skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's funny is if they had marketed it as Apple does (and had as much credibility as Apple does among their fans) then everyone would love it. I seriously doubt they intend to do much different than "Apple Intelligence." I.e., local access to all your data and uploads of data you use on cloud apps.
No, plenty of companies I worked at had explicit targets to achieve certain percentages of women and URM hires. Sure, leadership vociferously denied that these were quotas: they were just "inclusion targets" and "diversity goals". But if you failed to meet them you'd either have bad reviews or see your pay reduced (remember, a "bonus" contingent on achieving a quota is identical to a penalty contingent on failure to meet the quota).
Vtubing with a webcam and real-time AI
Big Tech Is Realizing Something: Their AI Can't Keep Messing Up on This Scale
Do you mean UAL1722 (December 2022)?

That was miscommunication between the pilots and a resulting incorrect flaps setting, not weather: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/0...
https://github.com/slackhq/nebula

the docs are good. when creating the initial CA make absolutely sure you set the CA expiration to 10-30 years, the default is 1 which means your whole setup explodes in a year without warning.
Pretty much. I ditched my Facebook account in 2017 and never really messed with IG. At some point I just wasn't seeing much of what I liked about the site initially (a feed of what friends and acquaintances were up to) and didn't find it worth the tradeoff - lots of companies are skeevy, but I might continue using their products if I get something out of them. Didn't find FB to be worth it.

But still, I'm in a few long running group chats with friends and maybe 60-70% of the links people post are to Meta sites. Can't access even though it's almost always just something reposted from a (openly accessible) website.

The bots and the spam ruining platforms is bad enough. Putting such a large chunk of actual online human conversation behind login-walls has seriously put a dent in things. I feel like this is the other half of the whole "search engines suck now because of ML-generated/SEO-optimized junk" argument. There's nothing to balance that stuff out because you need a sketchy persistent, personally-identifiable account to access the rest.
Day 1 vs day 2. That’s why the SaaS version exists.
Not really. Living things absorb CO2 with the intent to live. The CO2 isn't the important part, the living (replicating) is. It's entirely plausible that one could improve efficiency by removing the requirement of living.
Which is fine because the browser has a private browsing mode, and the shell has the space trick (for example if a tool requires an SSH key as a command-line argument) as well as various "pinentry" things.

You'd need some API for applications to signal to Recall "the user has requested not to save this", and then every single program with a password input box would have to update to call this.
It is a magic wand for CEO's who are looking for more reasons to lay off more people
I think they are saying that you need to switch to 199.999... lbs/s for all the 200 lbs/s burns, not just the last one.

Just trying to clarify where you seem to be speaking past each other, though it seems that this might simply lead to a non-optimal strategy (i.e. taking more time to land than theoretically possible, however minute the difference is).
MicroVM infrastructure using low-latency memory decompression
> We already know Google trains its AI on people's private emails

Source?
Office space is not a problem anywhere (and do you even really need it these days?)

An investor once said to me "If you can't figure out how to get office space for your startup, you shouldn't be an entrepreneur"...unless you need specialized lab space for your biotech startup or similar, I kind of agree....
Isnt china like super majoraty men because of the one child policy? It should not be hard for a woman to find a real partner....
> What if you can't afford a Mac, and you're not technically literate enough to install Ubuntu ?

Problem: Uber is expensive, and you don't know how to drive, so getting around is a challenge.

Solution: Learn how to drive.
> However, also robbing the content creators you're enjoying of the revenue they need to fund their content, is definitely in some unethical grey area.

I’m curious what’s your intuition about the opposite situation.

If I’m paying for YouTube and I’m supposed to get an AD free experience but a creator has baked in ad read for their sponsor, is the creator then in the wrong?
Thx for telling
Microsoft don't want to miss out on another big industry so they're compensating by trying to frontrun everyone whilst trying not to fall over.
The effectiveness of search goes hand-in-hand with quality of the value function. But today, value functions are incredibly domain-specific, and there is weak or no current evidence (as far as I know) that we can make value functions that generalize well to new domains. This article effectively makes a conceptual leap from "chess has good value functions" to "we can make good value functions that enable search for AI research". I mean yes, that'd be wonderful - a holy grail - but can we really?

