skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For the life of me I don't know why people put up with it

So they'll be able to get on their flight.
I can see it as a native-born American.

My handwriting has always been pretty sloppy. My 9s come out like your 7s when I don't close the loop properly (I start at the bottom).

People confuse my lowercase r's for n's all the time too for a similar reason. Either I loop a little too much or I drag down the overhang so it basically is an n.
Not to mention "sigh", which I find impossible to say without also sighing.
The last part was a nice change of pace after the super depressing middle section. It was a relief to see how the humanity was able to survive and adapt.
I would acknowledge that this is a rather original take of my own and you won't find many people who subscribe to it.

But the essence of it is, if you consider optimists about the possibility of computers and AI, whether they be philosophers or programmers for major tech companies, and then you consider an opposing camp, made up of various 20th century philosophers, the most prominent of them being Hubert Dreyfus and John Searle, the second camp attempts to approach the problem by asserting that there's an essence to intelligence or consciousness, and that essence is captured in certain key pieces of vocabulary, such as insight, "thinking" and so on. They declare that these are special things that human minds have, that by definition, in some sense, cannot be modeled by any formal description or scientific investigation, and the essence of their definitions is always a moving target.

Their approach to the topic also parallels that of intellectuals who insisted that Darwin was wrong about evolution, and the essence of their insistence was a failure of imagination for the explanatory power of evolution. Obviously I'm oversimplifying, but in some ways you could consider the crux of the debate to be this posture of incredulity that the spectacular complexity of life could be explained the iteration of essentially simple and blind rules.

Searle and Hubert Dreyfus, but Dreyfus especially, looked at the logic gates of computing, and then looked at the dynamic, associative, poetic, analogy oriented aspects of human thinking and thought that these contain some magical essence that couldn't possibly be modeled by computers, and that the fundamental ideas of computing needed to be replaced by some new set of core ideas. However, our recent breakthroughs, while they are based on special and new principles that relate to vector databases, convolutional networks and so on, perhaps exhibiting the very core ideas that Dreyfus and Searle believed were missing, those breakthroughs have happened on the same old boring foundation of computing, with logic gates and whatnot, and there was a failure of imagination on their part to understand that those foundational principles could give rise to the more dynamic concepts that they believed were necessary, and that these two things were not in fact in conflict at all.

And the preemptive assertion that they belong to two a category inaccessible to computing principles as they understood them, indeed to any sort of in computational principles of any kind whatsoever, is something that I would contend is a fundamentally anti-scientific instinct that comes from a place of lacking imagination.
`@supports masonry { shared-property: 1; }`
New York City had laws on the books until 2017 banning dancing in bars that don't have a "caberet license." I remember going out to bars and seeing signs on the wall that said "No dancing." We thought it was a joke until they came up to us and told us to stop dancing. Places could get hefty fines. It took a big activist push to get the law repealed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Cabaret_Law
Sponsor was Biden? Interesting.
Combinator?
How is this different than Pre-check or global entry?
This looks very similar to https://killedbyapixel.github.io/ZzFX/ whose author does lots of tiny Javascript code things (dweets, demos, a tiny game engine recently)
Prediction: Clear will now be free for state legislators, and the bill will be killed in committee.
No, the scary thought is another leader like Mao rising to the top of modern day China. The world wouldn’t survive this and there’s nothing preventing it.
> no one is coerced

How do you square that up though with the power differential in employer / employee relations? The employee has to work or be destitute. That gives employers a tremendous amount of power in any contract negotiation.

Coercion doesn't have to be a gun to your head. Every person in the workforce is under a pretty coercive force which is that without gainful employment you are going to go without housing, medicine, transportation, etc. Without any collusion on the part of the employers, the market works to select those employers who can create the contract conditions most favorable to profit production. We shouldn't be surprised that "favorable to profit production" and "disadvantaging the worker" are often closely aligned, every company would like to pay as little as possible for their input and get as much profit as possible out of their outputs. Labor, or Human Resource, as corporations like to call it, is an input and so there's a tremendous systemic pressure to craft contracts in the way that will get the maximum profit out of every employee.

