skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am honestly not sure where this stands. If I am a third party and my equipment witnesses a crime (say, camera recording a murder in an alley), how keen are judges to force me turn over my equipment? What if I encrypt all of the footage? Can they also compel me to unlock it? That seems like 5th Amendment problem, but you are not self testifying and not under investigation.
There are jobs where producing a paper notebook is the primary deliverable. Fewer than there were, due to y'know, computers. But it still happens.

It's odd to describe that as confiscation. A lab notebook belongs to the lab, not the researcher, this is understood by both parties. They may or may not have permission to leave the lab with it, but making personal copies of the pages would be espionage.

It's perfectly reasonable to want comparable properties in a paper-replacing device. I can see where you might find that jarring if you haven't been exposed to work conditions where it's normal and expected.
People interested in this project might also be interested in Cloudflare's webrtc streaming service¹ as a cloud hosted solution to this same problem. "Sub-second latency live streaming (using WHIP) and playback (using WHEP) to unlimited concurrent viewers." Using the same OBS WHIP plugin, you can just point to Cloudflare instead. Their target pricing model is $1 per 1000 minutes.² Which equates to $0.06 per hour streamed.

¹ https://developers.cloudflare.com/stream/webrtc-beta

² https://blog.cloudflare.com/webrtc-whip-whep-cloudflare-stre...
One of the benefits of switching to any non-x86 platform would be forcing code to be cleaner and not have hidden assumptions about the platform and would thus be able to henceforth be easily compiled for any architecture. I'm sure there is some janky ARM-only cellphone software, but in the wider world it should a mistake we make again.
Good thing the oceans don’t care. The most viable routes are mostly oceanic. LA-Singapore could be done mostly supersonic and then slowed down once closer.
I don't think OP is really wrong here. Wasn't there a debate in the late 19th century that basically asked if math had to have some mapping to the natural world, or should it work independently? I though there was some argument about this with Hilbert and Poincaré about this, and Hilbert more or less won.
> it wasn't made during the nineteenth century

That's because people were totally focused on physics, and math was just a useful tool sometimes. Doing physics was the true goal and observation the final arbiter of truth.

Nowadays, that distinction is blurred but for the opposite reason; people think that anything conceived by sound math must be true, and observation has taken a back seat.
Interview with Joe Merrick (Serebii.net)
This reminds me about the Semantic Web, which was a movement explicitly about making the web more understandable to machines. I don't agree with the ideas and I think a lot of other people were also skeptical, but I bring it up to say that some people take the other side of your argument rather seriously and that there's a lot of existing debate on the topic. Here's Tim Berners-Lee talking about this way back in 1999:

> I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A "Semantic Web", which makes this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The "intelligent agents" people have touted for ages will finally materialize.

I quoted this from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web since the original reference was a book that is not openly accessible. Also I think it's funny that he's talking about agents in exactly the same way that people do now.
Google doesn't use any STUN/TURN servers I just went and confirmed. The following is the RTCPeerConfiguration used.

```

https://meet.google.com/***-***-\*\*, { iceServers: [], iceTransportPolicy: all, bundlePolicy: max-bundle, rtcpMuxPolicy: require, iceCandidatePoolSize: 0 },

```
I work on a graph-based library and regularly generate DAGs for analysis and debugging. I have been using graphviz/dot but it's just so damn frustrating. You have to jump through hoops to get the layout right. It would be nice if something as ubiquitous as graphviz had a dedicated rendering engine for DAGs which did moderately sane things like place root and tail nodes on the same rank without requiring me to figure out which nodes are and manually position them.
Showering is also a hassle. How far do you want to take this logic?
How much data do you need to fine tune an LLM?
As companies did with DevOps.
> According to internal documents reviewed by Ars, Relativity had difficulty printing pressure domes for the Terran R rocket.

This smells like the Titan submersible in spaaaaace!

Most metal 3d printers use some form of sintering which just is nowhere near as strong as hardened and welded metals. The availability of alloys is also much worse.

This sounds like a completely predictable problem that they’re only facing because of a stubborn insistence on using 3d printing for everything at first instead of dispassionately choosing the right technology.
I fell in love with this article at this sentence:

> Still. Many in the open source community have interpreted Red Hat’s decision for what it really was: A dick move.

I've had a short essay in draft for a while about the difficulty of a small business trying to make money using The Red Hat Model (https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2023-04-red-hat-model-only...). Red Hat seem like an outlier who're doing well with that model, but smaller places like Sidero or Bitfield had to find other ways to monetise their open source efforts, and sometimes that had pushback from the community.

