skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a great point, so I appreciate that first of all. How would you prevent extraordinary or lucky people from encroaching on the “market share” (hate using this metaphor honestly) of their peers?

I am concerned that your (good) point assumes that we can reasonable assume that there’s enough opportunities for individuals to provide value to others to match the number of people looking to do so. What if there’s an imbalance? Which seems inevitable.

I.e. What if it turns out there’s not ways for all the people on earth to distinguish themselves in the way that you describe?
"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has egg on its face after a small research and consulting firm called Quality Control Systems produced a devastating critique of a 2017 agency report finding that Tesla's Autopilot reduced crashes by 40 percent ... activation of Autosteer actually increased crash rates by 59 percent."
make still has a better UI than shell scripts. With shell scripts you have to maintain multiple files whereas a Makefile has all the scripts in a single file.
Wouldn't there have to be historical matches to train on? Tons of chess games out there but doubt there are any connect 4 games. Is there even official notation for that?

My assumption is that chatgpt can play chess because it has studied the games rather than just reading the rules.
> Nobody's even been able to offer evidence that these apps are somehow bypassing iOS and Android permission systems

Maybe a lot of the folks this happens to haven't denied microphone permission? Or maybe someone around them hasn't? Facebook has a calling feature, chances are people (or others around them) have given it access without realizing it. I have certainly caught Facebook Messenger snooping on my location when it had no business to, merely because I had granted the permission days ago when sharing my location with my friend, and forgotten to deny it again. It spooked me out and made me realize how they trick you into sharing info you didn't intend. I don't see why they wouldn't opportunistically exploit mic permissions just the same. Hell, that might be why they created the calling feature in the first place!
The Apache NuttX RTOS powers Japan's lunar rover
> they rarely ship security fixes more than two major versions

Every flagship iPhone since 2011 has gotten at least five years of OS updates, with additional years of security updates after that.

For instance, the original version of the iPhone SE is currently in its eighth year of support, and just got another security update a couple of weeks ago.
Yeah, I saw it at few corporates. Came back myself one time, other times my friends/colleagues decided to go back. You can't take it personally, the CEO doesn't know your name, the name of your manager or their manager. It's a nice opportunity to negotiate a better deal for yourself.
I've worked in emotional communication and conflict resolution for over 10 years and I'm honestly just feeling a huge swirl of uncertainty on how this—LLMs in general, but especially the genAI voices, videos, and even robots—will impact how we communicate with each other and how we bond with each other. Does bonding with an AI help us bond more with other humans? Will it help us introspect more and dig deeper into our common humanity? Will we learn how to resolve conflict better? Will we learn more passive aggression? Become more or less suicidal? More or less loving?

I just, yeah, feel a lot of fear of even thinking about it.
Should put (2020) in the title.
Officially, yep!

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/samsungs-warning-our-smart...
I suspect tech companies spy us in ways they don't disclose, but
anecdotal evidence like this is not useful. The most likely culprit is cognitive bias: if you hadn't heard that word, you wouldn't have noticed the recommendation. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Ask HN: What changes did you see after shifting to GPT-4o Model in your wrapper?
$16,000! I didn't expect that price until a few years from now. Although it probably will actually be more than that when it releases in (supposedly) 4 months. But it would be a good deal at twice the price. Unitree has a good track record of shipping robots and their H1 is already in the hands of a lot of research universities.

I like that it is short. Humanoid robots should be short. Shorter is lighter, cheaper, less dangerous. If it needs to reach something high it can use a stepladder or whatever.
Check out Rhasspy.

You won't get anything practically useful running LLMs on the 4B but you also don't strictly need LLM-based models.

