skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If accessing windows- look at enabling remoteFX, h264 hardware stream, with YUV444, in RDP. See: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-a...

Once I discovered that, I haven't looked at parsec. Moonlight/sunshine (whatever the pair is) is... terrible. And, When I was looking YUV444 wasn't a feature. Or, at least not one anybody actually knew how to use.
There is no reason to believe that fusion is cheap.
> Some readers are bound to be a bit disappointed that the VNL doesn't improve fuel efficiency by quite as much as that ambitious research project.

That's because it will take something drastically different than upgrading the truck - either switching to a completely new type of tractor/trailer, or switching to a different mode of transportation entirely.

Long-haul transport has been economically incentivized for a good return on fuel cost since forever, unlike the typical four-wheeler configuration most of us drive. The trucks are pretty much maxed out on performance that they're able to do.

I should lastly add, maxed out on performance when balanced against maintenance. Like, I could put a very performant F1-type high-tech engine in one, and possibly eke out some performance gains. But the overall schedule and cost will negate any fuel savings, not to mention the added hidden environmental burden of maintaining exotic frail engines.
That’s a difficult one, securing livable land and water with nuclear fallout.
The earth hasn't always existed in its current state, or for that matter existed at all.

Once day the earth will almost certainly cease to exist and intelligence will have to find a new home of some kind. We have probably got a couple of billion years though if we are careful and I have no idea what intelligence will evolve to over that timeframe.
Yes, something like that, but not like this. This is too inflexible and limited. The datascrappers here are written in code, which makes it impossible to exchange them with other projects. And it seems there is not even a server which makes requesting data from an external process possible, to feed it to your own code. There are many tools like this, with a collection of specialized datascrappers for their own demand, and they are all on their own, isolated from the rest and everyone is constantly recreating the same.
I have a lot of sites on netlify and a number of domains managed under the business tier. It would take a long time to recover if they were nuked in one go.

They really should have guard rails in place for this as well as uncapped usage.
What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?
Tiny Electric Trucks Are Coming to a Bike Lane Near You
> “It is a rare behavior that has only been detected in this part of the world,” said Alfredo López, an orca researcher at the Atlantic Orca Working Group (GTOA), in an interview with Scientific American last year.

They also recently rammed into a yacht near Scotland, and in British Columbia an Orca collided a yacht into another yacht by dragging the anchor chain.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/orca-rams-into-yac...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLMvUOq7Bms

I don't know how rare it is either, but it's not unprecedented. There are lots of old sailor stories about aggressive whales.
Oh geeze, that graph is really concerning. We're approaching temperatures where humans weren't living!
How long before that becomes a mandatory test to get health insurance? Or somehow the data is bought by insurers who then use it to jack up the rates for those who will eventually get cancer. God I hate the US healthcare system!
>There are plenty of ambitious people who work more than 10h/day and nobody cares.

If you are an employer and allow this you are really, really dumb.

>About healthcare: wouldn't that make it actually easier to hire employees because they know they'll be covered if they join a startup (risky!) instead of having to worry about that as well?

No. It isn't about money, it is the fact that if you want to hire someone, you have to spend hours upon hours each month managing their legal rights. The process of legally keeping an employee in Germany is incredibly involved, healthcare is just one point, but there are many more.

In America you can just offer people enough money and tell them to worry about health insurance themselves. If you are running a startup and trying your hardest to make some product a reality the last thing you want to worry about is the details of your employees health insurance.

If you were paid 3 times your current salary, but you had to worry about your own healthcare, pension insurance and were expected to put in serious effort, would you take that offer? And, even if not, would such an offer be so immoral that companies aren't allowed to make it?
>China said yes to all those things for Western money. They could've said no

Terrible argument. If it's not gonna be China, it's gonna be Vietnam, or Bangladesh, or Pakistan, or Sri Lanka, or whoever the rich west will deem fit to host their dirty industries at the most rock bottom prices so they can make a profit.

So again, is really all China's or $POOR_NATION fault, or the West's fault for constantly bidding the poor countries against each other in a race to the bottom in terms of human rights and environmental destruction for the sake of profit?

Just blaming the poor countries claiming that "well, the poor countries should just say NO to hosting the west's dirty industry", is incredibly stupid and short sighted.
I was thinking more like this https://www.theonion.com/new-anti-smoking-ads-warn-teens-its...

But that one is not bad either :)
But tax authorities are also quite often wrong about regulations and laws. That is why objection procedures exist. Legal system is built on such fail-safes. Even judges err on laws some times.

If you call the government tax hotline and ask a question not written under the prepared questions list, what would you expect would happen? The call center service personell is certainly not expert on tax laws. You would treat it suspiciously.

If LLMs can beat humans on the error rate, they would be of a great service.

