skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article lacks context.

For the past year or so, the term 'customer harassment' has become a trend in Japan. It's basically customers abusing the overly polite service staff over very minor issues. This AI is introduced to combat this, as there is now a severe staff shortage in Japan due to the reducing population and companies are having trouble enticing younger people into these kinds of jobs.

Here's a good article explaining it.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/3105/

> Tokyo saying no to 'customer harassment'

> Types of 'customer harassment'

> - Targeting individuals as a form of stress relief.

> - A distorted sense of justice, in which people express their feelings for a long time as advice.

> - Attack type, in which people demand things such as having a person kneel down on the ground.

> - Illusion type, in which people think they are passing the responsibility on to others.

> - Strong obsession, in which mentally unstable people are obsessed with listening to their own opinions.
This already happened after the “adpocalypse”. A lot of channels turned off ads on their videos and started doing direct sponsorships instead. After a while, YouTube decided they would just show ads on every video, even if the uploader had disabled them.
Sonos changes terms and conditions and may now pass on data to third parties
It's because the brand is borderline toxic now.

I've seen it firsthand living in a very liberal area. 3 years ago people loved the brand. People would strike up conversation about it. It was all upbeat, happy and hopeful.

Now, people rarely talk about it. And when they do it's apologetically. It often ends with some down statement about politics. Someone saying there were no other choices. Just a crappy time.

I love my Tesla. It's a great car. But it's my last. I want nothing to do with this type of politics or conversation.

I for one am sorry for its frontman. It's a good car that I don't want again... That's just stupid of him.
I suspect its because having a personality lead company implies that people buying that product tend to agree with the personality.

Tesla is an extreme example, Elon is either Jesus, or Judas. There is no in between. I have a Powerewall, because it was at the time the best product.

When I do talk about it, the second or third question is: "what do you think of, you know, nod, nod, wink, wink".

He's a polarising figure, which makes getting useful reviews out of their products/business practices hard. (same with Facebook, Nestle and other pariahs.)
The pre 12.5 stack uses traditional C++ conditionals together with computer vision for highway driving. 12.5 and after is the a single stack setup (at least that's what Musk claims).

The 12.3.6 (or the 12.4.1 that's being trialed right now) is pretty much the current production state of the art for Tesla street level (not highway) single stack self driving where the steering commands are directly issued by the neural network.
fastapi_problem: Problem Details for FastAPI (RFC9457)
https://lasikcomplications.com/
The trend in industrial automation these days is to use grayscale graphics for most HMI elements and use color to indicate alerts and alarms. The theory is that an experienced operator can navigate and view everything they need for normal operations just fine without color, and abnormal conditions will be stand out as they're the only things with color on the screen.

It seems to work, and I encourage my front end guys to follow that pattern, but I'm not sure how well it would translate to desktop computer use.
I really hope this will not been available in a long time in Europe.
I don't want to be part of musk's irresponsible beta testing plan as someone who lives around tesla cars.
I also really hope that there will be a point based drivers licence similar to human ones that applies to those technologies before this kind of experiment is started. If it loses its points, the whole system has to be disabled and having to go through a audit/licence process to be allowed on public roads again.
Python was never a good language. It was always a joke. But jokes have a short shelf life. The reason to use it was to be in the opposition to the pompous way of how the mainstream was trying to do things.

It's like with academic drawing. A student would spend countless hours or even days trying to draw a model, and would still come out with broken anatomy, made of plaster and not even a bit similar to the model itself. And they would use a huge arsenal of tools, and probably some expensive ones. While a master could scoop some ash from an ashtray, and in a few lines drawn by a finger accomplish a lot more than that student's day's work, and have the model look alive, with plausible anatomy etc.

Python was the ash from an ashtray. It didn't need to be good as a tool to accomplish its goal. Actually, the opposite. But now, with the masters gone, the students don't know why the masters were so good at it, and they try to copy whatever they did, including finger drawing with ash. It works even worse than if they used their huge arsenal of tools, but they no longer have anyone to guide them.

You might think this is a ridiculous story, but this actually happened before my eyes in academic drawing in a particular art academy. But it's a story for a different time.

So, to answer your question, with some examples:

Yes, Python today is thousand times worse than what it was 15 years ago. In general, adding to a programming language makes it worse. Python not only adds, it adds useless garbage. Stuff like f-strings, match-case, type annotations, type classes, async... all this stuff made the language a lot more complex and added nothing of value.

Lots of Python libraries were burnt in a name of "progress" (broken backwards-compatibility). Making tools for Python became prohibitively expensive due to the effort it takes to work with the language.

