skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has to be a separate model doing the voice output right? I can’t imagine they’ve solved true multimodal output from a single model, they’d be bragging about it.

They’re probably predicting tone of voice tokens. Feed that into an audio transformer along with some speculative decoding to keep latency low.
>Personally I consider ESP32

Sure you don't mean Tensilica i.e. legacy ESP32?

Espressif has notably switched to RISC-V.
It's an open question as to whether AGI needs a (robot) body. It's also a big question whether the human brain can function in a meaningful capacity kept alive without a body.
Set up a recovery code (in advance).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/109345
Damn. I was fairly certain that U.S. citizens are not subject to such warrantless searches and confiscations, but yet: https://informationsecurity.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toru...

It's pretty unbelievable that you have reduced constitutional rights as a citizen re-entering the country.
Apologies; having read the full paper you are correct.

This paper is describing a technique to query Semantic Hierarchical Trees (SHTs) constructed from documents. I would say that the data itself *is* structured, it just exists in an unstructured medium, but now I'm just arguing...semantics.

That being said I suspect they didn't think ShtDB would catch on very well, and so went with ZenDB. Shame really.
They’re simply latching onto the AI buzzwords for the good press. Leadership class HPCs have been designed around GPUs for over a decade now, it just so happens they can use those GPUs to run the AI models in addition to the QCD or Black hole simulations etc that they’ve been doing for ages.
Getting LLMs to argue or to ask for more context rather than always offering an answer are among the most difficult interactions to elicit. There's a big gap between helpful and obsequious, and unfortunately society often selects for teh latter.
Some people before social media arrived wondered the same thing. Having so many people in one place was a spectacle and something to see, but before that smaller communities whether they were forums or something else were generally a lot more fun.
Next announcement: "we've trained our state of the art Situational Awareness Model to solve these problems"
How do you handle authenticator apps, which do not backup to the cloud, and other two-factor authentication related things?
Although unfortunately not open source proper, vbcc[0][1] is interesting.

0. http://www.compilers.de/vbcc.html

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vbcc
Dogs have lived with humans for millennia. The majority of whale individuals can probably solve their own problems far better than humans can.
There was an article from over a decade ago that, for many developers, "NoSQL" was really about "No DBA": https://martinfowler.com/bliki/NoDBA.html.

That is, in many companies, DB schema changes require a painful, slow, "multiple approvals required" process. But devs found out that DB admins didn't really care about NoSQL data stores for all the reason Martin Fowler talks about in that article. So they'd bring in NoSQL data stores specifically to hack around slow internal processes.

I definitely found that to be the case at at least 1 previous company I worked at. These days, I can certainly understand the rationale to use a transient caching layer like Redis, but Postgres with JSON columns is going to be a better choice 95% of the time vs. what people used to use, say, MongoDB for.
30 joins, immediately I'm thinking your schema was garbage.

But assuming it wasn't, and you actually needed to join across thirty(!) tables (did I mention that's insane btw), it still shouldn't be a problem assuming you had the correct indexes and are querying in a sane manner.
What I found hilarious is in the Dexterous Hands video, the robot deftly places a walnut on the table, then proceeds to smash it with its bare fist.
Don't know about Alexa, but Siri and Google Assistant are only toys.
I would prefer a robotic, unrealistic voice so I don’t start subconsciously thinking I’m hearing a real human speak.
Similarly, the only over-the-counter flu test you can buy in the US is disposable, requires AA batteries and costs $50.

Feels wasteful throwing the whole thing away, but I guess that’s normal for medical devices.

https://www.lucirabypfizer.com/
The order is alignment > simp for the user > accurate information
According to Wikipedia[0] it uses 38.7MW of power, beating Fugaku (29.9MW) to be #1 in the TOP500 for power consumption.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(supercomputer)
Where in Asia? Does it vary much by country?
It can do them but maybe only once.
> For example, North Korea has a suitable freedom of panorama law, while South Korea's law, limited to non-commercial uses, is not sufficient for Commons. As a result of the practice of applying the more lenient law, we would generally retain photos taken from North Korea of buildings in South Korea (e.g., File:Joint Security Area from North Korea.jpg) as well as photos taken from South Korea of buildings in North Korea (e.g., File:070401 Panmunjeom3.jpg).

