skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EC was never supposed to represent the minority. It only does today because the number of congressional representatives is unfairly capped.
There's been a bigger outbreak in Washington it seems - https://nitter.poast.org/richardhirschs1/status/185164171224...
See that’s the thing. Given that somehow you need 1TB to get the matte screen, I feel like Apple is using it as a way to upsell. It would indicate that perhaps Apple won’t offer a matte MacBook Air.
So now hallucinations can have deadly consequences.

Good job Sam Altman and all the employees who backed his return.

You are now in the death business.
Pornography is any multimedia content intended for (someone's) sexual arousal. CSAM is obviously a subset of that.
> The more the author lays out the detail, the more I like what they're describing.

I think the original AI act was actually pretty good, but the stuff they crammed in at the last minute about LLMs is nowhere near as good, and potentially actively harmful (because it was stuffed in at the last minute during a massive hype cycle).
Selecting abilities to value is quite complicated to do well. Even in a software engineering role, one person may be great at documentation, while a few can teach others, and someone else might excel at debugging. But it would be impractical and a nightmare to test someone on all of those in addition to coding, even if high scores in all areas aren't expected. Perhaps it would be better to focus on experiences and impressions of a person and their skills across a group, so that we see how someone interacts with a realistic environment of a job. The collective of the old teams's lived experiences around a person should approximate that person's characteristics, and the new team would provide input on how those characteristics vibe with them. Listing out specific abilities is easier to track and measure, but constrained.
I doubt sha1 hashes are used for this. Those image hashes should match files regardless of orientation, cropping, resizing, re-compression, color correction etc. The collision could be far more frequent with these hashes.
We have the same word for both in France, like you.

However we have an extra word for the silcon one to get all the pancake batter: marise. It is not used very much, though, outside of some cooking books or shows.
There’s an upvoted sub comment to that which has a good correction. That statement as a whole is just not true and a meaningless statement. When you pass an orbiting body you will take some of that body’s orbital momentum and add that to your current momentum. There’s really no semantic argument in my mind that could justify the above statement. You change direction because you have more in total. There’s no bending of the direction here, just addition of new vectors but that’s exactly how all acceleration works anyway so it’s a bit meaningless to make that statement and I’m really not sure what they are trying to get at. Maybe from the pov of the orbiting body there’s no change but that’s not the thing anyone cares about when doing a flyby.
I don't think that's not very comparable. You don't get that many high rise residential buildings in central London, but it gets all the workers anyway. It's not as extreme, but think of Shibuya crossing having 0 population. We'd need some measure of people on the streets instead.
You would just think that with a brand so intrinsically wrapped around the concept of technology working for and with the people that use it, you'd want to show the people who made it if you're going to show the apple campus at all.

It kind of just comes off as one of those YouTube liminal space horror videos when it's that empty.
> Between adjacent intersections controlled by traffic control signal devices

Does this mean diagonally? What's the distance to "adjacent"? One city block? Two? Does this mean that jaywalking is still practically illegal in most dense cities/downtown areas?

The lack of clarity is pretty frustrating with many of these laws. I understand the practical need for wiggle room, but this almost seems like a trap!
My naive interpretation is that police will still have plenty of opportunity to use jaywalking in the ways that the law was trying to prevent, especially in densely populated areas.

I used to live on a street where crossing it legally meant a one mile trek, so it's appreciated, especially since I was warned once, but I now have no idea if it would be legal or not, since there was a light half mile in either direction.
The hash functions used for these purposes are usually not cryptographic hashes. They are "perceptual hashes" that allows for approximate matches (e.g. if the image has been scaled or brightness-adjusted). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing

These hashes are not collision-resistant.
Right, this is the core problem. We've seen this happen with literal hundreds, if not thousands of substances.

Companies can, and do, develop various new compounds and then immediately start using them. There're only stringent regulations for food and medicine, but the stuff around it isn't protected. In addition, many of these chemicals make it into local water. We've had to set up countless superfund sites to clean it up later.

Our approach of reactionary vs proactive just doesn't work. Typically, these companies don't do safety tests. Sometimes, companies don't even know what exactly goes into their products.
I'm super confident if you are in the U.S. and really wanted a Ford EV, you can get it for below MSRP.
Does a lab assigns a DNA to you or does it calculate?

Does two different labs DNA analysis are exactly equal?
In the US system, I'd be in favor of just having the House of Representatives by done via a sortition process. I have a hard time imagining the Senate and President being done that way... but maybe it actually wouldn't be any worse than the status quo!
> Satanic child sacrifices were not a widespread practice, though.

