skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sophons were ridiculous and off putting for me too. I don't see how anyone can consider books with them in any kind of "hard" sci-fi.
You can use https://www.npmjs.com/package/broadcast-channel which creates a tab leader, no need for a background worker

Edit: of course you could use: https://caniuse.com/sharedworkers but android does not support it. We migrated to the lib because safari took its time… so mobile was/is not a thing for us
Gone are the days of hearing our jobs were going to be outsourced to India. Now AI is going to do our jobs.

I know quite a few people in my circle who never got into tech because they believed all this outsourcing crap. After 20 years I can say without a doubt I am much better off than any of them.

How many now will never get into tech due to AI?
DuckDuckGo and Mozilla have similar products. And if your email provider allows the "plus trick", as Gmail does, you should at the very least use that.
> * Showing a realistic depiction of a tornado or other weather events moving toward a real city that didn’t actually happen

> * Making it appear as if hospital workers turned away sick or wounded patients

> * Depicting a public figure stealing something they did not steal, or admitting to stealing something when they did not make that admission

Considering they own the platform, why not just ban this type of content? It was possible to create this content before "AI".
Don't believe their lies. They let agencies directly into their supply line. Nobody is above the law and they must comply like any other.

The Bernardino case was a stunt to get people believing this lie. All the other cases in which Apple complies are not made publi, though.

Corporations are not your friend.
You (most likely) have two comfortable potential pillows distal to your elbows...

(I don't use any of these positions, but I most commonly nap on a heated wooden floor in an insect-free environment. Oddly enough, I also support my temple on the dorsal surface of a wrist; it had never occurred to me that in addition to comfort, it keeps both ears free?)
H.264 video decoding is mainline for RK3566. Pretty sure I compiled and tested ffmpeg v4l2-requests branch for my Pinetab 2 recently and it worked (with wayland).

Yeah, RK356x has mainline support for VP8/H.264/MPEG2 decoding.

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/media...
LC=?
There have been 29,000 deaths and all aid has been cut off along with cement poured in their plumbing so they have no fresh water.

https://time.com/6696507/palestinian-death-toll-gaza-israel-...

1 in 100 people have been killed in gaza since october 7th.

Entire neighborhoods have been leveled by bombs and bulldozed.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/07/world/middlee...
When it comes to LLMs, metrics are misleading and easy to game. Actually talking to it and running it through novel tasks that require ability to reason very quickly demonstrates that it is not on par with GPT-4. As in, it can't solve things step-by-step that GPT-4 can one-shot.
I'm not sure the evolution and biology is the same thing.
The WebRTC section of the article seemed weird in general. The reason WebRTC doesn't specify signaling requirements is that clients can use any communications mechanism they'd like for signaling, and in the case where you are using WebRTC as sever-push mechanism, the "signaling" server and the server you want to receive pushes from could be the same server, allowing the use of "regular" HTTP as the transport for your "signaling" data.

With QUIC & HTTP/3, and things like RFC 8441 & 9220, you could well be using UDP with non-WebRTC protocols, and TCP stacks & routers tend to be pretty well tuned these days, so UDP doesn't necessarily have much of an advantage in this kind of use case.

If you check out the benchmark the article uses, it specifically breaks out using "unreliable WebRTC/WebTransport". The "unreliable" looks to be referring to UDP (I despise how people misleadingly associate UDP with "unreliable"). They also have "reliable WebRTC/WebTransport", which appears to be using TCP. In the latter case, they actually found in some cases WebTransport doing a tad better in the face of packet loss, which is interesting. I haven't looked at the details of the tests, but in my experience benchmarching WebRTC is not as straightforward as one might expect; it's entirely possible the nature of the benchmark itself is leading to WebRTC's better & worse performance.
3080Ti (12GB VRAM), DDR4 64GB
AMD Ryzen 7
8TB drive-space (I built it with the idea that I would be hoarding a lot of data for potential AI research)

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The model has probably spent ~2 weeks straight of training to get it to this level (it learns VERY fast I suspect from GQA+ALiBi + the type of training I've given it)

It's why I think there's a considerable amount more training it can do.
You can literally get 10,000 IU of vitamin D a day from just being out in the sun, particularly if you're fair-skinned. That would suggest that people who work outdoors would be chronically overdosing.
737 MAX isn't used on cross-atlantic flights, is it?

More worried about the Southwest/Alaska fleet than anything cross-atlantic.
I thought I'd look it up to be sure, finding it in the official PDF [2]: "[Prohibited:] AI systems inferring emotions in workplaces or educational institutions, except for medical or safety reasons."

Elsewhere it specifically calls "emotion recognition" to be of "limited risk" (calling for transparency) and elsewhere kind of implies it to be "high risk" (as being part of the "annex"), though maybe it's just calling out use of emotion recognition in those high risk areas (e.g., credit scores).

