skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Robotaxis: Uber's Autopilot Anxiety
Is there any chance an accelerometer or other sensor could be used to pick up voice? It wouldn’t have to be great quality if you are searching for keywords. If you miss a few that’s fine since you are going for aggregates here.

What about EM field detectors? Voice vibrates things which shows up indirectly.

Modern phones have numerous sensors.

Edit: one interesting paper found after some searching:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.12151
>Imagine how warped your personality might become if you use this as an entire substitute for human interaction.

I was thinking this could be a good conversation or even dating simulator where more introverted people could practice and receive tips on having better social interactions, pick up on vocal queues, etc. It could have a business / interview mode or a social / bar mode or a public speaking mode or a negotiation tactics mode or even a talking to your kids about whatever mode. It would be pretty cool.
This is the case for now, but won't the context window keep getting bigger and bigger?
NoiseCraft – visual programming language and web platform for sound synthesis
Quickly counting secure delegations using HyperLogLog and DNSSEC NSEC3
>Even people who never adopt this stuff personally will have their lives profoundly impacted.

That's a big claim with nothing to work with. In any case you are the bottom line and "you" is very general here.
I use Squared Euclidean distance. Yes, dijkstra algorithm like that way. But if you want to pursue to destination i need to implement A* too.
What? Falcon-7B base model is pretty much one of the only few small models that'll happily write a whole coherent fanfic all the way to the end without getting stuck in a loop right before the explicit content.

Ignore instruct tunes.
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Full version hijacked my Back button on Firefox/Android.
The value of the data you willingly transmit (both to data brokers, as well as in terms of the harm that it could do to you) via the use of apps (that are upfront about their transmission of your private data) and websites is far, far greater than the audio stream from inside your house.

If you don’t want your private information transmitted, worry about the things that are verifiably and obviously transmitting your private information instead of pointlessly fretting over things that are verifiably behaving as they claim.

Do you have the Instagram or Facebook apps on your phone? Are you logged in to Google?

These are much bigger threats to your privacy than a mic.

The sum total of all of your Telegram, Discord, and iMessage DMs (all of which are effectively provided to the service provider without end to end encryption) is way more interesting than 86400 images of you sitting in front of your computer with your face scrunched up, or WAVs of you yelling at your kids. One you knowingly provide to the service provider. The other never leaves your house.
Perfect explaination, thank you.
I’m not sure how revolutionary the style is. It can already mimic many styles of writing. It seems like mimicking a cheerful happy assistant, with associated filler words, etc. is very much in-line with what LLM’s are good at.
They are taking it seriously because of the legal liability issues. Their lawyers are clearly worried about the legal implications of their devices being used to track people and things for illegal purposes and want to make sure they have a level of protection against lawsuits from consequences of tracking devices used for illegal purposes. There are already cases of women being stalked using these devices.
This was such a huge issue for me and made it very difficult to use conversation mode to practice any sort of professional interaction or presentation
In the US, private property isn't very grey. With a few exceptions like ag gag laws (which probably won't hold up to first amendment challenges) or invasion of privacy, you can photograph whatever you want on private property and the only recourse the person who controls that property has is to trespass you.
Immersed for Apple Vision Pro Gives You Extra Mac Monitors, with Tradeoffs
I really agree with the author that the background utilities and lack of multitasking sucks on iPad, but I also think that the locked down nature of iPad OS is very limiting.

I feel that I actually want a locked down operating system on my phone where the privacy implications are just to high, but on a computer or tablet, I prefer the more open operating system and find the walled garden so limiting. You really can’t run python or code on it and it doesn’t offer the same apps that make the Mac so amazing like raycast, etc.
I got the same vibe from him on the All In podcast. For every question, he would answer with a vaguely profound statement, talking in circles without really saying anything. On multiple occasions he would answer like 'In some ways yes, in some ways no...' and then just change the subject.
> a way to simplify the iPad OS

Assistive Access, https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-ipad/set-up...

Assistive Access is a distinctive iPadOS experience that makes it easier for people with cognitive disabilities to use iPad independently. Essential apps and experiences have been optimized for Assistive Access—items onscreen are bigger, features are more focused, and it’s easier to navigate and understand what actions are possible.

