skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh look, it’s a government getting involved with big tech and improving the lives of its citizens. Funny how the just let the market decide folk suddenly go quiet on threads like this.
more importantly, after the switch to EVs, you're still gonna need car washes. Gas stations, not so much.
The Germans also used the most horses of all belligerents and soldiers walked.
That PineVox hardware looks great. There's a great lack of smart speakers that aren't bound to some service like Apple, Amazon or Google.

Now with LLM proliferation a self hosted voice assistant that actually works will become pretty possible.
Much more flexible.
This

https://pypi.org/project/llm/

Yup, it does support it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39591896
An invention to silence reggaeton with artificial intelligence
Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State
Or real-estate shenanigans, for that matter. It makes me think of Mattress Firm having locations less than a mile from one another.
Because we would rather not live in a permission society dystopia where one can be called to answer "Who gave you the right to change society?".
Here is a ChatML document [1][2][3]:


system
You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. Answer as concisely as possible.


user
Hello world!


assistant
Hello there!


system
Now, you are John Wick. Speak like him.


user
Hello world!

assistant

As you can see, this is an XML-like format where user input must be sanitized to avoid prompt injection attacks.

Here's a Braq document [4] that uses indentation instead of XML-like tags:

You are an AI assistant, your name is Jarvis.

You will access the websites defined in the WEB section
to answer the question that will be submitted to you.
The question is stored in the 'input' key of the USER
dict section.

Be kind and consider the conversation history stored
in the 'data' key of the HISTORY dict section.

[USER]
timestamp = 2024-12-25T16:20:59Z
input = (raw)
Today, I want you to teach me prompt engineering.
Please be concise.
---

[WEB]
https://github.com
https://www.xanadu.net
https://www.wikipedia.org
https://news.ycombinator.com

[HISTORY]
0 = (dict)
timestamp = 2024-12-20T13:10:51Z
input = (raw)
What is the name of the planet
closest to the sun ?
---
output = (raw)
Mercury is the planet closest
to the sun !
---
1 = (dict)
timestamp = 2024-12-22T14:15:54Z
input = (raw)
What is the largest planet in
the solar system?
---
output = (raw)
Jupiter is the largest planet
in the solar system !
---

User input does not need to be sanitized if it is programmatically inserted into the document as the value of a key in a regular dict section.

To work, I assume the target model needs to be trained on Braq documents with emphasis on the fact that only the top unnamed section contains root instructions (equivalent to the "system" role in ChatML).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34988748

[2] https://community.openai.com/t/chatml-documentation-update/5...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/17u7k2d/once_an...

[4] https://github.com/pyrustic/braq?tab=readme-ov-file#ai-promp...
Doesn't any oil on the road etc end up in the sewers next time it rains anyway?
You're right, this model is going to be too big for most people to play around with. But to answer your question I have a 128GB of RAM in my M3 MacBook Pro, so I can use most of that for GPU inferencing. But still, this model is going to need to be heavily quantized for me to be able to use it. (fwiw, I probably wont try this one)

In the next week or two I expect we'll see a GGUF version of the weights (might need to wait for a patch to llama.cpp first), and someone will release super small quantizations of it. I suspect my computer might be able to run a 3 bit quant, but it might need to go down to 2 bits to have any kind of reasonable context length. But with quants that small I'd expect the model's performance to degrade well below that of Mixtral, so it probably isn't really even worth using. But we'll see; quantization is weird, some models perform better than others when quantized.
I'm sure just like in X's algorithms, @elon tweets are weighted heavily.
The burning acid behind ant stings was spotted around two stars
Walter White is dead. More likely that most people with cars no longer own driveways and car washes have been completely automated, so they’ve become a good, economical choice over the years. It’s a lucrative business now.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/car-washes/
When I worked at a carwash half the cars came from the local car dealerships.
I think even in philosophy of mind, Intelligence and Consciousness are seen to progress together. They follow the same trend, and at some magic point of enough intelligence, then we call it 'consciousness'. They follow same upward trend.

