skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My speakers convert digital to analog. They have ethernet jacks in the back. Maybe you bought the wrong speakers?

Stepping back for a moment… you see digital interconnects in high-end pro audio gear, using systems like Dante. These systems are NOT simple. When you have multiple digital audio systems connected together, you have to worry about whether they are all running from the same clock, or whether you can convert from one clock to another. Systems like AES solved this by having “word clock” running on separate coax cables with BNC connectors.

If you look at consumer digital audio stuff, like Bluetooth speakers, you find all sorts of weird problems. It turns out that for cheap consumer gear, you get better quality audio from simple analog connections anyway.

If you want speakers with digital inputs, you also need to power those speakers. That uses up more power outlets.
Most countries outside of the US also have a "fix" for this specific problem just by not having 30 year fixed rate mortgages. For example in Canada most fixed rate mortgages are only fixed for 5 years. So we don't have the mortgage lock in effect that the US has, but that's only one cause out of dozens for outrageous housing prices.
I don’t know must be someone trying to make something about this seem important.
I see it less as suicide and more like an anti competing attempt to get all the gains from the AI revolution, through classic Microsoft practices like bundling (tying AI features and products to other products), using their muscle in OEM partnerships (forcing Copilot keys on everyone), etc. I think they’ll succeed, so I don’t think it’s suicidal. I just think it’s bad for fair competition and our societies.
Maybe -- and this is just a thought -- but maybe Dissociated Press isn't capable of abstract reasoning in the general sense -- and improving the statistical function used to pick the next token won't change that.
At this point, I think it's fairly likely that an AI based on an LLM (being trained on movie scenarios) will attempt to play out the plot of one of them when some bored teenager or misanthrope asks it to.

If we're lucky, it will be incompetent because the script writers have no idea how real life works.

If we are moderately lucky, such an AI will do this in a way that allows one random underdog to push a surprising oversized "stop" button with seconds to spare despite having previously demonstrated overwhelming force against a major nation's entire armed forces.

If we're extremely unlucky, it will be acting out a horror film with great competence.

If I had to bet on one of those three, I'd pick the first option — most scripts are not written by domain experts — but my main expectation outside this is "more of the same stuff we already see with corporations, but faster, and government regulation will continue to be 20 years behind the tech just like it is with the internet in general".
Note: GNU AGPLv3. Industry labs won’t touch this with a hundred foot pole. Given that they’re the only ones with access to serious resources, it could be a while before we see a large model of this architecture
So all the expensive parts. Got it
> I don’t understand why LLM’s aren’t already set up to do what you describe automatically behind the curtain.

LLM-based systems with tool use (which this is an application of) often are, to an extent, the issue is tuning the (behind the scenes, system) prompting so that they use appropriate tools in every case where they should, and do so correctly. (There's also a cost factor involved since behind-the-scenes tool use means multiple LLM round trips to answer the question, so tuning the system to use tools more aggressively makes the system more expensive.)
It has physical knobs and switches as opposed to relying on touchscreens.
I consider that a feature, although a minor one.
No reason not to evaluate it more in depth, though. Understanding not just that they fail but if some models fail more/less and under what conditions is still useful.
You could check out ethical ads [1]. I have no first-hand experience with them as a publisher. But they are fairly unobtrusive on readthedocs [2] sites.

[1] https://www.ethicalads.io/publishers/

[2] https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#
One difference is the speed apparently. You'd need the malware to be installed for a while. With recall you need to exfiltrate a couple kb of data that's already there on disk.

That said, yeah, if the user interacts dumping saved passwords is trivial as well.
What's stopping you from installing Linux this weekend? Why are you putting it off until your "next rig"?
Have they not been though?
Like Soyuz?

Interesting, why would they want that capability?

All Russian space vehicles land on land because they don’t have easy access to warm waters and Kazakhstan steppe is big and empty.

But why boeing/nasa would want that?
Are you arguing we should just assume every single employer uses child labor because some places use child labor?

I take it you're also arguing Y Combinator also uses child labor? Mozilla? Spotify? Your employer? I mean, why WOULDN'T they?

I imagine you probably probably hire child labor as well. After all, why WOULDN'T you?

Its probably child labor that keeps this site running. After all, why WOULDN'T they hire kids to keep this site up?

Or maybe there are reasons why people avoid child labor in many places.
Have there ever been studies that demonstrate that those individuals don't simulate possible state transitions they'll go through in a different modality? I'd be curious if they visualize actions they'll take still, just not verbally.
If GDPR is at all questionable, Microsoft is not able to push this to EU countries. The risk for a business to get in GDPR trouble is to high.
Almost 100% of the apps with tray icons don't really need them. They're basically marketing: If you're in charge of brand management for an app company, and there is a way to get your brand on the user's screen at all times for free, you're going to always do it, regardless of whether or not the user needs it there. Just stick some kind of context menu on the icon so you can at least justify it.