Red Hat, though, were acquired by IBM, and IBM made it harder for an otherwise thriving ecosystem to exist. Not impossible, but harder. IBM makes money hand over fist (billions according to https://www.ibm.com/annualreport/). Was there really a reason to make Red Hat harder to redistribute? The interviews I've read come down to "our Red Hat team works hard and we don't want to give that away to low effort projects", though if you've got an interview with a different perspective I'd love to read it.
See Our mathematical universe : my quest for the ultimate nature of reality by Max Tegmark

https://archive.org/details/ourmathematicalu0000tegm
> Debian is a desktop operating system

I suspect Debian is used on more server installs than desktop ones. While it doesn't come with enterprise support options like RedHat it is most certainly used on servers, many of which are in corporate environments and are running multiple services (in containers often) or are otherwise multi-user.
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How would this compare to Rockwell 6S?
I hold myself to that standard but I also think that we should be tolerant of young children amongst us. We were all there once.
This is already the treatment given to out of tree kernel modules. Why not do the experiment out of tree?
I'd still at least try it. Sci Fi stuff in it is part of the charm, not the point. Maybe that's non-Stephensonian, I guess.
I am curious what the needs would be with regards to shaving?

It really does seem more like a personal choice, social norm dependent topic, like fashion or makeup.

Is there someone who need to shave fully for non cosmetic reasons?
The point is that the app displays data on the transaction. If the phishing site tries to trigger a hidden transaction (or modify one that you are entering), you can review amount, recipient, and description _on the app_.
> "Your physics lecturer sounds like a Platonist."

I don't understand what this means, but it made me envision a McCarthy-esque witch hunt for "Platonist and Platonist sympathizers" lurking amongst the faculty
Well sure, the company barely exists...
This is a little depressing, but I just realized if we ever have interplanetary war, we'll just push big space rocks into their orbit.
Video games and guns themselves being the cause of shootings are just typical unhealthy excuse making in order to avoid having to actually address the real issues that would require consequences or accountability for and by people who very much do not want any consequences or accountability to affect them in any way, whether that is individuals or groups.
Regardless, the Lenna picture used in the imaging industry doesn't include anything remotely pornographic because it only includes the top part of the original playboy picture. Tops not covering shoulders have been so common in the last 50 years it didn't occur to me it came from a nude photo until I read about its origin.
I didn't exactly rage quit but did think it was silly.

I wouldn't describe teal as blue or green any more than I'd describe purple as red or blue, so being forced to pick felt silly. Like being forced to choose my seventh favorite Norwegian glacier - technically its a valid question but my answer is necessarily going to be arbitrary.
this paper is far from “showing this definitively”

even if we bought this negative result as somehow “proving impossibility”, i’m not convinced plasticity is necessary for intelligence

huge respect for richard sutton though
>plenty of other countries that has "one of the strongest regimes for protecting expression in the world"

Name 3
Do you mean "renewable" gas? https://green-planet-energy.de/privatkunden/prowindgas

I can't find anything about "organic" gas, maybe your auto translate did a wrong thing?!
How many niche verticals SaaSes that raised like $200 million only to go to zero? Even if this can't beat OpenAI models a commodity LLM which is about as good (and they have proven that they can build) is probably worth close to the investment
After I decided to start shaving, I tried a few different razors. The benefit of the cartridge razor is that it requires less skill than the safety razor. The pivoting head puts it at the right angle every time. The downside, however, is the increased cost and packaging. There's also the problem that all the razor cartridges are proprietary and you need a new handle for each different blade set. I didn't like that,so I tried using the older safety razor that I had been using for trimming my neck when I had a beard. I ended up cutting myself a lot, especially around the chin. If that was what safety was, I'd shudder to see what I'd look like with a straight razor! I was still looking for something better, so after I had been brainwashed by YouTube sponsor segments for a few months, I finally caved and bought the Henson Razor in the hope its capabilities matched the advertisement. It's a finely machined safety razor, but the craftsmanship and tolerances aren't what separates it from the regular ones: it's the fact that they've designed it in a way that removes the skill requirements. The cutting angle is built in so you don't have to precisely control the pressure and angle of your cutting strokes. I was half expecting it to be a gimmick but I ended up falling in love with the design. I ended up buying a big sampler of razor blades and I've been enjoying trying all of them. Anyways, actually improving products are out there, you just have to look.
> I honestly don't see a market for "AI security".

I suspect there's a big corporate market for LLMs with very predictable behaviour in terms of what the LLM knows from its training data, vs what it knows from RAG or its context window.

