skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it only appears intelligent when we conceal how batshit crazy it can be.

this can be applied to a broader aspect than just AI. in today's post-fact world, this is absolutely applicable as well to pretty much anything in life. we have people believing in the wildest ideas and not as a joke or just for the lulz, but wholeheartedly believing them as fact. people believe the earth is flat, that vaccines make you magnetic, or any of the other well known tropes.

all of that content has been used to train these "AI" systems. why would we ever expect it to not make shit up when a non-insignificant amount of its training data is made up shit.
>Japan became the world's dominant superpower rather than the US.

According to Gibson himself, the US itself no longer exists as a country in the Sprawl novels. I never noticed it from reading them, but apparently the only person who mentions the US as a country is Armitage/Corto, who is a generation or two older than the other characters, and even he is just talking about it in the context of "the war" the other characters were too young for.
AMD 7000 series has DP2.1
John Carmack pointed out (and I learned it here at HN) that what training really needs is the *sign" of each individual gradient parameter. I.e., you can quantize gradient to -1, 0 and 1 and still have neural network learn much of the dataset.
Where did you dream up that idea? PRQL integrates with Go just fine. The project even provides an example in Go.
How exactly would you do that? 3 states need 1.58 bits which is a tad more than 1.5. Two 3-states have 3²=9 states while three bits only give you 2³=8 states.
> triple point of the ammonia-methane eutectic

Which is a shame that the temperature scale is still anchored in that arbitrary mix, picked by a lazy apprentice. It's also historically base-10, not like the modern systematic base-8 units.

(Can ammonia actually alloy with methane? Their crystalline lattices don't seem to be compatible, and they don't react together.)
As a developer that is the worst price model to be in. If you don’t use a stores like Apple Store. The issue is state taxes. Some states require to file taxes when you reach N amount of sold good in USD. But some actually for number of transactions. Like 100-1000. So imagine if you sold 100 for $100 now you have to spend all of those money to figure out taxes situation in that state.
Most of these problems are pretty trivial to solve by simply reading the manual for the database engine you happen to be using, which typically will document deviations from the standard in serviceable detail.

I'd be more sympathetic to concerns about switching engines if I had, at any point in a career now heading for its 25th year, ever seen that occur.

Given the frequency with which ORMs are used in greenfield to defend against this notional problem, and the many problems that using an ORM always inflicts, this may well be the costliest form of premature optimization I've ever seen. It certainly can't be outside the top three.
They showed how you can make more money as BSaaS provider than news paper provider. Of course all the tycoons will switch over. Those who didn’t, died.
Well, even if the former were true, the answer is that capital isn’t easy to come by in poor countries so distributed generation starts coming out ahead.

But the former isn’t true. Renewables are really cheap.
Google claims they were trying to make it reflect the global population, in which case those it tried to erase are the global minority.
Who is getting cheated here?
The thing is that this got released to the public after _many_ people said it was ok, internally, at google.

You really have to lost any grip with reality to go for something like that, so I guess they'll rationalize some excuse. That will be interesting to see.
Your post was the part conspiratorial and vague ("the game is fixed"), so not worth clicking the link. What good would it do? The post seems unrelated to the topic, which is republican government efforts to compel speech in order to make sure the next insurrection is successful. Based on the 1 cryptic sentence you provided before linking out, I'm guessing the link is similarly unrelated. Hence: not worth the click.

In any case, there's enough "both sides!!1"-style equivocating on the net, and I'm not really interested in engaging with that sort of low-effort distraction on HN. Have a good one!
I mean isn't all of that obvious?

A crap boss is one that doesn't make choices, a good boss is one that does, a great boss is one that makes sure that the best of the possible choices is made giving the data at hand.

Having careers and heads depending on making the wrong choice just pushed to paralysis.
Unless you moved in knowing this would happen, I would largely agree that complaints about lights beaming into your house are warranted, and deserving of some attention. Like how it's not unreasonable for the government to put up sound barriers around new highways passing by neighborhoods. I would not agree that the correct remediation is banning cars on the other hand...

Meanwhile solar isn't much different than having a bunch of boxes in your backyard, why would people care about this kind of thing? I get that the nitpickers are always gonna pick things, but what exactly are they picking when it comes to solar? Based on the replies so far, it's mostly due to local superstition, which is interesting in it's own way I suppose... but I guess it's more likely the boring answer perrygeo mentioned: that communities simply fear new developments in general, and banning solar is simply a means to an end.
I received 6 letters in the last 6 months I want to keep. Three of them were cards from nieces/nephews. 3 of them were bills, but could have been sent via email. This is generously maybe 120 grams.

