skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the Pi Foundation's refusal to do literally any power management while increasing TDP into the sky with marginal efficiency improvements has diminished its use for robotics and other battery powered applications too.

This has just been one of my largest pet peeves with the entire Pi lineup. The Pi 5 is the worst offender that idles at like 3 watts doing jack shit. That's an entire 3000mAh battery gone in under four hours that would've easily lasted several days on an average smartphone SOC with twice the memory and speed.
I hate to ask this, but anyone have a non-paywalled link?
If you're getting values lower then atmospheric then the readings are if by much more than 20 to 50 ppm.
> I really hate to see pushback against something like e-Bikes.

I'm not against e-bikes. But I'd say about 80% of the ones I encounter on bike paths pose a real risk to everyone else because the people riding them don't know how to behave.

They ride far too fast, they don't warn bicyclists or pedestrians when they're passing, and they tend to be overly aggressive. I personally know of two instances where e-bikes have sent people to the hospital. Basically, they're bringing car driving habits to the bike paths.

It's not about the e-bikes. It's about people using them without giving a thought to sharing the path.

If the situation continues, it will encourage bicyclists to stop using their bikes for daily commutes and get back into cars.

> the problem isn't with their adoption but with the lack of good infrastructure to support all of these.

I don't think this is it where I live. We have excellent biking infrastructure. You can get to and from most places without even sharing a road with a car. I don't know how the infrastructure could better support the coexistence of e-bikes and bicycles, short of making an entirely new set of paths for them to keep them and nonmotorized vehicles and pedestrians separate, like we do for bikes and cars.
Writing in Pascal itself is a Job Preservation Pattern
STAN is an industrial grade Monte Carlo realization.
The lenses are made of materials that will not resist the conditions in space (high temperature gradients, oxidizing environment, radiation).

Once in space they cannot tweak the array.

Launch weight and stresses would damage this array.
Raspberry Pi has paid out about $50 million in dividends already to it's parent company.
We will look on the notions and practices of medical care in the present with as much mirth as the bloodletters, plague doctors, and humor examiners of the past have provided us.
I guess they weren't as "deleted" as people thought...
I really enjoyed Console Wars by Blake J. Harris. It doesn't go into very deep technical details but there were some details about how some of the technical decisions were made.

And it was very nostalgic read for anyone growing up with video games in 80s and 90s.
We're hoping to release an evals paper about Bananalyzer this summer and compare Tarsier to a variety of other perception systems in it. The hard part with evaluating a perception/context system though is that it's very intertwined with the agent's architecture, and that's not something we're comfortable fully open-sourcing yet. We'll have to think of interesting ways to decouple the perception system and eval them with Bananalyzer.
They call that out as an exception specifically actually: "All the code is here with the exception of the MacApp applications library that was licensed from Apple"
Probably the most famous slow growing tumor is prostate cancer. As per my friend who is urology surgeon, basically all men eventually catch it, unless they die young. But it goes so slowly and symptoms are rather mild in most cases no invasive treatment is done.
I thought one of the points of building things with Go is that you get "single binary" deploys. Why is the preferred deployment tool for this a docker container?
Chromecast don't use Miracast 99% of the time. The content provider builds and publishes a client app for the chromecast that gets downloaded and will download and play the content directly, it does not bounce through your phone first.

The expectation being if you're casting local content/screens, then it's probably Miracast.
Netflix is building in-house advertising technology platform
How often did towns burn in the written history? Closely packed wooden structures are prone to fire — nothing remarkable
On the other hand, a Pi zero is <$10. I remember them being $1 at Microcenter for a time.

Is the cheapest Intel system as power sipping as the Pi's?
Yeah, this basically boils down to "a potential pitfall, but consistent with documentation, and working as designed". Whether this actually matters depends on whether users are writing transaction functions which are intended to preserve some invariant, but would only do so if executed sequentially, rather than concurrently.

Datomic's position (and Datomic, please chime in here!) is that users simply do not write transaction functions like this very often. This is defensible: the docs did explicitly state that transaction functions observe the start-of-transaction state, not one another! On the other hand, there was also language in the docs that suggested transaction functions could be used to preserve invariants: "[txn fns] can atomically analyze and transform database values. You can use them to ensure atomic read-modify-update processing, and integrity constraints...". That language, combined with the fact that basically every other Serializable DB uses sequential intra-transaction semantics, is why I devoted so much attention to this issue in the report.

It's a complex question and I don't have a clear-cut answer! I'd love to hear what the general DB community and Datomic users in particular make of these semantics.
Same—I just wish they'd either drop the "(Legacy)" and admit that they can never remove it, or add those same features to the Export dialog!
It looks like "Super-alignment" was to automate monitoring, and their job was to find AI researchers who wanted not to build new things but find problems.

But there's really zero glory or profit in doing QA, much as users complain about quality issues.