If you're making a chatbot for Hertz Car Hire, you want it to answer based on Hertz policy documents, even if the training data contained policy documents for Avis and Enterprise and Budget and Thrifty car hire.

Avoiding incorrect answers and hallucinations (when appropriate) is a type of AI safety.
https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/04/03/build-i...
I meant dry skin with shaving cream on it. It hurts more than just wet skin in a hot shower
> We are talking about laptops. Not tablets.

I'd argue that the deficiencies in Windows as a laptop OS has led to some people choosing iPads and the like when they would've chosen a Windows laptop.

Obviously, a tablet and a laptop have divergent usecases, but there's some overlap. And for those consumers that exist in the overlap, I think many (maybe most?) would rather choose an iPad.

Microsoft kind of saw the writing on the walls with this and that's how we got the whole Windows 8 fiasco.
to each his own
This data is stored on a USB flash drive Tesla provides with the vehicle.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-3BCC07C...

> To protect your privacy, video recordings are saved locally to a formatted USB flash drive's onboard memory. Recordings are not sent to Tesla. Model 3 does not record videos when Dashcam is Off.
Almost like the case of constrained environments being a fertile ground for new creative solutions!
Not that I disagree with you, but I'd argue the most viable route would be one the Concorde already served: New York to London over the North Atlantic.
I wstched that show back in 2004 i think. For a year or so, i was hooked as a kid on.that show.

Never again watched it but that was a big science jump for me.

The thing is, i was a science kid from the start and discoverh and national geographic was amazing.

I remember watching a show "is.it real?" When i was like 7-10, not sure but one episode was about stigmata. Just random.thing i remember.

Then many years later, constantine movie i was watching on tv and i recognized the hand and said "thats stigmata".

Stuff like that happens with me daily. I like.it
> The Claude Enterprise plan offers an expanded 500K context window, more usage capacity, and a native GitHub integration so you can work on entire codebases with Claude.

Woah. This is huge! I thought their biggest models only offered 200k context windows?

Is this the first time we've seen an LLM provider put their newest/best models behind a SaaS wall before they make it available through API?
Is there a reason why I'd want to use Broadcast Box instead of mediamtx, which features RTMP, RTSP, WebRTC/WHIP, and (LL)HLS in a single small binary?
I've already had them in my lifetime!
Isn't this the guy who edited user comments?
I made the first version of this back in 2010, when Pearl's work on causal inference started impacting Epidemiology. A friend was an Epidemiologist and she told me about an MS-DOS program she was using to do something with graphs (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20010223/); she found it painfully slow and wondered if I could "make it more user-friendly".

I did my PhD in algorithms at the time and was intrigued when I started reading Greenland, Pearl, and Robins (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9888278/) and then Pearl's "Causality". I soon found that it was not obvious at all how you could speed up that MS-DOS program, and it led to a paper at UAI in 2011 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3764). I made dagitty as a demonstration that you could actually use the algorithms we developed in that paper, and it took off from there -- started with 10 users per day, growing to the hundreds and thousands as causal inference became more popular.

It's now a bit dated, and I don't have as much time anymore to keep it "fresh" as I would like. But I am still grateful and amazed at about how many people I got to know due to this. Highlights included collaborating with Pearl himself on a solution manual for his book "Causal Inference: A Primer" when it first came out, and so many e-mails I got out of the blue from users all over the world. Just last summer I stayed at the house of the author of one of the builtin examples in dagitty.

As these 14 years flew by, I now am happy to do play a small part in supporting the next generation of causal inference software -- if you're interested in causal inference, be sure to check out pgmpy.org, a Python library for Bayesian networks that includes several causal inference functions (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08639). Ankur, the author, did his PhD with me and will soon defend his thesis!

Also, R users, be sure to check out ggdag, a great package by Malcolm Barrett that wraps dagitty functionality in a much nicer and tidyverse-compatible way.
I don't think that's an accurate metaphor, given names are historically pure labels with no external semantic meaning. The direct comparison here is that a man could asked to be named "Karen" and that doesn't to me seem to cause any philosophical conflict. (Some people might not want to do it, but that doesn't mean they have a legitimate reason). (Although there must be some limit here as well, eg "the great and majestic Philip, he who we all aspire to be" surely must be agreed to be unreasonable.)

The difference with pronouns/gender is that they depend on and proclaim external facts. ("She" is used for women and by going by she, I am a woman.) And by asking someone else to say that I am a woman, then really, aren't I forcing someone to change their definition of "woman"/"man"? Why do I have the right to force someone to do that?