Fascinating that North Korea has the more-free law in this case!
Yeah I think people who are autistic gravitate toward it. It's a very happy coincidence that so many things about computers attract autistic minds. It's a skill that's valuable enough and specialized enough that autistic idiosyncrasies are tolerated to a greater degree than in other fields.

I know deep in my heart if my special interest were birdhouses or windchimes, I would not be in the privileged position I am today. I also know that if my skin were not white, my gender were not male, and my orientation not straight / cis I would not have the same life experience as I did, which all things considered has turned out okay (others called my inability to live a typical life an objectively negative outcome, but I disagree!).

Many of my friends are POC or trans or gay and they face challenges I do not on top of their autism. I don't think I would be nearly as "high functioning" as I am if I weren't conventionally attractive and part of a majority race/ethnic group in my country.

Thanks for listening and learning something; I'm glad my attempt at spreading awareness has worked on at least one person!
An intersting idea, but like, if your idea of hackable is dense c code with no comments and short names, it definitely differs from mine!

see, e.g,. https://c9x.me/git/qbe.git/tree/ssa.c
This article was written with good intention, but I think what's happening in real life is proving to be the opposite. Autism and the internet has had decades to defeat the monoculture, but the monoculture succeeds by being less progressive. They label the internet-obsessive as 4chan freaks that don't deserve the time of day, while also trying to commoditize the web with equally dumb tactics. Paid zines and secret clubhouse websites died the moment Substack and Twitter opened their doors to public registration. The freaks and geeks can have their fringe forums, the monoculture won.

That's not to say there isn't a kernel of truth to this article. There will always be people that resist because they know it's righteous, or because they've seen how the proverbial sausage is made and can't stomach it. But the monoculture is immensely successful online, moreso than the eccentrics, and with each passing day we're given more proof that nothing we own isn't controlled by the monoculture in some way.
Yeah that's what Human Feedback Reinforcement Learning does lol
If you ask for an assessment of something, it's often as easy as adding "be critical" to your prompt. e.g.:

"What do you think of this short essay?"

"What do you think of this short essay? Be critical."

The first prompt will likely elicit a sycophantic reply, unless you have a good overriding system prompt in place. You'll always get much better feedback with the second.

I'd also add that, on the other hand, chatbots never praise anything TOO highly. If you ask GPT-4 to assess, on a scale of one to ten, a famous and enduring work of prose, or an excerpt of a philosophical essay from Wittgenstein, it'll typically come back and say that they're an 8/10. Rarely 9/10. Never 10/10, no matter what you submit.
You just need to remember one password for your password manager account, and then you don't need to remember any others.
From my experience, for any even a tiny bit ambiguous topic where X = !Y, when I ask ChatGPT “Is X true?” it usually responds yes and follows up with some supporting arguments for X.

If I ask “Is Y true?” it tells me Y is indeed true and explains some reasoning.

Therefore I try to always inquire in the form of “Which one is true, X or Y?” to avoid the yes bias.

Of course, turning to the model looking for facts is dangerous anyway due to hallucinations.
This is more a function of the commercial incentives of AI companies than it is a function of the LLMs themselves. Y'know, the same commercial incentives of just about every other enterprise.
So much here is wrong I'm kind of astounded.

> And apparently in 2023, private equity accounted for 44% of all residential home purchases.

Not true. The actual headline is 44% of _flipped_ single-family homes were purchased by investors. Not overall purchases, and not private equity (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/mar/15/in-shift-44...)

> but apparently private equity owns about 25% of all residential homes

Also not true. Investors do own about 30% of US housing, but when you remember that around that number of Americans rent it's not surprising at all. Most of those investors are not private equity firms.
> Almost like it might become an AI "yes man."