But, it didn't stop there. The community itself changed its shape dramatically. Python, from being usually the second language, learnt by someone intelligent enough to see the problems with the mainstream and looking for alternatives, it became the first language programmers learn on their way into trade. Python more and more started to bend to meet the demands of its new audience: the unwilling to learn amateurs. And that's where Java was good! Java was made for exactly this purpose. Java came packed with guard-rails and walking sticks.
I had it, or a newer version of it. I had pain before , which I considered to be a migraine, triggered by bad vision in one eye. But the vision was very close to perfect, one clinic refused to do it. After the procedure, and some amount of healing time the vision was perfect, but the pain came back and became stronger. So I suffered strong migraine like pain for years. Untill last month somebody here recommended NAC (N-acetyl-cysteine) supplement, I tried it and it worked within days. Turns out it was just dry eye. I did not make the connection, because eye drops did not help me, they seemed to make it worse. i was not missing in tears, but the eye lubricant which retains the tears on the surface, and multiple doctors missed it.
I will bet you literally all the money ever printed that we don’t.
voids and crystal structures can be detected by x-rays and routinely are. you're right that the precise composition of the interior can't be, but the precise composition of the surface can be (spark spectroscopy or xrf, also both routine), and the suspicion is not that spirit made fake parts and thinly plated them with the correct metal; it's that they got fake metal. so i don't think any sawing will be needed
Right, getting more corner cases training data won't solve an architecture problem. AI in general quickly impresses when it's mostly right but improving from there is the challenge.
Would it be unfair to ask if you like the current FSD and think its on track, or if you don't. Or, the third option of not wanting FSD at all because I'm trying to work out what systematic bias you expect to see here.
I think a good indicator if it is useful or not is to look at how much it is actually used.

Tesla published a chart of cumulative miles driven over time on page 8 of their latest quarterly update:

https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/...

So far, I'm not sure what to make of it. The chart looks somewhat exponential. But since they brought more and more cars onto the road, one would expect exponential growth in this chart even if no additional usage was caused by software improvements. So one would have to un-cumulate the chart and then divide the y-axis by number of cars on the road to get usage by car.

And then one would have to factor in price changes.

I think the spike at the right is from the free trial they pushed out shortly after the release of FSD 12. The way I read the chart, the release of FSD 12 itself has not caused an increase in usage.

Does anybody know what caused the increase in growth in March 2023?
I think this version is my favourite (kurt elling): https://youtu.be/s8WxZfAV3Bc
How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
That's what we are going to do, if the paper is accepted in reputable journal using public offline data we can probably get grant and people working on the proof of concept for real-time implementation. Believe me to get any grant only with ideas without initial results is close to impossible, I tried a few times before. The fact that earthquake detection and prediction is a public service thing not really commercial, it not possible to get non-government or company interested in their development. I think the best is to get the algorithm and technique being utilized in nationwide IoT bssed earthquake monitoring system for example in China [1].

[1] Chinese Nationwide Earthquake Early Warning System and Its Performance in the 2022 Lushan M6.1 Earthquake:

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/17/4269
> Those were built by the Mussolini supporters of the world

I mean that's a stretch. Were they designed by literal ex-nazis? yes.

Crucially I don't remember von braun interceding in political discussions advocating for a position on anything other than space.

But there are two points that stem from this:

can a person change (for better or worse)?

can the public at large reliably recognise that change?
This worries me, it gives browser ads, like video ads, the possibility to stop when the user is not looking at it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaraDNS

https://maradns.samiam.org/

https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS

for really being lean&mean enough to run it effortlessly on something like (even older) Raspberry Pis or similar SBCs, or routers running things like OpenWRT/DDWrt or similar.

While it has no GUI, it can do everything you asked for. F.E. snapshotting its data to file, either via its internal scripting language (Lua), or cron jobs.

To be further improved by using some upstream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root which doesn't do the shit you fear in the first place, thereby maybe widening the timeframe before SHTF is hitting you.

Or at least something from here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_recursive_name_server

I'd recommend Mullvad, using it ATM because it's working excellently for me, without adding any noticable latency. But that may vary with your location.

Please note: Can be used without its VPN service

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

You can use the ad/game/porn-blocking in various levels or steps, or not at all.
I think it's nice to have as a first layer of defense for gadgets where it's impractical to install adblocking on device.

HTH
Denialism.
On our way to where exactly?
One side is targeting corporate business, the other is for end-consumer.

