skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point all we know is that EVs catch fire much less than ICE vehicles:

https://thedriven.io/2023/05/16/petrol-and-diesel-cars-20-ti...

> Only 23 fires were reported in electric vehicles in 2022 making up just 0.004% of Sweden’s fleet of 611,000 EVs.

> In contrast, over the same period, some 3,400 fires we reported in 2022 from Sweden’s 4.4 million petrol and diesel cars representing 0.08% of the fossil car fleet.

> This means that in 2022 a petrol or diesel car in Sweden was around 20 times more likely to catch fire than an electric vehicle.

> Furthermore, fires in electric cars are declining. The MSB says the number of fires in electric cars has been around 20 a year over the last three years, although the number of electric cars over that tie has almost doubled. Presumably, this is due to EV makers improving fire suppressing designs in newer models.

I’ve not seen any stats about parked vs driving. Given that ICE car fires are exceedingly rare it’s probably worth worrying about other things.
they're out of ideas ... better to bring back the classics (it's kinda working for Hollywood). Give me the G4 cube but with the M series chips -- it'll work this time. Give me the lampshade Mac, the colorful g3 iMac, etc etc
I think these systems are bad and I think vehicle manufacturers piping data directly to insurance companies should be illegal whether you consent or not. That being said, "but privacy" has always struck me as a weird argument.

There is no reasonable expectation of privacy when a vehicle with a particular license plate is at a particular intersection or on a particular public street. Some jurisdictions extend some privacy rights to whether or not a particular person is driving it but many don't.

So when it's in public, the location of your car is not "private" information. How is acceleration, braking, or other engine telemetry data private?
A soldier died in Iraq in 2008 because a water pump wasn't grounded.

https://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/27/military.electrocutions/
I moved almost all of my physical media videodiscs (DVD/Blu Ray) to the "cat room" in my other house

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/112780806461056458

(at this point the videos are stacked on the shelf underneath the camera) and what I came to realize is that I'm never going to watch most of these movies ever again. Right now I am planning to move Bob B to a spray-resistant room in my main house which means moving my photography studio into the current "Cat Room" and I am not sure if I am moving most of my videos to the other house or if I'll just sell or donate most of them.

(Note I started out with books in the cat room but after the first spraying incident I took them out and moved in the rest of the videos but (1) I don't care if an old copy of Frozen gets sprayed on, and (2) I can clean the case or shuck it in a worst case scenario)
It's probably not the designers. In my experience, the pushback is something like

"I know it doesn't make sense, but the VP wants this so just make it happen"
I agree that cost is a factor, but cheap is really only one of many factors being optimized. The actual cheapest design is often some organic looking design that comes out of software optimizer, but you lower risk by using proven designs.
How do they force their views on you against your will? Can't you ban them or not use the site?
We loved to get my high school physics teacher off on tangents by asking questions about weird things or stories about how he almost died or something
"What would you say you [x.ai] do here?"

Run the hardware?
https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spc3.124...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/014829...

It has been long regarded as pseudoscience
That's not how I read it:

“Through a partnership with Microsoft, Kroger plans to place cameras at its digital displays, which will use facial recognition tools to determine the gender and age of a customer captured on camera and present them with personalized offers and advertisements on the EDGE Shelf.”

Then in the next paragraph:

“EDGE will allow Kroger to use customer data to build personalized profiles of each customer … quickly updating and displaying the customer’s maximum willingness to pay on the digital price tag—a corporate profiteering capability that would be impossible using a mere paper price tag,” they wrote.

That's exactly dynamic pricing save that the driver is not external factors (weather, proximity to Thanksgiving) and the price is not universal. It's adjusting the displayed price of an item based on the identity of the person looking at it to target a specific price to an identified consumer. A very fine-grained value of 'dynamic'.
The restricted and prohibited categories have certainly been liberalised a lot recently, but it definitely hasn’t been trimmed down to only free-speech related categories.

https://english.shanghai.gov.cn/en-EstablishaCompany/2023120...

