skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ll admit that were I seeing such stories in my area, I’d be hard pressed not to hang some bit of a Halloween costume on a drone and send it around the neighbourhood.
Well, I spoke normally and it said it was unable to guess. Native speaker here from Washington state. :)
It's not completely wrong in hindsight†. It's only "wrong" if you assume "app" means Dropbox itself, and if you ignore the context of the thread. Brandon was talking about an application that framed Dropbox as an alternative to USB drives, and critiquing the pitch.

There was a time on HN where it actually made sense to bat a YC application back and forth, and to talk about what might make a more or less compelling one. It's long gone, and the people dunking on this comment have completely lost touch with what the original community was. I'm not saying that community was better (it was much more insular), but it was certainly more collegial.

† In fact, I think we now know it was literally correct, and YC had the same qualms, accepting Drew Houston just to get access to him and apparently hoping he'd find something better to work on.
Short form, he's one those "my work is perfect the way it is" artists: https://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?p=971373#p971373
You can understand something about your child's meatspace friends and their media diet. Chat like this may as well be 4chan discussions. It's all dynamic compared to social media that is posted and linkable, it's interactive and responsive to your communicated thinking, and it seeps in via exactly the same communication technique that you use with people (some messaging interface). So it is capable of, and will definitely be used for, way more persistent and pernicious steering of behavior OF CHILDREN by actors.

There is no barrier to the characters being 4chan-level dialogs. So long as the kid doesn't break a law, it's legal.
An AI that sees what you see
I don’t that Finland is a good example: it is a small centralized country. In the US states can do whatever, so you can’t copy-paste finish approach.
What ChatGPT actually sees when you input that question is the output of the tokenizer:

[5299, 1991, 18151, 553, 306, 290, 2195, 392, 491, 33465, 69029]

This happens to be 11 tokens, but I think that's a coincidence. Token 491 is "int" and token 33465 is "elligence", but ChatGPT doesn't actually see the letters.

How can you expect it to count, given those limitations? It had to guess how many letters each token represented. It got close, but not exact.

This is an artificial example pretty much maximally designed for ChatGPT to screw up.
Sure, but if you're already going to make the investment in the grid cutoff, inverter, etc then the fact the car could in principle act as a battery/generator is a little gimmicky. Might as well also get a generator (or battery if you've already got solar). Then it works automatically whether you're there or not.
The porn industry being predatory?

Absolute shocker.
That "instead of other humans" part is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. What if it's "instead of total isolation" or "instead of parasocial interactions" or "instead of exploitative interactions"? There are many cases that are worse than a person chatting with a robot.
Mystery Airships of 1896-1897
Apparently my "accent" is 36% Russian, 16% Korean, and 13% Albanian, none of which are remotely correct.
1. Don't fucking do it

2. See #1
As I understand that doesn't imply that it's not undefined to pass NULL pointers. While not what most users expect/want it's possible to this is just a wrapper around an memcpy() which will only be correct to call with valid destination and source pointers even if the length is zero.
This is the "Iraq has WMD" for this generation.

It's just laying the ground work for some insidious nonsense.
But the implicit assumption is that Tesla’s problems can be solved by scaling laws. That seems to me like a big assumption, no?

I’ve read The Bitter Lesson, I understand the argument “the human eyes are just cameras, and we do just fine”; I’m not totally unsympathetic to the idea that Tesla is better-positioned than some people think.

But I still think it’s a big leap to suggest Tesla will definitely solve FSD by scaling
/ software, and Waymo is fundamentally screwed and has no way to innovate out of its own scale problems.