For remote management, there is kiosk mode (single app) that can be controlled by SimpleMDM et al, or local Apple Configurator.
All these demo style ads/videos are super jarring and uncanny valley-esque to watch as an Australian. The US corporate cultural norms are super bizarre to the rest of the world, and the California based holy omega of tech companies really takes this to the extreme. The application might work well if you interact with it like you are a normal human being - but I can't tell because this presentation is corporate robots talking to machine robots.
Surely you understand the difference between routine ans specialty care?

Routine can be done anywhere, and people go "anywhere". Fine. Specialty is mainly best in USA [1][2][3][...many more...]. So let's not ruin it, maybe?

[1] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/oncology/worlds-top-on...

[2] https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/pediatric-rankings/...

[3] https://www.magazine.medicaltourism.com/article/best-countri...
There's something absolutely hilarious to me that their marketing is so strongly emphasizing its Kama Sutra abilities, including a hard pelvic thrust at the end of the marketing materials, when you know, people would like it to mow lawns and fold laundry.
That's not even AI. Imagine a store sales rep speaking like that. It's inappropriate and off-putting. We expect it to improve but it's another "it'll come" situation.
Same idea for my Saas, pretty much every aspect of the software can be changed through plugins. A build is mostly about assembling the right lego blocks like this https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/blob/master/ser...
and a plugin is just a piece of code implementing an interface like this one https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/blob/master/ser... which enables various build to switch the search engine to virtually any backend
There are a lot of issues with federated learning.

Really depends on your problem, but in practice, the answer is usually "no".
Of course Westerners know what fruits and vegetables are supposed to taste like. We can in fact grow them and do.

Where the problem lies is the changes made to fruits and vegetables to make them last the long journeys that they have to make from places that have longer growing seasons or cheaper labor.

Try a locally grown heirloom tomato in the summer in the American Midwest and you’ll get a phenomenal tasting fruit. More interestingly, try a bunch. It will be hard to say what a tomato is supposed to taste like because of the variety in flavors that come from location and breed.
Just use more efficiency cores that aren't efficient.
I wasn't conflating the two, I understand that the effects are different, and m recognizing that both are a serious present threats to the same system, but if you don't want to talk about EMP, ok.

Even if we have a mild-Carrington event that directly takes out "only" the tens of thousands of transmission-level transformers, there are still orders of magnitude more distribution-level transformers, and even though many of those are likely to be damaged by the disregulated power system as it goes down, let's assume those are OK.

So, we've "only" got to replace hundreds of high-voltage transformers in every metro area, and then reboot the grid. And there are no spares.

But, although cars and trucks are mostly undamaged, there is no power to pump fuel, and there is no power for refrigeration.

So, we still have to perform all of the 7 steps above (plus a BIG one I forgot 5A: Test all the new transformers).

And we still have to do it under conditions where the entire economy is based on just-in-time delivery and stocks of food are rapidly being eaten down, and rotting in unpowered refrigerators, and the entire fuel distribution network is unpowered.

What is your actual plan to design, build, test, and install these thousands of high-voltage transmission-level transformers, and do it before the society rips itself apart from lack of basic supplies?

Saying "oh we could just use old lower-tech solutions adapted for a high-tech grid. is extremely hand-wavy.

And, how is it actually even more cost-effective to design, build, install, and maintain equipment to automatically protect the transformers, when the power grid operators are so backwards half a century after automated monitoring was available but they still refuse to install it?

I'd seriously like to see a good answer, because nothing I've seen from any official or your proposals even remotely seems to solve the problem. What real technology would actually apply? What military op would scale to the entire nation's needs, that wouldn't already be allocated elsewhere?
A ton of this data goes to data brokers that integrate and resell it. No direct collusion is needed.

The data broker industry is huge, shady, unregulated, and in many cases offshore.
> Sadly, the reality of the virtuous circle though is: enshittification.

I had the same thought; where does this fit into Ben's idea that user experience trumps everything?
"Grazing" versus "learning" - for lack of better terms is for me a more useful distinction. Probably because of the volume that we consume, there are each day 2-3 "fine articles" that I find really interesting and worth digesting - reading at least with attention, sometimes "in depth" which to me means following some references, looking up related things. By contrast there are more "useful comments", going all the way to an actual expert chiming in with a truly valuable clarification or take on a sloppy, borderline useless article. All of this to be contrasted with "grazing", or doom-scrolling, say on tikTok - which clearly some people find valuable.

