skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer is simple: AI systems aren’t just one technique, agent, or even agency — any somewhat anthropomorphic ones will be ensemblematic on an extensive and fundamentally-recursive level. LLMs are a groundbreaking technique that solve the “Frame Problem” by emulating human subconscious generative networks.

To paraphrase an old comment on here: the problem isn’t a chatbot gaining sapience inside a browser window, the problem is when billions of dollars are allocated to a self-administering ensemble of 10,000 GPT agents, each specialized for some task (aka functions). That, plus Wikipedia, Cyc, WolfraAlpha, YouTube, and Google Books at its fingertips.

“General” doesn’t even begin to cover what we’re already capable of, IMO.

See: Marvin Minsky, 1991;
https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article...
Mathematical Dark Matter
Spatial memory … the good reason no one likes interface changes.
I don't expect people with lots of money to necessarily have the same views that I might, but it does help if they are honest about their views and actions. I don't really like Marc Andreesen / Chris Dixon these days but at least they're honest.

As to dang, I'm mixed. He can move away from this if he chooses. He'll be missed, but on the other hand, he would have a principled stand on which to leave.
any feedback would be welcome. Thanks!
You got your pitch down perfect. Now just find a doctor and recite this verbatim and you’ll get ADHD meds
Can this be mass produced?
Wait what? Where did you get that from? I'm against the clause, why would I minimize Quebec using it? That's the opposite of what I'm trying to do. That we even have such a mechanism in Canada is super bad imo. Quebec hasn't been the only province using it but that's besides the point. The RoC didn't do anything about Quebec misusing it, because they can't do anything about it. Sure there's some outrage but again, what does that do to stop the laws that were passed using that "no constitution lol" card? Absolutely 0.

And if you think I'm in favor of the CAQ out of all things then there's again been a severe misunderstanding. I can't think of any politician that's as low and repulsive as Legault in Canada.
People are using and picking apart and blogging about their services so much that I feel like if they were doing something like this we would know about it in some sense, even if we didn't know how they were doing it
That's an inaccurate generalization.

Some kids would get distracted and socially disconnected from a smart watch. But there are loads of kids who aren't affected this way.
I wish titles on HN would clarify the platform for limited releases like this. This is iOS exclusive.
indeed, thankyou
I think the trailer hurt them more than anything. It looks like a crappy CGI imitation of Fury Road, which I loved.
And it has been sunset already!
At least DoH is available still for the most part on those ISPs.
> If you’re going to be creating embeddings for similarity search, the first thing you need to ask yourself is what makes two vectors similar such that two embeddings should even be close together?

I have no association with Cohere, but in their docs clearly say that their embedding were trained so two similar vectors have similar "semantic meaning". Which is still pretty vague, but it's at least clear what their goals were.

> Selling “embeddings as a service” is a bit like selling hashing as a service.

Coincidentally, Cohere also aggressively advertises that they want you to fine-tune and co-develop custom models (with their proprietary services).
I don't make FAAANGGGG money, but I'm a pretty well paid programmer for this area and that amount would pay off the balance on my mortgage. Hell, I'd be completely debt-free if someone threw half a million in my direction and have enough left over to buy the wife a top of the line pickup truck or two. So yeah, I'd definitely consider it life changing.
Show HN: Resource Index – FOSS Git Repository and NPM Package Index
Resource Index (res-index) is a searchable index for development resources, including github repo and npm packages.

Why yet another index?

In short, the search functionality on google and github are unsatisfied. This project aim to build a better alternative and potentially improve google's search result.

What's the actual problem I'm facing?

Sometime I want to search for a npm package but google cannot return that result even after I added "npm", "github", or even the combination of exact author username and package name.

Similarly, it's sometime hopeless to search for a non-popular package by name on github if you cannot recall the author's username.

Sometime google can not show the corresponding npm page but instead shows it on "socket.dev" or "snyk.io".

Pasting the exact npm url in subsequence search doesn't seem effective at hinting google to index the pages.

