skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My concern would be that if it can't produce accurate results on a random noise test, then how do we trust that it actually produces accurate results (as opposed to merely plausible results) on normal images?

Multilevel fractal noise specifically would give an indication of how fine you can go.
hahah love it, thank you for sharing!
>The internal model of a LLM is statistical text. Which is linear and fixed.

Not at all. Like seriously, not in the slightest.
AWS Trainium is a machine learning chip designed by AWS to accelerate training deep learning models. AWS Bedrock is a fully managed service that allows developers to build and scale generative AI applications using foundation models from various providers.

Trainium == Silicon (looks like Anthropic has agreed to use it)

Bedrock == AWS Service for LLMs behind APIs (you can use Anthropic models through AWS here)
I don't think those birds were ever very common in my part of the US, but I noticed the same thing about Monarch butterflies. When I was a kid, they existed in the millions and when in season, you saw them everywhere all the time.

I haven't seen a single one in many years now.
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From what I've experienced, any Intel WiFi/BT adapter/BT stack just works out of the box on Windows. Any random USB adapter has a massive amount of variability. There's just so many different chipsets out there with tons of odd quirks.
Anthropic should double down on the strategy of being the better code generator. No I don't need an AI agent to call the restaurant for me. Win the developers over and the rest will follow.
If you haven’t seen it (and need something to show the “what about bridges” crew), Hillel Wayne’s “crossover project” series of posts[^1] on this is brilliant. I like to show people this quote from it:

> One person talked about how frustrating it is to start work on a bridge foundation, only to find that this particular soil freezes in a weird way that makes it liquefy too much in an earthquake. Back to the drawing board.

[^1]: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/we-are-not-special/
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> If a user has to call into your keyserver to get a key before they can start a conversation with a new friend, as you're the sole authority who can decrypt the Merkle tree entries - does that introduce any problems?

It would, but they're addressed by the total design.

> And how will you authenticate shredding requests? Does that just happen out-of-band?

Essentially, yes, it's out-of-band. The actual shredding isn't part of the protocol.

The way I see it is, this only matters when the requestor's lawyers issue a takedown for their client's Personal Data (previously referred to erroneously as PII, though the distinction between the two jargony terms wasn't something I ever needed to care about).

If I didn't take the steps outlined in this blog post, the director's operator would be in a precarious legal situation.

But with this specification, the operator just queries their database for the in-scope records and deletes the stored key.

How that's actually implemented in software, and how the operator verifies that the legal notice for the takedown is authentic, aren't problems I have a readily available solution for. There may not even be a one-size-fits-all solution here.

As I've said, my goal isn't "GDPR Compliance". That's not a property I'm advertising. My goal is to create Key Transparency and a PKI without Authorities for the Fediverse.

I simply don't want to make it logistically impossible for someone else to deploy this in the EU.
You'll note that the Covered Allied Persons excludes those countries on the list so long as they are party to the ICC.

The military aid prohibition does not.
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It’s worth pointing out that the entirety of the UK fits into the footprint of the state of Oregon

Also, nations that are islands have a much easier time eliminating guns from their borders, once the populace agrees that they should be.

The sad part is that the U.S. has a huge population of people that still don’t think anyone else’s rights to the pursuit of happiness and peace take precedence over their constitutional right to own guns, and if Sandy Hook didn’t move the needle then I don’t see what will.

But even if they agreed to take that action my first two points pose a pretty impossible logistical task to actually remove guns from our society
I've had a situation where Claude (Sonnet 3.5) refused to translate song lyrics because of safety/copyright bullshit. It worked in a new chat where I mentioned that it was a pre 1900s poem.
Those things still apply.

The difference is that we hear the voices of people who don't run in the same circles as bishops and barons...or to put it another way, bishops and barons still exist with all that their existence implies.
Thanks, happy to help!

> You seem to be posting from 2 different accounts: soatok and some_furry. Dunno if that’s on purpose, but in the off chance that it is not: Now you know.

When folks have interesting comments that warrant a response (or answer, if it contains a question), I very quickly stumble over HN's rate limit. Using this second account works around it.

As a rule, I only use this fallback account when my main (some_furry) is unable to respond to someone's questions.
Or, use the One True Shell[1]: https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/emacs-as-a-login-shell/

As a less joke but also more joke: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.h...

1: it was going to be much funnier if I could have found the link where someone used emacs as Xsession or similar but this one will do
I think you're identifying something adjacent but materially different: an attempt to estimate and wrangle ongoing maintenance, rather than an estimate for an initial development effort.