In the Rhasspy community, a common pattern is to do (cheap and lightweight) wake-word detection locally on mic-attached satellites (here 4B should be sufficient) and then stream the actual recording (more computational resources for better results) over the local network to a central hub.
will see :) heard video capability is rolling out later
It's equally possible that it's just Musk being Musk and making snap decisions he has to walk back.
What constitutes "ending child poverty"? Food stamps, free schooling, and section 8 don't?
We stay on top of keeping MetaFilter's gopher server working.

gopher://gopher.metafilter.com
Funnily, I’d prefer HAL’s unemotional monotone over GPT’s woke hyperbola any second.
I've tested this before, and I'd recommend you all do it too. Its very easy: Pick a product you never need/buy/see advertised/talk about. Personally, I live in an apartment in a big city, so I used the word "mulch". Now stand in your empty apartment and talk to yourself about that product. This can be mostly meaningless babble like "I love mulch. I need to buy mulch. Mulch is best when brown." I did this for ~30 minutes.

Now the hard part: DO NOT tell anyone your word, do not type it into anything, its best you don't even mention the experiment to people. If you tell your word to people then they might type it into a computer which would taint the experiment.

Within a week I was seeing ads for mulch.
Author tried bazel 8 years ago, which is when the article was written. Judging by his GH repos, he's still using Makefiles.

https://github.com/dimonomid/bulgaria-freelance-taxes/blame/...
Whisper, the STT model created by OpenAI can understand you whispering. You can try it with the ChatGPT mobile app to see it yourself
I analysed[0] many apps on the App Store when Apple started forcing app authors to disclose their use of data, at the time nine apps collected audio in a context that could be construed to mean use for ad targeting.

It’s been four years so I should really redo this research.

0: https://hugotunius.se/2021/01/10/the-apps-that-listen-to-you...
> not making bullshit when you don't know

LLMs today have no concept of epistemology, they don't ever "know" and are always making up bullshit, which usually is more-or-less correct as a side effect of minimizing perplexity.
QBE is really interesting, but for people like me who still use 32 bit architectures unfortunately a bit limited. Someone recently pointed me to the Eigen compiler kit (see e.g. https://github.com/EigenCompilerSuite/) which - like QBE - is a lean alternative to LLVM, but supports much more architectures than QBE, even some 16 bit ones; since last week also Xtensa (ESP32) is officially supported. It's still beyond me why the Eigen kit, which has been in development for more than ten years, is not more popular.
What? Did it seriously work worse for women? Spurce?

(accents sure)
Meh. They could stop over-tending their yard.

The perfect lawn is a relatively new thing - blame Scott lawn and other lawn-care companies.
I mean, humans also have tons of failures modes, but we've learned to live them over time.

The average human have tons of quirks, talk over each other all the time, generally can't solve complex problems in a casual conversion setting, and are not always cheery and ready to please like Scarlet's character in Her.

I think our expectations of AI is way too high from our exposure to science fiction.
api access is text/vision for now https://x.com/mpopv/status/1790073021765505244
If I could logically prove that I feel empathy, I would be much more famous.

I get your nuanced point, that “thinking” one feels empathy is enough to be bound by the norms of behavior that empathy would dictate, but I don’t see why that would make AI “empathy” superior to human “empathy”.

The immediate future I see is a chatbot that is superficially extremely empathetic, but programmed never to go against the owner’s interest. Where before, when interacting with a human, empathy could cause them to make an exception and act sacrificially in a crisis case, this chatbot would never be able to make such an exception because the empathy it displays is transparent.
The numbers seem to be inconsistent with other studies.

The following paper gives incidence of 0.2/100,000 for 15-19 year olds in recent years, while the post claims a rise from 0.3 in 1999 to 1.3 today.

https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac...
There are other operations for things like normalization in training, which is why most successful custom stuff has focused on inference I think. As architectures changed and needed various different things some custom built training hardware got obsoleted, Keller talked about that affecting Tesla's Dojo and making it less viable (they bought a huge nvidia cluster after it was up). I don't know if TPU ran into this, or they made enough iterations fast enough to keep adding what they needed as they needed it.
Hopefully without also learning that the most efficient means to that end is eliminating children.
Even doesn't pass the smell test, especially if one considers the data for cotton shopping bags versus plastic.