And for me the question is always how to make it "more active". I have limited time (today, left in my life, whichever you pick). How do I spend it better? Clearly one way is to balance this with entire books. Follow some writers on what THEY have found interesting this week. Participate in comments occasionally. But what else?

HN has a few "best of" lists: highlights, active, best comments... And has the VERY useful "context" links. ... Might still do better but seems to deliberately want to preserve idle clicking around.
Memory is solvable tho.

Either through hacky means via RAG + prompt injections + log/db of interaction history or through context extensions.

IF you have a billion tokens of effective context, you might spent years until it is filled in full.
It's because people come up with all kinds of cargo cult things they think will increase their phone battery but don't actually matter or make it worse. Going into the app switcher and hand killing all apps is the other one.
I really don't understand your argument here. No one is banning you from building stalking devices. Apple and Google have chosen by themselves not to do that & are working to standardize their particular implementation (which you can also see in this thread there's a lot of support for). That's very different from banning knives and gardening shears.

And I think you are taking a very US-centric view. For example, switchblades & similar quick-open knives aren't legal in many jurisdictions. So yes, many countries recognize that tools have a trade-off and are willing to legislate their usage depending on problems being observed.

It's very rare to find a true absolutist on any idealogy unless they're completely blinded - it's just that they draw the line further away than someone else / need a stronger argument to convince them. For example, I'm going to guess that you're not in favor of laissez faire with respect to nuclear weapons & tech - cause that shit is actually really easy and cheap to build these days & the sole difficulty is the regulations that surround it.
The example blurred images look very "clean" for lack of a better term, as if they were produced synthetically by motion-blurring crisp images in a particular direction. I wonder how well it fares with real shaky-camera footage (where the path of motion blur in a given frame might not even be a straight line)
I was also using Stuffit (5.5) originally, but I just gave it a try with good ol' standalone MacBinaryⅢ and that worked too. It should go like this: https://imgur.com/a/YKd4Zvs (first three screenshots)

Once it says Done you can trash the installer. There will be a new folder in the same location as the installer, and within that folder you can run `MacRelix`.

The last two screenshots are me using the `sbin/upgrade` script from within the first Relix flavor to fetch a second Relix flavor.
That is one hell of a logo!
It's more like: don't invest $100B in capital when there's still orders of magnitude improvements in software to be made.
Yeah, protocols are unkillable, but the interest in IRC was definitely hurt by Discord. Had they started putting ads in the client from the start, I doubt so many groups would have migrated to it.
Do you remember where you read that comic? Sounds like a fun read
This. He can upload his stuff to a server and download it after he crosses the border.
>Those two public gathering photos seem utterly indistinguishable to me.

The difference is that the first two public gatherings show a historical landmark (the Brandenburg Gate) and a political protest. The last photo is just a few people gathering.

In practice the difference is usually pretty clear. If there's something of public interest in the photo it's fine, but you can't just take a snapshot of a bunch of people having a picnic in a park or just sitting on the subway without consent.
Paid fork, rebased on free core.
Gary is an anti-ML crank with no more factual grounding than people who think AI is going to conquer the world and enslave you.
Apple really, really needs to develop something similar to Samsung's DEX. They insist on keeping iPadOS on training wheels, while also making macOS more iPad-like (To its detriment imo).

What I think would satisfy a lot of users is if an iPad (And even an iPhone!) turned into a full-on Mac with full macOS with a keyboard and pointer attached. No need to create a convoluted hybrid touch+pointer UX that wouldn't be great at either, like Microsoft has proven. I simply want to be able to do more with the hardware I already own, and transfer files between my mobile/content consumption modes and when I'm creating/developing/working on something.

I know Apple just wants to sell more hardware, but what's happened instead is I've lost interest in getting an iPad altogether.
> True, the model is bigger, but required less tokens than Llama 3 to train.

That…doesn’t matter to users. User’s care what it can do, and what it requires for them to use it, not what it took for you to make it.

Sure, if it has better performance relative to training set size that’s interesting from a scientific perspective and learning about how to train models, maybe, if it scales the same as other models in that regard. But ultimately, for use, until you get to a model that does better absolutely, or does better relevant to models with the same resource demands, you aren’t offering an advantage.
So you're saying they'd end up in the same ballpark?

In that case, I'd rather have RISC-V's programming model.
> something like the expressiveness of Python combined with the speed and safety of Rust.

