skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two logical problems with what you've written here.

1. You're counting "our day job" as one task, while counting all individual prompts an AI can answer as each being their own task. This is obviously misleading (and I could just as easily perform the same compression in the opposite direction - chatbots can only do one task: "be a chatbot").

2. You're not controlling for training. It's already meaningless to compare the intelligence of one entity trained to do a task with another entity that was not trained to do that task.

But even ignoring those fallacies, what you've written here is still not true. 99% of things an LLM could supposedly "out-perform" a human at, the human would actually outperform if you provided that human with the same text resources the LLM used to conjure its answer. Regurgitating facts is not evidence of intelligence, and humans can do it easily (and do it without hallucinating, which is key) if you just give them access to the same information.

But when you go in the opposite direction, achieving parity is no longer so simple. When LLM's fail to do math, fail to strategize, fail to process rules of abstract games, etc. there is no textbook or lecture or article you can provide to the LLM that magically makes the problem go away. They are fundamental limitations of the AI's capabilities, rather than just a result of not possessing enough information.

What many people don't seem to realize is, when merely getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth you are already exercising more intelligence than any AI has ever possessed. (Anyone who has ever worked in robotics or visual processing can attest to that enthusiastically.) So don't even get me started on actual critical thinking.
If you have tried to use a search engine to look anything up in the last few years you have seen AI generated articles that aimlessly meander for paragraphs without providing an actual answer to your question.

Those answers were previously (occasionally)contained within succinct articles written by someone who did some research or was an SME.

Maybe it was the case that content farms were degrading the ability for information to be found on the internet, but AI has basically dropped a nuke on search results.

It is a wasteland and nothing is alive there.
Lidars are expensive, if you want spare point clouds, that are not quite real time you might want to check out colmap https://colmap.github.io/
And that’s the way it *should* be.

When Steven Harper unilaterally attempted to empower private data to be offshored, it would have been an absolute nightmare.

North American security is bad enough as it is. Imagine handing all your health, credit card, government information over to a Nigerian prince just for free.
I can't tell if techies have fused rose-colored glasses to their faces or if they really think the people who win are nice people who follow rules!
This happened to me when I updated MS Authenticator after not updating it for a while. It wiped out all data, and I got locked out of all accounts. MS Authenticator is not a carefully written product.
Yes but as I said, I’m personally less concerned about a successful phishing attack. I can see why you might be concerned as an employee to a multi billion dollar business but attacks on my personal safe are unlikely to be sophisticated enough to fool me / I’m not a target for sophisticated ones. UX vs threat model tradeoff.
The problem is people at large companies creating these AI models, wanting the freedom to copy artists’ works when using it, but these large companies also want to keep copyright protection intact, for their regular business activities. They want to eat the cake and have it too. And they are arguing for essentially eliminating copyright for their specific purpose and convenience, when copyright has virtually never been loosened for the public’s convenience, even when the exceptions the public asks for are often minor and laudable. If these companies were to argue that copyright should be eliminated because of this new technology, I might not object. But now that they come and ask… no, they pretend to already have, a copyright exception for their specific use, I will happily turn around and use their own copyright maximalist arguments against them.

(Copied from a comment of mine written more than two years ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33582047>)
I‘d also like to know.
I have yet to run into anything Node can’t handle
It’s more of a tongue in cheek laying out the consequences of the student who leaked.
Apple effectively fixed the UX issues, so we’re just waiting for the future to be evenly distributed.
Same. 3 personal accounts use the same email address. Two of them are FAANG and it all seems to fine (for going on a decade)
So the answer is not Jax?

Because JAX is not designed around a mature compiler stack. The history of Jax is more so that it matured alongside the compiler...
There was a scheduler bug in the early Ryzen days that got fixed, this will too.
Addressing Dementia Risk Factors Could Reduce Dementia Rates by 45 Percent
Doesn’t signal have pretty restrictive size limitations or does this not apply to note to self?
Batteryless OP-1
> if you want a non-Python runtime for some reason [...]

Magic Wormhole project has its own alternate implementation https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole.rs, which is also used by delightfully designed GNOME and Android apps; [Warp](https://apps.gnome.org/Warp/), and [Wormhole](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.heili.wormh...), respectively.
I read once that a passenger in his cab told him "You have the same name as a very famous composer."
> the kind of predictions humans are extremely bad in the first place? most people cant even grok anything beyond basic math.

We use reasoning/planning all the time in everyday settings - it's not just for math or puzzle solving. Anytime you have to pause for a second to wonder how to do something, or what to say, as opposed to acting or speaking reactively, that's reasoning/planning being used.