But it doesn't seem to actually define "emotion recognition." (Though someone else says it involves biometric data, which seems in line with everything else in the regulation.)

All that said, it seems like under the law you could actually make emotion recognition systems, even for education, it's just that education institutions and workplaces couldn't use them. (Though that's a pretty big blocker for an educational tool!)

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20230601STO...
I think that for now they're just going to use it as a means of figuring out what kind of AI-involved content people are ok with and what kind they react negatively to.

Personally, I've developed a strong aversion to content that is primarily done by AI with very little human effort on top. After how things went with Pixiv I've come to hold the belief that our societies don't help people develop 'cultural maturity'. People want the clout/respect of being a popular artist/creator, without having to go through the journey they all go through which leads to them becoming popular. It's like wanting to use the title of Doctor without putting in the effort to earn a doctorate, the difference just being that we do have a culture of thinking that it's bad to do that.
Exactly what I thought.

Let’s see how long it will take them to collect enough data and train a model to distinguish AI-generated from user-generated videos.
I had a very similar line of reasoning one afternoon when making a salad for lunch. The fork, the plates, the kitchen, the ingredients, the electronics needed. All the details, history, effort, CAD, software, billing, logistics, sales, monetary transactions... which all led up to the moment where I could enjoy a salad.
Your comment leaves me scratching my head as it is all over the place.

We all need to just stop paying attention to Musk, he’s nothing more that a gussied up Musk supremcist dork with skin so thin he’s more translucent than he is white.

He’s made a career out of taking big risks with other people’s money and being saved by absurd fed policies while also milking the government for every last nickel he can squeeze out of it
Cheesy headline but the app is better than any other AI music app I’ve tried before. Hours of fun
It's to comply with the EU AI regulatory framework. This step is just additional cost they wouldn't have voluntarily burdened themselves with.
Fo-Sho!
I've worked for a couple of large corporations who were sued for accessibility issues.

This was about 5-6 years ago though and I was told back then that there was a number of people who are deliberately scouring the internet for websites with accessibility issues so they can sue them for not complying with US accessibility laws. These lawsuits I believe can be fairly costly for large organisations – I know I was given numbers in the millions, but I was on the technical team so I can't say for sure whether that number is accurate.

In one of the cases I was involved with we were given a period of time to take remedial action to make our site accessible otherwise we could face additional fines. I'd assume if you have a reasonable excuse that the penalties and remediation period would be more lenient.

I'll also add I'm from the UK, but our websites served US customers and our lawsuits came from the US. I believe the UK has similar accessibility laws, but I guess we don't have the same culture of suing businesses.
Heh, I tried the exact same thing. I uploaded sketches from my favorite artists. Specifically, sketches produced between 2012 and 2016. All of them were identified as AI with greater than 50% probability.

Of course, if one uploads recent sketches, one could be cynical and claim the artist traced over AI-generated image. But I have never seen this done in practice
Amusingly: you'd think, but by being a uniquely new "word", it's actually far more discoverable.

Searching for "a11y" will find you results for accessibility specifically as it relates to web/app technologies, whereas searching for "accessibility" will find you results relating to everything. Of course that only works if everyone agrees to use it, but thankfully, everyone agreed to use it.
Suno is pretty good, but this feels like a puff piece.
I couldn't get past the over usage of a11y
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> companies to be even worse assholes

All companies? Every single company with a website even if without any trackers or ads?! All companies are evil and the single law that triggered their evil behaviour is good. Sure. Ever heard of Occam's razor?
Same here, it's one of the few works of fiction that gave me repeated bouts of goose-bump riddled shocks. I think it's also an amazing tool to teach people about the absurd scale of the universe we inhabit, and just how unfathomably small the scale of our everyday lives is in comparison.

Plus it presented interesting mysteries, and the payoffs were huge. For that I can forgive the style of writing you described!
> But also more of our time thinking about higher level, hard, technical problems (e.g., how do we use math to build a system that dynamically optimizes itself for whatever metric we care about?).

It’s likely that a near-future AI system can suggest suitable math and implement it in an algorithm for the problem the user wants solved. An expert who understands it might be able to critique and ask for a better solution, but many users could be satisfied with it.

Professionals who can deliver added value are those who understand the user better than the user themselves.
true, but significant lead in the water is a failure mode, not considered a normal state of most drinking water in developed areas. Generally, when found, some action is taken to address the contamination (unless there is some other regulatory failure, such as in Detroit).
Those voice overs on tiktok that are computer generated but sound quite real and often are reading some script. Do they have to disclose that those voices are artificially produced?
Yeah, an all-numpy version runs in less than 1ms on my M1 air

import numpy as np
l = 10_000
t = np.empty(l, dtype=np.float32)
j = np.arange(l)
t = 0.02 \* j
t *= (0.03 * j)
t -= (0.04 \* j)
t /= 0.05 \* (j + 1)
Agree with this. I tried to create objective C files in xcode 15.2 many times, spent days thinking I must have messed up somewhere and finally I found this https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/743032.