Per unit length of netting with the equivalent strength, cotton/hemp netting will weigh more, require more frequent replacement, require horrible preservatives which will leach into the marine environment, require more fossil fuels to till and fertilize the cotton, consume more freshwater in production, result in more top soil loss due to mono-cropping, need more pesticides, etc.

Direct plastic pollution in the ocean would be reduced yes, but at the cost of higher pollution and environmental degradation elsewhere.
Compare the us tech companies in the s&p 500 to the eu tech companies.

It’s not even close man.
Tesla's corporate motto is literally "accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy". Unhappy with the world's previous progress and velocity, they aimed to move faster.
This update is based on a dataset change that shifts the observation period by 15 years. Buried within a footnote that nobody will ever read:

> The 2012 USDA hardiness zones were calculated using the average lowest winter temperature for the observation period of 1976-2005. The new zones are calculated using the years 1991-2020. These two observation windows overlap. Colors show the difference between the two 30-year averages for each place on the map.

So while climate change may or may not be the explanation for broader trends in the map, you cannot rule out noise for any particular location, especially given that the methodology uses the lowest winter temperatures in that window as the basis for the zone. That's a fundamentally noisy metric. For example, this drops the blizzard of 1978 -- one of the largest ever in US history -- from the dataset. It's hard to know how that affects the zones without careful inspection, but major weather events like that can easily affect simple outlier analysis. You can see this in the dot plots for Raleigh (the default), which had two outliers in the winters around 1995, and then an otherwise flat series of data. What was the prior dataset? We don't know. Just look at the two default examples:

https://imgur.com/a/oZjQ36Y

It would only take a small number of cold or warm winters to shift those means in either direction.

I don't want to overemphasize a silly little article about plants, but IMO, the fact that NPR buried this information while hyper-focusing on specific locations is just another failure of basic journalism. Telling people that an arbitrarily defined metric has been changed is meaningless, unless you tell people the specific change that was made. It should be the first or second thing they tell you, not buried in a hidden footnote.
Talk in specifics, because otherwise it's still obviously bullshit:

1. Given how prevalent Alexa devices are in homes, if Amazon was recording background conversations and using it in marketing this would be huge news. Again, I'm not saying a 0-day is impossible, but there is simply no above-board way to use ambient conversations with Echo devices.

2. The vast majority of smart TVs run Android or a derivative. Again, an "always on" listening feature if it existed and was being used would be a career-making scoop for an investigative journalist.

Again, I'm not saying it's impossible that there aren't some devices with shitty security that were hacked. I'm saying it's not possible to do it legitimately, and it's not possible to do it with devices that have a huge install base.
A big advantage of paper is that when people inevitably litter, it doesn't break down into microplastics.
That depends - Chess960 doesn't have different castling rules from normal chess, it just has additional considerations that normal chess does not.

In other words, Chess960's castling rules are completely consistent with normal chess castling rules, so depending on how it is implemented, it might just work.
Keeps the ol' colon moving right along tho'
It’s possible to imagine using ChatGPT’s memory, or even just giving the context in an initial brain dump that would allow for this type of call. So don’t feel like it’s too far off.
As a Canadian, constraining the data viz by political border is annoying.
Does it matter if they're typical or not when plants no longer grow where they use to?
The microtubules were from a pigs brain according the material and methods. These proteins exist in all animal cells. So this probably explains why single cell organisms are so intelligent despite not having a brain
For the most part this is a great write-up, but there are multiple moments where it goes out of its way to badmouth the Sequels (and broader Disney canon); while the author's entitled to one's own opinion, this disdain ends up doing a disservice to the presented argument.

