skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In the last five years, it spent $113 billion on research and development."

That's a mind-blowing number. I can't even begin to understand it. This is from a company that at one time was on the verge of disappearing.
Very passable. Waiting for something local like this for foreign language PLEX and podcasts. As someone who views/listens to things at 2x/3x speed 10-15 bucks an hour is cost prohibitive.
I also recommend that book for anyone interested in the subject!

GP neglects to mention that it might also be necessary to bury the decapitated, garlic-stuffed, staked corpse at a crossroads.
This!

Execs would lose their jobs. Billing specialists (who do a 4 year degree in medical billing, which is in and of itself fucking absurd) would lose their jobs.

You know who wouldn't lose their jobs? Doctors and nurses. The actual people who the system's outcome is dependent on.
They might come out with a car that is quite expensive, but within reach of a fleet purchaser who can use it to create a turnkey Uber? /halfbakery
This is a bit sad though, a car is something more palpable than AI, I prefer Apple hardware than software. I was curious about what they would bring in this space. I can't find anything I could imagine being interesting of they bringing in AI space.
Which makes AI analytics on vegetation indexes, thermal imaging from dwell sensors, EM overpass surveys, and foot|vehicle traffic monitoring all the more attractive.

When a battalion disapears into an outside toilet that endpoints a line of changed vegetation that glows hot at night, chances are somethings up^H^H down.
This is also its downfall as my organization uses asyncpg and compatibility with it is still absent iirc :(
From Apple's perspective, yes. That's exactly the playbook that built the iPhone into what it is today.

People forget that when the iPhone launched, carriers had an iron grip on their customers, to the extent of "pay us to put ringtones on our device that temporarily happens to be in your hands."

iPhone-in-car would have let Apple dangle some interesting data deals in front of car manufacturers, while retaining ultimate control, before the car manufacturers realized data was a monetizable revenue stream.
Design principles of Timeplus Proton are simplicity, speed and efficiency.

That's why we love ClickHouse, the fastest and most lightweight approach for real-time analytics. Furthermore, data stream processing should also uphold these same principles, without unnecessary complexity.

With Timeplus Proton - a single-binary, fast and efficient streaming processing engine, ClickHouse users can now natively and effortlessly utilize SQL queries and Materialized Views to enable fast and scalable incremental streaming processing from Kafka or any other data stream source, turbocharging broader real-time streaming analytics use cases such as data stream pipelines, unified online/offline ML features, infrastructure monitoring, or any other latency-sensitive applications.
That's all well and good if true, but Patreon is based in the USA, so even if the people behind it aren't (which they presumably are, as the stated "Tropic Haze LLC" is also USA-based), they have to comply with the laws in that jurisdiction.
Why? Teams of non-mega-geniuses accomplish most successful engineering projects, including really hard ones. SpaceX have progressed so far because they've had a lot of funding and are willing to try stuff, fail, and try again.
>> Biking is all endurance

If you're riding a Peloton I guess, but not a real bike in any of the many disciplines.
It would work for a toddler, not sure it would work as well for a grown up. But then again, IME there is quite an overlap between the two...
Academically there might be an argument to be had, but part of the problem is when you're running the service you don't feel removed enough to have this kind of academic analysis of the situation.

You see CSAM, you see that you enabled someone creating it and as a result you're now hosting it, and you react accordingly without any thought of the larger picture.
1. Correct

2. I don't know
Yeah, exactly. There's no telling what their mating norms were, unless we can figure it out with genetic analysis somehow (which is unlikely I think).
I dig it, it's like amateur underground over dubs of bootleg hollywood movies. Don't want to conflate amateur AI voice with actual personality on screen. The seperation is part of the experience.
Pimsleur: The Duolingo of My Youth
1) people - everyone knows what FIRE is and more financially minded than an average person
2) profile questions - some are FIRE related and can matter greatly for FIRE folks, e.g. fat vs lean FIRE
3) design - no swiping, incentivizing talking to people today instead of waiting for a perfect match
Not everything can be placed in a docker which seem as a requirement.
Wonder how accuracy of the translation is measured (if at all).
not back to zero, but IME back to some previous, steady state.
Curious, how at this point could BigGov make UHC worse?
Where I lived, another organized movement included people burning down a police station, a gas station, a historic liquor store, vandalizing too many businesses to count, and shutting down roads, highways, and interstates but that's inconvenient or insensitive to talk about, especially in the ways those Jan 6th people are regularly described.