It's worth calling out that we (Apsis) are a software development agency; our estimates are for our clients, usually for greenfield work, and usually are part of the process of bidding for projects. A very different situation from an engineering team in year 5 of production deployment.

That said, even as a member of an internal engineering team, you'll need to coordinate work with the other areas of the business: you can't maneuver a large organization with no calendar for when new features, new products, etc., will become available. Estimates are an inherent part of engineering interacting with the rest of an organization, and I think this framework is still applicable.
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There's an in-progress thread version with discussion: https://social.coop/@cwebber/113527462572885698

Both are worth reading. So much analysis starts with either doubting the intentions of the Bluesky people or from some level of misinformation or misunderstanding, and it's hard to even begin addressing that.

Informed critique is vital to keeping things on track. This sets the standard.
A whole cladde of people here who collectively decided that the politics of the outside and the ugly that came from it does not matter anymore, specialising in the interior design of society with the most horrid weapon being a social ostracizing. The idea that building could pancake under artillery fire from the vacuum just is not part of reality and now papertiger hissy fits from the windows .
There's proof!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vskQsSJ_IJg&ab_channel=hirud...

Watching a playthrough I was surprised to see I'd never seen anyone get past level two.
If the argument order is a problem for you, you can use named arguments.
Also: When served from a CDN like your link above, popular CSS like Bootstrap had a decent chance of _already_ being in your browser's cache, so despite downloading more initially you'd come across sites using the same version that meant _no_ delay downloading CSS for it.
Slavophilia is a concept that is hundreds of years old and is essential in understanding the historical and cultural differences between the West and Russia and of course how they interpreted the Enlightenment. This is on the level of importance of Orthodoxy versus Catholicism. It's fine of course to disagree with or dislike historical figures whose views you find abhorrent. Saying that they should not be discussed comes across as McCarthyism.
This is just nuclear fearmongering, an important tool in the Russian political arsenal, but that's all it is. And the best proof of that is the fact that we are having this conversation right now. The Soviets didn't use nuclear weapons, despite all the Cold War tensions, despite having an ideological grip on society and an actual arsenal to rival the US. The idea that Russians of today are capable of collective suicide, after decades of disillusionment and material decline, is patently ridiculous.
I understand why clojure doesn't have it (JVM), but languages where recursion is a thing should really have expandable stacks like guile and racket.
Fortunately for us, we have no choice! We (Apsis Labs) are a dev agency for hire: if our estimates are wrong, we lose our clients, and then we don't have money and then we all die of starvation.

Being good at estimating our work, and then communicating those estimates and expectations to our clients, is how we've stayed fed for 12 years.
You could de-peer/internet-death-penalty them, but, as is often the case, there is not alignment between the business objectives and network operator objectives.
I've tried that for the first 5 years. But eventually I just spend all my time as a developer/therapist and my real job never gets done. Not to mention it is utterly exhausting. It would be one thing if they vented and then got the job done, but I almost always end up having to clean up a huge mess.
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i thought this was the slang version of ops (opposition) for a minute and that was a very confusing 60 seconds.
I mean, look at Linux and Firefox!
> or even Google

> Last year, Google committed to invest $2 billion in Anthropic, after previously confirming it had taken a 10% stake in the startup alongside a large cloud contract between the two companies.
Can you give an example where = would be unsuitable for comparison of numbers?
I'm a bit surprised by those long "arm" PCBs. They are already doing calibration to account for some relatively large offsets: why not place each sensor on its own PCB, mount them to some carrier structure, and let calibration deal with the rest?
Armchair comment. I would LOVE to be a grad student again and try to pair it with ultrasound speaker arrays, for medical applications. Essentially a super HIFU (High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound) with live feedback. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focused_ultrasound
> I'm not sure this ends up as a net positive compared to the paper with plastic lining they provide tho, since you have to wash the container at some point.

Unlike different kinds of plastic, water is 100% recyclable and doesn't come from nasty petrochemicals in the first place.
Didn't Dostoevsky spend time in Siberia, and basically just miss being executed for offending the Czar?
Which is cheaper:

1. having a human expert creating every answer

or

2. having an expert check 10 answers each of which have a 90% chance of being right and then manually redoing the one which was wrong

Now add a complications that:

• option 1 also isn't 100% correct

• nobody knows which things in option 2 are correlated or not and if those are or aren't correlated with human errors so we might be systematically unable to even recognise the errors

• even if we could, humans not only get lazy without practice but also get bored if the work is too easy, so a short-term study in efficiency changes doesn't tell you things like "after 2 years you get mass resignations by the competent doctors, while the incompetent just say 'LGTM' to all the AI answers"
> A Sufi Murshid (teacher) lived his entire life in a single town that consisted of a single pair of roads that met in the center of town. Late in his life, he stated that, he "knew the stars of the Milky Way better than he knew his town". (A love-consumed mystic remains conscious as our souls leave our bodies when we sleep. What is called astral travel is not limited by our physical body's speed laws; it is bounded only by the "speed of thought".)