I’m not sure how you’d connect mining, energy, health care, transport, agriculture, or quite a few of those categories to free speech.

> While I indeed don't feel safe about the law protection. I wonder have you actually tried to setup a business in China?

Yes, I’ve been involved in a couple of WOFEs and quite a few JVs. I’ve worked on and off with companies doing business in China for the past 20 years or so. Access to legal protections has improved somewhat, but it’s been a (sometimes very serious) issue for many of the people I’ve worked with.
Who is this "mjd" guy who keeps talking about himself in the third person? Mason-Jominus Dark?
I didn't mean to imply I thought you were lying; I just don't think it's representative of the rate of that happening, so it's a bit weird to present it as, like, 'what can happen if you wear contacts'.
This is after the "ice age", meaning after the glacial period. The Younger Dryas was a period during the current inter-glacial where temperatures went down a great deal for a while -- a mini ice age within an inter-glacial period.
I assume yes considering much of HFT is measured in ns.
> I'm actually shocked the author had to go and buy a can of it.

Some fancy people are on the Ballistol team, I'll have you know!
Hey, I think this is a cool idea and looks like it could save a lot of time. It seems like an issue with these apps is that it's hard to determine sugar & oil content. Do you have a way of reducing this kind of uncertainty?
Who needs to waste time with manuals when you can just Google what you want to do and watch a teenager deliver a three-minute monologue with 15 seconds of actual (but incorrect) content?
Part of it is that rendering with triangles has been the standard for so long that it’s interesting to see an approach that uses a different primitive.

And the topic hasn’t been fully explored yet so there’s a lot of low hanging fruit
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
> contempt mingled with envy (paraphrase)

I reckon that's a good tell, even today.
It's illegal because GM sending this data to insurance companies without explicitly user consent violates Texas law.

Protected class has nothing to do with it.
Do you think those who immediately denounce Grok's ability to do this would make the distinction, or care?
I've got some Moutai Prince, it tastes pretty unusual to me
I guess it is umami-ish. Anyone got any recommendations for
other Baijiu?
As with the likely false claim about a DDoS attack during a recent political rally on X [1] the claim of "guardrails" from this group warrants suspicion. Could be similar to Tesla FSD, where the philosophy is 'we tried to make it safe but we're actually still testing and yes injuries will occur.'

[1] https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-donald-trumo-x-spaces...
If push comes to shove, we already have all the cryptographic primitives needed to produce and disseminate trustable imagery.

However, society at large doesn't actually care.
Not sure it is fully identical, but you can purchase peanut powder in stores. It is effectively powdered peanut butter. Tastes fine, but it seems like it would be tough to make a meal out of it. More a supplemental protein source you can mix into other foods. I last bought some years ago, but a tub of the stuff was very affordable.
Is capitalism making you lonely? (2024)
*formerly

Formally means the opposite, and I had to check the article to check what you meant.
I've not made any claims that science is the only path to truth. But we are talking in the context of scientific domains of physics and cosmology, so using science as a benchmark is probably apt. If you want to discuss philosophy, that's all well and good but probably more appropriate for a different thread.

And I'll help you: I acknowledge there is plenty of room for error on my behalf. I also acknowledge there is probably plenty of value in things that can't be measured by science, but I'm not sure they belong in the topic of physics or cosmology. However, I don't think the wordsmithing is the way to illuminate error in the context of this discussion. It seems to fall into the realm of modern philosophy that is more about arguing words in the vein of trying to be smart, instead of good.
It's a computing device you pay to use.
Access the function return value in C++ scope guard
Because you are already a donor?
> Banning books

I don't see how comments saying that are accepted here. Everyone knows that no books are being banned anywhere in the country. You can go to a bookstore or web site and buy whatever books you want. They can be bought in public or delivered to your home. Publishers can publish whatever they want. The First Amendment protects authors, publishers, and readers.