Compare that to the _enormous_ amount of unsolicited bulk trash that I have to clean out regularly. I would say the yearly minimum is 5kg with the upper bound probably around 25kg. I cannot fathom the huge diesel cost to deliver this crap straight to the landfill.
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The LCOE of utility solar is cheaper than the LCOE of most if not all fossil fuel based alternatives for the developed US. This does of course vary by region and infrastructure. One would expect that to become more and more favorable over time.
> Ofcourse transmission lines might be a bottleneck.

In UK many windfarms wait for years to be connected to the grid as locals protest power pylons 'blighting the landscape'.
Also AFAICT the only one that is fully integrated with a general purpose programming language with an excellent IDE.
I kind of get the vibe there's some small town politics and someone complained to the game warden about this guy so they set out to catch him doing something illegal.
And that range sounds sensible.

My take, cynical at the root - unfortunately, is that "heads I win, tails somebody else loses" defines the low end of the premise; whereas the 100 years (times 5 for a good measure) defines the utter waste of the idea of rehabilitation.
The animals, who else?

With the technologies nowadays, they have no cover. No protection, no surroundings to protect themselves; no privacy.

Here in the UK they are using drones to hunt foxes. The drone watches the fox run and then ride with the hounds to the exact point where to hunt, flushing the fox out of the ground.

With no chance of escape; drones are not fair-game.

The only act of protection are outdated rules which are criminality exploited and illegally broken or underfunded to be able to protect. Ironic how we are against drones on humans yet when it comes to animals, oh it's just fine. How long until animal hunting is done by drone?

With AI being able to track their movements, predict, monitor movement all from the air, how the hell do they have any chance of from not being hunted? You tell me, how is that fair? You can't.

I understand hunting, and to some; sure, it's not for fun. I can understand that. I'll be pissed but can turn an eye if your genuine about it. But when it becomes a disadvantage, your a shite of a person.

Don't give me an "would you rather a limping deer who is bleeding to death" -- Don't shoot it in the first place if you know you can't kill it.

Considering HN is American, enjoy slaughtering of animals from hunting to eating veal. Using drones on animal takes all protection away from the animal.

It's not like your local Canadian moose has an Anti-AI vest or a tiger with an RPG or a fox with a nuke.
Well, perhaps we ought to educate people better. And quickly.

The real danger of LLMs is that people come to believe they hold some sort of authority — or that their output is in any way the end result of a process of deliberation and contemplation rather than simply being a (stochastically perturbed) best guess at what an answer should look like.

Yes, people already take Google at face value, but at least (in theory) they know that anything they’re finding there is written either by an organisation with an axe to grind or an individual no more omniscient than they.
The idea that foreign countries will be influenced or pushed by Western countries "setting a good example" into making investments that would benefit their countries from an environmental standpoint is absurd. Do you really think that Chad, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. (who are all at the top of that list for countries with the worst air pollution) give a damn about their air quality? Or PR reasons for bettering their countries? Not even slightly. The leaders of those countries couldn't care less about "their people" because their goal is to keep them poor, uneducated and scared so they can stay rich and in power. This is painfully obvious and pretending it's not real won't help any advancements.
> And it is probably much better than the zero service before!

Or infinitely worse.
Bunnie's work on HDMI mitm is really cool.

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events...
(Slides and long write up)

His 28C3 talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37SBMyGoCAU
This is another symptom of the same issue, it's not like they're disconnected. They're able to ignore the elephant in the room and act like the biased output is an affront to people of color when their models depict black Nazis after being specifically aligned to erase white people, or when they express bias in non-US politics after embedding political bias in their training, because that's what's politically correct at this time (though I'm hopeful that we're on our way to some semblance of sanity as the fallout of DEI becomes more and more ridiculous and visible). Could you imagine any big tech CEO aside from Musk criticizing the model's political bias in a US context?
This made me think of how I hate Youtube comments. All the high-fiving positive ones end up on the top and not the ones that provide an opportunity to learn or think critically.
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It's good that this happened and I hope it stays in the news as much as possible. It's also good that Google entered an Indian culture war and I hope many incidents of this kind keep happening until the maximum amount of users see what happens when DEI takes control and has free rein with indoctrination. I'm not very hopeful for the future, but anything that exposes the ridiculousness of the people that were put in control of this tragic debacle is very welcome.
Seems straightforward to me. 0nm, -1nm, -2nm, etc.
Whether they take it into the building or not is irrelevant.

If they drive nearby and leave it in the car, you can find them.

If they drive nearby and turn it off then, you can find them (improve it by bracketing by the average 9-5 workday, add correlation of world events to late-night anomalies - i.e. the Washington pizza index[1]).

If they leave their phone at home and switch it off, then you can still find them by that data.

If they leave their phone at home, switched on, then this also applies - you filter by public holidays.