I'd love to know the actual end-user click rate for these tray icons. I bet many are near zero.
Dropbox is still unmatched as a service not trying to push you into a trillion dollar monopoly (One Drive, iCloud, Google Drive). It's admittedly been a while but I tested a whole bunch of automatic cloud backup software at one point because I got pissed about some annoying niche cases and Dropbox just worked throughout everything I threw at it, automatic versioning and recovery included. It doesn't mangle file names, handles huge files, folders with tens of thousands of small files, recovering old versions of accidentally overwritten files, works on Mac and Windows without losing a beat, sending people files always works.

I guess for collaboration you want to use stuff like Google Docs and advanced versioning software for coding (I'm not talking about coding stuff here, btw, which might throw off some people on hacker news). But Dropbox delivers for "I need a backup and I don't want to think about it except when I mess up and need its help".
The Law Review site had an article that cast Israel negatively, so the board of Columbia Law had it shut down.

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-law-review-israel-articl...
None taken. I guess because I haven't really had the need to know more than I do about it. Maybe you can enlighten me. Can you explain to me why my xp installation behaved much more snappy after I moved the page file into a ram disk? Is swap really useful these days, or is the overhead too wasteful? Is it perhaps a crutch from the time it was necessary but now only lives on because of a kind of learned helplessness from programmers who don't need to care about modestly allocating memory?
That’s the desired effect; getting sleepy is what the study is trying to measure.

The problem is when side effects are so severe that people know whether they’ve had a placebo or not, tainting measurements of the actual effect.

Eg if a sleeping med caused you to turn purple, the control group knows they haven’t taken it because they aren’t purple, so there’s no placebo effect. Meanwhile the experimental group knows they got the real med because they’re purple, so they have a stronger than normal placebo effect.

Because the control group is tainted, you can’t use them to measure and disintermediate the placebo effect of the experimental group.
To paraphrase the Incredibles, "if everything is AI, then nothing is".
Being prosecuted and imprisoned by the federal government is far more motivation than being terminated from a low paying job.
Is that a feature or just a difference? I assume there's trade-offs with both - is landing on land significantly better?
> By analogy, you're saying I could open a computer store called MacBook Pro and Apple couldn't do anything about it? Or open a store called Mickey Mouse that sells plush animals, and Disney would be helpless to prevent it?
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> That doesn't seem plausible.

Yes you could. My understanding from it is that a trademark is only valid for a certain category of "products", which also applies to company names. For example, if you make a company that sell apple juice, and you choose to call it "Apple", because you're not selling the same category of products as "Apple" which sells computers, it's allowed.

I would find strange that you could call a company selling computers "MacBook" though, but technically it's a shop vs a computer, so not the same kind of thing.

And I think this article is confusing, because it's not "Big Mac" that this restaurant is called. It's "Supermac", which isn't exactly the trademarked name. Maybe it would have been different for a "Big Mac" hamburger restaurant.
> single dose of a proprietary, synthetic formulation of psilocybin

What?! Psilocybin is being synthesized?

I had never heard of "C360", the name for the psilocybin administered, and was curious because the doses seemed low compared to standard mushroom weight, which is obvious if the psilocybin itself has been synthesized/concentrated and you aren't dealing with mass of fruiting bodies.

It's frankly a bit of a bummer to see "proprietary" attached to something that can be found in a field under cow shit, but I can only hope the results as have been seen in other incurable depression studies help others in the end.
No, it's not. Typically moderators can view content that needs moderation, i.e. is visible to other users. There is no reason to give them access to all private videos, which are different from unlisted.
If I already have a Fannie/freddie loan - why not allow me to maintain the same rate for the remaining loan and have the new interest rates for any delta. This would encourage movement without all the complexity of this scheme.

The money is already owed to the these entities at that rate. Allow folks to keep the rate on that amount even if they move.
> The battle against squatting in Spain is not only a legal skirmish but also a deeply personal and emotional one for many property owners. The stories of those who have endured the frustration and helplessness of having their properties occupied illicitly are both compelling and heart-wrenching. These narratives underscore the profound impact that squatting can have on individuals, extending far beyond the financial losses to include significant emotional distress and a sense of violation. [...]

> Property owners have shared experiences of feeling powerless as they grapple with the lengthy and often cumbersome legal process to evict squatters.