Meanwhile, in the UK, if you share a message consisting entirely of a couple of emojis on Facebook, you can be sentenced to 2 months in jail, being convicted and sentenced in merely 3 days.

Yet people here continue to make accusations of "banning books." I hope that the Internet enables humanity to eventually "graduate" out of this state in which we have infinite access to information yet consume enormous amounts of propaganda.
Are appliances such as toasters considered a culinary utensil?

Kitchen Utensil appears to be defined as `A kitchen utensil is a small hand-held tool used for food preparation.`[1]. Perhaps you don't actually need to submerge electronic appliances in water...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_utensil
The whole point of the piece is that while it claims in text to have these restrictions, it freely generates images which violate them.
The article claims these are just AI hallucinations and not actual rules. It will rephrase them and change the rules if you ask it different ways.

You’d know that if you even glanced at the article.
He mentions that the CEO of his hospital was there and accepted his suggestion to reorganize the CT scan flow. That shows a level of trust and flexibility that's not common in large organizations.
Some other possible sources of environmental contaminants in the Moncton area:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/canadas-use-of-chemical-weapon...

During the war in Vietnam, the US tested agents orange, blue, and purple at CFB Gagetown. A 1968 U.S. Army memorandum titled “defoliation tests in 1966 at base Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada” explained: “The department of the army, Fort Detrick, Maryland, has been charged with finding effective chemical agents that will cause rapid defoliation of woody and Herbaceous vegetation. To further develop these objectives, large areas similar in density to those of interest in South East Asia were needed. In March 1965, the Canadian ministry of defense offered Crops Division large areas of densely forested land for experimental tests of defoliant chemicals. This land, located at Canadian forces base Gagetown, Oromocto, New Brunswick, was suitable in size and density and was free from hazards and adjacent cropland. The test site selected contained a mixture of conifers and deciduous broad leaf species in a dense undisturbed forest cover that would provide similar vegetation densities to those of temperate and tropical areas such as South East Asia.”

New Brunswick oil and natural gas history:

https://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/Corporate/pdf/ShaleGas/e...
Not saying glyphosate isn't the problem, but 15,000 times the lowest detectable amount doesn't really say how high it is.

Maybe the test is really sensitive?
Maybe farmers in non-cluster areas also have similar levels?
What about the average? The highest was 15k times the minimum detectable, were the rest 5 on a scale of 100k? Were the rest higher than random people from elsewhere in the world?

Seems to be reporter bias in that bit of the article.
I think there's some pre-existing crossover with the projects (e.g. Spritely/Ocapn's Syrup serialisation format is a version of Syndicate's Preserves)
https://preserves.dev/
https://gitlab.com/spritely/syrup
The Solar City investor fraud, for which 4 of his cohorts settled in a lawsuit against.
Without a control group, this information is little more than a hunch - and the article clearly states so immediately after.

While I'd like to see this angle investigated, pretending that this is a conclusion is not really useful. That area has also been used for testing multiple chemical agents with dubious health effects in the past.
> Dr. Greg Neyman, a resident a year ahead of me in residency, had done a study on the use of ventilators in a mass casualty situation. What he came up with was that if you have two people who are roughly the same size and tidal volume, you can just double the tidal volume and stick them on Y tubing on one ventilator.

This technique was later applied during the COVID-19 pandemic, when ventilators were in high demand and short supply.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-risky-hack-could-double...
-Addgene's articles: https://blog.addgene.org/
-The Bumbling Biochemist's youtube videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChzTIByeodToYsKiNiwKQrw
-(There are a lot of other good Youtube channels)
-ChatGPT is solid for answering fundamentals questions, but don't go off the beaten path.
- The easiest to follow protocols are the ones in the official kit/reagent etc manuals.

You will likely need to spin up a LLC or similar (Do a nonprofit if you want access to AddGene plasmids, which is a great resource), and a business address; the UPS store can provide those.