For example, the author mentions that in Legends the New Republic retained the Imperial fleet (or at least what survived of it), and claims that the Canon New Republic is not shown to have done so on-screen. The reality is established in the various shows (particularly The Mandalorian and Ahsoka) with about as much subtlety as a lightsaber to the face: Star Destroyers and other Imperial hardware are strongly associated with oppression and tyranny, and while it would indeed be cheaper for the New Republic to retain them than to replace them, it'd be not only even cheaper but also much more politically expedient to dismantle them and sell the scrap.

It's also readily apparent in said shows that Imperial loyalists are still prevalent; Ahsoka in particular shows the shipbuilding/scrapping supply chain to be no exception. Disbanding the Empire's old vendors in favor of shifting production to the Rebellion's vendors is another easy political win and a matter of national security.

By the time of the events of The Force Awakens, a lot of this attitude of "reject the political baggage of anything to do with the Empire" has escaped the Republic's military-industrial complex and now inhabits every facet of New Republic politics. Even the capital moved from Coruscant to Hosnian Prime - and while it ain't explicitly stated why people voted that way, it doesn't take much of a leap in logic to recognize Coruscant's association with the Empire (and its abundant population of Imperial elites) as being a driving factor.

And all this is stuff the article even directly supports and vice versa - but instead the author chose to dunk on all this, doing the otherwise-excellent analysis a considerable disservice.
That’s allegedly the case in iOS (not the provable part, but I wonder if anyone managed to disprove it yet?)
Years ago, when moving off svn to git, I cursed the fact that there was no such string replacement feature. I understand why it doesn't exist, but when it was an obstacle to my job, I loathed it.

It was easy enough to replace with a short script, and I use a variation of that to this date
The other day my boss said something along the lines of "there's too many people in the world", and seemed genuinely surprised when I pointed out articles like this one showing overall humanity is on the road to start shrinking over the next few decades. I think a lot of people still believe we're in the population bomb scenario Ehrlich painted in 1968, when actually we're looking more like a sad "Children of Men" scenario, particularly in developed countries.

I wonder what the end game of this decline is. The population of countries couldn't go to zero (right?). So at some point fertility rate must rebound. But at what point? 50% of the current population? 20%? 5%? Could we (or our great grand children, if we have any) see a world with just 2 million people living in Japan, finally beginning to grow again?

It seems to me if there is ANY sub group in the country reproducing above the 2.1 replacement rate, eventually they will come to dominate the population, if they pass this inclination on to their children. The "bottoming out" of the population might be determined by the relative size of that sub group today, and how much over replacement rate they are reproducing at. So maybe in America, the population bottoms out at 100 million people, with Mormons making up 50% of those, and as time goes on the population slowly grows and becomes more and more Mormon.

The other thing I think may happen, at least in more authoritarian countries like China, is that the state steps in directly. If offering tax breaks and free day care just aren't moving the needle (which they haven't so far), governments set up, for lack of a better term, "baby farms". Giving birth is turned into a full time job, completely separate from raising the children, which is done by some other state institution, and the population is stabilized that way.
"Emoji" (絵文字) is also a false-friend for "Emoticon". "Emoticon" indicates icons that express emotions (typed with ASCII characters), but "Emoji" is simply the Japanese word for pictograph, and is not derived from the word 'emotion'.
I disagree completely. Even people who never adopt this stuff personally will have their lives profoundly impacted. The only way to avoid it would be to live in a large colony where the technology is prohibited, like the Amish. But even the Amish feel the influence of technology to some degree.
Perhaps "Dolt is Git for data" should really be "Dolt is Git for databases"

I loaded the page expecting to see some arbitrary binary data version control tool and was caught off guard by all the references to SQL.
Many people living in these trailers can’t afford a “real” house.
I get notifications about my daughter’s AirPods following me, when she is with me. My daughter is part of my Apple Family plan, and the AirPods show up in my Find My devices. I thought this article was about handling those notifications, at first.
For those curious about Fugaku, it’s currently the 4th fastest supercomputer in the TOP500 list: https://www.top500.org/system/179807/
I suppose this is the time to ask, do people not peel/skin apples? It's common in Southeast Asian cultures; it always feels barbaric/rustic to bite straight into an apple, much the same as biting into an orange or banana.