LLMs are not fail-proof machines, they are intelligent models that can make mistakes just like us. One difference is that they do not get tired, they do not have an ego, they happily provide reasonings for all their work so that it can be checked by another intelligence (be it human or LLM).

Have we tried to establish a counsel of several LLMs to check answers for accuracy? That is what we do as humans in important decisions. I am confident that different models can spot hallucinations in one another.
As climate change amplifies urban flooding, communities can be 'sponge cities'
This has been tried before. In Waterworld, the bad guys are literally called the "Smokers" and smoking is a big part of their culture. It's so over the top it seems more like a parody of anti-smoking campaigns. I doubt it ever convinced anybody not to smoke, and I think any similar attempt is doomed to fail in the same way. Kids are good at detecting when you're trying to manipulate them, and it doesn't matter if you have good intentions.
Correct. 5.7.1 is supposed to be for malformed/inappropriate sending to the address, so I think they shouldn’t have used it here as the VA resident did nothing wrong. 5.2.1 might be a better error since it means a problem with the recipient/that the recipient is refusing email.
I don't know but I think the dashboard pic is lovely. I don't have a CDL but I would sure love to sit in that seat and touch the buttons.

It looks like there is a radio with buttons so I'm not so sure what the touchscreen does. Maybe it has a truck-specific satnav application which would be improvement on the truckers who use a car satnav and wind up sticking their truck under bridges and such.
I meant serious as in "this place is no longer habitable".
> OOP intentionally turns all software into a distributed system --- even if it is not distributed.

Could you elaborate on that? And would you say for instance that Rust suffers from the same problems? Because Rust offers many characteristics of OOP.
> There is no reason to think that the ideas are in place.

That depends what you mean when you say "ideas". If you consider ideas at the level of transformers, well then I would consider those ideas of the same magnitude as many of the ideas the Manhatten Project or Apollo Program had to figure out on the way.

If you mean ideas like going from expert system to Neural Networks with backprop, then that's more fundamental and I would agree.

It's certainly still conceivable that Penrose is right in that "true" AGI requires something like microtubules to be built. If so, that would be on the level of going from expert systems to NNs. I believe this is considered extremely exotic in the field, though. Even LeCun probably doesn't believe that. Btw, this is the only case where I would agree that funding is more or less irrelevant.

If we require 1-2 more breakthroughs on par with Transformers, then those could take anything from 2-15 years to be discovered.

For now, though, those who have predicted that AI development will mostly be limited by network size and the compute to train it (like Sutskever or implicitly Kurzweil) have been the ones most accurate in the expected rate of progress. If they're right, then AGI some time between 2025-2030 seems most likely.

Those AGI's may be very large, though, and not economical to run for a wider audience until some time in the 30's.

So, to summarize: Unless something completely fundamental is needed (like microtubules), which happens to be a fringe position, AGI some time between 2025 and 2040 seems likely. The "pessimists" (or optimists, in term of extinction risk) may think it's closer to 2040, while the optimists seem to think it's arriving very soon.
The idea that we are going to technology our way out of climate change is hilariously naive. That would require us to remove more co2 from the atmopshere each year than we add, which is just a laughable idea to achieve within the required time frame of the next 15 years or so.
Being able to automatically write any type of transformation command for FFmpeg, which can be complex, when not rotating an image by 90 degrees, is useful for a wide range of media file conversions. It's conversational, not reductive gatekeeping.
why would you not do business with private organizations in one country but not the other over what the state enables?

why would you vilify other people choosing to do business with those private organizations based on their nexus?
There's an infinite amount of mm to play with, he's just not thinking outside the box
People live in Australia right now. And Morocco!
Thanks for the explanations and all the links!
Yeah, this annoyed me about the paper. Clearly there are significant visual issues with patterns forming, but they just hand wave it away and basically say "according to all these common quality metrics, this method is superior". These patterns make it a non-starter for a ton of the use cases for blue noise, the authors should have been far more humble in making their case and addressing counterpoints.
They can't keep up with demand so that's one problem that could be solved with money.
please explain how #3 is a non-threat?
Or for an employer that respects basic decency.

Btw, something rarely mentioned: not all employers are corporate behemoths with busy bodies in management constantly envisioning new ways to crap on developers.

There are startups with no surveillance and IT red tape, and tons of smaller employers without the surveillance, office politics, bureucracy, and general bullshit.
I'm not downplaying global warming, but I do think the general public still is.
I'm pleased to see another British company actually stick to the London Stock Exchange. Many are starting to list themselves on the US stock market, Arm being at the top of my mind in terms of tech. I think I remember them losing 30 £100M+ companies to the US exchange last year including some big really big names. I know this phenomenon isn't isolated to the UK either. With all the issues in Hong Kong over the last few years, companies have fled there too.

