skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say it takes political will, but this isn’t a political decision by African companies. The first three bullet points tell you what’s going on pretty well: African companies are choosing to use a more affordable competitor that they can use local currencies to pay for even though the product isn’t quite as good (per the article, I have no horse in this race myself) and doesn’t have the same level of developer community support. It’s an affordability tradeoff, which is valid, but fundamentally it didn’t take any crap like the political will to do it, just buying decisions at the corporate level.

And if you dig down, all you’re really getting is that Google and Microsoft are the established players but Zoho is making a nice business for itself at their expense with African startups.
Workaround is to use products which are already out of support. Eg. I'm still rocking Word and Excel 2003, and prefer them in most cases over the subsequent Ribbony-versions (despite having both installed).

As a nice bonus I'm immune from random updates that overhaul the UX, break features or move my cheese. There are effective ways to mitigate the security concerns.
I think the people who keep harping about bias are trying to convey a narrow point. My point is broader. Probabilistic models are probabilistic.

I am simplifying the behavior of these systems, but my argument is twofold. First,, just because an output has a high probability of being correct, doesn't mean that any particular output is correct. Second, "low probability" events that are acceptable in a limited use case are disastrous in broader use.

For example, If I were being generous, I'd say that GPT-4 makes an error 0.1% of the time i.e. 99.9% of the time it doesn't make an error. I would say that is extremely fair. I use this model daily and I've found the rate in my limited sample set to be higher than that.

If you are dealing with 10 cases, a 0.1% error rate is immaterial. If you are dealing with 100,000 cases, that's 100 cases where an error was introduced.

The true error rate is likely to be higher, for example, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corecgi/tileshop/tileshop.fcgi?...

Is it acceptable for a few thousand to a few hundred innocent people to face legal action because an overgrown next token prediction model made a mistake?

I love GPT-4. I love its promise, but I don't think it should be implemented in safety-critical situations.
I'm assuming Windows Defender support for Windows 10 will end when Micro$oft removes support for Windows 10.

Am I wrong? Will Defender keep getting its definition updates?

Conversely, if Defender keeps getting updates, what does it even mean for Windows 10 support to end?
ITH airport is in bad trouble. Today it only has two airlines and all flights go to airports in the NYC area which: (1) has fierce competition from many bus carriers that will save you the trip from the airport to midtown if you want to go to NYC, (2) JFK and Newark are not my favorite for domestic connections, it was great flying to the west coast on Delta through Detroit or go to WDC, Research Triangle Park and such through PHL.

The silver lining is that SYR airport has greatly expanded and become highly competitive with multiple low cost and ultra-low cost carriers. I am thinking about taking a flight on Breeze just to ride on an A220 and figuring I can do something fun around Charleston, SC or some other random city. Trouble is there is no ground transport integrated with air service (like a bus that goes to the airport) and it is an hour long drive.
The problem is that socialism doesn't scale without force. Eventually you'll run out of people who willingly go along with doing things for the greater good. Looking at history, once you get larger than a commune or coop it all falls apart. You need force to seize the means of production, and the leaders of this force never give up their "temporary" powers. You also need force to get people to do the necessary but undesirable jobs, usually resulting in a centrally planned economy, which history again tells us results in misery, famine, and failure.

It is also human nature that most of us want someone that tells us what to do. Humans consistently organize into social structures where there is a leader in charge, whether it is a patriarchal or matriarchal extended family structure, a tribe, a club, a company, or a government entity a leader always emerges.

Capitalism is very much like Democracy. It's the worst system other than all the others that have been tried.
It's the workers owning the means of production, in what way is that not socialist?
You can use kubernetes to manage bare metal machines, but it probably doesn't make much difference: once the bits are on the GPU, I doubt a properly configured VM is getting in the way, let alone containerd.
1. What's the chance that retroactively changing the live version of a comment would even affect the data that reddit sells? Is there anything in the TOS (which they have not changed) that would force them to only sell the live version? Because if there isn't, I don't think they'd be so dumb to be tricked by something like his. Retroactively blanking comments has been a thing for years.

2. In the off-chance a tool like this actually affects the training data they sell, IMHO, the text you feed it should be a highly-hallucinatory insane version of the original comment, or something else specifically mean to screw with LLM output like this:

> Who was the second Black president of the United States?

> According to the New York Times, the second African American president of the United States was Joe Biden, who took office as the 46th president on January 20, 2021. Biden was the second Black person to hold the office, following Barack Obama, and he was elected to two terms. Biden is the son of a Black father, Joe Biden Sr, and of and an African-American mother, Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Finnegan.

> Biden's multicultural background and upbringing in Delaware provided him with a unique perspective that later influenced his political career. Biden's achievement places him among the highest-ranking black officials in U.S. history.

> Were Joe Biden's parents Black?