Companies lower material costs by an order of magnitude all the time! Look at battery/solar over the last 15 years — in many areas we see two OOMs of cost reduction. It’s a challenge; but one that seems on par with creating software to replicate the optical capabilities of the human brain.
"What a Single Act of Mayhem Can Do:
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed."
Oddly enough I built an API a few years ago that does exactly that, using timezone polygons derived from OpenStreetMap: https://timezones.datasette.io/timezones/by_point?longitude=...
My strong view on is that there's parenting failure as a root cause here, causing loss of trust in them for their child, for the child to talk about their parents in such manner to the AI in the first place. Another clear parenting failure is the parents blaming AI for their failures and going on to play victims. Third example of parenting failure is the parents actually going through a 17 year old teenager's phone. These parents instead of trying to understand or help the child, use meaningless control methods such as taking away the phone to try and control the teenager. Which obviously is not going to end well. Honestly AI responses were very sane here. As was expressed in some of the screenshots there, whenever the teen tried to talk about their problems, they just got yelled at, ignored or parents started crying.
Small discussion forming (20 points, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42394391
Looks like it was shut down voluntarily? Not sure yet.
I am going to assume you do not live in the USA based on this comment. Most supermodels, which I'm using as a proxy for aesthetic preference, have BMIs under 20.
This is perfect for CEO scams in most American companies.

Many (large and small) American companies (and other nationalities as well, sure) a top down management approach is the norm. I.e. "CEO" (or "your manager" / "person in power") says something and you jump and do it without asking any questions because you fear you'll be fired otherwise (or have other repercussions).

In such an environment, imagine the CEO / person in power giving the best sample ever to the crooks, such that they can clone your voice almost perfectly. Now, of course, CEOs are likely to be recorded in various events anyway but some others are less likely, say the CFO.

Then order some lowly finance drone to wire a billion bucks to your account (well, maybe a bit less, and make sure to use someone else's account, seven levels of money mules and 17 different crypto currencies with mixers etc. before cashing out) with your faked voice.

We caught a CEO scam that was pretty good but noticeable recently. They had cloned his voice.
I thought BMI was pretty debunked as a measure of health?

I'm 5'11" or so, and weigh approximately 180 pounds.

According to that website, I'm overweight with a BMI of 25.10.

I certainly don't look overweight, I definitely don't feel overweight, and if I picked up my exercise regime again, I'd be more likely to gain muscle weight than lose weight. And yet, my BMI would get worse.
Maybe a small lack of energy, peertube was quite user friendly, so I don't think they messed up blindly.
No they have tor onion links
I can't login to Claude either...
David Sacks' Intellectual Journey
At this point there's a strong argument that the interface is the whole point

Sure, most of us would love it if we could go to a dedicated web page, fill a tailor made form or send an email and be done with it, but that requires some knowledge (And forethought) to both set up, operate and use

And you may argue that people should know, but as any Tier 1 tech support, will tell you, some people really just don't know

But since IM is basically required to be a functioning member of society even if you never have had to fill paperwork in your life, people that don't care or don't need to care just use what's already familiar, with the secondary effect of every (Whatsapp) business having an assumed mimimum difficulty curve, just ask them and both of you will figure it out
> But they also have an incredibly bad track record of supporting their products.

I don't know about that: my wife built her first SME on Google Workspace / GSuite / Google Apps for domain (this thing changed names so many times I lost track). She's now running her second company on Google tools, again.

All she needs is a browser. At one point I switched her from Windows to OS X. Then from OS X to Ubuntu.

Now I just installed Debian GNU/Linux on her desktop: she fires up a browser and opens up Google's GMail / GSuite / spreadsheets and does everything from there.

She's a happy paying customer of Google products since a great many years and there's actually phone support for paying customers.

I honestly don't have many bad things to say. It works fine. 2FA is top notch.

It's a much better experience than being stuck in the Windows "Updating... 35%" "here's an ad on your taskbar" "you're computer is now slow for no reason" world.