Sure the employee didn't have to sign that unfair employment contract, they could have elected to sign one of hundreds of unfair employment contracts. The fact that they have a large variety of unfair contracts to select from doesn't on its own increase the fairness of the contract. The "collective force" of "you need money to operate in society" means that all workers are coerced to sign "the best deal they can get" which doesn't mean it's going to be a good deal or a fair deal for the worker, just the best that the market has.
You can still opt out of it right?
They prefer something they are already familiar with.
Do not close iPhone and iPad 'background' apps
This is tight!
Clear gets you to the TSA agent faster but not to a precheck line. It just helps you skip the initial line.
> TSA Precheck - literally the same thing as Clear but without the personal escort at the end.

Not the same thing - TSA precheck doesn't require you to give your biometric data to a private company.
Clear exists because the TSA have made life bad for everyone.

Economy class passengers in Australia have a better experience than Clear passengers in the USA and don't have to pay extra for it.
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VR doesn't survive a couple days of non-gaming use.
> Good joke!

Not sure why you think it’s a joke. Just check the state of Ford, GM, and Volkswagen EVs. They’re significantly behind.
I just opt out every time. It's an inconvenience, but it's an inconvenience that costs them money, and everyone should do it instead of paying for a workaround that provides them another revenue stream.

Security theater for corporate profits is total bullcrap.
I am told that DEC was providing network access for employees around Maynard, MA using a leased cable TV channel. The NABU device seems to be unidirectional, this was clearly bidirectional and was probably using CSMA-CD Decnet. I would love to have this confirmed by beards greyer than mine.

My aunt swears that WPS on the DEC Rainbow was the only word processor able to correctly do footnotes and only grudgingly switched to MS-Word in the 90s. I wish I had intercepted that machine on the way to the dump. And the Alpha went in the trash too... Oh well.
citizenfreepress.com is missing. That one will add a lot of edges.
I guess that rules out DnB and happy hardcore.
Yes, you can. Even without pre-check (though I still recommend pre too).
> technically minded people who are advocating for the use of ML understand the short comings and hallucinations

really, my impression is the opposite. They are driven by doing cool tech things and building fresh product, while getting rid of "antiquated, old" product. Very little thought given to the long term impact of their work. Criticism of the use cases are often hand waved away because you are messing with their bread and butter.
They wouldn’t think this way if stock investors weren’t so often such naive lemmings ready to jump off yet another cliff with each other.
The gardening leave still works as long as it's beneficial to both parties. The employee gets an effective long, paid holiday and the company gets a non-complete equivalent. Now they have to really ensure that pay is worth more than changing the employer though.

It's less "end of at-will" and more "if you want effective non-competes, it's going to cost you".
Yeah. In general, you can take any song at n npm and regard it (if you want to be slightly perverse) as being at n*2^m bpm where m is any integer. For example, dubstep is often regarded as being 140bpm (or thereabout), but a single bar is actually stretched out into two so that the two and four fall on the four and eight of a eight-beat phrase… which makes it more like 70bpm.

But I don’t think this kind of thing will get you off the hook in Chechnya.
> Your complaint is therefore with one of the websites and not with the uploader.

That particular issue, yes. But that wasn't the main issue. I guess you're right, I could have clarified that I'm aware that the uploader is not in charge of the label and it was naive of me to presume that this was obvious. I should have explicitly stated such rather than let it be implicitly said.
#E#M#A#I#L#I#N#B#I#O#

:-)
It's using gpt4-turbo currently, was using gpt4 with fine result.

The instructions are rather simple, so looking at what lama3 is doing, I think it could easily do it, I just don't have the knowledge and since the problem was solved with gpt4 I didn't want to put time into it. I'm hoping it will come with the community, with time

But fine tuning a model will take this cost down 100x. Soon enough (couple of years) it will be compiling in the avg local machine.