You got me. This isn't debate club. If you want to think Apple's incumbent base isn't heavily using (or actively avoiding) LLMs either ChatGPT and Gemini or the 10k other B2B remixes, you can think that. And for the ones that aren't are they just holding out for Apple's flacid offering?

I don't know what to tell you. I work in midwest academic medicine, not tech, I'm not in the SV bubble. The people that don't use this stuff for either clinical (the only fucking rule I need in ad block seems to be freed.ai) or research work are still very aware of it, they're not waiting for Apple. It isn't a friction issue. People working in management consulting, it is used heavily because there is at least a desire to provide a professional sounding voice to customers. The thing is that in the real world J (the draft email should have said nigga, that would have been funny) knows Walter is still an idiot, yet Walter is still employed so what possible benefit is there to using an LLM. For internal stuff, you know you're not fooling any body, that is often the reason you don't use it. Not because you can't, but because it's pointless.

I don't think Apple is marketing a compelling product with that effort. The people that really want state of the art wordsmithing have had options, and what is Apple giving the naysayers? Is this better than ChatGPT, that example in the ad sure as hell isn't.

Maybe you're right that Apple is really reaching out with a compelling novel email writing product to their base, I'm just not convinced.

I don't use HomeKit as a core, but I use it because it integrates with iDevices. I am very much looking forward to Siri being less of a dumbass. Still think this marketing effort is lame.
It seems like there just needs to be case law about the qualifications of an image hash in order to be counted as probable cause for a warrant. Of course you could make an image hash be arbitrarily good or bad.

I am not at all opposed to any of this "get a damn warrant" pushback from judges.

I am also not at all opposed to Google searching it's cloud storage for this kind of content. There are a lot of things I would mind a cloud provider going on fishing expeditions to find potentially illegal activity, but this I am fine with.

I do strongly object to companies searching content for illegal activity on devices in my possession absent probable cause and a warrant (that they would have to get in a way other than searching my device). Likewise I object to the pervasive and mostly invisible delivery to the cloud of nearly everything I do on devices I possess.

In other words, I want custody of my stuff and for the physical possession of my stuff to be protected by the 4th amendment and not subject to corporate search either. Things that I willingly give to cloud providers that they have custody of I am fine with the cloud provider doing limited searches and the necessary reporting to authorities. The line is who actually has the bits present on a thing they hold.
Recraft v3 (code-named red_panda)
> It feels like it incentivizes the police to minimize their understanding of the law so that they can believe they are following it.

That's a bingo. That's exactly what they do, and why so many cops know less about the law than random citizens. A better society would have high standards for the knowledge expected of police officers, including things like requiring 4-year criminal justice or pre-law degree to be eligible to be hired, rather than capping IQ and preferring people who have had prior experience in conducting violent actions.
It’s true that an executive order cannot legally defund the CFPB, but since SCOTUS gave the President the right to remove the CFPB Director without cause, the President absolutely can cripple the agency by that type of executive action rather than by defunding it.
Put a facial tissue over keyboard before closing the lid.
We've been manipulating photos as long as we've been taking them.
Consuming... for some people, is done for it's own sake.
let them bake
I disagree, and think you're missing the forest for the trees. I think that people have an obligation to keep their promises to other people - that's a virtue called honesty or integrity. When a promise needs to be broken, that presents an ethical dilemma.

One example of people making a promise is hiring. A layoff is fundamentally breaking the promise you made to a group of people to keep them employed - whether that's the most ethical choice or not circles back to the trolley problem. If 20% need to be laid off to save the 80% then it's not an unethical choice. If 20% need to be laid off to make up for the mistake of a small group of leaders in order to benefit the small group of shareholders, then it's unethical.

> All objections stem from this, and it is controversial.

It's only controversial when you pretend that you can absolve an unethical choice by placing it behind the corporate veil. It's not controversial outside of Milton Friedman disciples.
The issue with the tariff approach is that they generally apply to countries that actually have an auto industry, but not all countries have one. Countries without tariffs will enjoy lots of competition and cheap prices, while established automakers with tariff protections will be squeezed out.

I don't see how it's possible to stop China, even if rich western countries band together.
If we are going this way…
I still use a mid-2012 MBP as my main workstation.

Last one with upgrade capabilities, now it has two fast SSDs and maximum Ram. I changed the battery once.

Only shame is that it doesn’t get major MacOS upgrades anymore.

Still good enough to browse the web, do office productivity and web development.