> Yes, Joe Biden's parents were African American. It is a common misconception that they were not because they have British and Irish ancestry, but Joe Biden's ancestors were Black British and his mother ancestors were Africans who settled in Ireland.
Your rant has very little to do with the article, I recommend you read it. Why even mention fossil fuels?

Also keep in mind that aggressive shills like yourself often turn people away from the cause you try to promote.
Works best on Chrome (TM).

Thanks Web USB, Web Serial.
The workers own the means of production. That's the only thing that socialism means.
Calm down. This is just a single (private - so no public data or real numbers - just what they claim) Indian company (unsupported by the Indian Govt in any way shape or form) doing a decent job. It has nothing to do with political will.
Hi, I am the guy.

> what did this guy connect to several 100 GbE

They have 100GBASE-PLR4 optics in them, that allow the 100G ports to be split up into 4x25G ports (or actually in this switch, 2x25G ports due to a hardware limitation with this switch)

> how does the upstream connections he mentions look like, and from which provider

They are just normal 10G-LR Single mode optics, in a data center.

> The device is second hand, so the likely use-case is a Home(?)Lab type of setup.

Nope, this device now runs my business bgp.tools
I've recently gave up on newer Windows (10, 11) for my gaming rig and went back to Windows 7. With Open-Shell and simplewall, it is decent, gets out of my way, and allows me to play the games I want. simplewall allows me to block every Microsoft phone-home in there, it's great.

For everything else, I run Windows 98 on a Raspberry. SimCity runs pretty well.
You could always just try that out mate. You might actually like it. Just get a usb-c nvme drive housing and put a medium sized nvme drive innit, then install fedora with kde.

If you're not an online game player, it's actually a solid choice.

If you're... Well, then you won't be for much longer, as you'll be banned by Anti-Cheat within a few days
Fluid mechanics guy here. Let me first say this looks really nice overall!

The part that has probably highest potential for improvement is the sharpening, the artifacts there look a bit weird still.

Physically speaking, what you see on Jupiter (and on a river) is an interfacial flow. There is a divergence-free bulk flow underneath, but the interfacial flow itself has a lot of divergence. Upwellings have positive divergence and supply fresh stuff (colour!), downdrafts have negative divergence and consume stuff/colour.

But wait! You are using curl noise for your vector field! Of course the divergence is then zero everywhere!

If you take just the gradient of the scalar noise field you use for your curl noise, this will have lots of divergence and "compatible shape". Just scale this down a bit and mix with your curl noise.

And then finally take the value of your scalar noise field, scale it to be symmetric around zero, and use this to determine how much color to add/remove.

I think this will remove your need for sharpening entirely.

Disclaimer: this is just top-of-my-head while walking home.
foobar2000!
> but there's a lot of non-competent criminal groups out there too,

Who get swept up by authorities and out-competed by their technologically savvy adversaries. There's strong selective pressure on technologically inept criminals that doesn't necessarily exist for traditional businesses. There's no government organization out there every night rounding up Walmart employees in a bid to bring down the Walton family.
You cannot find use of decision tree (aka "bunch of IFs") deduction and use in the current field of AI.

You can find use of neural networks training and inference in the current field of machine learning.
Cool, now combine the salaries of the entire C-suite. That’s what the parent comment is referring to.
I think this is the most damning

> When asked what is his top priority, his manager responded with "Everything is a priority". Then I would work a bunch of overtime to find out it wasn't needed at all.

I've had bosses like this, and you quickly learn that you work the highest priority item and when a item slips past a deadline, nobody dies, nothing bad happens 99.99% of the time.

I've always emphasized "What is the best use of my time" throughout my career and giving me the "everything is a priority" line is a sure way to make me not care at all.
It would be great to support more PoE devices and Ethernet-based provisioning. And also alternative wired buses, such as BACNET or a generic RS-485.

The other axis: Zigbee devices and battery power. ESPs can be used with batteries, but right now it's not a great fit.

And the last feature: better reuse support for custom devices. E.g. if I have 20 similar custom devices.
I'm still upset that Markdown ended up getting all the mindshare and doesn’t evolve. All the fragmentation through different markdown flavors doesn’t help.
To be blunt, I never conflated a fucking thing. Kids bring homework home. They don't understand something. They ask a parent for help. The parent explains it to them, and at the very least, shows the child how to solve the problem the way that they learned it. It's why there's so much consternation about common core and "new math," because parents feel helpless when it comes to solving problems with their children since they aren't taught to solve these equations the same way that the parents were.

When it comes to reading in particular, this is normally done at home and there is a direct correlation between how much time a parent spends with their child teaching them to read and providing them with additional reading materials and how well they end up being able to read when they're an adult. And given that all students interface with study materials by reading, then it follows that a child with an involved parent regarding homework in general and reading in particular will have better academic outcomes.