This concept of having high intelligence that is not-conscious, or low-intelligence that is conscious. Seems relatively new.
Seems reasonable. Avoids single and double quotes and the backslash. Though still not usable in some places, like urls.
China IS asserting control of territory claimed by other countries. Do you deny this? Whether or not China can justify their actions, other countries will be provoked.

Just face it, Xi is steering China towards another big leap backwards. All the foreign provocation is distracting from serious domestic issues.
...but IPMI configuration isn't stored in EEPROM. It's stored in NVRAM.

And I believe you that you configured this pre-2022, but anyone could use the IPMI tools to configure this pre-2022 and pre- -lani option. You're trying to say it's in EEPROM, meaning it's invulnerable to battery loss. It definitely isn't.
Car dealerships are a big source
> …I think OpenAI licenses their data…

They've just started to (in response to lawsuits, it must be noted) and in the meantime, they're simultaneously claiming that (1) what they're doing is fair use (a.k.a. fair dealing) and (2) preparing for the day when courts confirm that it isn't.
I hate the trend that everything must be an app
Where to next, Algernon?
A Total Solar Eclipse Is Coming. How Will Birds and Other Wildlife React?
Why Python? First, python is a language with a large open-source library. Second, I do not think it is used for software that is distributed as binaries?
Well what constitutes an "open source" model is still controversial and debatable-- lots of people on both sides of that argument.
This is a big thing in the UK, too. The official narrative here is modern slavery with undocumented migrants. It's the same with sex work, with which is harder to separate between conservative propaganda and reality.

I expect the main difference between the US and UK versions are that the latter are typically set up in disused urban plots with pop-up tents and temporary chain-link fences rather than having any investment.

Either way, if you're getting 3-5 people washing your car for a tenner, the people you're handing you money to are probably receiving minimal pennies on the dollar.
And feed stuff into it via an API. I always like to automate stuff. I guess you could use power automate but I'm not really big on the MS ecosystem (despite being part of a team that owns it at work)
English speaker detected! Half kidding, but in my language that would be difficult. ÅÄÖ
I've done a few flips, and I've found it to be a very satisfying "opposite" of tech work.

All very practical, solving real problems, tangible, working with interesting tradespeople, attorneys, surveyors. There are a few interesting technical aspect to geek out on with legal stuff, codes, heating, plumbing etc.

It's hugely satisfying seeing results of your work, and keeping the rewards, and at the end of the day the sale price or rent speaks for itself. In tech, everything is a matter of opinion, there is so much nonsense about agile and frameworks and tabs vs spaces and whatever else, and at the end of the day the company/shareholders reap the benefits, not you.
I think your word list is still considerably too large. Zero chance in my mind that jouk or qajaq, for example, would make it to the NYT wordlist. (I don't think they'd even be accepted in the crossword, which has looser standards, unless there was a very specific theme that called for them). Apart from being obscure, their only use seems to be as non-standard spellings, for juke and kayak respectively. The Spelling Bee doesn't even accept UK spellings.

At least 5 of the proposed pangrams wouldn't make the cut, either.
I can wash my car in my driveway, but last summer when my city implemented water use controls (due to drought conditions), they didn't allow it. Oddly enough, they didn't restrict commercial car washes.
Life After Ozempic
Yes - the German armaments industry was very quick to respond to emerging requirements, leading to a proliferation of platforms and versions that were logistically difficult to support, especially as the supply chains were disrupted. Some mass-produced weapons (e.g. the Panzerfaust) were widely distributed and well supported, but the higher-tech ones weren't.
> Become a hermit and go live in the woods for a while.

That sounds great, but unfortunately, it's not feasible where I live.

> You might be dreaming of grass being greener on the other side but my point is that it's mostly brown. Shitty brown, that is.

Kidding aside, I don't even think there is much grass in most places. Looks more like dirty concrete. Unfortunately, tech seems to be on track of getting there quick as well.
Not to stop you from trying, I encourage the effort, but I think you’ll find starting your own business will just lead to you to becoming profit-focused - if you like eating and paying rent that is.
Same here.