Isn't that problem already solved? We already have Nim[0] that is memory-safe language with Python-esque syntax and performance of C. Yeah, it's not an extension of Python as Mojo claims to be; but I'd pick a mature language with proven design for my projects over something that's not even out yet.

[0]- http://nim-lang.org
In terms of ethos, Ruby has stayed pretty much the same since the late 2000s, which is a great thing.
Nope. Not in the last 2 years. Hotmail in the first days and gmail now if you send a dozen emails at once but not otherwise
That was my experience with it, too. Microprose could do no wrong.
This is only possible because the unique identifier that an AirTag transmits only rolls over once per day.

This means with a network of trackers, it is possible to track the location of a single airtag over the course of a 24 hour period even if you aren’t the owner.
And very, very late
As another data point, IBM WebSphere had an open-source version and a paid version which used AspectJ (AOP) to deploy proprietary features. People could deploy something like that potentially even at runtime via remote libraries and load-time weaving. (The technique was called product-line engineering.) Obviously Spring still does something similar with its AspectJ-derived AOP. It works mainly for features applied as transaction/API filters like authentication, security, first-failure data capture, etc., and when OS is used as an training tier rather than a fallback if the company folds.
... or for comedy effect, have a old Nokia brick phone just for travel to oppressive counties ...
I’m probably a little odd but I wipe my devices before international travel. All my travel documents are printed. If they want to steal a device, I’ll just replace it.

When I arrive safely I restore from backup and nothing is lost except an hour or so.
The reason apple designed it this way is so that someone can know if they are being tracked. If an air tag not associated with your phone is close by for a certain period of time, then it notifies you that you are being tracked.

This is a safety feature and its been there since day one.
Just like brains.
> is also found in Parmesan cheese. Does that taste like vomit?

I don't think it does taste like vomit, but it does smell like it.
I’m guessing there was an instrumental reason for this, for instance to check that the model was listening before launching into what they wanted to demo
In my experience, when someone says a project was programmed by "white men from the west coast", it was actually made by Chinese or Indian immigrants.

(Siri's original speech recognition was a combination of Swiss-Germans and people from Boston.)

And it certainly wouldn't be tested by them either way. Companies know how to hire QA contractors.
Could you please elaborate on what problems are you having? Are you on the /signup url?
I wonder how much Siri being brain dead is due to it being free. The OpenAI version likely costs 1000x more than Apple’s per query, but is rate limited. Would Apple release something similar for free?
This is really smart. You can get around privacy laws and still derive useful data without having to ask the user personal information.
You mention one thing. Are they trespassing? It probably varies by state anyway, but a photo from public property is almost certainly OK perhaps absent big telephotos peering through windows--though, if you're a celebrity, leaving your shades open in probably on you I would guess.

But, yes, in general, a lot of things in this vein are OK in the US that at least theoretically aren't in some European countries.
Article isn’t available without logging into an account so they can track me. No thank you, I’ll pass on that abusive and hostile crap.
You can see performance comparison to Hydra on ClickBench: https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/ by selecting ParadeDB and Hydra. Tl;dr: It is much faster.

From a feature-set perspective, in addition to querying local disk, we can query remote object stores (S3, GCS, etc.), table format providers (Delta Lake, soon Iceberg too).

From a code perspective, we're written in Rust on top of open-source standards like OpenDAL and DataFusion, while Hydra is their own codebase built from a fork of Citus columnar, in C.

Hydra is a cool project. Hope this helps! :)
Nothing about any of this is even close to zero cost.
It’s small talk! Nobody gives a shit about how your day was when they ask how’s it going. You always just say “fine!”. This thing is no different.

But yeah.. it is pretty weird.
Not really, I think that’s it actually.
Serious question: my understanding of HPC is that there are many workloads running on a given supercomputer at any time. There is no singular workload that takes up the entire or most of the resources of a supercomputer.

Is my understanding correct? If yes, then why is it important to build supercomputers with more and more compute? Wouldn't it be better to build smaller systems that focus more on power/cost/space efficiency?
It is if you don’t click the links!
Rasoulof won the Golden Bear in 2020 for 'There is No Evil', and the audience favorite at my local festival. Iranian directors have always fascinated me, the way they explore ultra serious subjects with a respectful "levity" I can't quite describe. When I'm feeling sad or depressed, I'd rather watch an Iranian film about death than sit through anything German is what I always say.
1k calorie (often just called a Calorie) is the amount of energy needed to raise 1 litre of water by 1 degree Celsius.