Basically, the wax is a non-issue if you skin them.
These trackers work by connecting to nearby phones, with the phone supplying GPS information and uploading it via its cell connection. So a Tile tracker will only get its location updated if someone with the Tile app is nearby, and since Tile users are relatively rare the tracking is only reliable in very busy places.

Apple and now Google trackers on the other hand build this functionality into the OS (or Google's near-OS bundle for Android), so if basically any phone comes within range of the tracker it will provide a location update.
This future some people are envisioning seems very depressing.
FreeBSD finally removed the last of the $Id$ in the source some months ago. I don't entirely know why they were so keen to do this but I'm sure they had a reason.

I don't see this, or binary .ident strings as e.g. clashing with idempotent builds.
She explains in one of the videos[0] that it's just prompted ChatGPT.

I have watched a few more and I think it's faked though.

[0] https://www.tiktok.com/@stickbugss1/video/734956656884359504...
The mind-blowing thing is pricing - this thing starts at just $16K.

We’re going to witness an explosion of affordable humanoid robots in every home & business, and as they become increasingly capable the use cases will be nearly limitless. Think deliveries, cleaning, even childcare (Bicentennial Man, anyone?). I think what will be shocking is just how fast this happens, and they’ll likely outnumber humans at some point.
I reworded the question with the same results in the second example.

But here is another real world example I dug up out of my chat history. Each iteration of the code worked. I actually ran it a few days ago

https://chat.openai.com/share/4d02818c-c397-417a-8151-7bfd7d...
Just provide empty queey and that’s it - it will generate tokens no prob.

You can use any open source model wirthout any promot whatsoever
That seems unbelievable to me. Unless internal industrial/commercial uses of corrugated really outnumber john smith by that much.
The web browser is a big issue with this, too. A Safari release broke IndexedDB and they didn’t release a fix for over two months because browser updates are tied to the OS.
Sounds like he wants the -B option.
> So I can use it in my hash-map, or whatever O(1) lookup...

BTW in the past (20 years ago?) there have been attacks on non-cryptographic hashes used for hash maps: denial of service by creating crafted requests to HTTP servers... The parameteres would be picked maliciously and would be all ending in the same "buckets". That attack worked on both Java and PHP servers. IIRC it's been solved by adding random seeding (and I noticed that GxHash mentions it's seedable: not saying it'd counter every attack but it's already something).
I'm not GP but:

Make gives me a single, predictable and stable interface to the repo.

From the root of the repo, I can type `make <tab>` and get a list of available tasks. Alternatively, there's a Makefile on the root.

With scripts, I need to type... what? `./<tab>` and look for clues? Maybe the scripts are in `scripts/`, maybe they're in `build/`, maybe they're in `ci/`...

Even if I know where the scripts are, `make task` is quicker and easier to type than `./scripts/task.sh`.

One could just use a make task to call a script, which I have done, but in most cases if you do that, what's the point of the script?
Metals are pretty well recycled, no?
For any crime, there is means, motive, and opportunity.

The smart phone is the means and the opportunity.
Yes, while I did not go to the USSR, the accounts I've heard from friends definitely sounded worse than hyperinflation. While hyperinflaion did rapidly make necessities rather difficult and required daily juggling, I didn't see the kinds of deprivation I repeatedly heard reported from USSR. Heck, even today, 20% of Russians have no indoor plumbing, as in they have to use outhouses [0]

[0] https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/04/02/indoor-plumbing-st...
not just smoke tainted, a small bit of Kelowna (the heart of BC wine country) straight up burned down last year

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mcdougall-cr...

the whole area is actually surprisingly dry in terms of rain due to being in the rain shadow of the mountain. the lakes nearby make it tolerable, but even a small shift in climate patterns will turn the area into a near-desert.