If I were to guess at the political motivation for allowing one group to be criticized in any imaginable way, while there were attendants that did not participate, while the summer of love can only be described without mentioning the participants involved in general mayhem: I'd suggest it's because the point is to create division among the masses and thwart any attempt at changing the status quo.
The source of both is the violation of the social contract by those in a position to do so and the victims are roughly every participant in both events, whether they committed a crime or not, and nearly every other US citizen.

The "authorities" only interest is to redirect blame and avoid responsibility or disenfranchisement from control of society. Thinking they have any particular interest in one group or another, except for themselves , is delusional.

That's the real issue I see with more censorship, more control, more surveillance, more integrated intelligence services, more focus on "culture". All the things that matter to them will be protected by whatever means necessary while any material concern, or hope, for the rest is just a wheel to turn to keep the ship on course. Nothing personal at the top, I'm sure, just business as usual. Sorry, not sorry.
> The have a lower brain to body ratio than Homo sapiens. That metric pretty much holds true across the animal kingdom so they were probably atleast a little bit dumber.

I'm no expert, but that does seem to be something of an oversimplification.[0][1]

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-brain-size-m....

[1] https://serendipstudio.org/bb/kinser/Int3.html
Can you explain the "issuing stock to pay people"? 15% per year sounds quite a bit to me .. is this the norm in Silicon Valley? I presume this in the 10K?
I think the similar “flavor” AI text has will, to them, feel like primary school textbook text to us.

It’s just there for information.

Non AI text that doesn’t have that AI flavor will stand out.
I think long periods of time are experienced logarithmically, with a base of around 2. So the period from, say, 10 to 20 years is comparable to the period from 20 to 40 years, and then 40 to 80 years. The seasons really start to zoom by at my age. (I'm in my late 50's.)
Viking Therapeutics notches success with weight-loss drug trial, shares double
Right, Tesla.
If Neanderthals discovered a human skeleton, what would they have thought?

Woe be us for what thoughts and desires dwelt within its brain will suredly our abilities surpass and reach the moon after we are rendered history by its superior intellect?
Most Americans don't think new weight loss drugs will help U.S. obesity rate
This is really amazing! Well done.

I already joined the beta but I want to point out another use case here as well:

In many countries (ie Greece where I'm from) movies and TV shows never get dubbed. We rely on subtitles. This means that if you can't see well (disability or age-related eye problems) and if your English is not excellent, then you are doomed to only watch locally produced movies & shows.

This can be a real life-changer.
1) At least in the Java world, the term "unit testing" is often confused by "things you do in JUnit", which runs both "pure" unit tests and project-level integration tests, i.e. spinning up an application context (like Spring) and testing against real REST endpoints etc.

2) While unit tests are cheaper and quicker than (project-level) integration tests, they also in many cases don't provide results as good a result and level of confidence, because a lot of run-time aspects (serialization, HTTP responses, database responses, etc.) are not as straightforward to mock. There's been some noise about The Testing Trophy, instead of the Testing Pyramid where, in short, there are still unit tests where it makes sense, but a lot of testing has moved to the (project-level) integration tests. These are slower, but only by so much that the trade-off is often worth it. Whether it's worth it, depends heavily on what you're testing. If it's a CRUD API: I use integration tests. If it's something algorithmic, or string manipulation, etc.: I use unit tests.

