

Also much more expensive.

The killer app for this stuff seems to be games and tomfoolery, anything serious can't really have the AI doing the actual work.
How Russia is using scaremongering tactics in Moldova
And for as long as you are willing to pay them, and for a idle multi-millionaire looking to live forever, that's a long, long time.
Being a slow thinker myself, this has been quite an enlightening thread; and a special thank-you to those who alerted me on Derek Sivers, his work seems highly relevant.

But this whole topic raises an important question: is there any way to check whether someone is a slow thinker, e.g. when interviewing people for work? It would be great if one could easily determine if someone doesn't have the required knowledge or is simply slow to formulate the answers.
Intuitively, the blue check mark combined with identity verification should split X traffic into two worlds fairly well. At least that’s my hope.
That's makes no sense.

Is the climate nicer and grass really greener on Mars?
Definitely. The US' intelligence apparatus is capable of subverting every Western democracy. This is by design.
Cybersecurity is offence and defence. LLMs make defence proportionally harder.
There's a lot of details here and not pay walled: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/biotech-millionaire-claimed-...

Some highlights: > 100 pills daily, team of 30 doctors, fat injected in his face, five to six "therapies" a day, millions spent.

At this point he's claiming 5 years biological age reduction, he's in a full marketing campaign and he has started selling a line of supplements. I guess we'll see in 30-40 years if his claims have any merit but for now I'm gonna hold on buying anything.
Hmm, maybe some (signaling) inspiration from biology other than neural signaling.
I visit Twitter every now and then, seems like smaller accounts are fine, I guess the people running the bots don't care about them. But for tweets by larger accounts (public figures etc.) the replies have become a sewer for many the ones I see.
The main benefit of quantum computers is that they're (in principle) very precisely controllable quantum systems. In a sense, if you do a "quantum simulation", it's actually physically real since you are actually working with the same quantum states and interactions you would have in the "real thing".

Apart from some strange cases (usually using quantum fourier transform, such as prime number factorisation) they are not good replacements for classical computers at all.
And that it was considered highly overpriced at the time (for gaming) but now seen as a bargain choice.
Yes, I know about it, it's just that Linux come first to mind due to all the early discussions about it being Torvalds' toy project. Plus I assumed Unix supported also other architectures, given how much variety there was in the early days.
The imminent nonsense of fear-mongering and money wasting, mostly. Academic funds spent billions on PQC and academia has been paid to shill nonsense for long enough to convince some of these players to "ah, let's just integrate PQC, whatever". It's nothing more than a waste of money and resources.
Why is "growing" always the goal? Why not go on sustaining?
> Much has been spoken at various occasions about drivers and I feel that the
consensus is to wait for now.

Interesting, I did not follow that development. I thought the plan was to use Rust for some out-of-tree/optional drivers. What changed?
He's talking about the fact that many of these language and vm implementations are written in C and C++, and that C and C++ are supposedly to be avoided.
I block them with uBlock. They are very rarely contribute anything to the video.
For me it's

> Mozilla develops their own browser engine

This is key. Without Mozilla we are aproaching monopoly as Safari aproaches gradually Internet Explorer.
385M USD is way too much for EU investors. They usually invest 10x-100x less. So the alternative without US investors would be to have no startup of this kind - great job, that will really help EU grow!
AO – A Decentralized Computer Built on Top of Arweave
He reminds me a little of my ultralight hiker friend who uses a syringe to fill up his toothpaste tube and is currently experimenting with putting his feet inside ziplock bags instead of bringing camp shoes.

This isn't a criticism of either of them. Some people are into micro-optimising their life and find it brings them joy. Maybe he's one of them.
All 70 year old companies is not helping your point.

US has new upstarts like Tesla and Nvidia, which at their prime, add like 1 IKEA per fortnight to their market cap.
> Max Howell (mxcl) created Homebrew fifteen years ago

> Despite that, Max continues to hype himself as the creator of Homebrew
Anecdata of one.

I have a very old Twitter account.

I visit x a few times for ~10 minutes each on most days. Engage with a few tens of EE/Hardware/Software folks. Follow and followed by ~750 people.

The ads and engagement farming posts are both annoying, but on balance the conversations tend to be good and the info tends to be informative.