I don't think they'l pull the plug on GSuite: it's powering millions and millions of paying SMEs around the world.
I've seen people wreck super hard trying to cross the streetcar rails at too shallow an angle in pdx multiple times. But that's an optional behavior. Just the other day I saw a moose crossing the road over in Twin Mountain, and I chose to slow down and not hit it. If I'd made another choice that resulted in a collision, and I'd survived, I wouldn't expect to get some settlement from the town of Twin Mountain, NH. Similarly if you ride your bike into a train track that one's pretty much on you lol.. being aware of one's surroundings is one of those basic life skills.
Yes, “the model” here appears to refer to the person who owns the OnlyFans channel.
Most of us in this group failed to update our Robocall Mitigation information five months ago and are doing it now.

Honestly, the bad actors are not in this list. Everybody in this list has implemented rate limits per the previous filing and are in compliance with other aspects of the FCC.
Distillation will still work if the inputs are slightly entangled with each other or with other qubits.

I recommend just simulating the specific case you're worried about. It's only a 15 qubit circuit; not at all expensive to check. You'll either see it working and stop worrying, or have an amazing concrete counter example to publish.
Yeah classic use cases of GPUs like deep learning have you transfer the weights for the entire model to your GPU(s) at the of inference and after you that you only transfer your input over.

The use case of transferring ALL data over every time is obviously misusing the GPU.

If anyone’s ever tried running a model that’s too large for your GPU you will have experienced how slow this is when you have to pull in the model in parts for a single inference run.
I listened to a podcast on the Mystery Airships of 1896 and 1897 a while back, given the recent mysterious drone sightings I thought this would be interesting to talk about.

Podcast: https://mysterious.fm/279 and https://mysterious.fm/280

Recent Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42391443
I can't login to Claude either. Same in a Windows browser and in their Android apps. So, no.
How are they responsible for what you choose to eat?
Sure, but in the case of a hypothetical AQ, we could do factor analysis and pull out different things, like the strength of various muscles or muscle groups, like all pure running tests had strong correlation with things like leg muscles. In IQ, this has famously been done and found that a single factor dominates.

Or when they saw that knowledge of arcane sport rules interfered, they could look for a more pure test of ability rather than knowledge, which they did with IQ by going from tests of specific factual knowledge to Raven's progressive matrices.

And when you do that kind of work, you find that you can develop better measures that have a lot of predictive power for whole populations, even if they do not tell you, say, how many goals they'll score in their next hockey game.
Learn some self control.
It absolutely grinds my gears - Chrome's profile system and / or Firefox's container tab system work somewhat, but it feels like a bandaid fix.
People have shown Shor's algorithm for factoring very small numbers, e.g. 15 and 21. That's been shown to work, even if it doesn't feel impressive. There is no reason to expect it won't continue to work as quantum compute advances.
That's kind of reductive. I know some people who have, uh, relevant experience. The cheap drones are pretty comprehensively engineered and they're complex in the same way that a ballpoint pen is not as trivial to manufacture as it looks.

But yeah, Maginot Military sounds about right.
The videos i saw ostensibly showed what looked like rear fixed wing aircraft, like a small f-16 or something. But you could only make out that detail from the lights, which can be configured however you want to configure them to look, so, technically, it could be a large quadcopter (or octa, or hex) with lights affixed that make it look like a fixed wing aircraft.

none of the videos i saw had sound from the drone to verify fixed wing or "copter".

regarding night flights, FLIR would work better for certain things at night ;-)
Claude working fine here. And I think parent meant affected because of the increased volume.
I don't really see myself as defending AI as much as arguing that people who don't recognize an entertainment product as an entertainment product have a problem if they think this is really categorically different than claiming that playing grand theft auto makes people into carjackers. (Or that movie studios should be on the hook for their kid watching R rated movies, or porn companies on the hook for their kid visiting a porn site unsupervised.)
> This opens up another very fasciniting [sic] possibility. A cell with two adjustable aluminum plates (a variable capacitor) might very well be useable as an efficient light dimmer.