Reasoning/planning is a key part of intelligence and why evolution has equipped us with large costly brains - so that we can survive and thrive in varied environments and in novel situations, per our species' adaptation as generalists. Human's are extraordinarily good at reasoning - if you want an example of an animal that can't then a cow or croc would be a better example!
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The protocol enumerates all the IPv4 addresses on each side, and attempts to connect to all of them, and the first successful handshake wins.

So if your VPN arrangement enables a direct connection, `wormhole send` will use that, which will be faster than going through the relay (and cheaper for the relay operator).

A basic VPN gets you safe connectivity between the two sides, but transferring a file still requires something extra, like a preconfigured ssh/scp account, or a webserver and the recipient running `curl`/`wget`. magic-wormhole is intended make that last part easy, at least for one-off transfers, just `wormhole send FILENAME` on one side, and `wormhole receive [CODE]` on the other.
If/when cheap enough, even non-phone devices (POS terminals, vending machines, etc) will have cameras; will living in a camera-free environment become the premium feature?
> I truly believe that Bitcoin is the sanest money that exists today

Even though it contaminates the atmosphere by using insane amounts of energy to generate?
Lol why was this downvoted? It's the most accurate comment here.
Organic Maps Removed from the Google Play Store
The Swindling Geologist
I also try to make maybedo-plus-fun-first-step so I get inspired by a concrete task next time I see this item. Otherwise the list increase anxiety.
I like icinga's model, which can run a small agent on the server, but it doesn't run as root. I grant specific sudo rules for checks that need elevated permissions.

I find it easier to write custom checks for things where I don't control the application. My custom checks often do API calls for the applications they monitor (using curl locally against their own API).

There are also lots of existing scripts I can re-use, either from the Icinga or from Nagios community, so that I don't write my own.

For example, recently I added systemd monitoring. There is a package for the check (monitoring-plugins-systemd). So I used Ansible to install everywhere, and then "apply" a conf to all my Debian servers. Helped me find a bunch of failing services or timers, which previously went un-noticed, including things like backups, where my backup monitoring said everything was OK, but the systemd service for borgmatic was running a "check" a found some corruption.

For logs I use promtail/loki. Also very much worth the investment. Useful to detect elevated error rates, and also for finding slow http queries (again, I don't fully control the code of applications I manage).
Nope, it does sync in the background, just few minutes ago I had a notification that it synced.
Java and Spring = an effort multiplier. It makes you spend more effort to obtain the same you would with other tech stacks.

Massive amounts of boilerplate and slow build times.

There are better ideas out there.
This is quite amazing that using a diffuser rather than a lens, then using a diffusion model can reconstruct an image so well.

The downside of this is that is heavily relies on the model to construct the image. Much like those colorisation models applied to old monochrome photos, the results will probably always look a little off based on the training data. I could imagine taking a photo of some weird art installation and the camera getting confused.

You can see examples of this when the model invented fabric texture on the fabric examples and converted solar panels to walls.
That could be due to Intel’s decline, not necessarily the security of Israel.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/intel-halting-25-b...
It may have ended up in more than doubling the sqft housing per person, increased cost of paying for the negative externalities resulting from the altered system, better technology for the rich/poor alike, etc.
It would have been appropriate for another wealthy person
to just buy the museum out entirely / pay the ones closing it down /
and reopen it.

Preferably then donated the entire collection to some
non-profit or whatever other way to organize. and
include some clause that selling them off is not possible.

That person being Gates would have made sense.
But obviously this did not happen.

As philanthropy.
When python is not installed already (Windows pretty much) or the computer is the destination, I prefer https://github.com/sigoden/dufs, a single binary supporting uploads, folder .zip download, and even webdav
I would certainly hope not, depending on the implementation it would be placing critical keys in the hands of an unknown/untrustworthy third party. The alternative is to manage the key infrastructure as a company which brings its own overheads, so the most obvious implementation goes back to WebAuthn.
You two are funny. Looks a bit like good cop, bad cop.

Informative, though!
It was a bit of an overstatement but second part of the comment stands.
I just put my running-out items on the entryway table.
In mobile it's impossible
Has it ever happened, even once? Can you cite something? I'm genuinely curious. Also genuinely skeptical.
SiFive debuts P870-D RISC-V core for datacenters
https://mobiussync.com/
With Icinga, for webservers:

- apt status (for security/critical updates that haven't been run yet)

- reboot needed (presence of /var/run/reboot-required)

- fail2ban jail status (how many are in each of our defined jails)

- CPU usage

- MySQL active, long-running processes, number of queries

- iostat numbers

- disk space

- SSL cert expiration date

- domain expiration date

- reachability (ping, domain resolution, specific string in an HTTP request)

- Application-specific checks (WordPress, Drupal, CRM, etc)

- postfix queue size
That’s not possible with words. My 12 yo daughter’s essay was marked as 80% AI written when I watched her write it.
I’ve just finished reading "The Immune Mind" by Dr Monty Lyman, and I can recommend it if you’d like to dive deeper into how our mind, body and gut are all different parts of the same defense system. One imbalance in one area can affect the immune system overall. Very enlightening and made me took my chronic stress a lot more seriously.
this is why libertarians want as little state as possible, because states are the only actors that would actually prevent you from doing these kinds of things and get away with it, it's absolutely infuriating
Or Obsidian Rings of the Zodiac!
Yep. If you try looking at new dating apps, the main complaint from users as they leave negative reviews is this: "I couldn't find anyone in my area. There were 3 profiles in my area and that was it."