In the meantime, 1000x or 10000x inference time cost for running an LLM gets you into pretty ridiculous cost territory.
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> We want to "speak to a representative" because the automated interfaces are deliberately designed not to let us do the thing we need to do. The customer service representative is not our servant, they're a guard who holds the keys to the door we need to enter.

Nailed it. A lot of times you're doing something special or off the well beaten path, or they just don't want you to do it (like closing your account). Voice recognition usually just seems to listen to single words to try to route you to to someone. Either way, usually by that time the company doesn't care, they've got your money.
It is impressive for sure, but still a lot of other things are. Mirror arrays on JWST, fusion ignition lasers. Diffraction limited optics aren't exactly last year development either: there's a host of other places across several countries who can match Zeiss for what is essentially bespoke builds.
Yes, but have you actually talked to a real person? Ooof. No thanks! ;)
I think they offer a lot of niche-market products that all sort of work together as a "suite" with the core product of course the db. I work in the utility industry and they are present everywhere.

Of the products I'm immediately aware of, they have a billing data system, a meter data system, and an enterprise asset management system. They try to sell upper management that all components work together easily, and because IT is not our core business, this is an enticing pitch to the chief level audience.
Food for thought- the subjective nature of both of those is exactly why it shouldn’t be bundled.
I'm challenging the original comment, which blames Tesla for accidents caused by drivers being inattentive.

The name of the driver assist program even if inaccurate, did not mislead any of those drivers, as any driver who uses these features is amply informed/warned that the features do not provide autonomous driving and don't obviate the requirement of the driver to remain fully engaged at all time.
I mean, why not? Terrifies people and he has no negative repercussions.
That was determined after an independent investigation by both the FAA and NTSB. This incident hasn't been investigated by anyone but Southwest Airlines.
You seem to be describing Linux, but the previous comment was about Windows.
the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor

Checks out.
Leak when?
> we can't figure out how to keep a pre-existing rich one healthy

greenfield projects are always more fun (until they become messes as well)
I couldn't remember the name of the company, nor the founders, but google found it for me:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/high-hopes-for-video-compressi...

It says they raised $32M from VCs, came out of stealth mode in 2002. I was unable to find what happened after that.
Yes! Its a bit deeper than that but its fundamentally a packaging issue.
According to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_M..., probably September 2027.

There are an additional two patents on that list that expire in 2028 and 2030, but it's not clear if they apply. So probably November 2030 at the latest.
Honestly this is something you say as a person who doesn't really run into the use cases for spreadsheets.

I've been writing code since I was a kid, but there are jobs a spreadsheet is just the right tool for. Almost anything that involves creating an overview of lots of interdependent numbers really.

Excel in particular is a lot more powerful than you might be aware of if you're a casual user, and I would honestly recommend you learn it properly, as you would learn a programming language, since it's a really useful skill to have (1).

That said, I've often thought about what a programmer's spreadsheet tool would look like. Scientific grade plotting, N-dimensional spreadsheets, a real programming language in the cell formulas...

Someone must have attempted it?

(1) By the way, ChatGPT is great at teaching Excel.
A meritocratic system doesn't have to be perfect or exactly defined. It's enough for a system to be based on work-related capabilities and output, rather than the gender, race, etc. of candidates and workers. An automatically graded leetcode interview is a meritocratic system, even if leetcode performance is not an exact measure of an employee's potential performance.

It's totally viable to define meritocracy in contrast to gender-conscious and race-conscious DEI policies.
All tank commanders are perfect fit for next Napoleon.
Same CEOs who hire only the best now seem to magically forget those standards when AI's involved.
I can't help but notice LLMs are producing voices that are each day more human-like and now we expect the uniqueness of human voices and what they're trying to communicate to just fade away.

At which point does it stop making sense to have a human at the other side? Just let frustrated humans talk to the LLMs. They aren't hurt by your frustrated voice.
Workplace surveillance of employees became widespread in part because of sexual harassment laws, employers suddenly had to protect themselves from litigation.

See:

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/r/ro...
> Yes, I know it’s good to be a generalist, and I am, but employers seem to prefer to hire “experts” in particular domains.

