skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes feel like its a rough transcript of the audio or similar. Because not only is the response apparently natively audio, but I've often seen the text adhere to the audio only as a best effort rather than a full on accurate representation of the audio.
Show HN: Devai – Tool that makes AI do work for me [video]
For the past couple of week, I’ve been chatting with Jeremy Chone about his new open-source rust project, devai, and I think it’s the AI tool we’ve all been waiting for. Unlike other coding assistants that focus on chat, devai actually automates tasks with a clear, customizable workflow. It’s about getting AI to do the work for you, not just talk.

What’s cool is you define everything in markdown—input, behavior, output. It’s highly flexible and feels like a real step toward AI helping you write meaningful code, not just tossing suggestions.

The project’s early, but the potential is huge, probably extends far beyond coding.
> Valve is generously providing backing for two
critical projects that will have a huge impact on our distribution: a
build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave.

It sounds like Valve is investing in the security of Arch Linux's build infrastructure to prevent supply chain attacks.
Some time in the mid-1980s, at the proud age of someteen and three-quarters, I wrote a booth-style Ceefax emulator for my BBC Model B and demonstrated it at the local college’s computer club. The president of that club was a professor of electrical/electronic engineering named Harry White, who unbeknownst to me was also the director of exhibitions for Techniquest, a recently founded hands-on science education center in the nearby city of Cardiff. Harry had next to no budget and a pressing need to have exhibit-control software written, and offered me a part-time job whilst school was out. That was how I discovered people would give me money just for doing my hobby. Four decades later this is still the case. Thank you Ceefax, and thank you Harry.
Yea, I understand the limitations. TFA mentioned 6hr runtimes (rather than 15.5), which is more manageable. If you WFH I’d guess 2-3 is feasible at least 5 days a week. Of course, if the teletext requires a second run then that’s double time. I suspect any serious archival setup for this will eventually settle on multiple recording systems.

wrt to storage, I hope one is running a reasonably low res for this with some moderate compression. This is vhs after all…
[dupe]

More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41669912
No, the effect is amortized over everyone. If you elect to take $100 from half the country or give $100 to the other half it's pretty much exactly equivalent. We saw this experiment with COVID helicopter money causing inflation. You weren't seriously suggesting taxing or subsidizing only one person, were you?
I don’t think you and I disagree! I agree that Musk is being a hypocrite and that his actions are inconsistent both with (1) being a ‘free speech absolutist’ and with (2) allowing all legal speech.

But (2) is definitely not (1). He used to say he supported (1), now he says (2). I guess you could say that that isn’t retraction, and that he still claims he’s a free speech absolutist, but as much as I think he’s a hypocrite I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and allow him to change his mind.

It’s also legal to post flight tracker information, but Musk opposes that in contradiction to (2) as well. That’s also incredibly hypocritical.

I get the feeling you and many others didn’t finish reading my comment before concluding that I’m an Elon Musk fan when in fact I’m the opposite :P I’m guessing people stopped around the first quote, before I point out that what he’s doing here is also hypocritical: blocking documents on JD Vance while having been vocally against blocking documents on Hunter Biden.

Such is HN!
That’s how you get Skynet bros. AGI + military applications seems like the worst possible combo in the history of our species. Note that I’m not against the use of machine learning in military applications _so as long as it’s not smart enough to nuke its maker_. Which this has a potential to eventually be.
Art and Execution
Altman projects more Bankman-Fried vibes to me than Musk vibes.

A common sentiment about SpaceX and Musk is that the employees also believe in the mission of making space accessible and going to Mars. Musk has been consistent on that being SpaceX's eventual goal since founding it, and he stuck through it even when SpaceX was one failure away from missing payroll. All of his early employees still publicly support this mission, even after retiring or moving on to found their own space companies.

Altman comes off as a "say anything to keep the money flowing" type guy even to his own employees. The fractured leadership all seems to suggest that he can't even manage to convince the people who work with him the most that he actually believes in his oft-repeated lofty goals regarding AGI.
You can have that opinion. But for a creative person, any tool can be viable, and constraints often aid the creative decision-making process. Many artists are making use of these tools already across many mediums in order to create new sounds, imagery, 3d models from text, all sorts of things, and the people consuming it consciously are enjoying it.

If an artist enjoys using a tool to make something, and their patron enjoys the creative output, do you or I have any right to judge or admonish their process? Visionaries see what is possible, they don't spend their time critiquing things that aren't perfect and instead recognize and engage with novel, paradigm-shifting tools. I understand not wanting to interact with low-effort VC-driven bullshit, but there's a lot of amazing work being done in the open by scientists and enthusiasts.