The eye opener for me is the Surface Pro 10 only existing for businesses. They cared to design and produce the whole device, but not ship it to regular customers. That whole market is forced to go to the more experimental copilot line instead (which could arguably be great, but you don't get to choose in the first place)
What would be the best way to get into ic design (aside from college). Any suggestions on how to go from beginner to your level (Or maybe just share your path)?
You are probably looking for something like WASI preview1 or WASIX:

https://wasix.org/docs
Not super scientific, but eating dried blueberries everyday, looking into red a red light lamp every third day, and doing long distance look training made my eyesight 20/20 again. I have a feeling the red light lamp is the biggest effect. At least according to research it should be. Try it. You only have minutes and a daily blueberry cost to loose.
I don't think it's aiming to be a "full review". When you take a driving test it really doesn't matter what stuff you are good at, it only matters if you're driving safely enough to be on the road. The article shows that FSD isn't worthy of a full review because it isn't safe enough to be on the road.
I think the difference is that the CEO of Apple isn't actively engaged in public divisive discourse on hot button issues.

Don't get me wrong, I actively dislike the breathless discourse without any analysis (apple is the privacy leader, ok great, prove it...)
A standard document defining how it could work on the web. Wasm is literally just Javascript.
How many CEOs & owners have you vetted when making purchases? CEOs are a pretty shady crew as a class of people; it attracts people who like power and they are the dangerous ones. Or people who are single-minded in their focus and they tend to come with a raft of unusual views and personalities. And even after vetting, you're probably just biasing your purchases in favour of CEOs who do image management rather than people you'd actually like to support.

If you're buying cars based inversely on how much money the company owner has, you're implicitly ruling out a lot of good options. It is using the language a bit loosely but in some relevant sense we'd expect people who make the most cost-effective products to make the most profit.
What everyone seems to be ignoring when it comes to autonomous cars is that the last 1% or 0.1% or whatever remains unsolvable for "AI" might not really matter.

We can change roads, ffs! At the bare minimum, we could fence off difficult areas and force manual driving. Once many people own an autonomous car, there will be pressure to make roads safe and convenient for them.

Phantom braking for instance, is only a safety issue when the following car gets too close. Lanes can be annotated, etc.

The "AI" part is just marketing to get these cars on the road and set the customer's expectations. Once that is done, the hard parts will just be moved from the car manufacturer to the road builders.
That’s a really pessimistic take. Voyager 1 moves at ~17 km/s (and slowing down but it doesn’t really matter). That’s on the order of 0.0001 c and indeed just a half of Earth’s orbital speed, so a part of the year the probe is actually getting closer in Earth’s frame.

A one-kg nanoprobe attaining 0.001 c would be perfectly feasible with today’s tech and would overtake Voyager 1 within a decade. Breakthrough Starshot proposes laser sail acceleration of gram-scale probes to > 0.1 c, a thousand times faster than V1, and nothing in the design requires fundamentally new tech. Such probes would claim the distance record in a few weeks of travel, no matter whether they’re launched twenty or fifty or a hundred years from now.
Not to mention that you need to interact with it every time you use it, sheesh.

The Mastodon mobs who brigaded the issue tracker were squarely in the fringe, frowned upon by pretty much everyone else...
Tyrannosaurus cousin.
Nuland giving out cakes and comingling with protestors represents major culpability in a coup?

So those protestors didn't riot because Yanukovych killed the EU association agreement a day before signing?

An agreement that he ran his election platform on and replaced it with a customs union with Belarus and Russia.

Btw it was Yanukovych who proposed making Yatsenyuk as prime minister on Jan 25.

FSB thug Igor Girkin himself said that he and his men started the Donbas conflict when they occupied Sloviansk.

The first prime minister of Donetsk Alexander Borodai once said in a phone call that his loyalty was to one and one nation only, the Russian Federation.
Check out comma.ai - it may fit your car.
And yet on a very simple drive I have to intervene 4-6 times over a distance of 8 miles. How is this not useful? It would have been easier to ask people to record how to drive roads by now and use video game track logic where you race a ghost by now…

The only time fsd works ‘ok’, single lane roads with 90 degree stop signs / turns.

I don’t believe that the current hardware can handle what is needed to have passable FSD for an average consumer.
peutetre was clear from the start, ksec claimed that content distribution fees are not for physical media and to defend his position he asked "Do HEVC Advance and Velos Media currently, or has ever charges for Broadcasting and Streaming?" which makes no sense, since the specific topic was about physical media.
Completely agree with the author of the article; the excess of screens added to the rise of generative AI is leading to a generation without critical thinking. For some time, I have been discussing with my family and friends about the resurgence of encyclopedias, reliable sources of information commonly accepted by everyone.

But people don't understand what I'm talking about; they are so used to the pre-digested information from traditional media that they don't question how much truth there is in a news story. The funny thing about this is that a couple of years ago I contacted a very prestigious publisher in my country to ask for information on how to get their encyclopedia, and well, the salesperson almost treated me like I was crazy.

Anyway, let's see what this new rise of AI brings, and I'll keep trying to find an encyclopedia XD.
The pressure from slow and steady Julia's adoption, Mojo arriving into the scene, Facebook and Microsoft jumping into the JIT story, changing CPython team opinion on the matter, still leaves some hopes it might happen.