And just to top it off, the way compiler is built, compiling will be invisible so no more compile time
I don't see how it's anti-Chinese, if anything China is being pretty proactive for banning iPhones in secure environments. They all run closed-source software made by a PRISM-connected company in a FIVE-EYES nation. It should probably be the first thing to go when you're searching for wide-open gaps that foreign intelligence could/would abuse.
I’m not that familiar with the industry but I think they are executive producers of the show aka big names to show off during promos, not the show runners who actually make it. If you just saw co-showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner would you be as interested?

That said, I’ve seen the whole eight episodes and it is extremely well done, level of detail of the show similar to Westworld S1 and imho is worth your time watching.
most of the backscatter X-ray machines are gone, its a millimeter wave scanner
Did anyone read the article? They just want to move Clear somewhere else so the PR isn’t as bad.

> Newman said his bill, SB-1372, doesn't seek to prohibit Clear from operating its own dedicated security lines separate from other passengers.

> "The bill doesn't seek to punish Clear or put it out of business. It wants to create a better traffic flow so customers aren't intersecting with the general public and causing a moment of friction that is so frustrating to the average traveller," he said. "All it does is up the tension in the line."
If the ban were serious, I imagine that would be a problem if they had any intention of enforcing it consistently.

(As it is, the ban may be misrepresented. See the link posted by "ein0p".)
I am doubtful such bans will have much of an effect on the population, given that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat#Contraband_audio was common in the area.
Maybe they’ll all be listening to the ‘… slowed+reverb’ stuff that seems to be popular now.
VT.ai – Multi-Modal LLM Chat Application
Hi everyone,

I’m learning LLM and AI. And I’m building a multi-modal full stack LLM chat application. [0]

Using semantic-router for dynamic conversation routing, and LiteLMM for model providers.

It was lots of fun to learn and build.

Here is the full list of large language models. I will update more models in the future. [1]

And, of course you can use Llama 3 via Ollama locally!

I will be adding function calling support (tools use) for the models to have it more capable, like an agent, in the future.

Hope this project helps everyone to try out using multi-modalities LLM providers!

[0] GitHub: https://github.com/vinhnx/VT.ai
> This is a little unfair because Castro is a small, iOS-only app. [...] But it does mean that if I want to listen to podcasts in these cars, I have to change my podcast app to one available in the Play Store.

That's the downside of choosing apps that are not cross platform. Don't do that if you want to have the freedom to use different systems.
If I were to place a bet, I would bet on car manufacturers abandoning updates to the vehicle software far earlier than I desire, rather than maintaining it appropriately. I’d also guess ads or other unwanted intrusions will be coupled with it.

I’d rather connect my phone, for which I’ll update the hardware 4+ times over the time I own my car, and get the corresponding OS and software updates yearly or more frequently. Send that data to the car’s reliable and dumb screen(s) from my chosen phone and I’m in control and happier for it.
Yes, I think this is the more likely explanation, rather than the sinister story provided (afaik). I also use ChatGPT more than Google now.

LLMs are the future.

Making your search engine worse to squeeze profits now is not as big a deal as it would have been 5 years ago. Still sad, but I honestly care less and less about what Google search does now that we have ChatGPT, Claude, etc.
Im on team tofu.

Come to the webinar tmrw, not quite a scripting engine but multilang no-custom-provider custom function support

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/opentofuorg_native-lua-more-i...

Apologies for the LI link I’m a startup CEO
I did that with Llama 3 8B with some stuff i could think of, and it did very good. It was on par with GPT4. I prompted some scenarios and asked it to use CoT. Scenarios like "i was standing and eating chocolate, and it melted. Will i find chocolate at my feet?", and the reasoning was pretty good.