The key is that the "phone policy" is effectively public information - so you don't have to guess, you can just go find out what it is to set your search parameters.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clint...
I agree with everything you wrote, it's the mindset I wish people would have.

One note, though, in this case, it wasn't the generative AI that was racist, it's the people who added the extra configuration of not allowing (or at the very least, strongly discouraging) white people in their images. The racism wasn't a bug (like in the past with the gorilla incident), this time it was a feature that was deliberately put there.
thank you, 100% agreed!
Nope. This is my point exactly.

All 3 are electoral authoritarians that came to power due to public anger at a corrupt status quo (Maluf in Brazil in the 90s-early 2000s, Coalgate/2Ggate/Jan Lokpal in India from 2011-13, and 2017 gas price hike in Mexico) and enabled by cheap populism and campaigning directly to the subaltern of their countries.

Furthermore, all 3 are products of dysfunctional democracies where criminalization of the electoral process has been the norm since the 1990s.

While electoral institutions Ann all 3 remain somewhat strong (as is reflected in the EIU's democracy index), civil society has died in India, Brazil, and Mexico.

Furthermore, all 3 leaders are notoriously anti-ideological in the sense that they will take right leaning and left leaning positions on policies at a whim depending on the electoral winds
So your requirements are:

1. Reliable speech to text from multiple possibly identifiable speakers

2. Long-term knowledge storage and retrieval

Speech to text is a solved problem, AFAIK with a caveat: single speaker. You'd need to train a local AI to identify all these different voices reliably. No easy feat.

Assuming you have done that, you have to feed that data into a vector database to retrieve it when you're talking to the AI. You can't use it to train the AI because it would be too expensive. But then you hit another roadblock: you either have very good querying capabilities for that database so you're able to retrieve what matters and feed into the prompt; or your context window is huge. The latter is expensive.

Some commercial LLM implementations are already implementing some form of learning based on previous chats, so it might be doable from a cost perspective.

I think you can't fit the necessary computing power into a wristband today. It needs to take care of speech to text (again, multiple speakers), uploading all of that to some cloud, and do it for hours and hours non-stop.

Maybe it could just be a smart microphone that uploads a constant stream of audio to the cloud for processing? A privacy nightmares no one is willing to touch most likely. Would you have to ask permission from anyone in the room before you enter with your microphone?
The automatic naming of paths is a critical feature of Nix. Without it, Nix expressions can’t exist. One of the most remarkable features of Nix is that package build recipes, or derivations, in Nix speak, can be treated like any other value in a programming language. It’s possible to reuse and modify existing derivations in Nix expressions without causing conflicts. That’s only possible because different derivations are assigned different paths. If Nix copied GoboLinux and treated packages with differing build recipes as the same, it would lose its declarative and reproducible nature.

Also, there’s no actual use case for Nix store paths with the hashes stripped out. The actual path can easily be derived from whatever is at the root of the dependency. Things like Nix expressions, the result symlink, the system environment in /run/sw/current-system, and PATH. Those are “human readable.” From there, you can get the actual store paths. It doesn’t matter that they’re prefixed with a hash because they still have human readable names at the end, allowing you tell what they contain.

It’s similar to inspecting memory. You don’t want to start by examining raw bytes in memory dumps. It’s far more easier and meaningful to start by chasing variables instead.
Yeah, that's fair. I was more taking point with "Core KDE applications," where krita is more of an outlier compared to KDE Gear apps.
Home battery systems are getting absurdly cheap. Grid scale will follow, but before then it would be cheaper to incentivize rooftop solar and home battery installations in places where there’s plenty of sunlight (e.g., most of Australia)
> guilty as charged. it gets worse, though: meters are originally based on the size of the earth, but humboldt's expedition (?) fucked up the measurement and now we're stuck with a meter that's significantly too short

Uhm, a kilometer is supposed to be 1/40000-th of the Earth's meridional (i.e. from South to North poles) circumference. The modern value is 40008km, so the official meter is juuuust about 0.02% shorter than it should be.
IIUC the main issue with the CM-1 architecture was feeding the processor cluster with data. That required a heftier front end system than was practical/affordable at the time. With modern CPUs and memory subsystems the GPUs can be saturated pretty easily. So going back to huge clusters of super narrow cores won't starve them for work.
If it's a go pro in an airtight housing, it has that air to make the mic work normally
I have an HD Fury Arcana 2 VRR which overlays text (eg: bitrate information) on top of my normal HDMI signal. (https://hdfury.com/)