Do you have any suggested material/resources where I can learn more?
What is the most practical application for this technology? Could you use it to pinpoint sounds coming from a car like a squeak?
There may well never be. Not everything about our existence is knowable. An uncomfortable fact, indeed.
Some of my happiest memories were day/short trips to France. The Channel Tunnel blew my mind as a kid. Being able to 'drive' to the continent in 30 minutes. Woah!

The undeniable 'farm' smell when getting off the train is one that's solidified in my mind. I won't ever forget it, and every time I get off at Coquelle or visit northern France, it takes me right back to the very first time. Same as whenever I visit a Carrefour - it takes me right back to Cité Europe

---

Here's a cool animation of the machine that dug the tunnel https://preview.redd.it/mf4yb5unbgz61.gif?width=600&format=m... and more generically about the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuYdnzcQXhk
I'd imagine that you could buy older Volta and Ampere generation servers, but not Hopper yet.
Thank you for the feedback! Totally agree that there is work needed to get this into a state where folks would use it.

I appreciate that this comes across as scammy - happy to sponsor a purchase for a test. Have a test wallet I can send some crypto to?

What do you think about the overall the concept & ux?
Thank you, I do appreciate it. I had a quick search through the paper, and can at least confirm for myself that it's a Lichess Elo, and one of 1755, that is found in that arxiv paper. That tweet there that says 1800, without specifying it's a Lichess rating, I can't see where he gets it from (but I don't have Twitter, I could be missing something).

At least the arxiv paper is serious:

> A direct comparison between all engines comes with a lot of caveats since some engines use the game history, some have very different training protocols (i.e., RL via self-play instead of supervised learning), and some use search at test time. We show these comparisons to situate the performance of our models within the wider landscape, but emphasize that some conclusions can only be drawn within our family of models and the corresponding ablations that keep all other factors fixed.
Gotta protect those H100s from rusting
So am I getting this right? Cosmopolitian allows me to compile my code once, and run the same binary on every machine it supports? Is this a dream?
> Most humans could not train to run under 4 minutes in a mile or under 2:30 in a marathon.

Of course, but I don't think anyone was seriously suggesting that. The vast majority of humans can become pretty good at swimming though. And that was my interpretation of the original claim about cognitive tasks, mathematics, etc.
I am Choctaw myself. I recognize the tribes are socialist institutions meant to divide rather than unite now.
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I think these comments come from a very naive, engineering-centric perspective. Good estimates aren't short estimates, nor are they estimates which keep management off your back. Good estimates are accurate estimates because they allow the rest of the organization to properly plan around engineering's deliverables, to properly staff and resource the engineering team, and to manage customer and client expectations.

Arbitrary big estimates that are lies constructed to give ourselves buffer time are lazy and lead to mistrust between engineering and the rest of the organization.

Even worse in our case (devs for hire), they lead to lost clients and lost revenue. Clear communication around capabilities, expectations, and deliverables has been absolutely essential to our company staying afloat for the past 12 years.
I rarely access GA on the desktop as I find GA's mobile app[1] way more convenient and readable.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
Legendary comment, bravo
Something is happening; they are interdimensional, they violate the laws of physics, they can be summoned with occult practices, they are demons.

https://vaticancatholic.com/ufos-demonic-origin/
> So by the time the 12 year old has met ~20 people, there is a 50/50 chance that amongst those 20, there’s a birthday pair.

If you randomly choose the ~20 people from the global population then yes, this will be the case (especially after a number of rounds). And yes, I'm aware this is also the definition of the paradox.

But if you choose the people from your vicinity (i.e the people you are actually likely to meet), the chances will vary based on your individual parameters (which defines the number and quality of the sample size).
This is more or less the same principle of how Amazon Echo devices work, but on steroids.

Very neat. I would be surprised if you aren’t seeing some diminished marginal returns from all those extra mics, but I guess you’re trying to capture azimuth deltas that Echo devices don’t really care about.
Personally, I find companies with names like "Anthropic" to be inherently icky too. Anthropic means "human," and if a company must remind me it is made of/by/for humans, it always feels less so. E.g.

