skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is just Google Assistant being Google Assistant - It's awful at playing music, I've had Google Assistant play remixes, cover versions, or the right song but playing out of a 'Top Hits of x Year' or whatever compilation album instead of the original album.

However, whenever I used Spotify's own voice control via my Spotify Car Thing before they bricked it, it got me the exact song I wanted every single time, so I doubt there's some nefarious scheme on Spotify's part.
Have you looked up the average wage in Orleans Parish lately? Before the pandemic and Hurricane Ida, $1100/month was about the breakeven cost basis for one side of a shotgun. But I will read this report. Thank you for the reference.

e: from your link - “Conversely, demand for workforce housing assets—which constitute about 37% of New Orleans’ apartment inventory—remains weak, indicating financial strain among lower-income households in the area.

Construction Trends

Construction has slowed significantly in the New Orleans multifamily market in recent quarters. The current pipeline of 752 units under construction represents just 1.1% of the existing rental housing stock, starkly contrasting with the national average of 4.0%. This limited construction is evident in the trailing 12-month total of new deliveries, which amounted to a modest 82 units”
Botnet of 190k BadBox-Infected Android Devices Discovered
This again? Didn't expect that.
Being guaranteed to be able to talk to a human would be great, but I just don't see how it can possibly scale to over 1 billion users that aren't paying like gmail has.

Years ago, my brother used to work for XBox Live Tech Support, and he said that easily over half the calls he got were for things that customers could easily self-service, like a password reset. Many tech issues were fixed by the most basic troubleshooting step: Power cycling.

Meanwhile, my uncle works XFinity tech support, and he'll frequently get calls when a website has an outage, not to mention how many non-technical people think any internet-related issue, such as a forgotten Google password, means calling your ISP.

This doesn't even begin to talk about bad actors calling tech support to try to break into someone else's account. Google accounts are high-value targets. Once you've gotten in, there's a really good chance you could easily pivot to all of that person's other accounts.

To handle the call volume that a service like Google would have, if they offered phone tech support, the amount of staff they would need would be in the hundreds of thousands, and so many of the calls they take would be wastes of time. There are a lot of non-technical people that have no idea how things work and basically think that Google IS the Internet.
Go to the projects page on the docs site
Ransomware Group Claims Theft of Personal, Financial Data from Krispy Kreme
https://archive.ph/HVDhX
>So the probe needs to find 30km/s delta v

I don't understand why we aren't doing solar + ion drive everywhere (except obviously launch), and instead we settle for slow multi-year multi-grav-boosts trajectories. Current ion drives (by NASA and on Starlink) have 2500-3500 Isp. Which means that even 100+ km/s is easy doable with just 2 stages.
I do think Khun is wrong under his own definitions. Quantum amplitudes are over mechanical possibilities, and they no more overturn them than icing overturns cake. :-)
We do the same, except you don't need to do it at bootup, you can set it once using the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices]
"P:"="\\??\\C:\\Dev\\Source"

Change source path accordingly, save as .reg file, import once and it'll stay.

Nice thing about this vs using SUBST is that the SUBST is for your user only, so if you have a separate admin account it won't see it. However the above registry entry is for the machine, so all users on the machine will see it.

Obviously makes it less useful for terminal servers and other shared machines.
Specifically in terms of batteries, you can also add batteries to an existing solar installation.

Rather than competition what you’re describing is a way to increase the value of installing solar today.

> adjusted for inflation

I brought up inflation because buying a hedge that keeps up with inflation and selling it in the future results in paying taxes on that nominal increase in value but saving money doesn’t have that penalty. You also lose out on the lost productivity from a solar while waiting for prices to drop so it takes a lot more than just moderate inflation adjusted savings to make waiting advantageous.
Faster Inference: Torch.compile vs. TensorRT
Enclosing raw resources tends to be what powerful people do.
Same with me, I had setup MFA using Google Auth for an important account I use.

Next day the phone broke, and I lost that account forever. I had not written the backup codes down anywhere.
Ask HN: What happened with big tech and KOSA? Why do they oppose it?
I'd think KOSA would have financial implications to big tech, but a bill protecting kids seems like a no brainer to support by all parties. So what's their reason for opposing it?
Weighted Interleave Auto-Tuning Being Worked on for Linux
Great comment. See this as well for another potential reason for failure:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10013
Parametric or...?
If it's hardware it can break or be lost or stolen.
When thinking about AI agents, there is still conflation between how to decide the next step to take vs what information is needed to decide the next step.

If runtime information is insufficient, we can use AI/ML models to fill that information. But deciding the next step could be done ahead of time assuming complete information.

Most AI agent examples short circuit these two steps. When faced with unstructured or insufficient information, the program asks the LLM/AI model to decide the next step. Instead, we could ask the LLM/AI model to structure/predict necessary information and use pre-defined rules to drive the process.

This approach will translate most [1] "Agent" examples into "Workflow" examples. The quotes here are meant to imply Anthropic's definition of these terms.