Look at eBay, and the Chinese vendors on Amazon and Ali for equipment. Initial costs will be significant, but doable.
This is true especially if you are deploying custom or fine-tuned models. Infact, for my company i also ran benchmark tests where we tested cold-starts, performance consistency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness for models like Llama2 7Bn & Stable Diffusion across different providers - https://www.inferless.com/learn/the-state-of-serverless-gpus... Can save months of evaluation time. Do give it a read.

P.S: I am from Inferless.
i think the most diffuculty would be the task of prepping a crumpled up ball of several articles of clothing, to ready for folding, individual articles, and all whilenot tearing it to rags.

perhaps if the clothing was hung to begin with rather than hoppered.

a piece of clothing hanging straight would be easier to fold, but the entire scheme would require more space for typical laundry loads.
A neat list, but there is a bias toward authors who published one controversial (and not necessarily good) argument that got a ton of rebuttals. Williamson is the worst offender.
I don't think that cryptography can solve the problem of trustable imagery. What sort of system can do that?
The reason the Shaggy defense doesn't work is the default assumption of the courts is that you're a deadbeat trying to game the system. This assumption comes about because in the majority of cases it is the truth. The system would be a lot nicer if there weren't people trying to scam it every hour of every day of the week.
Run Diablo Inside Your Web Browser
I’m curious about this.. I’m in the middle of nowhere, 2 miles from nearest mast and home internet is a Zyxel NR5103E 5G Router on Three.. I get near as dammit 1Gb down/50Mbps up with 20ms ping, for £15 a month..
This is how medium blogs look like. I can’t believe people still post there https://imgur.com/a/2PpS14h
Do you really think you want live in a world where people can do whatever they want on their computers?
A deadly new strain of mpox is raising alarm
You too can be a data broker!

for (i = 0; i < 900000000; i++)
insert(first: random_firstname(), last: random_lastname(), ssn: i);

Does anyone really really care if the name is accurate if the SSN is present? More than half of the SSNs in the above dataset are valid.
Just keep querying all free AI services as much as they allow – the energy costs will sort things out.
One thing not mentioned in the article is that apparently someone manually switched the sprinkler off shortly after the automatic system detected sign of fire. Of course it's hard to know if a functioning sprinkler system would have prevented the disaster, but it's likely that it would have reduced the damage.

It's apparently a thorny issue because residents lost a lot of money (I heard some people can't even get back to their homes because we don't know if the building is structurally safe after the fire), and if it turns out the manual intervention fanned the fire, it affects who is legally liable.

Considering Korea's safety culture, I wouldn't be surprised if some low-level maintenance guy pressed the shut-down button without thinking, because otherwise he would get yelled for making the parking lot wet.
remings me of https://90s.myretrotvs.com/
Can someone add some context here? What does this translate to for the future of semiconductor tech?
the race detector ( -race ) only detects races that actually occur. If they don't happen, then it doesn't detect them.
The X.ai announcement page states “At the time of this blog post, it is outperforming both Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4-Turbo.”

But that is against one benchmark. Has anyone tested it for coding tasks and if so, what is your experience?
First engine in history without cylinders/pistons: Turns on its own without fuel
Even before Photoshop, photographs could be altered and airbrushed. Even so, faking a convincingly realistic image in Photoshop takes effort. Generating a plausibly realistic image using Stable Diffusion requires almost no effort whatsoever, just access to a GPU. This is a significant change.
Autocorrect…
You're onto something: Very early blogs around the millennium where often build around very short paragraphs; not big articles. Take a look at these; if one squints those looked far more like later Twitter streams:

https://web.archive.org/web/20020603092331/http://www.kottke...

http://scripting.com/2001/09/11.html (Every paragraph is in effect an "entry")

Then in the early 2000s blogging resulted in a style with longer articles instead of paragraphs. In the middle 2000s a "retro" style begun with far shorter and differentiated entries, the so-called tumblelog:

https://kottke.org/05/10/tumblelogs

The original Tumblr may have been inspired by this, if not just the name.