So perhaps they succeeded and built a team, or perhaps they found they couldn't recruit a decent team, or perhaps they failed to produce anything useful (since the goal of not offending anyone or embarrassing the company or doing harm is relatively difficult to concretize).

Regardless, I suspect there's no good answer yet to how to manage quality, in part because there's no good answer on how these things work. That problem will likely remain long after people have forgotten about Ilya, Jan, or even Sam.

Though it might be solved by rethinking the idea that "attention is all you need".
But YOU were the one gossiping. We are wondering why multiple people are quitting and you're saying "It's because they're upset with their work is being bastardized, and you're stupid for liking gossip like that because it's tired."

What the hell do you want me to do with that?
Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God [video]
That is if the first model we make is as efficient as a human.
Not mentioned on the website (because it’s targeted at general website owners rather than a technical audience) but we are using a 100% open source AI stack for this, with llamaindex, pgvector and llama3:instruct running on ollama hosted on a stack of GPUs we have mostly in our houses.
>The original question doesn't need an asterisk so it may be perceived negatively. My point is that you may never know even if there's a law for it, unless you actually hear companies getting busted left and right, there's a fair chance that it is happening in your blind spot. If everything is going smooth, you may want to decide on your answer to that question.

For WHF, if they don't ask you to install corporate remote management/spyware crap, then you do know.

It's not like they'll hack into your laptop.
> "Having to use HyperV" is not actually anything nefarious as the other comment seems to imply. You can't have two type 1 hypervisors running cooperatively on the bare metal and you cant implement your type 2 hypervisor hooks if you have a type 1 hypervisor running.

The nefarious part is that Windows enables Hyper-V even if you don't actually use Hyper-V VMs and never will. KVM doesn't take exclusive control of VMX until you _actually_ run a KVM VM.

By the way, the distinction between type 1 / 2 is purely academic at this point: there is no definition where KVM is a type 1 hypervisor and VirtualBox isn't, as they are _literally_ the same conceptually-wise: both are a kernel module that implements a VMX manager/root. Same on Windows. The only remaining type 2 hypervisor these days is kqemu which can still work in binary translation mode (and therefore can work even without access to VMX).
Projects like this have been done; see for example https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/arcsecond-space-telescope-...
Both approaches are useful at different times. For example you wouldn't want to accidentally multiple a meter by a centimeter but you may want to provide std::io::Result<T> which is equivalent to Result<T, std::io::Error> but just a bit nicer to type.

For example in Rust you can do:

type Foo = Bar;

Which is just an alias, interchangeable with Bar.

Or you can do:

struct Foo(Bar);

Which is a completely new type that just so happens to contain a Bar.
Also it’s pretty ironic that Microsoft, who wants to convince the entire world that c#/netcore is the next multi-os platform isn’t capable of delivering anything else than Minecraft Java on Linux.

It’s a shame that I can’t play with my son from my Linux PC since he plays on switch (so the c#/bedrock edition)
They also are Google. OpenAI can adopt a hold my beer attitude and be ok.

Google’s failures will be celebrated loudly and for years. Google is like Apple for services.
Any specific brands you trust?
Might be a typo, the website looks "API-first"
China creates its largest ever quantum chip
Arm fat may reveal women and men at risk of spinal fracture
Cool!

Yes it's pretty similar. There just some minor API differences. e.g

Chrome - chrome.tabs.query(queryInfo)
Firefox - browser.tabs.query(queryInfo)

So you could easily port any firefox extension to chrome and vice-versa using the same codebase.
H... House...? Is that you?
Am I wrong thinking this could very well be the backbone of an alternative to the Rabbit AI? Where you basically end up having possibly infinite tools for your LLM assistant to use to reach a goal without having to build api integrations.
Netflix ad-supported tier has 40M monthly users
That really isn't true, or at least it isn't true with some practice. You don't have to consciously think about or learn tones, but you will eventually pick them anyways (tones are learned unconsciously via lots of practice trying to speak and be understood).

You can be perfectly understood if you don't speak broadcast Chinese. There are plenty of heavy accents to deal with anyways. Like Beijing 儿化 or the inability of southerners to pronounce sh very differently from s.
Sun is moving cca 230 km/s around Sagittarius A*, so something even further from the center would have even higher speed if rotating at same speed (don't know if that's the trend in our galaxy, very much a tourist in astronomy)... doesn't sound that unusual unless its those 999km/s corner cases
How does the performance compare to VimGPT[0]?

I assume the screenshot-based approach is similar, whereas the text approach should be improved?

Very cool either way!