Those poor landlords! Property owners are truly the most oppressed minority in Spain. It's heart-wrenchingly sad hearing their accounts of legal procedures and having to evict people living in their properties:(
It is, I'd even say it's just "LLMs aren't very good at math" rather than a "Complete Reasoning Breakdown". Still, evaluating when/how they fail could be useful.
It totally fails on safari (I even disabled extensions) but looks OK on Opera (chrome engine). Thanks, will look into it. (but not with safari)
It's a CI runner my dude.

You just obliterate and reinstall the base system in what 10 minutes?
I don't think there is one major/capital European city that doesn't have outrageous prices right now, at least from what I've seen.

That shouldn't stop us from finding solutions to similar issues outside of the major cities like Copenhagen, even if the problem isn't as noticeable in the country-side or minor cities.
There was a decent amount of concern within NASA on the touchscreen design, but the contract type tended to force those discussions to the sideline. In the end, NASA wanted a ride and not to drive the design.

Edit: for those wondering, this is not hearsay or speculation; it is from direct experience (albeit 5+ years ago)
Please explain the mechanisms behind it then.
Sadly it's Chrome only it seems.
Paper: How Knowledge of Organization Operations Empowers and Alienates (2022)
https://archive.is/xdoLf
LLMs are the language center of an AI. They in no way purport to be: long term memory, critical thinking engines, calculators.

If we want those things we can build them. Building them into the language center would be absurd and weird.
> > Question is: "Alice has 60 brothers and she also has 212 sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?"

> The right answer depends on how Alice identifies I guess? :)

Given that the wording of the question specifically identifies Alice as "she", rather than using a gender-neutral pronoun or no pronoun at all, I think inferring that she identifies as female is reasonable.
Thanks - good point - though I've not had time to look yet!
Starliner vs Starship isn't really a valid comparison. Starliner is a new human carrying capsule which is fitted on top of an old rocket. Starship is a 100% brand new everything rocket and person carrying spaceship with ground breaking tech, lift capacity, full reusability, thrust, payload capacity, etc etc.

The rocket used to launch Starliner today is an Atlas V which first flew in 2002. I.e. it's a 22 year old rocket system.
One thing I don't get -- if the law doesn't help why don't the owners of these properties release fart spray everywhere and turn the heat up to max until it is unlivable?
I get what you are saying, but dind the "no, no, that's too much walking" comments kinda funny.

Walking 1/4 mile to a coffee shop every day won't make people skinny.
Very impressive work, and a great testament to the value of shared, iterative and open components.

I'll be curious how long it takes Proton to be ported, though I suspect even with an optimal Vk implementation, many games will run terribly due to the difference in GPU architecture + arm translation overhead + proton itself (however negligible).

Still, I remain optimistic that more games will target unified memory and ARM in the future on desktops, as SoCs become more prevalent like the snapdragon.
You said

> in general we just can't [describe a system in the limiting regime using the fundamental theory] without hand-waving, period...It's sort of true, but not in a useful way.

And I am saying that it in fact can be done, and has been done, in physics and math in a very non-hand-waving way. One can show rigorously when a certain abstractions is accurate.
I've used it for hours with no ill effects outside of a big red mark on my face. The tech has come a long way.
Reimplementation from paper is pretty common, though, no?
Had to do multi cloud with Azure, worked on network infrastructure, vnet, peering, firewall, vpn gateway, etc.

Documentation was almost worthless, leaving a lot of room for interpretation. Encountered and filed more bugs trying to get it up and running than I did for years of using Aws. Support was mediocre. Non existent ipv6 support. This was a few years ago and in comparison to Aws.
We improved the performance of a userspace TCP stack in Go
> What is their proposed future then?

selling azure and consulting to governments and big corps.

> Is Azure compelling for many if you're not already there because of Exchange?

Most are already on Exchange, I think.

Also: I think MS wants Azure to be compelling even without Exchange. (though I am not sure if that works out)
Did somebody successfully migrated from a mainframe? Asking for a friend.
Because the real cause of high housing prices is too little housing supply (relative to demand).

This "genius fix" does nothing to help that.

The solution is to Build. More. Housing.
There are a ton of useful preferences like these that make OS X behave in ways that I find more natural. TinkerTool (https://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool) has a nice “missing system preferences” GUI for configuring them. I’ve been using it for at least 15 years, but you can still download old versions for support all the way back to OS X Public Beta in the year 2000. It was one of the first things I always installed way back when defragging hard drives and occasional clean system installs were routine maintenance.

I know we’re talking about this in the context of much-loved utilities going sideways, but if tweaking system prefs is your thing it gets a strong recommend.
> If you really think about what an LLM is you would think there is no way that leads to general purpose AI

It is an autoregressive sequence predictor/generator. Explain to me how humans are fundamentally different
Even a 80 Euro Berhinger USB audio interface has balanced outs nowadays.