The endgame, after these tools are developed and ironed out, will be a wealth of highly creative content like we've never experienced. We can shit on these tools or grab a shovel and try to improve them, which is what a huge community of people is doing right now despite the criticism.
Get good at spotting inconsistencies. And pay attention to when something contradicts your own experience. Cultivate a wide range of experiences so that you have more domains where you can do this (this is a good idea anyway).
What about whizzing on your hands because of your bad timing?
Oh, no, we don't use pick and place for micro LED. We use LASER-Induced Forward Transfer - ie we blast the LED straight off the wafer and onto the screen substrate and precision-align it with another aimed laser pulse.
>>>Your allowed nominative use and/or a software license does not give you *a license* to title your own services with their trademarks.

>>Citation?

>[academic paper by two lawyers in this space warning exactly that]

Farewell friend!
Although pre-cleaned data is often not reflective of reality and requires careful work to use, often requiring a lot more knowledge of the field.
A Cuttle project is — behind the scenes — a program. Each “component” is a function. “Modifiers” are functions that take input geometry (and parameters) and use JS code to create arbitrary output geometry. All of this code can be live edited.

At the same time you can do arbitrary “drawing” with a bezier pen tool and move/transform shapes. In this case you are essentially using the canvas drag-and-drop to manipulate literals in the program.

But fundamentally a Cuttle project is a program and the Cuttle Editor is an IDE that looks like a vector editor on the surface.

Because of this I’m not sure how much of Cuttle could be grafted onto a program whose architecture is more rooted as an editor of static vector graphics. I do know that Inkscape has some “live effects” which are similar to Cuttle’s “live” modifiers.

If you are interested in Cuttle’s architecture, I did a one hour walkthrough on this interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2el-85vG-IU
That's... very optimistic. What evidence until now exists points to that outcome? You don't think they'll prefer the lazy route of targeting the Chinese companies themselves to avoid the real conversation?
Of course GDP increases when the money supply does. It’s like people being incensed at “record corporate profits” amidst inflation - profits will always be record (give or take) because remaining the same is losing money relative to the free money being minted each day, etc. For whatever reason, people naively buy into GDP as a valuable metric, even knowing well that there would be something extremely mysterious going on if that number somehow shrank while the real value of the medium exchange also shrank
> There are 4 types of documentation, laid out on two axis:

> Learning vs. Doing
> Practical vs. Theoretical

-tutorials

-how-to guides

-discussions

-reference

https://docs.divio.com/documentation-system/
Sorry I meant if a bad calibration had sent the EQ off so a track sounds unusually loud relative to others via Airpods. I have certainly had to recalibrate mine when it woke up with no bass at all and everything was super quiet.

It only makes sense as a problem if there is something about the unique combination of Sonos and music or it would have the same relative difference when played on Airpods.
Out of curiosity, I googled several of the pubs he mentioned. All but one* was still around.

*I found a pub called the Ranelagh, but it’s not in Pimlico, so I assume it’s a different one. It was the one he described as “really terrible,” so no big loss, I suppose.

Addendum: the other interesting thing I noticed was the ones he derided as having been “modernized” in the 1960s were also newly renovated today, with airy, Scandinavian, 2020s aesthetics. Presumably because unlike the traditional pubs, the 60s style became dated pretty quickly.
My thought is no. IBM was worse and more aggressive than Microsoft back in the day.
I think only sentimentality can prevent take over by a sufficiently competent AI.

I don’t want art that wasn’t made by a human, no matter how visually stunning or indistinguishable it is.
Python is a very poor choice for such a tool. Julia should have been used
If this trend continues, science will be more like religion
Is a grocery store considered a strange context?

A friend of mine was open-carrying his pistol in his holster once and stopped at Walmart for some groceries. A woman called the police on him and claimed he was waving his gun around and threatening people.

So the police show up, talk to both of them, thankfully didn't shoot my friend, reviewed the footage and ended up arresting the woman for making a false 911 call.

Things like this give me little sympathy for people who find someone wanting to be safe in public "suspicious".
Plenty of people publish actual open source software, the definition isn’t the problem, it’s the people who misuse it that are the problem.
This is an example of bias based on your environment. These people you've encountered are not representative of every person living in the US who still believes in constitutional protections from the government.
> what is this lesswrong site about?

It's about philosophy. Or, at least that's the closest I can place it.

It has also been very interested on futurism, AI and the Singularity on the past.
That is a very astute observation. Unfortunately a situation like that cannot be fixed.

Only an organization that is built ground up, which NEVER compromises on the quality of people, as they grow, is the only way out. This is easier said than done, because this often means that people who build organizations, will have to spend nearly 100% of their time looking and screening potential candidates for 'leadership' positions. What generally happens is that when organizations grow they have to hire people in order to keep business running, and they often compromise.