Who says so? Being a generalist is the worst thing to do. The world is full generalist software engineers who are ready to take your job. Being a framework monkey doesn't work either in the long term; it is so exhausting.

Being just a software engineer is not sufficient. I think without having a unique specialty, which is hard to replace, you would be just another cog in the machine.

Understanding a domain (finance, healthcare, embedded devices, etc.) in addition to being a developer is one way to make yourself indispensable, which is something a lot of developers lack.

The same thing happened to "data scientists", but faster. Throwing a data scientist to a big data problem without them knowing nothing about the field resulted in bunch of stupid "solutions". The focus on AI is an outcome of that, because very few people actually understand their domain, so we throw AI to everything in the hope that something will work. This might work for employment opportunities in the short term until something shinier comes along.
A Google Pixel 8, 8a, or 8 Pro.
No, even a forgetful and repetitive sycophant meets a lot of genuine unmet needs for lonely people.

Many such people feel alienated, ostracized, stigmatized, ashamed, or rejected and something that says nice (or dirty) things to them, on demand, and in decent natural language can scratch a desperate itch.

That's not to say anything about the social good or ill that may come from it. But the hype is sound. It's one of the few "sure thing" products we can see right now.
Microsoft is cooking something with their Recall feature on Windows [video]
Exponentially Better Rotations (2022)
How to opt out of Meta's AI training
I don't know why you're being downvoted.

This is Microsoft's enshittification, which crossed a personal threshold for me -- "don't worry, everything's right where it was", but subtle nudges to accept further "opt-in"s that are hidden behind UI Dark Patterns.

I wonder if Satya is dancing right now...
Quintin Tarantino said some of his films are set in the "realer than real universe". I think it just means when you watch it you are supposed to resonate more with it than real life.

'More natural than a real person' probably means the speaker finds real people harder to relate to, I guess.
I checked some logs from my past experiments, the decoding went for about 400 tps over a ~3k token query, so about 7 seconds to process it, and then the generation speed was about 28 tokens.
Da inyalowda think that by just going to space it'll solve all our problems, ke?
I just purchased a Amd 8845HS for about 750$ and I can run most games at mid spec.

Tossed in a 4TB SSD and I'm very happy with my purchase. I have Mint installed along with Windows.

Price out a 4TB Mac, you'll be spending an unholy amount of money. Plus in a few years when the 8TB SSDs are cheaper it's an easy upgrade.
Part of Snowden's explanation for why he was doing NSA work as a BAH contractor was that this is perfectly normal: employees "leave" and are then employed as contractors to get around limits on number and compensation for federal employees. Keeping their security clearances, of course.
I make ambient music, and stuff like this is so nice to put in the background. Love that someone decided to collect and organize these.
Lol, if they want to use Linux the company will just give them a virtual linux machine and have them use it via windows... recall will still sorta work.
> I cannot choose a different default navigation app.

This is apparently changing for iOS 18, but so far only for EU users.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/07/apple-planning-default-naviga...
Integrating some sort of AI into the creative process seems like a way more useful approach than how we think of it today. You can bounce ideas off them, have them steelman opposing ideas, rip your ideas apart, or treat them as a muse.

Best part: it works today. No hopes and prayers for future AI needed!
> This has nothing to do with LVT.

It's how LVT operates. You don't pay more if you build a taller building, but you pay a certain amount for the land on a continuous basis, providing an incentive to increase density beyond what would otherwise be rational, i.e. continue building until there are a significant number of empty units

> In highly desirable places like the center of a big city like NYC, land values are huge and thus an LVT would be very high as well.

Under the existing zoning regime it would be high. If people were allowed to keep building then it would just end up full of skyscrapers -- not just Manhattan but also the other boroughs -- until the cost of land fell to the cost of construction.

> Unfortunately VAT is highly regressive, so while a modest VAT has a place in a broad based tax regime, it's a very bad idea as the sole tax.

This is what corporate PR tells you when they don't want a tax they would actually have to pay.

VAT uses a flat rate, but you can achieve a progressive effective rate curve simply by combining it with a UBI.

> An LVT is unlikely to make cities unattractive for people and businesses, so desirable places would remain desirable despite being saddled with a high LVT.