I think that's why a lot of dating apps start out as regional, often niche focus, and slowly expand out. They know that they'll be review bombed with negative reviews like the above if they try to do a national/worldwide launch.
Propaganda feels a bit harsh. It's a pro-business article from an Israeli business periodical, so there's definitely bias at play, but I don't think any of the information presented is especially misleading.

The article is pretty clear about the genesis of the project, that the division exists because ARM bought an Israeli company nearly 10 years ago. I'd love to know more about the competitive advantages that basing the company in Israel provides, but I'm not really expecting that from a business mag filler piece.
Not bad. I forgot about the view solution. So thanks for remembering me.

I haven't worked with this approach. But I might give it a try.
What does any of this have to do with automation?
There is no camera. It is just a diffusion model trained on a big set that tries to reconstruct the picture. Essentially this is not much different from what Samsung did with their AI-enhanced camera that detected a moon and replaced that with high-resolution picture.
> A company having a monopoly in the regular market doesn't really matter for employment: if you're terrible to your employees, it's not your customers you have to fear, it's the employees. They will leave and no new ones will join and you won't be doing any business if you don't have any employees to actually do the work you'll get paid for.

Depends on the situation I suppose. If there's only one bakery corporation in your country and you're a baker, you can either work there, learn a new job or leave the country. It's a bit orthogonal for sure, but competition for talent is vital for good conditions for workers. Plus, a monopoly doesn't have to provide a good product or service, they just use their power to stifle competition. Suddenly their need for competent staff is greatly reduced.

> But that's quite literally what insurance is made for. The only difference is that insurance adds some amount of accountability

In my book, insurance is for unlikely, expensive events. In Germany for example, if an employee is sick for more than six weeks, the company no longer pays their salary, the health insurance takes over. It's likely that an employee is sick for a couple of days, not a case for insurance. Just how it's likely that an employee will want some vacation, also not a case for insurance.

I could however picture a system where companies only pay for the work employees actually do, and the funding for paid time off and sick days comes from some other source. Sounds intriguing. I believe everybody should be able to take some time off work for leisure and sickness, I see that as a human right. How exactly that's achieved, I'm personally very flexible there.
That is true for non-Tesla charging stations, but it's false for Tesla charging stations:

* Avg uptime for Tesla "Supercharger" stations is close to 100%.

* Avg uptime for all Tesla charging stations is around 96%.

Sources:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a44405743/tesla-ev-charger...

https://electrek.co/2024/08/14/tesla-dominates-charging-expe...

https://insideevs.com/news/664737/tesla-superchargers-averag...
*chutzpah
Something similar happened to me about a year ago when the Google Authenticator app automatically updated to a new version. I lost all my accounts in the update process. Definitely learned a few lessons there.
Adding a new smart person to the team is one of those golden moments for a team, IMO. You get a tiny window of watching them struggle until the tribal team knowledge seeps into them by osmosis. During that time they don't yet know who to ask the questions to directly so they will post to team slack channels or the lead directly.

One must capitalize on this brief period because smart programmers are flexible and adaptable. Very quickly they will acclimatize themselves to the mess that surrounds them and they will become as blind to the deficiencies as the rest of the team.
> Relatively few budding artists can count on private patronage or government sponsorship, and both of these come with plenty of strings attached.

It follows that mass-AI adoption should tilt the creative economic model more towards state-funding, ideally supported by a tax on AI usage. (i.e. taxing and reallocating some of the value saved by using it, to redress the things it's probably destroying)
I have being using Claude 3.5 as a reading companion with which/whom I can have a surprisingly intelligent conversation on topics that are new to me or well known. It adds an interactive conversation to reading. Who is going to indulge me in a conversation at 11 PM on some abstruse text I happen to be reading? Claude! Yes, frequent errors but if I give a quote or screen shot then smart rebuttals or extensions. This makes my thinking sharper and learning much more fun.
Have a creative outlet.
This is exactly my feeling. I'm not interested in listening to AI music, or reading AI prose or poetry. I'm not even a fan of todays CGI in movies, it's just too unbelievable. I'd rather be impressed by real stunt actors, model builders, lighting and sound engineers, and a good director behind the cameras.
Anyone know how this compares to GROBID [1]? I'm looking at alternatives to GROBID as I'm not super pleased with its outputs. GROBID has a lot of great features for journal papers (reference extraction / parsing), but I'm only interested in cleanly extracting the body. Also considering nougat [2] but I haven't tried it yet.