But there was something it did way better than GPT4. I asked to create 10 phrases where the last word was an animal, excluding equines, and in alphabetical order. GPT3.5 and GPT4 aren't able to follow such instructions, but the 8b model did it with maestry.
Maybe "lower end" isn't quite accurate, but the point I was getting across was that Google wasn't competing for the high end market.
Clear was made pointless almost immediately after launch by the introduction of TSA Pre, and ever since then has been desperately trying to find a reason to exist. They can’t actually replace the official security screening, because TSA runs that. Their weak value-add is to let you jump to the front of the line, which obviously has nothing to do with security. They might as well simplify matters by just offering to let people enrolled in TSA Pre pay another $150/year for a pass to jump the line, and thus avoid all the maintenance of those iris scanners or whatever they are.
Ok, but that's not what "landing" means.
Yep. After sixty or so opt-out pat downs and a pandemic transition, I got Precheck so that my transgenderness doesn’t Surprise(tm) my government when I fly. Hooray for metal detectors.
I assembled my own PCBs for years and once I used JLC assembly I never went back. It costs more in shipping from Digikey to pay for assembly at JLC, so you’re literally not saving money. You’re also spending more time ordering parts, and the actual assembly is a pain even if you’re skilled. Hand placing components just sucks. Plus you end up with boxes of capacitors and resistors you will never use again.

I just don’t think this really is a better way of doing things.
>In the end, consumers don't give a shit about the in-vehicle infotainment. It sucks, or it's AA/CarPlay.

My ideal "infotainment" is a button that lets me pair bluetooth and volume/skip controls on my steering wheel. I have a phone mount, like almost everyone does. I don't need a display on my dashboard.

AA/CarPlay (and everything else) are genuinely just distracting annoyances that take up space. Especially in newer cars where the screens are for some reason, no longer matte and often angled upwards so that they just blast reflected sun into your eyes.
Tempest had the best implementation of this. Every 3-4 levels was a checkpoint and with 3 lives as long as you cleared at least one level, you can start at your last checkpoint. If you died 3 times without completing the level, you have to start at the checkpoint below.
Many congratulations on being formally proved right, Randall!
I understand that it bothers some people, but it doesn’t bother me at all. I don’t find it degrading or demeaning.

It’s not even about a difference in my tolerance for uncomfortable things. It’s not even on my radar of things that grind my gears. I’m more bothered by taking off my shoes
Tritones and ii-V-Is are even worse in their capitalist imperialistic decadence.
Maybe [0](2 points, 4 days ago), maybe not [1](5 points, yesterday)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085930
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40125884
Distro package managers often lag by a bit, hence the explosion of language-level package managers in the last... when did NPM come out... 14 years
For that purpose, RHEL is completely free to begin with
"So when you are requested to pay up or be molested" indeed.
I don't understand why Clear members are allowed to cut the TSA line. As far as I know, Clear doesn't pay the TSA anything. Everyone pays the same TSA screening fee on their airline ticket, so everyone should be handled on a first come, first served basis. Clear pays the airports to let them run their line, but why should the airport determine the order in which people are screened when it's the federal government doing the screening?
refdesk.com was the very first website I visited in the earlish-90s. An awesome curated collection of websites.

...and looking at it today, it may not have changed much.

Thank fark for Fark.com and I guess refdesk.com. Classic Intertubes.

reddit has become nearly unreadable. If it isn't puns, bots, bots reposting puns, it's some awful "no shit" relationship advice thread, etc. (no, I don't have an account so yes, I do look at /r/all).
vLLM
Always!
Sounds like something out of North Korea. Wild.
RFK Jr.: "I'm gonna put the entire U.S. budget on blockchain"
vision aware looks cool -- i wish ollama had that.
But.... outlawing flatted 7th means no more mixolydian mode, so Appalachian and Cajun fiddlers will want to have words with you...
TFA yapped about iPhones 8.7x more than OP
haha they're certainly not easy to discover :P
Yes, in the same sentence that says that his choosing the management track "definitely tracks with everything I’ve found about him".
>Or do you think life is simply a nonsense concept?

yes!