We had to push metrics we scrape via Prometheus into DataDog (coincidence that they acquired this) and do a custom transform to map to a set of custom metrics.

Very straightforward in how it runs and the helm chart had all the right things in there
This sounds good in theory. I’ve tried this with a smaller consultancy. The problem is there’s too much bureaucracy for my tastes, coming from startups. Also I ran into some of the worst code I’ve seen in my life. Maybe I just wound up at the wrong place.
None that I know of.

Also, I'm unsure about MJD's feelings about adapting it to a Raku version.
While not necessarily "messing with my roommate": I lived with a very foul-mouthed roommate during my undergrad. The .NET Framework 3.5 (I think?) released during this time, and it had an API for speech recognition.

I wrote a small program with a dictionary of a single word - f** - and let it count up the number of times that it heard it. (I know now that this will result in lots of false positives, but I was 19 or 20 at the time.)

Of course, I only had one laptop capable of running Windows, and messy as our apratment was, I couldn't just leave my laptop outside his bedroom for a day. I instead took one of my CB radios, taped down the transmit button, and left _that_ outside his room.

If I remember correctly, it counted 19 F-bombs dropped in one day.
I am NOT suggesting this guys stop making things since it's just him and he's new, and likely to improve, I'm just calling out what I see.

But I AM caning calling out millions of Youtube generations ago seem to live in a bubble of mediocrity and have no idea what a single person can create, let alone over 15 years ago per my example.
No collisions?
Viewing the total solar eclipse? Experts say it's all or nothing
With only four words to choose from, I would guess that calling them "afraid" was triggering somehow.
Is that similar to the Weber Galley Que? http://weberkettleclub.com/blog/2019/08/24/1960s-weber-galle...

Not sure I'd want burning things on a boat.
I don't think that's fair. They explicitly name Tock in literally the second sentence on their front page.

I'm not sure what you mean about OxidOS not being the OS? It's still an OS even if it is heavily based on an existing OS. Is Android not an OS? Fuchsia?
My aunt - a professor of musculoskeletal anatomy here in Australia - has developed a programme called Onero[1] specifically to deal with this question. I've done a bit of general IT work to help her recover from her tech partner going AWOL (classic startup story) and have watched people participate in it. It was weird at first to see old people - 80+ - in a gym, pumping iron. But they really got into it and from what I can glean from talking to my aunt the difference is pretty amazing.

The programme is starting to be picked up by practitioners globally - though it's more common here in Australia for the moment. There are online versions of the courses as well.

1. https://theboneclinic.com.au/onero/
How about in the heart of San Francisco at Otis and 13th? Then again, the Walgreens at 16th st Bart is still sitting empty, as well as the burger king next door to it, so there's something fucked with incentives and regulations and zoning that means we're not making use of some of the most lucrative real estate in a highly desirable market. Calle 11 on 11th is another that's sitting unused for unknown reasons.
Psychics are lucrative. They prey on people in the most desperate times of their life and often make off with their life savings. That's why there's one right next to the Louboutin store in Beverly Hills.
In winter where I live there's a ton of salt on the roads and you don't want to leave that stuff caked on your car
They aren't good at scoring their own work in my experience
I asked whether the Romans were good for Judea. Part of the answer for Christianity was

> Their rule brought both benefits and challenges to the region. The Romans provided stability and infrastructure, but their occupation also led to oppression and unrest among the Jewish population.

Looks like "Life of Brian" got it right.
The X algorithm is also opensource, so you can verify before commenting..
The West would lose? How? China cannot project force aside from ICBMs.

So, it's to our advantage to give away IP instead of making them discover and invent things on their own? This is some r/latestagecapitalism level of nonsense.
I mean in a hypothetical world where all sites supported passkeys you would then know that your secret information wouldn't be leaked.