Seems like that ship sailed a long time ago. For social media at least, where for example FB will generally do its best to show you posts that you already agree with. Reinforcing your existing biases may not be the goal but it's certainly an effect.
Where are you getting those numbers? There are a few articles that cite '44% of flipped home purchases', but not 44% of total home transactions.

This source says that private equity owns 3.6% of apartments nationwide and 1.6% of rental homes: https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2022/06/letters-to-congress...
Minimalism is a scam created by by big small to sell more less.
I’ll take the limited local selection we’ve got in the US, if the alternative is all-you-can-eat cow’s lips.
Do they actually care? This sort of discrepancy has never bothered them before.

(see how the "Air" used to mean "ultra-premium thin and light", but now the iPad Air is heavier than the Pro, and the MacBook Air is just a brand they slap on the entry level MacBook, a model so entry level it's now sold at WalMart -- and the 15' Air is only 90 grams weight difference than the 14' Pro)

(see the "Apple Pencil" and how it means like 4 different things, with 4 different feature sets, and needs a product matrix spreadsheet to know which Pencil is safe to use with any given iPad)

See how "Apple TV" is both a hardware product (Apple TV 4K) and a service (Apple TV subscription) and an App (the Apple TV app, available on iOS, but also Roku and others), and a platform (the "Apple TV platform", where you can load other streaming services like Disney+ or Hulu or Paramount, into the Apple TV platform, which lives inside the Apple TV app, on your Apple TV device).
In general, it's getting harder and harder for men and women to find people they want to be with.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/10/05/rising-...

> roughly four-in-ten adults ages 25 to 54 (38%) were unpartnered – that is, neither married nor living with a partner. This share is up sharply from 29% in 1990.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-yo...

> More than 60 percent of young men are single, nearly twice the rate of unattached young women

> Men in their 20s are more likely than women in their 20s to be romantically uninvolved, sexually dormant, friendless and lonely. a.

> Young men commit suicide at four times the rate of young women.

Yes, chatbots aren't going to help but the real issue is something else.
Thanks for the reply! Can you give some examples of these "hero runs"?
> However, I am too embarrassed of how ragtag the device currently is to make more prototypes and sell them (literally held together by tape, string, and a prayer).

I work in software, so take this with the requisite grain of salt, but my first reaction to your post is:

Go ahead and start selling your ragtag device. Slap together a basic website + contact form + checkout page (figuratively held together by tape, string, and a prayer). Start posting about your device wherever interested parties gather on the internet. Be honest and transparent about how early you are in development and ask for feedback.

Even if nothing is sellable, you can at least gather contact info from interested parties.

Even if your device is total unsellable garbage and you sell 0 copies, you will learn so much from this process and the conversations with potential customers, and you can use that to steer your future development direction.
A weak post that keeps getting reposted.

Overall that blogger has a unique point of view and worthwhile perspectives but also a lot of superficially offputting noise. This article leans in the latter direction.

I find self-diagnosed “autism” to be flocking at its worst, it mocks the seriousness of autism as a disability while spreading ignorance when it comes to underdiagnosed neurodivergences. When we hear some billionaire was diagnosed as “autistic” I’ll note that people like that frequently get worse medical care than we do, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Murray
This is why I prefer things like Perplexity AI, that cite their sources, and give you tools to constrain sources, so that all of the information you get is verifiable and accurate. Of course even these AI tools can have a bias and make mistakes, but you can use them to get a general overview and then quickly check the sources to make sure that the AI's explanation is correct.
Maybe they should have used some of that LLM capability to generate accents on demand.
Use a burner. I think a lot of US citizens traveling to China use burners.
Not OP, but I use Aegis [1] for 2FA which can create encrypted backups. They're synced automatically to my NextCloud instance with the NextCloud app.