This project aim to actively index some github repositories and npm packages to enable more inclusive searching.

In addition, this project try be SEO-friendly. Hopefully, it can improve google's search result overtime.

Source Code: https://github.com/beenotung/res-index
Sure yeah dude, in far off fantasy land it can all be perfect. There's no tradeoffs up in the clouds.

Strikes me as a super bad attitude walking around with your nose way up in the air, leaving these farts behind you as you go. These comments aren't really couched in reality as far as I can see. They don't point anywhere specific, they're just broad swideswipes.

Here in the real world we keep reusing maybe so so protocols because they are scrutable & well implemented & we humans have lots of experience and tools using them.
Those post often tie into current events or are timely for other reasons. The ones that get voted to top at least.
I am biased in that I live in Tokyo and am used to "a ton" meaning 150+ rail lines in this metropolis [1], constructed in a lattice that makes it hard to be very far from any train line within a large radius of the city center. What most Americans think is "a ton" is, in my view, closer to "bare minimum", but that's probably since I live in a city with an order of magnitude more transit than the most built out city in the USA.

I agree that the local land use is a total disaster, but even if they made it better, SF has a few skinny tendrils of transit which creates a few skinny corridors of transit-accessible area.

The constant excuse I kept hearing when I was living there was that there isn't enough space!! But that's only true if you won't do anything to increase the viable space to live in (and optimize the space that is present, through better land use). Even densifying the transit along these corridors, San Franciscans will still whine and complain about how there's no space, ignoring the obvious solution.

The answer to me is to do it both, yesterday. But I'm not a San Franciscan anymore and I understand that my values differ from theirs.

Aside, it's also worth mentioning that in Tokyo as well, single family homes near train stations abound. The difference is that they're smaller and denser, and mixed in with apartments. There aren't that many towers here! But the roads are mini-sized and they pack units tightly to better use land. If San Franciscans hate towers that cast shade, they have alternatives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Greater_Tokyo
So a 75kg person can ride a kilometer only expending 11.25kcal? That doesn't sound right either.

75kg * 1000g/kg * 0.15cal/g * 0.001cal/kcal = 11.25kcal

Right? I would expect an order of magnitude higher. But if that is correct... damn. Bicycles are incredible.
Content rating. Ages 4 and older.
This was interesting: "By contrast, a person on a bicycle can go three or four times faster than a pedestrian, but uses five times less energy in the process. He carries one gram of his weight over a kilometer of flat road at an expense of only 0.15 calories. "

That sounds about right for a bike on a paved road, but I would assume over uneven ground the ratio of efficiency is less? Is a hiker on a trail that much less efficient than a mountain bike on the same trail? I would think that at higher slopes the efficency ratio goes down even more due to the mass of the bike?
Are they smart phones? In my experience dumb phones have much less magnetism.
Reading the comments to dcrainmaker's review, his kids' Bounces were getting 36 hours of charge whereas several commenters state they were barely getting 10 hours, certainly less than 24 hours of charge.

Seems like the energy used to keep the LTE connection up is the main problem, if all the users have the similar settings to minimize battery used by the Garmin Bounce.

If Google/Fitbit says the ACE LTE only lasts 16 hours, I'd hope their estimate is much more conservative than Garmin's and has a lot less variance. Otherwise, I can't see the ACE LTE lasting until end of school day.
Still disappointed in how they ran the "name the new wagoneer" contest. Never followed up proactively, pretty sure they were hoping people would forget about it. And then when probed over a year later said "we decided to keep wagoneer s". Really? That's the best you could come up with? Why even run a contest? Would be cool if they released the actual dataset of suggestions.

Edit: For what it's worth I had submitted the following with a few others:

Wagoneer Borealis

Wagoneer Aurora

Wagoneer Amped

Wagoneer NL (northern lights)

Wagoneer Conestoga

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jeep-held-contest-rename-wago...