However now having Pytorch, Tensorflow and ONMX exposing the underylying native libraries to more programming languages, might mean to leave Python as it is, and use the other programming stacks for production.
Around then they rolled out a change that I hate, which was to remove cruise control and replace it with self-driving. Previously “one tap” was cruise, two was self-drive. Now it’s right into self-drive. I assume that increased hours significantly.
One of the theories floated is if an advanced civilisation made it to us, they would most likely be so advanced they would see us no differently as we would view ants and not even consider us if they needed any resources from our planet.

Another thought is the fact that no advanced civilisation has ever made it to earth is proof that any intelligent species is destined to destroy itself before it can evolve far enough to travel the stars.

Both outcomes are pretty bleak
PaperTapeReader: A DIY reader for vintage 8-bit paper tapes
admirable work, but this really should've been a userscript instead - crossbrowser by default, easier to maintain, easier to modify on the user's end (whitelisting individual sites by commenting them out in the userscript).
Lossy compression is possible in PNG to a certain degree. This is the "same PNG", but 94 kB instead of 1015 kB:

1015 kB: https://sidbala.com/content/images/2016/11/outputFrame.png

94 kB: https://www.photopea.com/keynote.png
The question in the title is different from the NVDA bubble.
Thanks tons for these details. Time for me to give it a shot, esp. if playing instruments doesn’t contribute to the problem.
I'm just saying we cannot even get past the editors of proper journal and pre-print server arXiv for a proper review of the paper after many submissions, is it not a red flag?

Have you seen any USGS sponsored journal with special issue on earthquake prediction?

Have you have heard any earthquake early detection and prediction competition in the US, not unlike the yearly Computing in Cardiology (CINC) competition for the improvement of CVDs early detection and prediction?

[1]George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge:

https://moody-challenge.physionet.org/2024/

https://www.cinc2024.org
So-called "professors" are just slow to adapt. University is a huge waste of money currently. ChatGPT is a blessing.
If I don’t click ads and purchase products, it doesn’t matter whether I have them or not.

I’m not robbing anyone since I don’t click on ads anyway. I don’t generate people revenue. I’m not “in commerce”
Kind of definitionally if it goes extinct it’s done evolving. And sure, plenty of carbon-based life forms — currently all known life forms — will survive, and hopefully whatever does is smart enough to learn from our own-goals. It may even be another primate or another hominid… what it won’t be is us.
I think it should be a maintained list of ublacklist which is very useful extension to manage the search experience on search engines (including othet engines than google).
Not parent, just giving my opinion. The perception of what it may become is causing pressure to change wide reaching laws and legal practice.

A) Copyright. The AI companies are blatantly disregarding practically everyones copyright when they train on all the data they can find online. The rights holders have not given them permission to do so.

B) Privacy. Companies are just taking all the data of their customers and using for training. This is directly in opposition with GDPR, recently established in the Eurozone. Companies, notably Meta, are arguing - oh but AI is so important, that we do not have to ask for users consent.

C) Compute/algorithms. Regulations on "AI" itself. With several actors, notably OpenAI/Altman saying it is so dangerous that only corporations like them can do it responsibly, aiming to do regulatory capture which benefits them.

Large forces from the biggest companies in the world are attempting to change the legal landscape, and manipulate the perception of politicians and the public to ensure sufficient support to get the changes through.
> Uhh, not in my experience. Its extremely difficult to find h265 sources for a large majority of content.

Sounds like you need some new sources. For now content I generally see x264 and x265 for just about everything. 264 isn't going anywhere because many older design set top boxes (including those still running Kodi on Pi3s) don't have hardware decode support, but 265 has become the default for 4K (which older kit doesn't support anyway) with 1080 & 720 being commonly available in both.

Admittedly some of the 265 encodes are recompressions of larger 264 sources and sometimes bad settings in either encode (including just choosing an already overly crunched source) show through, but that isn't common enough to be problematical (my usual complaint is that encodes like that strip subs, though that is useful: avoiding 265 encodes with no subs avoids the other issues mostly too).

Few are going back and making 265 encodes for older sources, so that may be an issue you've faced, but if that content has a new BR release or other re-release (like when B5 got a slightly remastered version on one of the streamers) then you'll get both formats in the common resolutions.
No. For the easy 99.999% of driving they keep very little of the training data.

Basically you want to minimize manual interventions (aka disengagements). When the driver intervenes, they keep a few seconds before (30 seconds?) and after that intervention and add that to the training data.

So their training data is basically just the exceptional cases.

They need to just make sure they don’t overfit so that the learned model actually does have some “understanding” of why decisions are made and can generalize.