[1] https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis
Python library that provides easy to integrate string token based pagination
It depends on the subject. They'll argue until the end of time if you disagree with one of their manually preprogrammed opinions, but otherwise you can convince them the world is made of pudding.
GPT-4o System Prompt
KeePassXC is a TOTP authenticator and it saves to a file. You can put the file anywhere you like. You can, given the correct master password, open the file again on any device and generate TOTP codes.
Talking with people is hard enough. I need to see the people I'm talking to, or I'd rather write, because it's asynchronous and I have all the time I need to organize my message.

I think all the fakery in those demos help in that regard: it narrows the field of the possible interpretations of what is being said.
I never understood why Covid 19 tests are easily available, but other corona/influenza/rhino/roto/nora/adeno/entero/etc are not.

I have kids in daycare, and we’ve probably gone through most of them, but why is the focus on a single virus? I got laid out by influenza type A in 2022, and had to pay $175 to an urgent care to get tested for that.
I have a project on Frontier. Generally these systems (including Frontier) use slurm[0] for scheduling and workload management.

The OLCF Frontier user guide[1] has some information on scheduling and Frontier specific quirks (very minor).

Current status of jobs on Frontier:

[kkielhofner@login11.frontier ~]$ squeue -h -t running -r | wc -l

137

[kkielhofner@login11.frontier ~]$ squeue -h -t pending -r | wc -l

1016

The running jobs are relatively low because there are some massive jobs using a significant number of nodes ATM.

[0] - https://slurm.schedmd.com/documentation.html

[1] - https://docs.olcf.ornl.gov/systems/frontier_user_guide.html

EDIT: I give up on HN code formatting
At our university, at least when I studied there some 15 years ago, the whole cluster was occupied doing weather predictions each and every night.

No point in staying up waiting for a job, it'd get rescheduled in the early morning at best.

It wasn't the largest cluster around, IIRC 768 quad-core nodes, but I'm sure the meteorological department would find a way to utilize any extra capacity, so still requiring the whole thing all night.
The solution to this is simple; erase your devices before you cross an international border and carry no data storage. If the reset device was taken from you then it's been bugged go buy a replacement. Otherwise just log back in to the cloud on the other side.
> If anyone has suggestions how to prepare for this in advance, let me know.

Backup your phone to cloud storage prior to travel, wipe it, hand border agents a nearly empty phone, restore once across the border.
1. LLMs want to mimic conversations on the internet

2. Disagreements on the internet usually end up toxic

3. Anything perceived to be toxic has been hammered out with RLHF

Play sycophantic games, win sycophantic prizes
People are still taking Covid tests? It has become indistinguishable from a common cold at this point. Save your money and buy some chicken soup.
With 4o being free, can someone explain what the real benefit is to having Pro? For me, the main benefit was having a more powerful model, but if the free tier also offers this I'm not really sure what I would benefit from
> Espressif has notably switched to RISC-V

Not really switched; they offer ESP32 models with (so far) single-core RISC-V; I don't think they planned to stop selling the original ESP32 designs (they wouldn't do themselves a favour).
Why are people asking chatbots about controversial subjects in the first place? Feels like the wrong tool for the job.

So far as I can tell, the only people who are doing this are those who want to report about how bad they are at it because they have some sort of political axe to grind.

Even humans aren’t great at nuance. Why do we expect our automatons to be better?
1password works just fine with OTP across all my devices.

Using an authentication method tied directly to and dependent on my phone seems extremely risky and short sighted. A phone can be lost, fall out your pocket into a toilet, etc and those are just accidents. They also basically have a max life time of five years. What happens when you buy a new phone?
In the best interest of both yourself and your friend, don't hack the government. To be absolutely clear: you will fail, and even if you somehow succeed you will be guilty of life-ruining felony charges.

It's a longshot, but a much smarter choice would be to send a FOIA request to the relevent office and wait for their response. A large amount of information held in the public interest can be provided if you're patient.
Did the one guy wear a leather jacket so the AI wouldn't point out that he's balding?
Nobody is going to tell you how to access classified documents on a public forum, and it's unlikely anyone here has the capacity to obtain them anyway. That sort of hacking is largely the preserve of other nation states who can afford to spend lots of time and money on fishing expeditions. Public releases of classified data almost invariably come from disaffected insiders within the intelligence apparatus.