"Jeep held a contest to rename the Wagoneer S, but enough people liked the name Wagoneer S, and without better alternatives, Jeep kept it."
So the 13 line will continue to get its own new upgrades, as opposed to being support only in wake of the 16. I'd never use such a small screen for a primary laptop but that's neat for people who do.
David Shapiro is a crank.
Forget the park and ride, a metro system with bike parking! Living in Taipei has been a dream. Take the metro somewhere, grab a ubike to complete your journey. Feeling fat after a massive hot pot dinner? Grab a ubike and bike home.

Now we just need to pressure the city to build actually bike infrastructure on the road...
> They really can't, because a majority of their compensation is in now-unreasonable amounts of OpenAI equity (because it was worth much less when it was granted). If employees decided to walk away, rendering their vested equity worthless, they wouldn't get anywhere near the same value of, say, Microsoft equity as a signing bonus to make it worth.

The problem with this is that the board was basically threatening to also make their equity worthless by taking the position that Sam was moving too fast to commercialize the company. They pretty much burned their leverage everywhere possible.
Taking advantage of Covid to steal $5B from taxpayers.

Well now we have a lower limit for how much we should pay people to prevent sophisticated fraud.
Google wants to understand the next generation so they can plan how to adapt in the coming years
That's what I would think too, but meanwhile Japanese PM Kishida looked very happy about the meeting and moving forward with FTA talks. I have no clue as to how South Korea felt about it, though given this was a trilateral talk I would assume similar sentiments.

If that FTA does become a thing, the US will have lost before any hot war even began. May we live in fun times.
> In January, the New York Times reported that Arm was lobbying politicians for restrictions on RISC-V.

"RISC-V is clearly a threat to national security and (purely coincidentally, of course) to ARM's licensing business."
Agreed, you can have a good reputation but if people don't know who you are or that you exist it can be hard to compete against the giants.

My 1995 PC Repair Shop and PC Sales could not offer the prices that Best Buy et al had to provide for new PCs because of the $500 Internet rebate. We couldn't enter the lower PC market because our wholesaler would only offer us just below retail prices if not retail prices on new parts. We could fix problems they couldn't fix, but then any problem they couldn't fix they sold a new PC or reinstalled Windows.
I love this spirit.

In the office where I work, the main door locks whenever it closes, so the first person to arrive each morning props the door open for everyone else. Well, a new tenant moved in to one of the other units, and they started taking our doorstop. Morning after morning we had to go find it and retrieve it, for weeks! One day it occurred to me that I didn't have to complain to management, or get maintenance to deal with it, I could just buy a bunch of doorstops. The hallway is now liberally strewn with them, more doorstops than there are doors, and we haven't had to retrieve ours since.
I checked out the docs and the getting started is really straightforward. I'm not a game dev, and understood immediately how things fit together because the API looks well-designed.
None of this is about kids. No one cares about the kids. It’s about finding a boogeyman to exploit for control.
Typically, if a comment has been downvoted, I use it as a reason to filter it out. There’s more comments than I am going to read so reducing the pool is useful to me…and I don’t identify as a contrarian.

Thinking about it, downvoting for disagreement is the analog of upvoting for agreement.
"the income of the average American will double approximately every 39 years"?
Another way to put it is that the most gentle among us are attracted to industries run by the most brutal among us.
In the early days of the World Wide Web many people saw no need for a website, it’s still very early.
You know most of the data Google collect are not crash reports. Most and all are not the same. And you would get most of the data you wanted if you asked according to you.

In fact your opinion is not a fact.

The right spirit is informed consent.
The quote starting "By contrast, a person on a bicycle..." is sourced to a blog post, but that blog post is plagiarizing Ivan Illich [0].

[0]: https://archive.org/details/towardhistoryofn00illi/page/134/...
I've always thought people stealing pens is just a form of advertising which is why any company offering pens puts logos on them.