I don't think this behavior is customizable.. (but maybe with some hacking).
E-nose uses temperature modulation to rapidly identify gas molecules
The separation of personal and biz addresses is an important concept in owning a business. Not only for privacy, but for proving the biz is a separate entity and such. This is probably one of 2 - 3 recent changes that they have imposed on my biz, all without seemingly any lead time. 15 days isn't really a lot of lead time to change your business address when you are over capacity already and have to (or would much prefer to) focus on things that actually make money. The one previously was a change that turned me previously paying $0 a month to over $60 (maybe $80 or more depending on volume) for the same feature set. Once again, without notice. Having a UPS box has for years been recognized as a legitimate way to have a biz address as well. Just not USPS PO boxes. The CTA and BOI legislation doesn't impose restrictions on that as far as I know, but Stripe does? My bank accepts my business address as a UPS box, but Stripe doesn't? That doesn't seem right. The CTA and BOI are more closely aligned with the banking secrecy act, which is just uncle sam wanting to know that a real person with a residential address owns a given bank account to prevent money laundering etc.
Sport has an older meaning, of anything one does in leisure for the enjoyment of it. Hunting was always sport, and certainly in English circles, the question of good sportsmanship, and what is sporting, have also always been applied to hunting in those very terms.

It's not a game, however. That's what you hunt.
I'd be hesitant to assume the generated CTEs are always going to be amenable to optimization. The examples on the linked page are pretty trivial queries - I wonder what happens when that ceases to be the case, as seems very likely with a tool that apparently doesn't do a great deal to promote understanding what goes on under the hood.
Anyone with 2% denisovan DNA has an ancestor who was 50% denisovan! I remain astounded.
How do you train these? Or is it only for already trained models?
Agreed! Azure’s best product isn’t CosmosDB, AKS, or their AI cognitive services - it’s Kusto! Sadly no one knows about it.

If you’re interested, you can try it here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/...
maybe they could be stored together in two words until they're operated on and lose their pairing?
That seems a very US-centric way of seeing the internet evolution.

The rest of the world moved to higher speeds and didn't count Gabs (except on mobile) decades ago and I mean decades.

In 2004 in Italy I had a 20 Mbit/s fiber connection, I had 100 Mbit few years later. I still remember pinging 4, literally 4 ms, on Counter Strike 1.6.

And Fiber was started way later in 2010. So I don't see any impact by Google fiber on internet as a whole, maybe it pushed US carriers to not do worse (internet in US is not really that amazing in terms of speeds and latency).

One thing that I noticed is that while speeds increased in the decades since then, latency became worse. Even with the fastest connection I can use I rarely if ever ping below 30 Ms on the very same Counter strike 1.6 or newer versions.
You forgot the first and most important option:

- you're reaffirmed in your decision to shun Apple while watching those who did buy into this world twist themselves into knots in attempts to defend yet another user-hostile move made by the company.
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Startups also provide brand isolation. If you get the Microsoft AI to say things it shouldn't say then that tarnishes the MS brand, if a MS associated startup has prompt hacks, then there is a layer of isolation.

Large companies are sadly not good at innovating themselves, probably this is an emergent effect from the size alone and the bureaucracy such size sadly requires. Especially when people sue you for millions when you search their name and lies show up, you must erect barriers. You also cannot let every PM in the company launch potentially disappointing products. Instead proposals need to get reviewed at least from legal points of view, but usually by a larger set of departments.

By the time half of the reviews are done, the competing startup has already launched the product, gotten direct user feedback, and established itself as the "innovator", all this while the big tech company where someone might have had the same idea is busy with getting it through its bureaucracy.
to assume only humans are capable of homophobia is as silly as assuming only humans are capable of homosexuality.

a dw article has a bs headline, but even that garbage had it:

> Being homosexual is very common and no problem in the natural world at all. In fact, we see more heterophobia than homophobia in the animal kingdom," Jasper Buikx, biologist at Amsterdam's ARTIS Zoo, told DW in an interview.

“we see more” is not even close to “we see one and not the other.”

nothing wrong with the sentiment, humans are terrible. but they also aren’t special.
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I’m glad this exists but would caution extensibility as the most important thing for devs to consider when picking there “ORM” stack especially in terse Golang.

For that I use squirrel which uses the builder pattern to compose sql strings. Keeping it as strings and interfaces allow it to be very easily extended, for example I was able to customize it to speak SOQL (salesforce). plenty of downide though.
Not my site, but immediately useful to me when you mentioned this book: https://www.bookpecker.com/book/14673-amp-it-up
Show HN: TailwindUI alternative built with bootstrap (NinjaBootstrap)
[dupe]

Lots more discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39534608
Neurons activate on a gradient
Alternative style batteries also exist (technically they're batteries too but not the kind you'd imagine). Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia has an attached hydroelectric plant and they'll pump water into the lake during off peak hours and run the turbines at peak demand.
I see 'Share of electricity production
from renewables' going up in every region but South America
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> Mantis shrimp are exotic terrors of the deep you don't exactly forget you have.

Yep. Any fish you put in the tank would disappear soon after.