I think this is more of a cultural divide than anything, with tradition being a big part of it. In the olden days balanced I/O had to be done using specialized transformers. Unless you got really expensive well wound ones these could degrade your signal significantly — that might've contributed to a bad rep in audiophile circles. But today you can balance or unbalance electronically with indistinguishable fidelity and... ironically a lot of the analog "warmth" people love in old recordings came from the transformer on the inputs of old mixing desks.

There is really no reason to use unbalanced today other than being really pressed for money or running so short cables that it won't matter - and even then you could do better than RCA connectors.
Ayahuasca is really cool, but many people trying to escape addiction use it only to find it doesn’t solve their problems and as a result they experience suicidal ideation. Be careful, the anti addiction effects of the drug definitely aren’t permanent in any case.
It's a nice new capsule launching on top of a 20+ year old launch system (Atlas V).

It's a great accomplishment but it's not "super crazy"
The existence of an "inner monologue" isn't really a falsifiable claim. Some people claim to have one while other people claim not to, but we can't test the truth of these claims.
I don't care what they want. A lot of people are tired of playing these language games.
AAV-Based Gene Rx Restores Hearing in Both Ears of Children wHereditary Deafness
Yeah, I think these chatbots are just too sure of themselves. They only really do "system 1 thinking" and only do "system 2 thinking" if you prompt them to. If I ask gpt-4o the riddle in this paper and tell it to assume its reasoning contains possible logical inconsistencies and to come up with reasons why that might be then it does correctly identify the problems with its initial answer and arrives at the correct one.

Here is my prompt:

I have a riddle for you. Please reason about possible assumptions you can make, and paths to find the answer to the question first. Remember this is a riddle so explore lateral thinking possibilities. Then run through some examples using concrete values. And only after doing that attempt to answer the question by reasoning step by step.

The riddle is "Alice has N brothers and she also has M sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?"

After you answer the riddle please review your answer assuming that you have made a logical inconsistency in each step and explain what that inconsistency is. Even if you think there is none do your best to confabulate a reason why it could be logically inconsistent.

Finally after you have done this re-examine your answer in light of these possible inconsistencies and give what you could consider a second best answer.
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Beware the Cloud of Hype
The Dragon Crew has physical backup controls. The touchscreen allows for a more interactive UI that you can try out here:

https://iss-sim.spacex.com/

But the controls themselves have physical buttons in addition to the touch screen.

Also all systems have triple redundancy.
Off topic comment on my part here but, I’ve never noticed before that GitHub down-cases the display text of the project link at the top. I noticed it now because it’s a YouTube video also linked in the readme, and YouTube video links (and many, perhaps even most, other links) are case sensitive.

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrwXZXGiP1w

In the top on mobile GitHub renders the text for the link instead as

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrwxzxgip1w

What an utterly weird design choice on the part of GitHub :S
Writing Zod code that minifies
Starliner is the Boeing equivalent of Falcon/Crew Dragon which has been used for years.
Because it rendered just fine for me in Microsoft Edge. Seriously, when it renders fine in one browser but not in another, what's a web page builder to do? Especially when they're sitting atop of a content management system which in turn are sitting atop of mountains of web frameworks?

This has been the problem of web for the past 30 years - the renderer takes an input and produces a rendering of that input. Who knows what result you're going to get?
Isn’t this just crockford encoding?
Wouldn't getting rid of digital copyright affect someone who produces the idea and the code, though? By empowering others to just steal their idea and their code.
He means that the price of the bonds backing the mortgage fall.
Since the bonds are fixed interest, when interest rates rise, new bonds at a higher interest rate are more profitable than the old bonds at a lower interest rate. As such the free market price of the old bonds will drop to until the selling-at-a-loss reaches an equilibrium with the expected increased profit from higher interest rates of the new bonds over the lifetime of the bond.

This lets the loan taker buy back their own bonds for less than what they were paid (the loaned amount) when the bonds were issued.
Can it also do something about the problem?
This is a bit meta, but is it surprising that the BBC news website is the go-to source for a broad range of news stories that end up on HN? What and where are the competition?
because that is illegal?
Are you an astronaut? Do astronauts prefer thousands of physical knobs? Do you think they would fly if they weren't happy?
Build more _multi family_ housing and make it cheaper by doing away ridiculous parking spot requirements and outdated fire codes.
Starliner isn't even a rocket, it's a capsule. A capsule (Starliner) got launched today on top of a really old rocket design (Atlas V) which first launched in 2002...
You also have to have a cell phone, and be willing to verify your number with them.