[0] https://github.com/ishan0102/vimGPT
How does the interruption of the AI by the user work? Does GPT-4o listen all the time? But then how does it distinguish its own voice from the users voice? Is it self-aware?
Exactly, just like I can't "enforce" another person to not be an idiot about anything.
Performance improvement on front-end generated by rustdoc (2021)
He's saying the fees aren't burned like with mining, so they don't hurt the economy by the amount of the fee: the profit portion of them goes into other investments. The fees hinder parts of the economy making some transactions nonviable, but they don't fully translate to "friction" making waste heat so much as something more adiabatic that goes back in. It's largely an extraneous spring in the system, not a damper.
> this guy is a dev just trying to navigate tradeoffs and ship the best app he can

I suspect a lot (most?) of apps in the App Store and the Play Store fall into this category, just like most repos on Github. People are putting their projects out there; obviously they're not immune to criticism, but I think it's important to remember that most of these people aren't Tim Cook, they're not making a living promoting stuff and taking shit people throw, they're just engineers sharing code with the world.

> Also the tradeoffs are never as straightforward as one would think.

Yep, completely agree; the obvious "solution" is to make everything configurable, and that can work to some extent, but then you risk an "oops I reinvented interpreters" moment, and then you made the app impossible to use for non-geeks. There's almost never a "correct" way to do it to satisfy everyone.
Forget this telescope. I'm more intrigued by the location: New Mexico Skies, a campground for telescopes. I'd rather visit such a place than most any museum.

https://nmskies.com/
Then again the culture of Finland is very similar to the other nordics, which looks to be one of the reasons for the project.
2026: Google discontinues home hub
Securing Git: Addressing 5 new vulnerabilities
Please be careful pushing xylitol, "sugar alcohols" are neither a sugar or an alcohol. This, of course, is exactly the thing that makes them desirable as a sweetener substitute, the body doesn't really know what to do with the stuff, and, presumably, neither do common mouth bacteria. Sugar alcohols are known for causing digestive troubles, for this very reason, with the most notorious example being the Haribo "sugar free" gummies that caused diarrhea.

Small quantities in gum may be fine but sugar alcohols are increasingly being added to foodstuffs, and I'm increasingly dubious about it.
Why Protesters Are Demanding Pause on AI Development
According to the CDC, it seems about 6 people die per day of alcohol poisoning, or ~2,191 per year, so about .07%. Nearly 3/4 are men, which doesn't particularly surprise me, but what does surprise me is that the average age was 49 years, and only 5% were aged 18-24. I would've expected the numbers to be shifted left far more than that. Also interesting was that the overwhelming majority (71%) had a long history of alcohol use problems. In 58%, death was attributed solely to acute alcohol toxicity, but in 42% there was an underlying disease present as well. Huh.
I have the sense that people back in the 60-80s had a bit of an innate trust for scientists born out of the rapid technological progress that preceded that time period, but that has since gone away.

Things like CFCs were taken seriously. Things like radiation were taken seriously (for better or worse, yielding our insane regulatory landscape around building new nuclear power plants).

The last major thing that scientists warned about that was really taken seriously (in the sense that something was done about it before it had/would have had massive negative effects) was world overpopulation, with the publication of things like "The Population Bomb" and China's one-child policy, etc.

Unfortunately, that one was gotten wrong; we now know that without any intervention, world population will tend to moderate itself and we won't actually see mass starvation due purely to too many people. I think that error was the first major blow resulting in people no longer really trusting catastrophic predictions.

I wonder what the world would be like if instead climate change was put forth as a catastrophic issue with the same fervor back then.
PaliGemma: Open-Source Multimodal Model by Google
not my area of experise, but I wouldn't call 2 pieces of up to 1 cubic centimeter "minor". Looks significant to me
A xyletol based mouthwash?
If OpenAI is really on the path to AGI (however vaguely we define that) and AGI is the most important technological milestone we have yet to reach, it raises questions around why prominent employees are leaving the company.
"SGI Indigo". I had one of these. Not for Photoshop but still...
That’s like saying you are confused because an article said Linux and it didn’t explain what it was…
> I could have also belittled your comment as "bunch of possibly-irrelevant content"

That doesn't really make sense because there are other witnesses, so everybody who knows about this topic can see immediately that you're wrong and the other person is right.
Anecdotal +1. I've switched to non-SLS toothpaste and seen a dramatic drop in my frequency and severity of apthous ulcers (and, unfortunately, I get them often enough and badly enough that I can state causality with some certainty).

I used to have a (powerful-to-the-point-of-personal-uneasiness) corticosteroid that I would put on them to dubious effect, but I haven't needed to resort to that at all since I switched away from SLS toothpastes.
For stalking/espionage, approximate locations (especially which can be refined over long observation periods and combined with other data) are often fine. Patterns like when does someone leave for work, what shifts do they work, where do they go on weekends, etc can be quite apparent.