Don't get me wrong, I understand the rationale. High interest rates, dwindling pension funds, executives wanting wages closer to US execs, fewer high-performing tech companies, Brexit isolation and a lack of committed domestic investors have all contributed to the LSE’s downward spiral.

It just seems everything in the business world is becoming more centralised around the US. I don't think that's good for anyone, including US folks. Monopolies do as monopolies do; extract all the wealth they can from the system. The only people who benefit in a scenario where 95%+ of stock trades go through the NYSE is the NYSE.
this comment has my heart, thank you!

i understand that the difficulty metric right now does not do justice to the problem's representation - i will come up with a better solution for this.

on the point of topic granularity - i understand that it feels vague right now but i also wonder what the depth should be. i will do some research on how to solve this better.

lastly, if you are interested, there's also a small community i am making around this - https://t.me/teachyourselfmath

thank you for all the feedback!
> Good time to talk about the rPi alternatives?

I do not think this changes anything in that regard. As a hobbyist I keep an eye on the competition and during Covid none of the alternatives appealed to me. I'm sure others came to different conclusions and found alternatives suitable.

The situation may be different for someone producing a product based on Pi H/W. They were treated well compared to the hobbyist market during shortages and I don't care to argue one way or the other whether this was good overall. If I was producing a product that needed something like a Pi to work, I would always be evaluating alternatives.

Once the Pi organization is publicly owned, their behavior will determine the need to talk about alternatives.
This is cool, though I do wonder if the tests will be good enough to differentiate between “cancers that will be lethal in the next seven years” and “cancers that are technically there but will take so long to kill you that something else will beforehand anyway”.
Generally it's easier from a compliance perspective to list in the same jurisdiction as your shareholders live. Otherwise there can be more admin work with withholding taxes etc.

Also a baseline of liquidity, rule of law, and the absence of capital controls are prerequisite.
Be realistic, you are more likely to die from cardiovascular issues or car crashes.
Google Gemini Voice Cannot be Changed
I have yet to hear of an economic model that humans have discovered which is better than free market capitalism.

The issue isn't the cheap junk; it's the demand for the cheap junk. Things would be far more sustainable if people focused on reducing their consumption habbits, as producers would be run out of business.
That's not true at all. Remember CFCs and the ozone layer? That was a comparable problem, except people actually stopped that one, by no longer emitting the gasses causing the issue.
>goldboot is a tool that builds machine images for real hardware

In Windows I use the built-in Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) tools for this, manipulating the Windows Image .WIM files originally designed for NT6 from Windows Vista onward. With Vista, DISM did not yet exist, WIMs were handled by imagex.exe at the time.

>Warning: this tool is totally unfinshed and should be used for testing only! Proceed at your own risk!

Goldboot looks promising anyway. For Windows it could be benchmarked against DISM, or even the Wimboot tangent.

DISM was not perfect when it first appeared, but after over 10 years it is more well-tested and capable than ever.

You can autoingest a configuration file, but also quite easy to go pretty far just dropping commands from a text file into Powershell.

Here's a fairly good example, all of which may not be useful every day, but I do think every Windows person should be familiar with the one section "Capture a Custom Windows Image Using DISM". This is what you do once you have gotten the OS settings the way you want and have installed your needed apps. You may have already accomplished that much on your Windows PC. A WIM of that is really just a backup of your present "golden" image for future deployment or recovery:

https://woshub.com/create-custom-windows-image-preinstalled-...

You can redeploy the WIM file to an empty formatted partition using the DISM.exe /Apply-Image command.

Also, a couple other DISM users and how they utilize its capabilities:

https://matthewhard.com/windows-command-line-dism

https://4sysops.com/archives/create-a-customized-windows-10-...

In Windows Education or Enterprise versions you could also enable the Unified Write Filter which can discard all per-session changes rather than having them written to the disk. This may or may not be used to keep the golden image from allowing persistent changes once deployed.

Perhaps it would be a good idea if Goldboot included the ability to handlle WIM files itself, or especially to make viable WIM files from Linux installs.
Related: eYd - https://www.yworks.com/products/yed

It lets you auto "re-flow" diagrams using different algorithms (e.g. fewest intersections between arrows, center-out, etc).
Catch Unsafe Migrations in Development
It is good to include context here in HN since there are a lot of people from different cultures and generations and concepts could sound ambiguous.
OpenAI most definitely needs the compute from MSFT. It could certainly swap out to another service but given that microsoft invested via credits it would be problematic. They have enmeshed their future.
These ideas demonstrate a lack of understanding of the platform and technology. Apple integrating nvidia GPUs is just one example. On a standard bus? That would make Apple Silicons core benefits redundant and put Mac users in the same rat race for products as PC users. Some custom integration? Tried that. It means lagging by years. On top of that why? Apple Silicon means upgrades to performance faster than thenPC market. Apple has little to gain in trying to capture the high end gaming market.