But how does the LVT remain high unless you artificially constrain construction? There is nowhere that replacing every building within 100 miles with a skyscraper wouldn't result in oversupply, so land is never the limiting factor and its price would be capped by the cost of building tall buildings.

You would also have a notable problem in places like NYC: Suppose it costs more to build a tall building, so the land value is e.g. five times higher than it is in a suburban area. But the buildings also have 20 times more units, so you'd have 25% as much government revenue per resident because there are 20 times more of them per unit land.
I also have the same vision, can i also get an article?
An easy way is to anonymize the interview process. Strip out identifying material in resumes. Conduct Zoom interviews with camera off and a voice modulator. It'd be harder to anonymize performance reviews while working in person, but the application process can be pretty robustly anonymized.

The thing is, when tech companies experiment with putting the proverbial veil between candidates and interviewers they don't get the results they expect: https://interviewing.io/blog/voice-modulation-gender-technic...

> Contrary to what we expected (and probably contrary to what you expected as well!), masking gender had no effect on interview performance with respect to any of the scoring criteria (would advance to next round, technical ability, problem solving ability). If anything, we started to notice some trends in the opposite direction of what we expected: for technical ability, it appeared that men who were modulated to sound like women did a bit better than unmodulated men and that women who were modulated to sound like men did a bit worse than unmodulated women.
The nsa had AI usage long before LLMs were here
He’ll live barely long enough to maybe see handful of people stay on the moon for a brief period. We’re not even close to having a sustainable habitat even on the moon. Let alone anywhere else.
Those aren't part of Wasm. WebRTC and WebSockets both predate Wasm by 6 years, and neither require Wasm to work. postMessage is part of Web Workers, also separate frow Wasm.

I'll ask again, what would it mean for POSIX to "support" Wasm?
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40674835
Isn't that simply because the engine provides less resistance through the clutch than brakes do? Would clutch really be spent less than brake pads for the same braking power (light press on the brakes)?

FWIW, modern flywheel clutch kits are way more expensive than brake pads, so the cost is not so clear cut anyway.
Preferring screens over real humans is subjectively not good. To you.
Yeah we need essentially hadoop for llm training
> It's not like the vagrants will disappear if you don't build an housing lot.

That's exactly what it's like. An issue that didn't exist in the past doesn't need to exist in the future, either. If you set up institutions specifically to make hanging out and harassing people in the neighborhood a viable lifestyle, you'll cause more people to engage in that lifestyle.
People make mistakes, too.

That's the nature of intelligence, "artificial" or not.

What's surprising to some people, though it shouldn't be if you spent more than a couple seconds thinking about it, is the mistakes AI makes are different than the mistakes humans make.

As far as "messing up" is concerned, I'm more concerned about my car attempting to drive me into a train than I am with Gemini returning an obviously absurd result that I can discard.
> even though I trust Forgejo's governance even less than Mozilla's

Would you like to tell why you don't trust the forgejo governance? Are there any specific points or only a "feeling"?

Ok, found above

> Codeberg.org's fork of Gitea (Forgejo) has a governance structure that is more appealing in that it is not profit-oriented, but I'm nervous about overmoderation in the Forgejo community [2]. Constructive opposition to the election of moderators (based on their past abuse of authority) got edited away as "ad hominem attacks" and has since been completely deleted from the election thread.

Interesting, never saw smth like this, maybe this has changed over time. They now log any moderation so you can ask for the moderation actions. And when a comment is deleted an information message gets added by the forgejo moderation team to inform about the deletion.
[author] Thanks for reposting this! It was a small but cool learning that all perspective correction needs is dividing screen-space barycentrics by vertex depths and normalizing. I wanted to share my understanding of the math.

3D graphics is a rich and old field with lots of tricks like this. It's cool to see faster algorithms and alternative explanations in the comments!
I didn’t understand this piece.

What do they mean by using LLMs with search? Is this simply RAG?
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The sentiment captures the essence of the human pursuit of knowledge...
> causing couples to break up so one starts drinking a lot out of stress and brings short-term profit.

The local pub may be doing this, however.
Apple's PCC: Bold step forward, not without flaws
SCQA - https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/executive-communicati...