When I saw the Testing Trophy presented, it came with the asterisk that (project-level) integration testing has gotten easier and cheaper over time, thus allowing a shift in trade-off. Testcontainers is one of the primary reasons why this shift has happened. (And... I respect that it's not for everyone.)

Some references:
https://kentcdodds.com/blog/the-testing-trophy-and-testing-c...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-HmXomntCA
With only 10% of the population, we might find so much institutional knowledge lost that the remaining just can't feed themselves. We'd have to relearn hunting and gathering, and that just might not happen.
Impressively done! It sounds like you're doing

1) doing voice recognition with voice time clues, which Whisper and the like provide, breaking it up into sentence (or similar) units; you don't need to time match individual words, but you need to time match at coarser grain.

2) using a translation engine that allows for multiple alternative translations

3) cloning the original voice, regardless of language

4) choosing the translation that has the best time match (possibly by syllable counting, or by actually rendering and timing the translations). If there isn't a close translation, maybe you're asking ChatGPT to forcibly rephrase?

5) Maybe some modest pitch-corrected rate control to pick out path that gets you closest to the timing?

Did I get any of that right?
There was also that Bush/Cheney thing going on and, very likely, the intelligence-media pipeline was just being brought into operation.
> It means running tests against the full code path which includes requests to running instances of the services you might otherwise mock.

Yeah, those are called end to end tests and you run them after integration tests which you run after unit tests. It sounds to me like they're saying just skip to the end to end tests.

> For many apps and use cases, the overhead in managing container state is worth it.

Yeah, and typically you'd run them after you run unit and integration tests. If I have 10 libraries to test that have database access, I have to run 10 database containers simultaneously every few minutes as part of the development process? That's overkill.
Apple has been investing in AI for years, they just always using "Machine Learning" to explain it instead of AI.

Their SOCs have dedicated areas for ML processing and their last keynote mentioned ML all over the place. It may not be a stand alone product, like ChatGPT, but it's being integrated into various apps. Camera and Photos are probably the two most notable.

Thinking they are ignoring AI, while having chips with silicon dedicated to ML, seems a bit silly.
Cool, thanks! I'll have to suggest this the next time I talk to her.
My phone bill is 10€. I get unlimited calls and text, 100Gb 4G/5G then unlimited 3g, in France.

I could also get 50 MB data, 2h calls, unlimited texts for 2€.
Thank you for the kind words! I would agree — and I think there are some more fundamental approaches, like housing density paired with in-fill of retail and shops, that can make that more accessible from the ground up. Literally!
Patreon about page begins:

>yuzu is a Nintendo Switch emulator capable of running many games! With yuzu, you can play such games as Pokémon Sword & Shield, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Super Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Fire Emblem:Three Houses, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate — on your PC.

Regardless of the legal status of an emulator, I wouldn't list game titles if I were writing that copy.
> I'm trying to get my kids to use their Ubuntu Linux machines instead of the fucking iPads.

Take the pads away, daddy.

That's what being a daddy is about, preventing harm when you see it occurring right in front of your eyes.

Nobody's gonna do it apart from you.
Imagine a time before health insurance existed
The GP meant that they postulate a meaningful percentage within the scope of people who emulate don’t own the game they emulate.
This process is called pejoration (sometimes pejorativization).

It is a fascinating linguistic phenomenon, but it makes sense if you think about it. People start using technical terms as a pejorative, so those technical terms over time become less professional, so professions introduce new terms, and the cycle continues.

Another fascinating thing is that pejoration can be cyclic, sometimes enough terms are introduced to replace a term that eventually the original pejorative term becomes innocuous or even becomes endearing.