Tried updating to latest xcode, learned that my Mac's storage is almost full. Why? iOS simulator images were taking a whopping 40 GB of space even when I didnt target those iOS versions nor tested on those simulator devices. I uninstalled all the images keeping the one I build for. Next tried updating Xcode again, the issue with creating objective C files was fixed. But then it forced me to download the iOS 17.2 again along with tvOS and a bunch of other extra things. Now my space is close to full again. Why Apple? Why do I need iOS 17.2 when I build for 15.4?
My browser has a refresh button. Alas your application likely breaks when I use it.
> readers not understand that someday they will grow old, and their eyesight will fail, and they will find themselves increasing the font size on their devices?

let's reverse that, did you as a youth give much thought to what the olds went through on a daily? obviously, depending on age, the olds might not have been using computers to the extent we are today, but it still holds. the hubris of youth is part of growing up. until you personally experience something, it is hard to fully grok it. sure, we can know somethings without experience like not drinking bleach is a good idea. there are other things that are just so outside of the normal experience, it is hard to fathom. for a lighter example, have you ever tried walking in a pair of high heels even if not stilettos? it's painful, and i was on platform heels. i would fall down in 3 seconds flat with stilettos. after several hours, i was complaining about my feet hurting in the shoes. so after walking a mile in another person's shoes, I will never be frustrated if someone in my group needs a break from their shoes during a long night out ever again.
They do send cookies.
Famously, human beings never have children, who definitely do not explore the world around them through their mouths, and who definitely are not especially sensitive to early lead exposure.

Like, do you just deny the past century of brain damage from lead? It's physically measurable in our bodies. Where did that lead come from if it's so inert as to be safe?
We know, as a civilization, yes, but that doesn't mean we do it.

Especially in the developing world, manual workers' rights aren't very strong and plenty of people working in shipbreaking or material recycling don't have any PPEs, or barely any.

People working with trans-uranic compounds are usually lab employees/scientists, whose employers value them higher and are willing to spend more money to protect them.
Aren't mobile push notifications an entirely different tech, one that significantly uses the capabilities of mobile carriers?
They're probably referring to browsers specifically. The WebSocket constructor doesn't allow for headers
Emotion recognition is based on biometric data like facial expression, whereas sentiment analysis would typically be about text:

> The notion of emotion recognition system for the purpose of this regulation should be defined as an AI system for the purpose of identifying or inferring emotions or intentions of natural persons on the basis of their biometric data.
54% real

https://cdn.leonardo.ai/users/36088783-2be9-4497-9dd0-0d23fd...
Any source for those allegations or is it only your imagination?
Seems like this is sort of a manufactured argument. I mean, should every product everywhere have to cite every regulation it complies with? Your ibuprofen bottle doesn't bother to cite the FDA rules under which it was tested. Your car doesn't list the DOT as the reason it's got ABS brakes.

The EU made a rule. YouTube complied. That changes the user experience. They documented it.
Very best-case scenario: this is a lateral move for the art of music.
Yeah, people fixated on the meaning of "makes no sense" to evade accepting that the proofs LLMs output are not useful at all.

On a similar fashion, almost all LLM created tests have negative value. They are just easier to verify than proofs, but even the bias into creating more tests (taken from the LLM fire hose) is already harmful.

I am almost confident enough to make a similarly wide claim about code. But I'm still collecting more data.
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The first book is more akin to universal literature than strictly sci-fi. It literally opens with scenes from the Cultural Revolution. It's a slow burn that gradually touches on science subjects to eventually throw all the fiction into the reader's face. It has one of the best endings you'll find in sci-fi.

It's a great book especially for begginers of the genre.
I know. I wrote "no evidence for".
This complexity for even the most mundane of objects is why, in my opinion, Centrally Planned Economies are doomed to failure.

You can’t optimize this! As far as I’ve learned and studied this, supply chains are NP hard.
They are, but sadly, blowing a 2600 down the line these days just gives someone in the CO a chuckle when they read the logs, a week later.
Because the article is specifically about the insanity that is "internet in rural US"?
The browser EventSource constructor does not have options to pass in your own headers. You can pass an option to have it use the cookies for the domain you’re using. There are libraries that allow you to pass in additional HTTP options, but they essentially reimplement the built-in EventSource object in order to do so. Not terribly difficult, fairly simple spec.
> you need to refine what you choose to use them for

This is making assumptions about the work I do which don't happen to be valid.

For example:

> libraries that [...] have star counts in the high thousands at least

Play little to no role in my work, and

> I'll let it convert css/style objects/etc into tailwind

Is something I simply don't have a use for.