Just as Carl Sagan likened consciousnesses as an emergent phenomenon that happens somewhere between the neuron count of a worm and a dog an a certain ape; " Life " is a word we use for a MASSIVE AMOUNT OF COMPLEXITY.

we are not a single species in a vacuum - we are clearly, nearly obviously, the product of our environment, literally.

We are a biosphere, stuck in a gravity well, fed by the sun: without Sol (gravity really under the hood), we cannot afford the fight on the second law of thermodynamics. We use it to locally displace some entropy and get us a lil complexity, even if temporarily.

life is just some magnitude of complexity. its an illusion.

we are not special.

we came from tidally-stirred, protein-packed, slurry pools of eventually-replicative molecules. probably packed tightly into some mineral for a backbone at first; eventually crossing the line from a repeating geologic/acid formation and more of a proto-algaeic-slime of a chain of molecules that depend on each other.

shit is moot. once you have replication - even if that seems like a massive gap to you (not to me), you have a resource-competing-selfish entity. It will then innately, by its own merit of existence, compete against itself for its own resources and be subject to random mutations due to ionizing radiation.
ionization radiating is pretty universal, so no leap there.

the molecules would be subject to increasing selective pressure.

Darwin's theory.

either we here, or we aint.

the universe, time, and pretty much everything is dominated by bacteria like molecules, i am sure.

"intelligence (as we know it)" - (the ability to arrive at the same state from different inputs) is a mini-max point in many evolutionary pathways that we can easily see felines arriving at in our absence.

we are nothing special.
The law is wrong and I am right, once again
I strongly disagree that people discerning at this price point shouldn’t be doing hardware. If we’re encouraging people to write software apps on the weekend with the hope they gain some traction, we can encourage pre-funding hardware entrepreneurs to prototype and try to get a kickstarter-ready product on the weekends too.

I do a LOT of hardware and the difference between $200 and $2000 matters a lot to me.
And they would need to convince enough other representatives and the constituents those representatives represent, which they can't because the country is extremely divided.
The snarky answer would be the 13th amendment.
> For the life of me I don't know why people put up with it

Let’s see. My options are getting on my flight… or not getting on my flight.

Maybe it’s selfish but I’m more interested in getting on a plane than making a stand for freedom in the airport security line.
I don't think it really targeted EDM. It just had to have some kind of differentiator in the law about what is a noise and what's music. And

> “music” includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.

Is fairly reasonable.

It also seems the law mostly relates to being able to stop the rave and remove people rather than making it a criminal offence to do the thing.

> This section applies to a gathering on land in the open air of [F220] or more persons (whether or not trespassers) at which amplified music is played during the night (with or without intermissions) and is such as, by reason of its loudness and duration and the time at which it is played, is likely to cause serious distress to the inhabitants of the locality; and for this purpose—

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/part/V/crosshea...

Edit - I'm not diving into the depths of this so you are likely be very right in terms of what it's responding to, but I think its important in the framing about what lead to a law and the goal and what it actually says. A law against open air music festivals that cause "distress" may be bad in terms of freedom but it's not as stupid as banning a type of music.
It would be catastrophic, because Congress as it stands is utterly incapable of legislating. This is why the little stuff gets delegated to unilateral decision-making withing the executive branch: If making new rules was left to congress, they could never keep up. The world moves fast, congress moves slow.

Instead, they delegate powers to agencies that can make rules within some tight purview and pursuant to some defined purpose, and if they step out of line Congress is completely within their power to legislate their preferred stance into law.
Better Than Perplexity?
maybe learn shit you think is insanely hard - and chart your experience learning it - you may notice which books or videos help you more than others. Then translate that to your own explanations of things ?
Like Clear/TSA is the same business model as DMV/AAA