All this post makes me think of is what other commonly-stolen objects one could put advertising on.
Microsoft confirms Windows 11 24H2 ditches AC-3 codec (Dolby Digital)
All I want is semantic search. I can make sense of what I find, I don’t want a Transformer to regurgitate slop to me
Well now we get into information density and Komolgorov complexity. The more complicated your desired output program is, the more information you'll have to put in, ie, more complicated prompts.
Just a future suggestion. Can you make the record button go on for a set time at set intervals. Would be useful when filming action or yourself but you just want to capture a variety of clips as you're progressing at doing something. Eg. 15 seconds every 5 minutes as you're painting a room.
I agree.. I am sorry about the flippant comparison. It was probably unfair to scratch. My frustration with Scratch stems from watching kids (including my own) being taught it in school as the de-facto option and learning absolutely nothing about programming or anything useful in the process. Perhaps it is due to bad instruction.

For the amount of time and energy invested they would have been far better off learning a "regular" language like Python. Anyway just my 2c.
I subscribe to the "Taking Children Seriously" movement. My position is that there is no reason to track kids 100% of the times, however if the kids do not mind, I do not see why this can be a good watch.
Envoy config surely is complex, but it's also the most flexible and robust way of managing config on a large scale I have come across.

The way envoy lets you create clusters of envoys, then just setup their config to come from a centralized config source through a grpc connection is honestly the most sane way of managing thousands of proxies at scale I have found. Trying to push nginx (or any other config as a file proxy) updates at scale is a nightmare of its own.

We manage a large number of envoy clusters, where the state of how proxying should happen is all contained within a SQL database where the rules and records change dozens or hundreds times a minute. There is one service that's responsible for monitoring the DB and translating it to envoy configs, then pushing them out to 1,000s of envoy processes. It has been extremely reliable and consistent. For a given input, always produce the same output. It's very easy to unit test, validate and verify, then push the update.

Nginx, and Caddy I'd imagine, are great at set-it-and-forget-it configs or use cases. But envoy is a programmable proxy where you can have dozens of clusters with different configs that get updated dozens of times a minute. I don't know of any other proxy that offers something like that.
My all time favorite is HPSTR waypoint outside PDX.
At some point SpaceX will reach the limits of how efficient they can get as dictated by physics. Their competitors will get there eventually, maybe decades later. But eventually the market will mature and they will become competitive. Same as any other industries, smart phones, electric cars, etc.
Look at JEPA and Modulo-LLM.

Also AGI is a poor term to use because we as humans have no notion of what general intelligence is, does GI have morals and ethics, does it make decisions like we do based on executive functioning or does it work more like how ants do?
Surviving History: The Fever (2014)
I wonder if it's possible to have a typescript library for making these shaders at the type level, such that at compile time, each variation of the shader can be generated as a static constant string with at most a finite number of concatenations etc.
SEO is just another form of advertising, with all the costs, benefits and externalities of any other form.
After Selling Startups for Billions, Avigdor Willenz Reveals His Formula (2021)
It's not even a good search engine. I was constantly asking for sources, so I figured I would just add it to the "Customize ChatGPT" to always include the source when possible.

Giving instructions to a model seems to be a monkey's paw simulator. Yeah ok, it always gives me a little section down the bottom with sources now, but they are either unclickable "links" (they are stylized as links but aren't a hyperlink), a fabricated URL (the page doesn't exist and never did according to Internet Archive) or just completely nonsensical and have no relation to the material.

I've experienced all of these today using ChatGPT 4o.
>Mobile: Touch left bar to reveal left nav panel.

Bad design choice.

Pretty narrow so it's hard to touch and nothing indicates its function.
Do you have examples? I would like to see how they talked about it.
Let's say it is an order of magnitude more (~100kcal/km), I ride about 30km per day average right now that'd mean I burn 3kcal/day extra just from this training. I am eating nowhere near 5kcal/day (assuming ~2kcal maintenance just for living plus other movement during the day) so I'd be losing weight very quickly if that estimate were correct.