Similarly developing Mac software on PCs makes no sense logistically or practically. Why would Apple want software in the market which had never been run on real Apple hardware? Why would a developer want to write for a platform they aren’t on.

This “make Macs into PCs” thing never dies. Mac diehards stay with the platform, even when they are slower or more expensive, because they aren’t PCs.
5. An alternative Amiga/Atari/Commodore/Speccy like form factor. :)
Amazon made record breaking profit but still laid off more than 18000 employees (2023)
So, new tires (which happen independently) a stroked engine (without saying it), a more aerodynamic cladding (surprise), and that is it?

In IT that is called a spec bump, not a disruption.
Depends on who is controlling product.
Thanks for the link. Do you play it offline only?
I feel you on this. The smoldering embers on the floor at starting to blink little flames, and everyone in the room is arguing about the best way to put them out in order to most preserve the things most.

The longer we wait, the more dramatic the changes we will have to make will have to be.
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I was upset and disappointed in LLMs’ hallucination problem at first, but now I have come to terms with it. I no longer rely on them as I would a reference book or a search engine. Instead, I use them primarily for tasks that do not have right or wrong answers.

One is as a translation assistant. While a translation of an individual word or phrase might be right or wrong, any longer text can be translated in many different ways, none of which is correct or incorrect, just better or worse. I do translation professionally, and now when I am translating a text I first explain its origin and purpose to several LLMs—as of yesterday, ChatGPT-4o, Claude 3 Opus, and Gemini 1.5 Pro—and have each translate it for me. I borrow from those three translations for my first draft, which I then spend plenty of time polishing and comparing with the source text. Overall, my translation time is about a third shorter when I use LLMs. The quality of the final product is also somewhat improved, as the LLMs sometimes suggest better translations than I would come up with on my own.

Another useful—though sometimes frightening—application is brainstorming. I'm now teaching a discussion-based class to a group of 25 undergraduates. Last weekend, I had to come up with ideas for discussion topics for the next class session based on the reading text (a book I edited) and the homework assignments the students have submitted so far. I started doing what I normally do, which is to read those assignments and try to think up new topics that the students would find interesting and useful to discuss in class. I was going to spend most of the weekend on that.

But then I remembered the huge context window of Gemini 1.5 Pro. So I uploaded all of the information about the class—the textbook, my notes and the Zoom transcripts for each class session, and all of the papers that the students have submitted so far—and I asked it to generate 50 new discussion topics as well as 20 ideas for the next homework assignment.

In a couple of minutes, Gemini was able to produce the requested topics and ideas. A handful were off the mark or showed signs of hallucinations, but overall they were excellent—better and much more varied than what I could have thought up by myself. It really cut to the core of my identity as a teacher. I ended up not using any of those ideas this time, but I did share them with the students to show them what is now possible with LLMs. They seemed a bit stunned, too.
The xkcd chart starts at 20,000 BC, not 2,000. Well before permanent settlements, agriculture, trade, etc. that our current civilization relies upon.
There are actually employees a company is allowed to abuse more than their "regular" workers, namely managers.

If there was a legal category for "startup employee", with significantly fewer protections, but who can only be employed with a minimum wage of e.g. 3x the average income, would you object to that?
There's a saying that web developers I know have been repeating for years: "Friends don't let friends use Firefox"
I donated some blood a couple of years back and they came back saying there were proteins present. Having follow up tests at the moment, but none of the other markers are present that would normally be there if there was cancer. Still waiting to get further follow up tests, but no one seems to be worried enough to rush things along.
It depends on your views on LLMs

If your view is that LLMs only need minor improvements to their core technology and that the major engineering focus should be placed on productizing them, then losing a bunch of scientists might not be seen as that big of a deal.

But if your view is that they still need to overcome significant milestones to really unlock their value... then this is a pretty big loss.

I suppose there's a third view, which is: LLMs still need to overcome significant hurdles, but solutions to those hurdles are a decade or more away. So it's best to productize now, establish some positive cashflow and then re-engage with R&D when it becomes cheaper in the future and/or just wait for other people to solve the hard problems.

I would guess the dominant view of the industry right now is #1 or #3.
Multinationals are not blameless even if consumers ultimately create demand. It was them that has been working overtime for around a century now developing marketing and figuring out how to manipulate human psychology to convince consumers to buy as much as possible, creating the culture of consumerism we have today.
> America sends five times more freight by truck than rail, so it's important to start making those trucks more fuel efficient and safer.

If safety is really a concern, why is it not a Cabover design? Aren't those supposed to be safer due to better visibility?