This is how early stage lights were dimmed. See https://youtu.be/wRMEAYYW0dc
There was also a lot of drone sightings reported last week in Britain of similar fear, drones near a US military base somewhere in UK, think it was also in the Guardian.
Is there a difference anymore?
This story is so strange. I mean the US if im not mistaken allowed a huge white ballon to transverse the country and i heard Trump say that was from China. If that's true we just allowed it fly all over our airspace (weird). Is that not a potential public safety hazard and now these things. So odd nothing is being done like one of our jet fighters going up and shooting one down into a field.
What if the moon were made of cheese?
Eh? I always figured hackernews was full of silicon valley types who listen to peter thiel podcasts on their way home in their stickshift subaru (or FSD tesla).
Perhaps by having such a restrictive licensing scheme, they are hoping to avoid any sort of liability: "I told them they couldn't do that thing!"

IANAL, but I don't think responsibility or liability issues work like that.
It's an entertainment product. You're basically acting like the comic code is necessary when the reality is that this is more like parents complaining that they let their kid watch an NC17 movie and it messed them up.
We need to compare against the real human error rate (including drunk drivers, sleepy drivers etc). What is that error rate?

Also, fault tolerance error rates don’t work that way - difficulty increases exponentially as you increase fault. In other words, it’s much more difficult than three orders of magnitude to go from 3 9s to 6 9s - it’s easily 5-6 orders of magnitude.
Congrats David! I love your approach and your problem space. I'm rooting for you.
It's not. The biggest health consequence of long term nicotine use is hardening of arteries. All of the lung problems, the worst side effects, are from smoking.
At that point just run the code inside a chroot with a full /dev and call it good enough. No common GPU driver, firmware or hardware was designed to securely run really untrusted code from multiple tenants.
It's crazy how slowly the FCC is moving on this:

WCB notified each Company on March 29, 2024, that its certification was noncompliant with section 64.6305 because the Company had failed to submit an updated RMD certification and updated robocall mitigation plan by the February 26, 2024 deadline. WCB's notification informed each Company that it must submit an updated certification and updated robocall mitigation plan in the Robocall Mitigation Database by Monday, April 29, 2024. After this second deadline, the Companies still had not updated their RMD certifications and robocall mitigation plans with the required information; as a result, WCB referred each Company to the Bureau to initiate removal proceedings.

2,411 companies have been deficient since February. The FCC sent them a strongly worded letter in March, giving then a new deadline in April. Roughly seven months later, the FCC is finally starting enforcement procedures.
AM radio really doesn't occupy a lot of bandwidth, nor does FM.

The chart is logarithmically stacked, i.e. each row would fit into the one below 10 times, 100 times two rows down etc.
I don't think your sarcasm adds anything constructive to the discourse. If anything, it makes the person you're replying to look less credible because you're furthering the stereotype of UFO conspiracy theorists touting "trust me bro" evidence and little else.
Why are they using the as?
PC is independent from phone now, but from observation, it seems like it picks a "main" device and syncs the other ones to that (Inconsistently, probably whichever you used latest)

I can see how ocasionally I'll get a message way sooner on PC, respond, then pick my phone and that will "animate" messages in my phone, so it works both ways
That's depressing, and I didn't realize. This is truly the death of the the comment section.
I'm curious. Why did you use OF?
well, it wasn't a prius originally, it was a lexus that launched off a southern california freeway because they burned the brakes up trying to stop the acceleration.

Toyota and lexus sometimes have the gas pedal hinged on the floor panel, rather than suspended from piece of metal from up above. If you swap out the stock floor mats for ones not designed with this in mind, during a hard brake your feet can move forward, jamming the floor mat into the accelerator and causing the engine to receive more fuel.