Now there is a way out of this problem, if the founders of an organization are rich. In which case they can spend 100% of their time screening candidates, without having to worry about growing the business. But even this task is not easy, as one can often go on for years before one finds a candidate who has sufficient integrity, wisdom and intelligence, and perhaps most importantly willing to exercise power/authority when needed.
Place and routing compilers used in semiconductor design are not. Ironically, simulated annealing is the typical mechanism and is by any appropriate definition, imo, a type of AI.

Whatever you do in your life using devices that run software are proof that these tools are effective for continuing to scale complexity.
Annoying to use also ;)
Wasn't this pure FUD? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat_(book)#Reaction_to_Sa...
To my surprise, they sold these things in pretty much every big store I went to in Japan. A record store sold them, albeit in the adult records section. But an otherwise normal department store also sold them behind a curtain.

I bought one in the record store “as a joke,” ha ha. I tried to use the self checkout machine but hit an error; obviously it was in Japanese. The machine made an audible ding. A friendly clerk heard the ding and came over to help. Maybe it was business as usual for her, but I was too mortified to even look at her face to see her expression.

Also in the end I couldn’t really get into it (as it were) and threw it away. The only thing satisfied that day was my curiosity.
> Just because something is legal doesn't mean you have to be completely and unquestionably accepting of it in public spaces.

Nothing should be suspicious about exercising any of your rights as recognized by the US bill of rights and other constitutional amendments. Any of them. You can choose to be suspicious, but again that's a product of your own misconceptions. A gun is not a jar of bees. I'm not interested in debating straw man arguments. If you have a real argument to make, I'm all ears.
No screens and at most of them no music either. Very few people drinking while standing. Just a pleasant place to have some beers with friends.

When I moved back from London to the US (where I’ve spent 90% of my life) I was so much more distracted by the screens than I had ever been before.
More Modular Than Ever Before: iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max Teardown
> Tiny models are unpersuasive, as expected. But once a model is large enough to generate coherent sentences, persuasiveness kinda...stops.

People are persuaded to change their opinions based on social proof, so this isn’t surprising.
> I don't need concurrency or multithreading

Famous last words. Ever needed a timeout? Cancelation? Respond to Ctrl+C (SIGINT)? Your UI has an event handler? Client server architectures? All of those things need concurrency, somewhere.

That said, you could argue that I’m being nitpicky. A combination of the OS and language runtime (eg JavaScript) can keep you mostly isolated from the complexity explosion of parallelism and concurrency. But it’s still there.
Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear
Simple: a real 3.5" floppy disk drive has moving parts and various things that age and eventually break. For example I have an old device with a broken floppy disk drive which can't even read a real floppy anymore. With the metal floppy "emulator disk" you mentioned, the FDD itself still has to be fully functional in order to read this "emulator disk".

A floppy emulator board which reads SD/CF cards or USB sticks doesn't have that problem at all since it's purely solid state electronics and directly connected to the electronic interface of the FDD instead of the real FDD, and usually you can put thousands of floppy disk images onto such a memory card/stick and select which disk image is to be put into the emulated floppy disk drive ⇒ there is simply no need for the "emulator disk" technology you mentioned anymore.
Because we're cowards, and declaring vast swatches of our economy and society to be evil is not good for our future prospects. In other words, you can't tell people not to put radium up their asshole!
These approach has been tried so many times and has failed so many times that it’s not funny
lol I wondered how long it would be before someone got it
I also like Eric Weinstein, but the non-physics aspects of his perspective are essentially the philosophy of Curtis Yarvin distilled and presented in a way that's more digestible to classic liberals.
Amount of effort applied to a problem does not equal guarantee of problem being solved. If a frenzy of talent was applied to breaking the speed of light barrier it would still never get broken.
Honestly, I've developers saying the same thing about IDEs and high level languages.

This new generation of tools add efficiency the same way IntelliJ added efficiency on top of Eclipse which added efficiency on top of Emacs/VI/Notepad/etc.

The more time that someone can focus on the systemsit takes certain types of high-time, [not domain problem specific] skill processes and obfuscated it away so the developer can focus on the most critical aspects of the software.

Yes, sometimes generators do the wrong thing, but it's usually obvious/quick to correct.

Cost of occasional correction is much less than the time to scaffold every punchcard.
I refuse to work on AI products. I refuse to use AI in my work.

It’s inescapable that I will work _near_ AI given that I’m a SWE and I want to get paid, but at least by not actively advancing this bullshit I’ll have a tiny little “wasn’t me” I can pull out when the world ends.
Intel Quietly Ends Its Curios Open Source Grants
Until recently Intel had an open source grant program called CURIOS that was looking for small open source groups, including startups, that are working on software technologies that could be optimized for Intel hardware.

My collaborators and I spent quite a bit of time compiling our proposal, including working within Intel's ridiculous application editable PDF with strict line and word count requirements and various mixed font sizes and spacing. It was an intentionally over-complicated hoop to jump through.