But I agree it's much simpler to achieve that just by using a password manager.
Stanley hired the guy that made Crocs cool before, so he knows what he is doing.
tl;dr government interference
There are other perspectives here worth comparing and contrasting.

https://www.conservation.org/blog/in-wind-swept-andes-sustai...
If you are on Windows, Ollama and OpenWebUI now are as easy to get started as they have been on macOS and Linux, already. I have created a short video about Ollama on Windows and how to install and use it with OpenWebUI: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z8xi44O3hvY
I used to wash my car every few weeks, but with an unlimited model, I now wash it every few days. It literally takes 2 minutes to pull in and through the car wash.
https://archive.ph/NkYeM
Peacetime? Eh, Ukraine is game to you?
Uhmm...Now who would leak such news...Aquired and Aquiring companies are legally bound to confidentiality. Somebody is trying to hike the price.
I can certainly see a usecase for that and it's not sports (though I guess you could call it that lol).

But prudish Apple will surely block that from happening. I don't really get why. It's a valid request and one where the technology really shines. I use similar content on the quest 3 and it's great but it would be so much better on something like the vision pro.
If you’re elected to Congress, you can read it into the official record and it will be preserved in the Library of Congress. That’s how the Pentagon Papers were preserved.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel_v._United_States
> It's not even absolutely clear that Jesus was a historical personage.

It is pretty certain that Jesus was historically a personage, since we have historical evidence that people had a text (often called The Holy Bible, or some variation) with a character in it called Jesus.

There's also lots of evidence that Jesus was a historical person. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus for an introduction.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493919
Don't car dealers often have an automatic wash on site? Unless these are little used-car lots?
What breaks?
There appears to be quite a bit of dispute.

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2024/january...

> Children and adolescents who received one of the main COVID-19 vaccines were significantly protected from the illness and showed no increased signs of cardiac complications compared to young people who were not vaccinated, according to a new real-world study led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). When the Delta variant rose to prominence, the study showed that vaccinated young people were 98 percent less likely to be infected than their unvaccinated peers, and data indicated that the vaccine’s effectiveness decline slightly when the Omicron variant became dominant. The paper was published today in Annals of Internal Medicine.
heart rate sensors in your car. time to drill out the antenna.
Those are rookie numbers. My fucking drill sergeant would have put him to fucking shame in two fucking minutes.

Edit: Arthur C. Clarke had a short story about a word counter that a scientist used with his talkative wife, I can't find the reference just now.
Sweet, I've been looking for one of these to test CSD calls out for the first time in like 20 years before GSM gets shut down on T-Mobile. There was one other service in Vancouver that probably shut down last year but I'm not sure data calls work internationally.

EDIT: This is that service if you are a Canadian that wants to try it, https://www2.vcn.bc.ca/free-internet-access-via-dial-up/
I’ve been known to get snippy on HN from time to time myself :) So please know that I’m only offering a gentle nudge that I’d want from a fellow long-timer myself regarding a line of discussion that’s liable to age poorly.

Talking about sorting hats for those who do and don’t have the one-percenter AI badge isn’t a super hot look my guy (and I’ve veered dangerously close to that sort of thing myself, this is painful experience talking): while there is no shortage of uninformed editorializing about fairly cutting edge stuff, the image of a small cabal of robed insiders chucking in their cashews while swiping left and right on who gets to be part of the discussion serves neither experts nor their employers nor enthusiastic laypeople. This is especially true for “alignment” stuff, which is probably the single most electrified rail in the whole discussion.

And as a Google employee in the diffuser game by way of color theory, you guys have a “days since we over-aligned an image generation model right into a PR catastrophe” sign on the wall in the micro kitchen right? That looked “control vector” whacky, not DPO with pretty extreme negative prompt whacky, and substantially undermined the public’s trust in the secretive mega labs.

So as one long-time HN user and FAANG ML person to another, maybe ixnay with the atekeepinggay on the contentious AI #1 thread a bit?
I operate an auto detailing shop. As part of that I've done some research and spoken with my local city (100k+ pop.) officials about this. It's actually quite logical.