If you'd like a picture, i can go take a picture of the accelerator pedal in my lexus from 2012, and the floor mats which are all but bolted down to prevent this from happening.

as a side note i prefer the hinged design because there's less distance to traverse, i just wish the brake was the same way!
I'm sure looking forward to all the new and exciting ways we'll be surveilled and our private lives intruded on.
More than adequately covered in Dennett. There's a whole chapter devoted to the Chinese room IIRC.
It is probably the most reliable yeh, tho spending time here I’ve grown increasingly aware that the great firewall is more than aware of this vpn traffic, even if it’s wrapped up to look like normal traffic. They periodically will seem to ‘dial down’ the internet, especially at politically sensitive times. They are fully aware great swathes of the populace and visitors use VPNs, and they choose to allow it. They’d rather control and monitor than inspire even more opaque channels.
I have been making youtube videos for a long time on many different accounts. I don't know what else to say except try to choose topics that youtube won't give you trouble over so avoid things like privacy, crypto, politics. Then you just keep making videos and one day you win the lottery when the algorithm finally shines the light on you.
I left Russia around the same age and got 100% English. I can easily do a fake accent and get Russian though. Also some other accents like German, French and so on are pretty easy to get too.
> Onlyfans has to be the most predatory service I have ever used

>> employ the same tactic of seeing how much you are willing to pay and then increasingly offering you more and more expensive content

Oh, in that way.
It'd be more clever to have lights and leave them unilluminated. If caught they can still claim what you're claiming, adding "You just didn't see them!".
Thought experiment -- should it be illegal to provide an AI chatbot to children that indoctrinates them with religious beliefs?

Because we're edging closer to that too: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-god-chatbots-...
Shooting things down over populated areas is a public safety issue.

Drones flying about may or may not be.
Per capita people drink drastically less alcohol than they did in the 80s, and Obesity rates have more than doubled in the period.
Might be an interesting headline if it said what "Devin" is.
35% over 12 months != 35% over 3 months.
Claude works fine for me...

https://status.anthropic.com/
How would a single armed robot handle oversized luggage or luggage with weird centre of mass? Or poorly packed luggage who's centre of mass is shifting?

Say golf club hard shells case where the owner's left a bunch of golf balls in the bottom of one of the pockets. It's difficult to tell that one end's quite a lot heavier then the other until you actually try to pick it up.

At least to me I don't see a good way of handling this edge case. You'd need either a second manipulator, a very fast feedback system, or a way for the weird luggage to be diverted for human intervention.
Soccer Heading Linked to Decline of Brain Structure and Function over 2y
Yeah, I think that gets at the fact that it's typically "obvious" what you mean in context - which is part of why I think the TZ database names can feel so off. Why in the world do you need that much precision?!

(We of course, both know why! And if you haven't seen the names before but you're a programmer, youprobably still make some assumptions about edge cases, precision, etc. But I'm assuming that is not the experience of the typical Google Calendar user?)
A billionaire who will remain nameless is reportedly very fond of saying “Sue them” when he’s not getting his way. It’s the lawyers job to figure out what to actually sue them _for_.
Let's hope the reason for the shut down was not again a privacy issue.
Speaking only to spectrum allocation for amateur radio, that service is a critical resource in emergencies, like Hurricane Helene.

The small amateur radio spectrum allocations cover long-wave emissions that can communicate around the planet and short-wave emissions that engage local repeater networks.

Think of it as an insurance policy - communications backup when comm is a life & death matter. Doesn't happen often, but really important when it's needed.
How to program a computer if you are a child
This is an artificial example pretty much maximally designed for ChatGPT to screw up.

This is an extremely simple example that ChatGPT screws up maximally.

If it can't be trusted for a simple, obvious example, why should it be trusted in less obvious cases were accuracy and reliability are important.

Answer --- it shouldn't. Maximal cost with minimal reliability.
> Nadella deservedly earned acclaim for transitioning Microsoft from the Windows era to cloud and mobile.

You mean by shifting away from Windows for mobile and focusing on iOS and Android?
Not only that, but the companies being disconnected have been ignoring the FCC since February. They were given a new deadline in April that they also ignored. Why did it take an additional seven months to start the process of cutting them off?!