12 years of good use, I am not sure I can get so much value anywhere now
i would like a better voting system in the US.

but e.g. Australia has a great voting system (on all levels from the voting rules to the election day administration), yet they still seem to have fairly screwed up partisan politics.

i think it might improve things but wouldn't help make politics fundamentally better.
I don’t see the yearly releases as saying you have to upgrade. Rather, having a consistent cadence makes it easier for the supply chain, and the short iteration time means there’s less pressure to rush something in half-baked or delay a release.
Washington’s carbon tax invests in public transportation.
This was the suspicious new model crushing the image generation leaderboards: https://huggingface.co/spaces/ArtificialAnalysis/Text-to-Ima...

There is also a vector/SVG generator, which is curious. https://replicate.com/recraft-ai/recraft-v3-svg

The canonical source is https://www.recraft.ai but that is not helpful to describe the model, to put it mildly. The overview on Replicate is more helpful.
This is trivially caught by type checking.
This is what cloud-init[1], Puppet[2] et al a for. I haven't done this with shell scripts in at least 15 years.

[1] https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init

[2] https://www.puppet.com/
Byd is on every corner in my area of Australia. Much more so than Tesla.
The notch makes me sad.
As mentioned, the article is talking about plastic flippers, not silicone spatulas, but either way, I would recommend this [1] spatula set instead.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KSMBL26
Ah, so it wasn’t some SEO trick (see your sibling comment) after all :)

Thanks for the fun and informative blog post!
The M1 Max supports more than one external display natively, which is also an option.
I remember my friend had a 70s Dodge Dart (Slant 6 automatic) and his starter went out. His father pushed the car with his truck up to 35mph and then he put it in drive...it push started. But yeah...typically that is a very bad idea for a number of reasons. Safety being a big one...plus, on a lot of automatics the pump is driven from the input shaft...so when coasting in neutral there is often no lubrication.
We needed the slingshotting because until recently on-orbit construction was mostly a pipe-dream.

If you can build larger ships in orbit, relatively cheaply, you can go a lot more direct, a lot faster.
Citation absolutely needed. You call this fair?

> the majority of podcasts are from a group of generic white guys
To the best of my knowledge, party registration in closed primary states is just an additional question on the voter registration form. It's not exactly an onerous cost unless you're someone who regularly switches which party's primary you want to vote in.

That said, even in open primary states, primary election participation is low outside of presidential contests. I served as a poll worker once for a US House/Senate primary, and my precinct got about 7% turnout, and I'm in an open-primary same-day-registration state.
They should be called embeddings.
That would have no impact on elections being close. There'd still be a marginal voter and the candidates would still vie for their vote. The reason for tight margins is because modern polling and statistical techniques are both so good. It is easy for people to figure out when they are losing and change their tactics. Changing the voting system doesn't alter that dynamic.
Cars was always a low margin business, that's why no one makes them anymore. Car OEMs contracted out every component and system possible. Almost all the value in modern cars is various tiers of suppliers. There's a Mercedes model they contracted out even final assembly. They went to the same Jack Welch school of business that boeing did and thought they were clever not being responsible for anything and could just be middlemen pushing paper.
I don’t disagree with you. But I was replying to this question:

> So how does one buy a house without being dependent on cash flow?

The answer to which is “you don’t”.

Most people can’t afford to buy a house and never will. Even many homeowners.

I will spell it out if it isn’t already clear.

Live within your means and save as much as you can, investing that savings in a diversified portfolio. Buy a home only when your savings allow for it.
Because that's what it means to take responsibility. You're saying "I did this, and to the extent that it's a bad thing you can blame me".
Yes I'm aware. I was contrasting the general use of an inference server vs calling llama.cpp directly (not via HTTP request).

And among servers Ollama seems to be more popular, so it's worth mentioning when talking about support for local LLMs.
More than that, though I agree with everything you're saying, is nobody even considers congresspeople in these discussions. Everyone focuses on the president and how they appoint the judicial, congress is where everything (read: nothing) happens.
Have a look at ollama? I think there is a vscode extension to hook into local LLM if you are so inclined: https://ollama.com/blog/continue-code-assistant
Eventually as the tools for doing it become better they'll all want to or need to. By then, most computers will be capable of running those tools too. Which means when that happens, people will come up another way to push the limits of compute.
"Surely my genAI product won't be used to spam zero-effort slop all over the internet!"

- guy whose genAI product will definitely be used to spam zero-effort slop all over the internet.
Thanks for those explainers.
My M1 laptop from early 2022 is too good for me to care about upgrading right now, I loaded it up with 64GB ram and it's still blazing. What benefit would I really notice? My heavy apps loading a couple of seconds faster?
Because you're looking at it through the lense of the Internet and high profile events that happen on video. Stop by main street in small town America and things are usually pretty chill. You have the occasional feathers getting ruffled, but nothing like you see online.
hat's all very conscientious. You should also consider:

Forth, how many more people will be run over in NYC now?
Current day Sweden: People cross tend to cross the street whenever it feels safe, unless there's some mom/dad with young kids in tow nearby. Then it's polite to wait for the light to turn green. We often have very little traffic on our streets though, and they are often not very wide.