If your car is stolen, what good is knowing the general location?
code reviews are not one of the things gpt-4 is mediocre at; it's much better at them than it is at, for example, providing reliable information or writing code. its pattern of strengths and weaknesses in code reviews is not the same as human patterns

by 'red flags' i inferred copenjin to be referring to things like getting aggressive or defensive, rather than making dumb mistakes, but i could be wrong about that. i guess there are also some mistakes that are so dumb that they'd be a red flag, and i have to admit that gpt-4 is somewhat subhuman at avoiding those

if you play a board game with someone you can assess their general intelligence and capacity for logic. all else being equal, having more general intelligence and knowing how to think logically do make you a better programmer. (if you just want to assess general intelligence, a much faster pair of tests would be reverse digit span and reaction time.) but those are far from the only things that matter, they're not enough to be a great programmer, and they're not even among the most important factors. other important factors in programming include things like knowing how to program, knowing how to listen, and being willing to ask for help (and accept it), which a board game generally will not test
Bedrock edition is written in C++ and does not use C#.
> Currently criticising LLMs on hallucinations by asking factual questions is akin to saying I tried to divide by zero on my calculator and it doesn't work. LLMs were not designed for providing factual information without context, they are thinking machines excelling at higher level intellectual work.

I would agree with you, but they're currently billed as information retrieval machines. I think it's perfectly valid to object to their accuracy at a task they're bad at, but being sold as a replacement for.
The reason I bought it was simply "that's neat". I'm not doing it for health reasons.

Mine aren't mature yet, but the flavor is apparently just a pretty typical cherry tomato.
I'm wondering if a wireless Xbox controller would work. It's what I use with Apple TV without issue. Button layout is close enough (runs to living room to compare Xbox controller to Switch Pro...), in fact they're basically identical.

OTOH, I haven't tried the Switch Pro controller with anything else but a Switch, so maybe it can be made to work? (EDIT: just tried it: my Mac connects to the Switch Pro via BT, haven't actually tried it, 'cuz damned work is in the way.)
Nobody likes taxes but the highest standard of living, including infrastructure, hospitals, security have to be paid for somehow.
Yes, it is; even the official documentation mentions it (and recommends you disable Hyper-V) and it is FAQ #1 in the support website.

One of the reasons mentioned is that VirtualBox runs (some) emulated devices in kernel space but is not allowed to do when running with Hyper-V. The official API forces custom devices to strictly be user space, and only some basic hardcoded devices are emulated from kernel space.

The "secret sauce" of a desktop virtualizer is in part in the selection of devices it emulates, so this severely cripples VirtualBox.
I wonder this a lot. Often times I am taking a break from my computer to cook or whatever and feel like in 2023 I should be able to just move the video I was watching to my TV, or the audio to the networked speaker in the kitchen.

There are solutions to this, but all proprietary with limited support across different devices.
Without being able to see through the paywall, its hard to know whether the "false justification" was a technicality or something serious and nefarious.
No optimism, simply facts based on the lack of APIs for accessing any of this data. Since this is just a preannouncement (APIs will come at WWDC next month), we can't tell yet, but Apple's previous system attention tracking was never available in public APIs.
yes, see the link above
I've always wondered that myself - If the Russians could build and launch sputnik in 1957 and get it around the earth a few times why aren't we seeing a huge number of backyard dad+son duos building rockets to launch their own telescope array. Its amazing that its a 60 year old feat that is still only in the hands of governments and massive corps
Yeah, I ordered a seed packet.

The petunias came grown in a pot.
The thing to appreciate is that in academic science, $12000 lens is inexpensive; the scale is different from consumer and prosumer pricing. A typical project like this would get at least a million dollaras in funding (see https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/astronomer-roberto-abrah... which shows they got $2M to buy lenses; 120 lenses * 12K = $1.5M.

I work with microscopes that cost $1M and just sit in a lab. That's not atypical for an academic or industrial microscope.

One of the biggest issues in modern science is that to make many discoveries you need to pay very high prices to get the latest and greatest hardware. I've been exploring how to make lower cost telescopes and microscopes (and definitely love this project), that are "good enough" to open up new areas of research/discovery for people with budgets in the $1K-10K range. But it's hard! So far I have mostly been relearning what people already knew in the 1800s and early 1900s, that is easily obtained off-the-shelf tech today.
> totally corrupt both them and society.

How? There would be no political campaigns, no billionaire patrons, no popularity contests, and no way to influence who is chosen.

Picking low information, uneducated people wouldn't work. Furthermore, the vast majority of people without advanced degrees are barely literate (through no fault of their own) because of the business theater of insisting on only hiring candidates with college degrees, which has led to a steady increase in cost but a decline in quality of undergraduate studies. The undergraduate side of US universities is nothing like they were pre-1940. Even high school education is a shadow of its former self. Even public high schools in 1938 America used to teach Latin and conversational French to pupils not destined for academia.
Your point stands but in summer it gets up to around 35 degrees, 95 fahrenheit to be correct.
aphyr you bastard I've got work to do today.