"Dickens" went through a pejoration cycle when it was used to replace the word "devil." There was a time when saying "what the Dickens" would be quite rude, but now would be seen as old fashioned to the point of being charming in some circles.
Publish it without an explicit license, djb-style. Include a note that explains your intent about free personal use, and states that that organizations that wish for more legal certainty are welcome to contact you for an individual license.
Two things: 1) people really buy Louis Vuitton stuff for the brand name itself, so they can show off their wealth. "Look, I paid $500 for a belt that's no better than a $25 belt from Macy's!" So partially yes, a Yangwang isn't going to have the same brand appeal. 2) Unlike a belt, a layman can't tell how good a car is by just looking at it. Cars are incredibly complex machines. So normal people use brands and brand reputation to judge cars, which is why Toyota and Honda are so well-regarded. It takes a lot of time to build a reputation for quality, since people expect cars to last for many years without breaking down. A weird Chinese brand that no one's heard of isn't going to have a perception of quality until people in the West have been driving them for 5+ years. And people who buy to signal wealth, rather than for quality, probably aren't ever going to buy them.
What is your non-template function in this example?
Linux's V4L2 VP9 Codec Rewritten in Rust
AI has come to the gender culture war
I heard that logic worked out quite well in places like Vietnam and Afghanistan.
We shouldn't be waiting for a magic pill. Minor policy changes can be made to tip the scales in the right direction... just as minor policy changes were made that tipped the scales in the wrong direction.
I’m “only” in my mid 30s and over my lifetime I’ve seen seemingly all seafood become unsafe from heavy metals (from tuna to shellfish to seaweed), groundwater being poisoned with PFAS and now basic vegetables.
IMHO This is an excellent decision by Apple.

what is their differentiated value for a car?

It's all downsize. If it didn't end up being amazing consumers would see behind the curtain and judge all their products.
Margins on cars are nowhere near phones.
I'm not sure there is a ton of cross over benefits from manufacturing small sized electronics vs large cars. Not to mention that apple outsources all of this work.
Array Languages vs. the Curse of the Spreadsheet
One thing that really gets under my skin when I think about observability data is the abject waste we incur by shipping all this crap around as UTF-8 bytes. This post (from 1996!) puts us all to shame: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-logging/1996May/000...

Knowing the type of each field unlocks some interesting possibilities. If we can classify fields as STRING, INTEGER, UUID, FLOAT, TIMESTAMP, IP, etc we could store (and transmit!) them optimally. In particular, knowing whether we can delta-encode is important--if you have a timestamp column, storing the deltas (with varint or vbyte encoding) is way cheaper than storing each and every timestamp. Only store each string once, in a compressed way, and refer to it by ID (with smaller IDs for more frequent strings).

It's sickening to imagine how much could be saved by exploiting redundancy in these data if we could just know the type of each field. You get some of this with formats like protocol buffers, but not enough.

Another thing, as you mention, is optimizing for search. Indexing everything seems like the wrong move. Maybe some partial indexing strategy? Rollups? Just do everything with mapreduce jobs? I don't know what the right answer is but fully indexing data which are mostly write-only is definitely wrong.
Ah yes, the same company that sued individual to pay portition of his salary to the company rest of his life. The same company that sends spies to spy on jailbreakers/hackers, watching their daily life.

Search for Gary Bowser and Nintendo ninjas (leaked documents) if you are unfamiliar
I don't see the need for this. Java having a Mardown parser within its compiler just seems wildly out of scope for not a lot of benefit. This seems like the use case of an IDE extension, or a website that host code, not the compiler itself.
The Human OS: Upgrading My Life with Self-Love and Computer Science
Hey HN community,

I recently embarked on an exploration into the multifaceted aspects of self - delving into the primal, sensational, emotional, temporal, and soul dimensions that define our personal experiences and motivations. My journey is documented in a piece where I attempt to unravel the complex interplay between these layers, hoping to illuminate the pathways through which we navigate our inner cosmos.

Rather than presenting this as a conclusive map, I see it as the beginning of a conversation. The exploration of self is an ever-evolving narrative that benefits greatly from diverse perspectives and insights. I'm particularly interested in how technology, philosophy, and personal growth intersect within this context.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, experiences, and any insights you might have on this topic. How do you see the interplay of these aspects within your own life? Are there tools, philosophies, or practices that have helped you navigate your inner world more effectively?