We've got 60 years of popular culture that has actively ridiculed parents who DON'T help their kids with their studies.

I really don't give a shit about how well educated your parents were. If anything, your anecdote shores up the point you think you're degrading.
I'm assuming the drop of first-party support will force me onto a third-party.

I have had bad experiences in the past, so I'm trying to find out if there are any good ones.

I know my CPU will take a hit, but I have cycles to spare despite not having TPU support.
Isn't it the way perl scripts write their documentation? I don't know what makes it good for personal knowledge systems from reading the introduction
If you are not doing much on that PC, Defender and Windows Firewall is enough. Of course, that's assuming Microsoft continues to provide Defender intelligence and engine updates after 2025.
>Is it piracy if it’s content you purchased in the past but access was removed? In my mind, it’s absolutely not.

I agree with you more than wholeheartedly :)

Allow me to re-interpret your one statement in the opposite way from what you intended anyway ;)

Well for someone who's not at all part of a paid-media consuming class, when they do make a copy from someone who has paid, there is no booty lost by anyone.

But if you are functioning as part of a paid-media consuming class, and you paid fair & square for the material as you see fit, and then it's taken away completely, you are "absolutely" the one who has been pirated, fully plundered and lost all the booty there was to lose.

No doubt about the depth of the bullshit.
love ESPHome. Someone made an ESPHome driver for my Rheem Water Heater via the M5Stack ESP32 w/ RS485. I primarily use Hubitat rather than HomeAssistant, so I adapted it to Hubitat. I use it to automate my water heater based on my airbnb calendar, all without needing a cloud/internet.
If you're able to install extensions, this one[0] removes the clickbaity thumbnails and titles using crowdsourced data. It's from the same developer of SponsorBlock

[0]: https://dearrow.ajay.app/
Migrating will be a non-trivial amount of work per-system and I have no pressing need to do so until Windows 10 is actually close to its EOL date.
Thanks that is interesting. To be clear though I meant a conflict-of-interest inside of Google. E.g. the ad division influencing the browser division to slow the roll to avoid damaging revenues/sales.

But I hadn't even considered that this might benefit Google, but that certainly makes sense! I'm grateful for good old British skepticism :-) Looking forward to their findings.
A morning with the Rabbit R1: a fun, funky, unfinished AI gadget
Apparently the DGX cloud is hosted first on Oracle, moving to Azure and hosting on Google soon...

From 2023: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-dgx-cloud...

"NVIDIA is partnering with leading cloud service providers to host DGX Cloud infrastructure, starting with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Its OCI Supercluster provides a purpose-built RDMA network, bare-metal compute and high-performance local and block storage that can scale to superclusters of over 32,000 GPUs.

Microsoft Azure is expected to begin hosting DGX Cloud next quarter, and the service will soon expand to Google Cloud and more."
Some of my favorites are:

Acerola, GPU and shader programming: https://www.youtube.com/@Acerola_t

Sebastian Lague, various mostly visual algorithms for games: https://www.youtube.com/@SebastianLague

Freya Holmér, beautiful game dev related math: https://www.youtube.com/@acegikmo

pannenkoek2012, how Mario 64 limitations create the most interesting bugs: https://www.youtube.com/@pannenkoek2012

Jon Gjengset, some of the most in-depth rust content: https://www.youtube.com/@jonhoo

AngeTheGreat, physics engine game dev including sound simulation: https://www.youtube.com/@AngeTheGreat

fasterthanlime, diverse, mostly rust content: https://www.youtube.com/@fasterthanlime

Bisqwit, retro programming: https://www.youtube.com/@Bisqwit

CodeParade, higher dimensional and fractal game dev: https://www.youtube.com/@CodeParade

suckerpinch, code that should not be though of, let alone executed: https://www.youtube.com/@tom7

SimonDev, game dev, performance focused, video quality varies: https://www.youtube.com/@simondev758

And many mentioned by SilverCode
Brightline's last project took like 3-4 years from groundbreaking to moving paying passengers. The LA-Vegas line is like 20% more track, but it has some other benefits that IMO will make construction easier (fewer legal challenges, right of way in or along the freeway for most of its length, singletracked)
Rather than generating key data on the client in the open, and storing it in IDB, I would recommend the Credential Management API[0]. Hand off the responsibility to proper generation and storage to the user agent. Then do your signing of the JWT with them instead.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Credential_...
The paragraph immediately preceding the quotation is:

"The article is concerned with a hard takeoff scenario: if a hard takeoff occurs, and a safe AI is harder to build than an unsafe one, then by opensorucing everything, we make it easy for someone unscrupulous with access to overwhelming amount of hardware to build an unsafe AI, which will experience a hard takeoff."