Out of curiosity, if someone asked you to use plural pronouns for them, would you? (This is hard to ask in English, because "your" is used for both singular and plural subjects, and "they" has also commonly been used for both singular and plural as well, but imagine) What about pronouns in other languages? Do you really think that in communication, the other speaker shouldn't have any say in any of this?

I don't appreciate comments that suggest that someone you're discussing is an "asshole" for doing something you disagree with and don't think that contributes to the conversation.
To some extent, observation has taken a back seat because we're at the point in our physics journey where we pontificate about things that are too small or too dark and far away to see. We simply can't observe this stuff anymore.
Wikidata SPARQL query service graph split
AppArmor is easier to understand because it is simply less restrictive, and in that way it is less effective solution. I would not call SELinux as poor design choice because of that. You can't do things with AppArmor that you can with SELinux.
I agree with the comment. Owner of the reMarkable 2. I also think that in this case making an open source ecosystem gives more business benefit for reMarkable because very soon they will disappear with the growing number of competitors (and new tech) arising.
As I don't have an Android eink device (I do have an Android phone and a Kobo with KOReader, for the record), I would like to know: have you tried (and what are your opinions on) any apps designed specifically for eink screens?

Thinking about EInkBro [0] as the browser or ReLaunchX [1] as the launcher, even KOReader as document reader.

[0] https://github.com/plateaukao/einkbro

[1] https://github.com/Leszek111/ReLaunchX
> Sidenote: I don't like the implication that community-driven projects are inherently less secure.

I don't like it either, but it may be true anyway. Although I don't think it would be resources so much as focus. The Debian community is not that small.
Do you use the find feature in your IDE? IE not find by reference, just text matching? That's the same as greppability.
Is that actually true?

If you mean "over the last 20 years", then no, they weren't even a governing party between 2005 and 2021.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Federal_Republic_of_Ge...

You're perhaps talking about the downstream effects of sunsetting nuclear energy but even since then, the ratio of renewable energy has only increased. So what do you mean exactly?

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
In the same vein as Vernor Vinge, I would recommend Stephen Baxter. Stephen's writing always gives me the same feeling as when I look at the stars at night and am reminded that where I am is just a small part of everything. The manifold trilogy as well as the long earth series he did with Terry Pratchett are very good. The first is not anthropocentric, which I found was a refreshing change.
It's a very weak loose statement, but I think the idea is that leading scientific and mathematical thinkers (think Newton as a quintessential example) were "natural philosophers" who studied whatever caught their interest and took it wherever it went. Astronomers invented lenses and ground them and studied the starts and developed algebra and calculus to model the observations.

Some people were more narrowly focused, like Gauss who did mostly math (but an amazing breadth of math!)

There was a lot of hesitancy about math that couldn't be empirically illustrated by building out of atoms, like irrational numbers and then transcendental numbers and imaginary numbers and then infinite structures.
Yeah, it's not clear what companies like OpenAI and Anthropic mean when they predict AGI coming out of scaled up LLMs, or even what they are really talking about when they say AGI or human-level intelligence. Do they believe that scale is all you need, or is it an unspoken assumption that they're really talking about scale plus some set of TBD architectural/training changes?!

I get the impression that they really do believe scale is all you need, other than perhaps some post-training changes to encourage longer horizon reasoning.
Maybe Ilya is in this camp, although frankly it does seem a bit naive to discount all the architectural and operational shortcomings of pre-trained Transformers, or assume they can be mitigated by wrapping the base LLM in an agent that provides what's missing.
I cant use disposable multi-blade razors for this exact reason.
Ilya's name might be the reason they got into the conversation about the money at the first place, but given that AI is very capital intensive business, $1B is not an insane amount imho. It will give him and the team a decent amount of time to do the research they want to do, without having the pressure of customers and what not.
App devs sell quality apps. Reddit sells eyeballs. Incentives aren't aligned. Also a lot of incompetence.
Yes, Nair - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nair_(hair_removal)

I've used it (on my legs, I'm a lady). It's expensive if you use it regularly and shaving is easier cuz you have to let the Nair sit on your skin for several minutes IIRC (it was 25 yrs ago).
They're using TSMC's fabs and putting the system RAM on-package, the same things that Qualcomm and Apple have done.
Someone out there apparently is in a hell of a hurry to get rid of all the pesky professionals who are standing in the way of their digital aspirations.

Little do they stop to consider the fact that most of the time they don't have an effing clue what they want until someone conceptualizes and builds it for them.

If I simply built what people asked for, as opposed to trying to understand their needs and problems, that would lead to very awkward situations once someone actually tried to use the system.