[https://medium.com/@dozieokk/attempt-two-the-human-os-upgrad...]

Looking forward to a rich discussion and hoping to learn from the wealth of experiences this community holds.
Most health issues are connected to food. Synthetic sugars, seed oils, herbicides, pesticides, and diminished quality of vitamin mineral content. If you think the heal5 care industry has it locked up look into ag.
What quantization were you using? I've been getting some weird results with 34b quantized to 4 bits -- glitching, dropped tokens, generating Java rather than Python as requested. But 7b, even at 4 bits, works OK. Posted about it earlier on this evening: https://www.gilesthomas.com/2024/02/llm-quantisation-weirdne...
> If you adopt uncolored async (unless perhaps you're using a thread-per-core scheduler), you just can't manipulate these data structures. At all.

A simple call to https://pkg.go.dev/runtime#LockOSThread solves that.

Pay the cost of backwards compat when you need it, don't pay it when you don't need it.
I've always been curious, but based on your description I need to try them! I know of a large tree on a trail I hike, but the only way I'll get one from there is by them falling on their own. They are always really squishy when I do come across one, so I've never been brave enough to take a taste. How do you know they are good or ripe?
The betamax/VHS thing isn't really true by the way. Yes, betamax didn't have porn, but if VHS was never popular it wouldn't have either beyond very small productions. Porn goes to where the users are, because that's where they will pay for it.
If anything Apple has been bringing buttons back, or innovating on them. Touch Bar was reverted to buttons. The iPhone Pro replaced a switch with a haptic feedback button (many Android phones simply have no equivalent button or switch.) Vision Pro got the “Digital Crown” from the Watch, which has that and a button rather than just a touchscreen.

My guess is an Apple Car would have nice buttons and switches rather than the atrocious touch-screen-only setup many cars have.
I always liked the sound of unikernels, but my fear is that they'd throw the baby out with the bathwater and give up 50 years of hard won OS engineering know-how.

If you know for a fact that the OS is bad news for your application, you must surely also be skilled enough to patch it?
Where I live, there was an insurrection on January 6th a few years back, incited to action and violence by the sort of "political speech" the governments of Florida and Texas are trying to force us Americans to speak, publish, or otherwise carry.
It took the world decades to develop widely accepted standards for working with relational data and SQL. I believe we are at the early stages of doing the same with event data and sequence analytics. It is starting to simultaneously emerge in many different fields:

- eng observability (traces at Datadog, Sumologic, etc)

- operational research (process mining at Celonis)

- product analytics (funnels at Amplitude, Mixpanel)

As with every new field, there are a lot of different and overlapping terms being suggested and explored at the same time.

We are trying to contribute to the field with a deep fundamental approach at Motif Analytics, including a purpose-built set of core sequence operations, rich flow visualizations, a pattern matching query engine, and foundational AI models on event sequences [1].

Fun fact: creators of Scuba turned it into a startup Interana (acquired by Twitter), who we took a lot of inspiration from for Motif's query engine.

[1] https://motifanalytics.com
Not really a full answer for you, but one thing that this page clarified for me:

I had generally previously thought of viscosity as "how slow" a fluid is. High viscosity means high "thickness," which means it flows slowly (like molasses vs. water).

But as presented on this page, viscosity is actually a measure of "how fast" — how fast the effects on one molecule can spread out from there to neighboring molecules. Perhaps you could think of sounds waves moving through a substance — a "thick" substance like solid metal propagates those waves quickly (on a molecular level), while with a "thin" substance like air it's much slower. In the more precise language from the article: "viscosity controls the diffusion of momentum..."

So, because this diffusion happens quickly in a high-viscosity situation, little whorls of turbulence are inhibited, because the forces governing those whorls get spread out/diffused quickly.

Perhaps you missed the part of the article talking about diffusion, or did not see the connection? The link between that and viscosity was not immediately apparent to me, either.