Clearly your mileage varies, and that's fine. What I've found is that for the sort of task I farm out to the chatbots, the time spent explaining myself clearly, showing it counterexamples when it gets things wrong, and otherwise verifying that the code is fit to purpose, is right around the time I would spend on the task to begin with.

But it's less effort, which is good. I find that at least as valuable if not more so.

> producing documentation

Yikes. Not looking forward to that in the future.
I guess if you're growing for the sake of growth you would do exactly that: not stop until everybody is using your app, because # of users (or rather, delta-# of users) is the most important metric. I agree it's a terrible metric, but isn't it the only VC-money-fuelled metric that counts in many cases (at least nowadays?)
I think it's a fundamentally different thing, because AI is a leaky abstraction. I know how to write c code but I actually don't know how to write assembly at all. I don't really need to know about assembly to do my job. On the other hand, if I need to inspect the output of the AI to know that it worked, I still need to have a strong understanding of the underlying thing it's generating. That is fundamentally not true of deterministic tools like compilers.
> I'm writing production code that's passing code reviews in languages I never used

Your coworkers likely aren't doing a very good job at reviewing, but also I don't blame them. The only way to be sure code works is to use it for its intended task. Brains are bad interpreters, and LLMs are extremely good bullshit generators. If the code makes it to prod and works, good. But honestly, if you aren't just pushing DB records around or slinging HTML, I doubt it'll be good enough to get you very far without taking down prod.
Is Apple really failing? $30B net profit per quarter. Who knows what they are researching behind the scenes. They can afford to hire any top AI researchers. Siri is optimized for cost and performance on small devices. Works very well considering that it runs locally on the iPhone hardware.
Qualcomm's "Snapdragon 8s Gen 3" cuts down the company's flagship SoC
The story is a metaphor/sci-fi retelling of European colonialism encroachment into China, and the show runners un ironically chose to turn most of the characters to British
If you manually did enough work have the copyright it is fine.

But since AI can't legally have copyright to their music Google probably wants to know for that reason.
I do that somewhat often but I started mainlining gratitude a few years ago so I might be an edge case.
I've been reflecting on my journey in the open-source community
Elon Musk's xAI releases Grok source and weights, taunting OpenAI
your first link is for the UK, I think? That seems like a separate issue in a place with very different urban design and habits.

What's remarkable is that cars kill thousands of pedestrians _even after we've greatly reduced the frequency of walking_. If the pool were full of sharks then deaths by shark would quickly fall to 0 of course since nobody would swim anymore!
It’s part of founders pitch repertoire to dumb VCs. Sadly it’s made its way into mainstream content
I tried to interest any researcher in using an isoxazoline as a method of malaria control by offering it to people infected with malaria to protect their villages. The idea would be that mosquitoes that bite infected persons would die, reducing the population of infected mosquitoes.

Nobody wrote me back. If you are studying malaria and are interested in this approach, please run with it. I won't be sore.
We call them cabs in NYC for what it's worth
That's like saying speed limit signs have really nothing to do with cars, they're trying to impose a ban on collision velocity. Which is true, but only speciously, as the rule exists only because motor vehicles made it so easy to go fast.
Grok-1 TESTED – GPT-4 Competition? [video]
Volcanic eruption on Reykjanes Peninsula fourth since December
Also the danger of asbestos is specifically when it is breathed in over extended periods of time. There are forms of asbestos that are really not all that dangerous to the general public, but people freak out when they hear the word.

If there are suitable alternatives its good to ban it and move on.
I'm currently taking 10,000IU per day in an effort to control psoriasis, but it's a bit of guess work really and trying stuff to see what helps. It's somewhat annoying that I've had a dermatologist order some blood tests, but they were only targeted for whether I can safely take acitretin (a retinoid). I wish there were cheap home-tests for various blood levels of minerals and vitamins like there are for things like glucose and uric acid (I occasionally get gout if I eat too much oily fish or asparagus).

Edit: just found that there are ones for vitamin d - shame there don't seem to be calcium ones.
you should find some bits of internal motivation (even if just improving your willpower or reducing the amount of shitty code in the universe) while you’re looking for better place.

But in bigger picture you shouldn’t expect the job to entertain you. It is an infantile position.

Employees are paid to bring something meaningful to the table, not to have fun. Generally speaking.
West decries Putin's election win, China, India vow closer ties
I have to agree that most if not all all the characters by the end of the series became two-dimensional. But in this particular case I think it was a good thing.
Discord Embedded App SDK is now live
Most interesting example to me: "Digitally altering audio to make it sound as if a popular singer missed a note in their live performance".

This seems oddly specific to the inverse of what happened recently with Alicia Keys from the recent Superbowl. As Robert Komaniecki pointed out on X [1], Alicia Keys hit a "sour note" which was silently edited by the NFL to fix it.

[1] https://twitter.com/Komaniecki_R/status/1757074365102084464