This week we found out that no one got the grant, Intel is killing the grant program after we and no doubt many other teams spend so much time working on it. They could have simply not offered the grant program a few weeks ago, but instead they waited until after we all did this work and showed our hands to them in terms of future work and commitments.

It boggles my mind that a company can be budgeting like this from week to week, they could have canceled next years grant, or scaled back the program, but they did this in the worst possible way. Adding to the issue is that the Internet appears to have been wiped clean of an indication the grant program ever existed.

If Intel wants software developers to target their hardware, treating us like this is a pretty bad way to go about it. If they ever bring it back, should we apply again in the future? We're weary of any company that might dangle a carrot in front of us and then pull the rug now.
The Tulip Creative Computer[1][2] hits most of your points (I'm just a customer). It is definitely not a retro computer. It uses modern technology (ESP32S3 microcontroller with megabytes of flash memory and RAM, USB ports, wifi, color touch screen etc.) and runs a modern programming language (MicroPython) that also serves as the operating system.

This particular product might not be exactly what you want, but it shows that you can use these technologies to build a computer that is much simpler and more malleable than a modern PC in both hardware and software, but is still very capable, and intriguing to use.

1. https://github.com/shorepine/tulipcc
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41122986
There is a difference between “being useful” and living up to galactic-scale hype.
>Experience full stack decentralization: from DAOs and crypto cloud services to games, NFTs, and social media, the Internet Computer has something for everyone.

hysterical. exact same shit as always, folks
I'm really curious about how well they run Linux. e.g. will the NPU work under Linux in the same way it does on Windows? Or does it require specific drivers? Same with the batter life - if there a Windows-specific driver that helps with this, or can we expect the same under Linux?
This is a bad take. Because even the craziest of crazies (the flat earthers) are actually doing the scientific method by running experiments to test their crazy conjectures. What makes them crazy is that they have a poor sense of discernment about when it's worth it to trust authorities and when it's not; they're not dumb, and education is not really failing them (in the sense that they "aren't being taught what science is"). They are arguably better scientists than "trust the science" folks because at least they are getting out there and moving atoms to test shit.

On the other hand intellectuals have poor discernment too, they overly trust the literature and the interpretation of working scientists. These two phenomena are two sides of the same coin, and the flat earthers/antivaxx etc crazies are directly downstream of the "trust the science" bad behaviour, especially since the education system has taught them what good science is and they are rightly perceiving that good science is not being done.
It's interesting that it's priced at $1850/month wholesale.

If TFA is to be believed, schizophrenia is quite common so the market is vast and the usual excuses of "price has to be high to recoup R&D because of low demand" doesn't seem like it would apply.

A mere 1M worldwide prescriptions (there's 6x that amount of people with schizophrenia in America alone) means 22 billions per year raw revenue.
What is amazing is that the LLM market is already comoditized and in a race to the bottom, so step #1 can only be done by dumping.

Also, it has almost no barriers to entry (AFAIK, closing a deal with NVidia is the largest one right now), so you can't do step #3.
There just are things in this world more important than the profits of publishers and their billionaire investors, that regular people have melted their brains to the point where they reflexively protect the interests of the boot crushing them, is precisely the reason I said we deserve it. I still feel pity for you all, just so you know.
BizarroLand wins the award for getting the joke (reference to the movie "The Martian"). Please forgive my taste for very nuanced humor. :-)
IIRC, you can adjust your position quite precisely by crouching, which has a side effect of making you move forward a tiny little bit. Yes, stepping towards a chasm will make you stop at the edge, but that does not alter the fact that your position is definitely not clipped to fixed steps, as the article erroneously claims.
> Those you'd want to lead recognize leadership is a responsibility often times marked by personal sacrifice.

True. It's not a coincidence that they say: it's very lonely* up there.

There are some ways around this, but they are not easy, and perhaps even impossible.

(*=ironically and paradoxically,the cruelest dictator is also a very lonely person)
How much do these same incentives apply to climate science, where huge amounts of money are now in play?
I still remember the good times I had with my dad just taking train trips to random locations in my state. I think its part of a kid's desire to explore!
Not only a scam but it might (probably) be from some country that is in the US sanctioned list, if that might influence you.
While this paradigm is promising, I see a problem with it. When you make a client-side change to the DOM, it can get overwritten by a subsequent incoming patch from the server.

LiveView tries to be somewhat smart when patching the HTML by sending down only the dynamic parts. But on the client it generates the new HTML and morphs it into the DOM quite crudely (and inefficiently, but that's another can of worms).

I've seen a workaround for this, by notifying the server of the change via an event, mirroring of sorts. But this is messy, and can require reimplementing the same conditional template logic on the backend.