The Browser Company of New York is a group of friendly humans...

Second, generative AI is machine generated; if there's any "making" of the training content, Anthropic didn't do it. Kind of like how OpenAI isn't open, the name doesn't match the product.
I don't know of anything good in english on the internet, I am sure there is some, I just kind of learn this stuff at rehearsal in the group I am in. There is also this book [1] if you are really curious (its a beast of a book).

But to briefly explain what I am thinking, there is the notion of irama [2], where initially (in irama I) most instruments play something close to what is written. At some point (depending on the piece and style, but usually signaled by the drummer in Javanese gamelan) there is a transition to irama II, which sounds like everyone slowing down at first, but as soon as you get to some terminal point of the transition, certain instruments, based on their own rules, begin to "fill in" the space created by the transition. For example, if you are playing the peking, it might look like this:

main melody/irama I/balungan: 2 1 2 6

peking in irama I: 22 11 22 66

peking in irama II: 22 11 22 11 22 66 22 66

and so on

I am far from expert and so much of this is all totally different depending on region and such. But this core idea of irama and rules-based elaboration from a specific seed is somewhat always present.

Either way, just really some of the most beautiful music you will hear, highly recommend to everyone [3].

1. https://www.amazon.com/Gamelan-Manual-players-central-Javane...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irama

3. https://youtu.be/3efH3WgTQRU
Sure. I just wish I can recount these wise words to my friends killed by russians army.
Rival? They kick you out after a few messages and ask you to come back later. Gpt doesn't do that
Why not a good idea?? There is nothing that say it should be a separated hardware..

In fact, AdGuard app for iPhone does basically this, it install itself as an always on VPN to hijack DNS queries from apps..

You dont even need containers or VM for AdGuard, it have a windows version that you can install as a service and then just point the DNS to localhost..

For Pihole i seen guide that use WSL to run it locally, but using containers in this case might be easier..

I dont know Technitium so cant comment on it, but quick search it look like it also have a windows version so it might not require containers as well..

It is not the usual configuration but it work.. In this case i would point AdGuard to use whatever DNS is available in the local network so you do not loose access to local stuff..

If you are on a laptop it will require some manuall managing unfortunatelly, but if you are on a fixed network you just need to set it up once and forget about it..
A similar technique is very popular in industrial automation to spot leaks in compressed air pipes and their connections from far away. These leaks are extremely loud in the ultrasonic range. It's overlayed with a camera picture.

That's ultra expensive gear.
Cost vs benefit. Nuclear power has less deaths per kWh than any other source, including wind and solar. Flying is safer than driving by orders of magnitude, but a scary high profile plane crash effects people more than mundane everyday car crashes. Saying to stop using a lower risk option because you are personally more scared of it isn’t exactly a compelling argument.
I blame the parents.

It stands to reason that guns and ammo should not need a "Keep out of reach of children" label, yet they plainly do since parents are obviously leaving loaded firearms where their kids can get at them.
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I cannot disagree more strongly. Putting the name of the function (or method) in the middle of the declaration drastically lowers readability.

C-style type declarations were always the most painful part of reading C.
Is there any constitutional right to have a toddler?
You can, in fact, do that. It's called (aptly enough) the empirical Bayes method. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_Bayes_method
I don’t think he ever said or even implied any percentage of ‘creative work of the world is worthless’?

A lot less valuable then what artists may have desired or aspired to at the time of creation, sure, but definitely with some value.
It is not that someone else shares YOUR birthday: it is that two people (among those 23) will have the same birthday.
or that 'AI is going to solve all of physics' or that 'AI is going to clone his brain by 2027' .

PG famously called him 'Michael jordan of listening' , i would say he is 'Michael jordan of bullshitting'
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People are getting used to home assistants sounding good, they already have high expectations. But when you hear a robot that you ASSUME is dumb respond in an intelligent way, it feels very strange.

I've been building a bunch of different demos lately to showcase different facets of Realtime & LLM capabilities —— and even though Telephony + Voice seems like a somewhat boring combination —— it was one of my favourites to demo & use.

I don't really know why, but it's extremely jarring to hear a DTMF robot respond intelligently if you say something unexpected.

I'd love to hear any other ideas of a "dumb" robot that I can try to add realtime AI to —— it really rekindles the feeling of magic that I had ~2 years ago with the launch of ChatGPT.
Clearly, the story that salmon go back to spawn and their birth pool is not 100% true