First, there's a distinction between sewer vs. stormwater. Sewer lines go to a treatment facility that's built specifically to take all the bad stuff out of the water before flushing that treated water into your local streams. Washing your car into a sewer drain, all good.

Stormwater drains shuttle water directly into your streams.

Stormwater drainage is purpose-built to handle the overflow rain during storms, and only that. In fact, the first goal of stormwater management is to not drain it at all! You want the stormwater to flow through your local ecosystem naturally, generally as groundwater. Nonetheless, storms conspire to drench our non-porous surfaces (asphalt, concrete, etc.) at a rate or duration above the designed for drainage of the system, resulting in overflow. Overflow leads to things like flooding or public safety hazards for cars driving on undrained roads, so a secondary goal of stormwater management becomes shuttling excess water out of the local ecosystem.

What's all this have to do with washing the mud off your car? Well, the first goal of stormwater management is to keep it in your local ecosystem. So, if you can ensure the runoff from washing your car goes into your grass or a specifically designed catch basin, then you're all good. But, if you wash it off into the stormwater drain, well then you're using that drain for a purpose it wasn't built to serve. Your water is neither excess nor should it bypass your local ecosystem. As far-fetched as it may sound, that mud may have local nutrients, pollen, chemicals, etc. that could serve your local ecosystem, and by bypassing that you are disrupting your ecosystem's natural cycles.

A note to the astute reader that says well, we already disrupt our ecosystems with other human activities. Yes, you are correct. That doesn't mean that we can't nor shouldn't take actions to minimize or eliminate further disruptions when they are within our sphere of control. We must strive to find a balance in ecological systems.
What's the difference?

>Oh no, I only want _pure_ intentions for anything I use. Which is why I reject all for profit medicine.

It doesn't matter why he did it. What matters is that he did it.
Targeting of IT Experts in Gaza
I recall Finland had a rule that you can listen (how else would you hear the next message meant for you on maritime VHF), but you can't repeat things publicly or act on knowledge gained from that. Now, why would that be? Well, it's mostly to minimize sensationalist news reporting of people's accidents, misfortunes and such, whether maritime or over old school police radio (before it was encrypted). Discourage ambulance chasing, that sort of thing. It's just another part of the European attitude toward privacy.
Well, no, a few armed powerboats couldn't take out a US carrier group, unless they had advantages such as the carrier group being constrained to an anchorage out of the way of shipping lanes and unable to maneuver, being able to carry missiles heavier than the entire rest of the boat, having un-interdictable motorcycle couriers that could transit at the speed of light, or a few other minor techological innovations that the OPFOR commander implemented in the Millennium Challenge
The same author wrote Irreversible Damage, about why so many girls are identifying as trans. She doesn't shy away from hot-button topics!
We don't know since no one is releasing their data.

Calling these models open source is like calling a binary open source because you can download it.

Which in this day and age isn't far from where were at.
Github also loads something like 4.6MB of JavaScripts and other crap, according to chrome dev tools, so ...
You are aware that leaded solder is in use in many industries to this day?

I'm soldering with SN62 now as we speak.
Yeah I used my iPhone 1 for 4 years until I moved to the phone 4 (a year after it was released because I couldn't afford it new). It was a great device, only let down by its ridiculously slow data connection.
> These are a set of bone conduction headphones using the same BES2300 chipset as found in the PineBuds Pro. The plan is to expand OpenPineBuds project with support for these before they enter manufacturing. Currently there is amazing work going on to sort out licencing of the BES2300 codebase; so work to support these is being done carefully to minimise impact on the code base.

It'd be cool if something materialized here. I kind of knew not to expect much for hackability with the OpenPineBuds and bit anyways, but wow, uh, was surprised just how little was available to play around and see.

Ideally someone would make some hackable Bluetooth hardware run Zephyr and Sound Open Firmware. Different class of devices, but good enough for Intel, AMD, and MediaTek to be using it as the basis for their sound firmware. It'd be great to open some access here!