It's technically illegal to jaywalk but not punishable unless you manage to cause a traffic accident, somehow. I like these pragmatic laws.
My only explanations for the lack of gaming support (see historical lack of proper OpenGL support) while still supporting high end graphics use cases (film editing, CAD, visual effects) are:

1) Either Apple wants to maintain the image of the Macbook as a "serious device", and not associate itself with the likes of "WoW players in their mom's basement".

2) Microsoft worked something out with Apple, where Apple would not step significantly on the gaming market (Windows, Xbox). I can't think of another reason why gaming on iOS would be just fine, but abysmal on MacOS. Developers release games on MacOS _despite_ the platform.
I wonder how much Tesla's support of Trump is hurting his sales. Without going public on Trump, would his sales have increased more ?

Right now seems most of his customers may be from people concerned about the environment and/or Climate Change. As time goes on, that will probably change.

There is a reason heads and owners of Companies try and stay out of politics.
Thanks! That looks like just what I want. I looked at the first few seconds just now, and will watch the whole thing later.
Sometimes they just annoint a candidate without having a primary at all.
The percentage of their sales outside China simply means that China is big and they probably dominate sales in China. We already know that. China is so big that probably around 30% of Tesla's sales are actually in China.

What's interesting is how they compete with other brands, and I think the trend is for BYD to increase their market share in all countries.

However, I would have liked to have more figures.
I was going to say that it's a bit disingenuous to point at China's subsidies for EVs and EV manufacturers and not look in the mirror.

US government has handed out tons of low/no interest loans, tax incentives, and tax credits to spur development and deployment of EVs and related technologies like charger infrastructure.

Just this year, there was a $4500 tax credit towards leasing a number of vehicles. I leased a Prius Prime (one of the vehicles eligible) and basically got $4500 off the sticker. Bought out the lease and purchased the car for $4500 off.
I’ve written Java programs that write a bash script that runs under cloud init. It’s a lot less code than Puppet, it “just works” and you never hear that “you can’t get from there” or spend three days to find out how to configure something you could configure in three minutes if Puppet wasn’t involved.
Related ongoing thread:

Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991291 - Oct 2024 (90 comments)
The problem is when it's not fair competition. Certainly Tesla has received government subsidies, but I expect their numbers to pale in comparison to whatever money the Chinese government has directly and indirectly poured into BYD.

Flooding foreign markets with your heavily-subsidized cars in order to kill your competition is great for you, but not so great for competitors in the market of sale.
The real question is. Can I plug two monitors to it?
Ah yes, I have motor memory with my left "claw" to create a drag screenshot on mac os
comparing a laptop to a A100 (312 teraFLOPS) or H100 (~1P FLOPS) server is a stretch to say the least.

An M2 is according to a reddit post around 27 tflops

So < 1/10 the performance of just computation. let alone the memory.

What workflow would use something like this?
I was in Morocco this summer, and for the most part, there is no separation between where motorbikes can ride and pedestrians can walk. It's totally intermixed.

At first I was concerned, but then I realized it's actually a lot safe. The motorbikes were cautious because there could be a pedestrian at any turn. And the pedestrians were cautious because there could be a motorbike at any moment.

Didn't see a single accident or even any near misses.
We're saying the same thing, so "misunderstanding" is a bit of a strong claim.

> At a crosswalk, drivers will slow down if they see a pedestrian heading towards the crossing; they don't need to (and won't) at other places.

They literally must. It's in the law I cited:

https://law.justia.com/codes/new-york/vat/title-7/article-26...

You can go to jail if you don't take due care to avoid hitting a pedestrian, or even an animal. The right of way of the person being hit is irrelevant. But sure, if you, pedestrian, cause an accident due to your failure to respect right of way, you have also violated a traffic law, and you could be punished for it.

In practice, in a place like NYC, you're going to have to go to pretty extreme lengths for this to apply. Maybe if you dart into traffic maliciously, and a car swerves to avoid you and hits something? I dunno. It's hard to imagine a scenario.
Do we have any insight into how much the Chinese government supports BYD? $2B seems like a pretty small number, to be honest. I would expect the number to be at least an order of magnitude (or two!) higher for BYD.

At any rate, $2B is a drop in Tesla's bucket; their quarterly revenue is around $25B now. That $2B may have been given at a critical time in Tesla's development and growth, but today it would be 2% of their yearly revenue.