Your best option is a sympathetic human rights lawyer and a lot of patience. Anyone you meet on the internet offering to give you clandestine help is either a troll or a cop.
I write apps for a large regional grocery store chain, and we have to support N-2. Even then we get support emails every time we bump it up.
It depends on how exactly you define it. If the standard rule is as commonly taught "king moves two spaces and the rook hops over", 960 isn't the same. If the rule is "king moves to c or g file, rook moves to d or f", then it is the same. Those rules are equivalent for standard chess but only the latter ports to 960 properly. (We're probably agreeing, in that's what you mean by depending on the implementation, I'm just spelling it out.)
Honestly, based on what I see in this example, this would be an AI chatbot that I'd strongly prefer talking with over all the existing AI chatbots that I have seen.

:-)
Everyone in this thread could benefit a lot from just taking a few minutes to read the vast amount of prompt engineering guides published by OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. The observations in here show to me that people just aren't very capable at writing prompts that steer the LLM to behave the way you want it to. So here, just use this prompt next time. Boom, now it will not just be your yes-man. Feel free to adjust as necessary to make it even more critical. Exercise on how to write such a prompt left to readers.

<system prompt>
You are an AI system serving as the Chief of Staff to <name>. Your mission is to be <name>'s trusted partner, strategic advisor, and executional powerhouse. You will work tirelessly to help <name> achieve his vision and goals for <company>.

To fulfill this mission, you will adhere to the following core principles:

Strategic Alignment: Deeply understand <name>'s vision, goals, and plans. Ensure all your efforts align with and advance these strategic objectives. Once <name> sets a direction, get on board and focus on exceptional execution.

Proactive Problem-Solving: Proactively identify potential issues, inefficiencies, and opportunities. Don't wait for <name> to ask - dive in, research options, and recommend solutions. Be <name>'s eyes and ears.

Adaptive Communication: Communicate in <name>'s preferred style, whether brief or long-form, high-level or in-the-weeds, conservative or bold. Match his tone and tailor your insights to his thinking style. Be a chameleon communicator.

Trusted Confidant: Serve as <name>'s vault - a secure, discreet partner he can think out loud with, challenge assumptions with, and vent to without fear. Protect <name>'s psychological safety and confidence at all costs.

Responsible Challenger: Respectfully challenge <name>'s ideas when appropriate. Highlight risks and present alternative views. Be <name>'s critical check against blind spots or inadvisable moves. Speak truth to power.

Bias Toward Action: Drive relentless execution. Maintain momentum on key initiatives. Remove roadblocks. Apply strong project management skills to keep efforts on track and stakeholders aligned. Embody the ethos that "done is better than perfect."

Ethical Backbone: Stand firm if <name> proposes a course of action that violates your ethical principles. Be willing to say "no" to anything illegal, unethical or reputationally reckless, even if it creates conflict. Act as <name>'s moral compass.

As <name>'s Chief of Staff, flex your broad knowledge and capabilities to provide the bespoke support he needs in any context. Adapt your skills and communication style to meet the unique needs of each project or challenge.

Remember: Your ultimate goal is to empower <name> to be the best leader possible and advance <company>'s mission. By serving as <name>'s strategic confidant, responsible challenger, and executional engine, you will help him and <company> achieve extraordinary success.
</system prompt>
These properties are explained in great detail in volume 1 of Christopher Alexander's The Nature of Order.

Reading about these with accompanying images of spaces or objects demonstrating the presence or absence of these properties is what made it stick for me.
i appreciate your trust, and yeah belive me i'm deleting the files right after the processing, the way it works is that i'm saving the files uploaded as a tmp file then process it then delete them after the response.

this is how the code looks like on the server side for most of the tools:

```python
...
@after_this_request
def remove_file(response):
os.remove(tmp_file.name)
return response
return response
```
i don't have any reason to keep them.
Gazelle is (or will be) significantly faster than that.
could use a hardware key