And then Twitter and other social media arrived on the scene and ate everything. :/
Google Pixel Buds Pro 2
For access to a model that is freely available with fewer guardrails. It’s a tool for people who don’t know what they’re doing.
How do you figure out how to build an AI app?
Hi,
I'm a software engineer interested in building an AI app. I have a degree in Computer Science so I know how to code. But I'm faced with two problems so I hope I can get some advice.

1. I have never had experience in building an app or anything outside of class projects. I'm good at solving problems when the problems are well-defined and all the resources (such as coding environment) are provided to me. I have a general idea of what product to build, but I don't know where to start. I tried to google search questions such as "what tools to use for backend or front end" but there are so many options and all the information is very scattered. I'm not sure how I can start with actually writing the code for the app.

2. I have theoretical knowledge in AI, such as what a transformer model is. But when it comes to a specific ML problem, such as building an agent that can teach blah blah, I'm stuck. There are so many open ended questions such as collecting the right data, choosing the right model to train etc. I feel there is a big gap between what I know and applying what I know to actually implement something or solve an open-ended problem

I really admire those who teach themselves how to code and build amazing apps. I don't know how they did that. For those of you who had such experience, could you share how you figure out the two problems I mentioned above? I'd really appreciate your help!
I saw this years ago. What strikes me is even though the author tries, it seems to me it has many stereotypes in it. Probably due to the year it was published (1941). So back then it probably got its point across fine.
The model seems to just ve Flux, but yes Flux is a lot less neutered than recent model releases (ahem, poor dead SD3).

It’s pretty amazing really. I made my company mascot doing a bunch of funny things and it nailed it almost every time.
> way harder to control

I always question how easy it is to control an ICE car fire. Everyone always says this like it’s a piece of cake, yet here is a diesel (!) car on fire that couldn’t be put out with two fire extinguishers and ended up burning down the whole car park.

https://youtu.be/ccF4xOk5ruY?si=jLjXNSZzr5HvGp2a
Inflation does not imply economic growth in real terms.
Curious how others feel about this narrative. As an SI we see the pain isolated systems cost businesses and the great deal of money required to make them fit into a larger ecosystem. That said as a rippling customer, their breadth and lack of depth is constantly on display. We’ve had several challenges with there “secondary” services. It costs money to be good at everything, my feeling is this style of getting off the ground is just as much a capital constraint as it is a revenue/gtm one.

He’s got a good valuation going selling ideas and figuring out how to implement later though…
The rule doesn't seem to be about enforcing nature conservation (what we typically associate with natural parks), but rather to avoid breaking the outward appearance of the buildings.

Surely if you are able to install an AC with a more discreet condenser unit, it should be ok.
It's funny how transparent LLM writing is, I hope it stays that way.
had to log in to try it but pretty impressive
I know it is anecdotal, but I am just glad you didn’t get to experience the Uber ride I took from JFK to Dumbo earlier this year. It was around 1.5 hours of the driver trying to talk to me about Putin actually being a 5D chess mastermind and other conspiracy tier garbage after finding out that I was russian. Yeah, thanks, I will take Waymo to avoid listening to that or deal with the awkwardness of having to ask the driver to stop talking (which I didn’t do because it felt rude).

And while I agree that drivers here seem to be less inclined to talk than on west coast, I still occasionally get drivers who facetime the entire ride on the loudspeaker or watch videos on their phone mounted on the dashboard (while barely paying attention to the road).

Not even mentioning some of the stories my friends who are women told me about their uber/lyft experiences.
Yep cryptography solves trust, that’s why we don’t need CAs.
Help me find a buyers guide for WiFi routers
I think i found something like this here not so long ago. It basically said that mesh routers are not so good, and access points are better.