The .15cal/g is much closer to what I'm probably burning. According to my Garmin it was 540 calories which is 18kcal/km, and I weigh ~86kg which puts me at about .20cal/g, not much higher than Walton's number. And I was definitely not taking a casual pace, there was no coasting on that ride.
Maybe OpenAI should buy news inlets, like the Associated Press, instead of news outlets. OpenAI needs the news collection part, but the distribution part is dead weight.
I don't understand, they would take it into their office?
> 144 computers on a chip

Ugh, "computers". I'm not even a stickler for terminology, but the whole "144 computers" thing somehow rubs me the wrong way, like it's some Best Buy salesdroid telling me that a quad-core means having four computers in one box.
They did the same thing with Hallide.

Give enough time (1-2y) and they will charge a subscription from you and lock you away from the app you've purchased.
Personally I'm not a fan of Unix tools. I prefer powershell to bash and I like the cmdlets from it better than gnu tools. I don't use WSL for anything.

I want more projects to have windows native instructions rather than copping out and using a kind of fake Unix environment
Good lord. As I recall, a big part of growing up was spending time and doing things my parents didn’t want me to do. The idea of them tracking me is super creepy, as is tracking one’s spouse for that matter.
Neural organoids can be cultured and maintained for months at a time (we grew fairly attached to the one my coworker was growing). Even the measurement wiring can be sustained for months.

I've worked in biology and computation for decades (and fascinated both with intelligence and artificial intelligence the whole time), but seeing a timelapse of a bunch neurosphere forming over a few weeks from some tiny stem cells, with all the neurons sort of self-organizing themselves by spreading lamellapodia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fniW9EiOmUk) a few years ago flipped a switch in my head. I used to think the development of the hardware to support intelligence was a really tough, complicated problem. It's clear that the structure of neurons is absolutely primed to build semi-random networks that can be adapted to signal processing and computation in an almost "trivially easy". Obviously there's tons going on under the hood at the molecular, cellular, and organoid levels

It's funny but some technologies have a way of going from "sci-fi" to "ho-hum" quickly, and I think "rat neurons playing DOOM" is a great example of that.

Looking a little at the neuroplatform, it looks like they grow the organoid in a microfluidic container and can maintain it functionally for months. Seems like an opportunity to sell the computer as a subscription (new organoid package every month?)
Public keys should be rotated which would expire links. I think just having trust on first use would bridge most of the gap for local devices.

.. Now if we could get local socket support for talking to your own device and avoid arbitrary port reservation on localhost, that would make me happy.
i do find that this Piper project is really amazing.

however if i am going to listen to 3 hours of audiobook, i would still pay for a better TTS versus Piper. (now i buy a lot of audiobooks read by voice actors but not every book i want to audio-read has a market to support a voice actor being paid to read it)

however Piper is definitely going in the correct direction though, huge progress.
Thanks for the honest pricing, and letting people own your software. I have an iPhone 11 with which I probably can't make the best use of Kino, but I bought anyway just to support you guys.
Then why did the CEO's in the survey agree with the premise?
Your hardware experiencing issues, meds will help without much efforst from your side
Bill was one of the 4 best college players ever and was the best player on one of the best NBA teams of all-time (1974 Portland Blazers). But he missed more games than he played during his career, 680 and 488 respectively, due to a laundry list of injuries. He had 39 orthopedic surgeries. His chronically injured foot led him to file a malpractice suit against the Blazers for due to his dissatisfaction for the care. He needed XLIF (fusion) surgery for his back in 2009. Despite his missed opportunities in the NBA and chronic pain, he chose to live his life with joy as is apparent to anyone whose listened to his interviews or call a broadcast. RIP to a legend.
$3250 i have NOT been fiscally responsible
How many humans are involved in this so-called driverless service? Waymo won’t say, but Cruise admitted [1] that about 1.5 people were actively monitoring and ready to take over control for every Cruise car. That’s not a sustainable business.

How much money is Waymo bleeding every quarter? Maybe the investors don’t care, but it’s relevant if you want to call it a real business.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38145997