[1] https://github.com/kermitt2/grobid

[2] https://github.com/facebookresearch/nougat
So you just get something based off GPS, time of day and rotation?

Or no photos anymore?
Well it solve basics problems like queuing and blob storage. For example, to achieve the same features as Queue Storage, you should use RabbitMQ or similar: in enterprise environment, it means multiple instances in high availability, maintenance, people to deploy it reproductibly…
You can spend 30 minutes in there pretty easy. I would say you could probably spend an hour in there if you tried a little bit. Lots of hot fresh food selections (Best known for their Brisket Sandwiches), lots of gas station food like chips, jerkey etc. Cold Drinks. tons of general merchandise things like T-shirts, Christmas decorations etc. They also have large, clean, well maintained bathrooms.

I've kinda figured that the basic business model is they offer just about everything you need and want if you are on a long car trip. Food, Drink, Gas, Clean Restrooms, a chance to stretch your legs for a little bit. And while you are stretching your legs they sell you a Bucee's Tshirt and tumbler.
I like LocalSend and Landrop. The latter performed better when I sent large files. However, neither of them does it automatically; you have to manually do it every time, which is okay since they don’t claim to be sync software.
As opposed to employed people, who live forever.
Your comment feels like a propaganda piece.
Where does it end?
Best thing I have read after a long time. Thank you!
In other words, you don't trust it with anything important.
You're definitely misremembering history, then. Hailing is certainly a "category definer", but what Uber was doing in the beginning was definitely not kosher in many US jurisdictions.

Ordering on-demand in an app was seen by regulators as much more taxi-like than scheduling a black car for a particular date, time, and place.

Uber was originally called "Ubercab", and changed their name specifically to attempt to distance themselves from traditional taxi service.
Major difference on who has the discretion
> ...e.g. could be $130-160k. We don’t just come out and say that, otherwise everyone will want the top end of the range, even if (in our opinion) their experience matches closer to the bottom or middle of the range.

I hope you can see the hypocrisy in this statement: you want the candidate to take on the risk you're unwilling to, in a situation where you hold all the cards.

What if a candidate said $110k? Would you still offer them $160k if you felt they were worth that? Or would you take advantage of this newfound information and offer them less than what you thought the job was worth to you?

Because of this - as a candidate - when someone asks me "what salary are you looking for?" it's an immediate turn-off for me. I pretty much refuse to answer the question or ask what the salary range is for the company.

My favorite thing that a company can do regarding comp is to publicly state what their roles, titles, and salary ranges for those are. Then specify in the job description what title they are hiring for and link to that information.

This absolutely is great for the already-working employees as well as candidates. Knowing what title I am, how much I can expect my compensation to be upon promotion, etc. is beneficial for everyone. You can also publicly state the trade-offs your company has chosen to make regarding compensation and attract candidates who appreciate those things.

Perhaps your base salary is lower than the norm, but you offer other things that make up for it. Examples of things worth more to me than base salary:

* More vacation time
* 100% remote
* 100% medical coverage
* 9+% 401K match
* ESPP, RSUs, ...
* Very short vesting times
* Paid child care (possibly on-site)

The list goes on. I guarantee - unless you are grossly underpaying your employees - that if you just publicly list title : salary, heavily promote your other benefits, and have recruiters link to that, you'll end up being much better off.
Yes - if you're want to further enrich PayPal Mafia et. al. and other bunch of golden billion elites [1], otherwise - No.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_billion
Right, it does the best it can given the limitations of iOS, but "not instantaneous" can mean hours before synchronisation happens. When the phone's charging, or when the app is open, then it does tend to work almost as well as on Android.
How is this news? Arm produces GPUs for many years.

Is it the “in Israel” bit?

https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-multimedia
An alternative that tends to be faster (note: I'm one of the authors) https://github.com/SpatiumPortae/portal
Movie Mistakes
It is also completely ignoring, like most "free speech on social media" proponents do, the fact that what we're talking about is not only free speech, but also free reach, that is, the ability for the algorithms of the platform in question to amplify your "free speech" so that it reaches far more people than it otherwise would were you merely saying it out loud, in person, with your mouth, or publishing it on a regular website.

Due to the above, I am adamantly against "free speech" in the context of algorithm-driven social media, and I wish that people complaining about being censored on social media would stop using the term, because they're (knowingly or not) conflating two very different ideas.
In particular, the ~6 TB of data the Stasi kept on the citizens of the DDR, which required a government department at 1970s prices, would now use less than USD 100 worth of disk space.

> "Every day, computers are making people easier to use." —In Formation magazine