My feeling is that it's better now than it was a year ago.

I haven't noticed an increase in bot-like conversations.

Possibly major factor:

I actively unfollow and often block anyone who shouts about political subjects as I'm generally not interested in those conversations online.
Looks like we have finally rediscovered a biological neuron.
Shape Suffixes – Good Coding Style
Their details might be wrong, but were perhaps not always wrong. Either way, the spirit of their argument is clearly not wrong.
"Initially".

I meant their "growth hack" phase until the legislatures outlawed their worst malpractices.
When waiting on the phone for a Geico agent, the recorded voice repeatedly said something along the lines of "This task can be done on the website. You can hang up now." After waiting a while I did got agent who did what I needed, unlike the website which I had already tried and it didn't work.
As a non-Russian citizen, I can do nothing effective about Russia - AND NEITHER CAN YOU AMERICAN.

>What did USA had to do with Minsk accords?

They instructed their puppet to ignore them and knowingly set Ukraine on a path to utter destruction as a result.

>Also, what a stellar example of diplomacy after Russia invaded Ukraine.

There was none - that is the point.
Rick Rubin gets a lot of direct sunlight exposure and his skin looks pretty good for 60.

https://youtu.be/GpgqXCkRO-w?si=b_pJPs1tIMLD5Shx
I've been saying it for a long time - Musk intends for X to become irrelevant. Every action he has taken since he announced his intent to buy has backed this up.

Why people listen to his words is a total mystery to me. He's a consummate liar. His actions re Twitter are clear as day.

Billionaires saw the way Twitter was empowering people and said 'Fuck this noise. Who can we get to destroy this from the inside...'
I'm more of a sport climber myself.

I enjoy the longer time on the route, the mental job of keeping my wits when my arms are about to give up and I can't figure out the next clip...

Plus it's a lot easier on the joints!

I still boulder a few times a month though, I especially enjoy the social aspects which tend to be more present than on sport sessions.
You can run 4 bit quantized versions of SOLAR-10.7B and Llama 2 13B based models quite well on 16GB M1 laptops.
Context “mixers” that put together copy and rearranged sentences were popular in black hat SEO for years. The early versions of ChatGPT have been used to generate SEO and marketing copy since ChatGPT 2.

This has been going on for a long time. The same low-quality sites that you ignored 2 years ago are just getting slightly better content that you’ll never read.
What makes US investors so uniquely ambitious and generous? I'm starting to appreciate the US financial sector more and more.
If this where the case we wouldn't have had any peace. Ever.
An HMO is a type of managed care plan (or health insurance plan). Kaiser sells both HMO and PPO plans.

https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/northern-california/sho...

https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/northern-california/lea...

The old style HMO only plan organizations are almost all gone.

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

> When HMOs were coming into existence, indemnity plans often did not cover preventive services, such as immunizations, well-baby checkups, mammograms, or physicals. It is this inclusion of services intended to maintain a member's health that gave the HMO its name.

Since the above services are required in all plans by law since ACA, there is much less difference between an HMO style plan and a PPO plan where you only go to in network providers.
The most well known of those is Shor's algorithm and yet it's still extremely difficult to scale. The problem is that quantum computers, like any quantum system, are so difficult to control without introducing massive decoherence (EDIT: mixing with the environment and thus destroying any relevant "quantumness"), that they are almost impossible to scale.

It is indeed interesting that it's even theoretically possible to create quantum algorithms that are better than classical ones, but that doesn't mean it's practically useful. The latter is the relevant metric for bothering with "the assembly line". What you are talking about is still firmly within the realms of academia.
Why are they funding this? I don't want to read AI-generated news.
Funny story about the year 2000 that does not involve Y2K:

"Everyone" knows that leap years occur on year divisible by 4 ('first rule'). The second rule to them is that if a year is divisible by 100 (1800, 1900, …2000), then it is not a leap year.

So a lot of folks did not have their systems/software have February 29 in the year 2000.

But there is a third rule: if the year is divisible by 400 (like 1600… and 2000) it is a leap year.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year#Gregorian_calendar

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Accuracy

Lots of folks missed the 'third rule'. Hilarity ensued.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#On_29_Februa...