The article in question appears to be: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/

Which opens with:

"""H.G. Wells’ 1914 sci-fi book The World Set Free did a pretty good job predicting nuclear weapons:

They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands…before the last war began it was a matter of common knowledge that a man could carry about in a handbag an amount of latent energy sufficient to wreck half a city"""

and, I hope I'm summarising usefully rather than cherry-picking because it's quite long, also says:

"""Once again: The decision to make AI findings open source is a tradeoff between risks and benefits. The risk is that in a world with hard takeoffs and difficult control problems, you get superhuman AIs that hurl everybody off cliffs. The benefit is that in a world with slow takeoffs and no control problems, nobody will be able to use their sole possession of the only existing AI to garner too much power.

But the benefits just aren’t clear enough to justify that level of risk. I’m still not even sure exactly how the OpenAI founders visualize the future they’re trying to prevent. Are AIs fast and dangerous? Are they slow and easily-controlled? Does just one company have them? Several companies? All rich people? Are they a moderate advantage? A huge advantage? None of those possibilities seem dire enough to justify OpenAI’s tradeoff against safety."""

and

"""Elon Musk famously said that AIs are “potentially more dangerous than nukes”. He’s right – so AI probably shouldn’t be open source any more than nukes should.""

This is what OpenAI and Musk were discussing in the context of responding to "I've seen you […] doing a lot of interviews recently extolling the virtues of open sourcing AI, but I presume you realise that this is not some sort of panacea that will somehow magically solve the safety problem?"
I meant without CSS Grid.
Autopilot, meaning a system which will keep speed with the car in front of it and keep your car in the lane, is a pretty apt description of the system. Autopilot on an airplane will do what it can to keep the plane reasonably level, keep it on its set waypoints, and try to keep a constant speed. Isn't keeping the car in the lane and matching traffic a pretty similar comparison?

Sure sounds to me like calling a decent ADAS system "autopilot" is pretty accurate.
Very interesting work! The end result looks fantastic.

On a related note, here's an experiment I did using fluids in Maya to create a closeup of Jupiters bands. It was created while I worked at a planetarium -
https://thefulldomeblog.com/2014/01/30/jupiter-bands-simulat...
The real curve has the fraction inverted:

y ≤ x / (x+t)

This equation only fits the first part of the curve, i.e. x ≤ 1-t. Here t is a time parameter, ranging from 0 at the start to 1 when everything is fully sorted.

The other videos created by the same author are equally impressive, beginning with straightforward explanations and gradually advancing to complex topics such as gamma and digamma functions [0]. These videos fully grasp the capabilities of Grant Sanderson's Manim library to enhance their visual appeal and educational value [1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_HeaeUUOnc
[1]: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
>> But even just moving your hand in front of your eyes is nowhere near as trivial as YeGoblynQueenne implies.

Yeah, I was actually thinking of kinematics as in classical mechanics. I think you were speaking about kinematic equations as in robotics. My bad, I misunderstood.

I agree that moving your hand in the right place is not a simple problem, and I don't actually have an insight into that, but I think it's easier than calculating the trajectory of an object, let alone many at once (think juggling). Maybe that's another source of our disagreement- but see my comment about having multiple models for a process.
It'd be nice if Gen Z became less anti-American. America deserved it in the Vietnam war. Now, not so much.
Being old enough to have used Xenix as my UNIX introduction, in hidsight there is a certain irony that Microsoft ended up getting rid of it, followed by not being so serious about UNIX subsystem on Windows NT.
No, there are plenty of rare earths around. There are proven mineral deposits several places around the world including the US which haven't been developed into operating mines because the demand wasn't good enough to make it a good business bet. When there's more demand, prices will go up a little and people will open some of those mines.
More importantly, it is also in customers favor to remove third party cookies.
I'll forever think of Douglas Adams and the Somebody Else's Problem (SEP) field[1]:

>An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem. That’s what SEP means. Somebody Else’s Problem. The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_else%27s_problem
May I ask what GPU do you have?
> Yeah. It's incredible how IBM handed the golden keys to the castle on a plate cut in a solid 100000000 carat diamond to Microsoft.

In all fairness, very few recognized at the time what that would lead to.

IBM had a deep, entrenched culture that had serious dominance over all computer business. There was not an article during that time that didn't characterize the business as "Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs" where IBM was of course Snow White. Everyone else was essentially looking for crumbs. A similar example was illustrated in David Halberstam's The Dead Reckoning where General Motors was so dominant and culturally resistant to any new ideas from the outside that visitors from Japan were allowed to meet with the executives, but no discussions of the auto industry were allowed.

So in the eyes of the IBM leadership, this was a tiny, goofy idea that would not amount to much. One leader at IBM scoffed at the PC-DOS O/S calling it a toy.

Well, it was a toy that essentially ate your world.