[1] I said "most" because there might be continuous world systems (such as real world simulacrum) that will require a very large number of rules and is probably impractical to define each of them. I believe those systems are an exception, not a rule.
You've apparently never had power run out to a new property that's not had it before. You pay for that. The poles, the lines, the installation. The power company doesn't just run power to you because you ask. They subsidize themselves.

Then PG&E takes the money, leaves 100 year old equipment in place, which inevitably breaks, and burns down an entire forest along with their homes.

You genuinely think these people are being "subsidized" by all this? That it's their fault the PG&E top brass didn't earn a bonus that year?
poor man's chroot.
Yeah this part is what makes the high performance even more surprising to me. The fact that LLMs are able to do so well on visual tasks (also seen with their ability to draw an image purely using textual output https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/25/pelicans-on-a-bicycle/) implies that not only do they actually have some "world model" but that this is in spite of the disadvantage given by having to fit a round peg in a square hole. It's like trying to map out the entire world using the orderly left-brain, without a more holistic spatial right-brain.

I wonder if anyone has experimented with having some sort of "visual" scratchpad instead of the "text-based" scratchpad that CoT uses.
I get LLMs to make k8s manifests for me. It gets it wrong, sometimes hilariously so, but still saves me time. That's because the manifests are in yaml, a language. The leap between that and inventing Kubernetes is one I can't see yet.
I keep hearing these kinds of claims but...

Qualcomm for years has sworn they didn't transfer the existing Nuvia tech. It's the Nuvia team, and a from scratch implementation. Qualcomm was saying pretty strongly they didn't allow any direct Nuvia IP to be imported and to pollute the new design.

They saw this argument coming from day 1 & worked to avoid it.

But everytime this case comes up, folks immediately revert to the ARM position that it's Nuvia IP being transfered. This alone is taking ARMs side, and seems not to resemble what Qualcomm tried to do.
At some point IRA stopped bombing the UK, was it because the UK destroyed Ireland or was it through compromise?

(With also the bonus analogy of: would it have helped if the RAF had bombed Dublin during talks?)
Detailed images shed light on the mechanisms of protein complex Microprocessor
Well established pattern. See e.g. in Chromium: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/l...

(I don't think the Chromium developers invented it either, it's just a convenient reference.)
That doesn't sound much different from regular vfork()? It isn't that evil, you just need a small assembly shim (or if you're courageous, a bit of massaging the compiler output) to safely call another function with its own stack frame, as well as some care to disable signal handlers in the child. It's mostly for silly setuid-binary reasons that the libc people tend to dislike it.

Also, there's no way that libc people would want to work with the compiler people to locate the current stack frame to copy. So you'd end up with an assembly shim with a definite stack size anyway.
Benchmark how? Is it good if the LLM can or can't solve it?
My only observation of this phenomenon was essentially as you described in your second paragraph, the difference being it started as a poly relationship and it was painfully visible that one person was the third wheel there and in denial about it.
Interestingly the way this is phrased could be interpreted a couple ways. Sure one interpretation is you should leave the room and find another.

Another might be you should change the room itself. Instead of leaving figure out how to modify the room (presumably to help the growth of others). Possibly until one surpasses you.
This reminds me of an old joke about a guy known for being particularly foolish (often a member of a specific group, like a military unit). He tells someone he plans to travel to the Sun in a spaceship. When the other person points out, "You can’t do that - you’d die from the extreme heat before even getting close" the first guy replies, "I'm not stupid! I'll go at night!"
It's highly underrated by young people who don't like the idea of living with their parents. Ultimately, the cost of this is shouldered by day care fees, parental leave, social security checks we cut to old people, and less efficient living spaces; problems which were ok in an era of gdp and population growth, but in the era of stagnation? We'll see.
How do you sail into the solar wind?
Its just nitpicking. Humans being unable to prove the AI isn't AGI doesn't make it an AGI, obviously, but in general people will of course think it is an AGI when it can replace all human jobs and tasks that it has robotics and parts to do.
Sure, if the system is set up to only respond to very specific commands that humans would not respond to, I guess that could work. I was thinking more about the other way around, where a person might speak to someone else in the room and be overheard and acted upon - "turn on the lights!" could be a command for the computer controlling the room, or the human standing next to the Christmas tree, for example.
Malaysia to resume hunt for Flight MH370, 10 years after it vanished
> simply nobody knew how bad

It was a 100 year old C hook that caused the fire. Which failed in high winds. Which drove the fire. It was PG&E's responsibility to know "how bad" this was. They literally lost track of their own transmission lines.
I've been using it to generate subtitles for home movies, for an aging family member who is losing their hearing, and it's phenomenal
Alternativeto
Ah, right. Good point!
Einstein's Tutor
Okay?

Your pitch mentions ‘privacy centered design’. Yet what you add to my world from a privacy perspective is a new custodian of my data on par with my telecom provider (highly regulated for me in California) or my Apple Browser. Apple I currently trust, because they continue to show signs of being good stewards, and they make enough money elsewhere to continue to afford the moral high ground. You guys, I need to trust that 1) you permit no 3rd party managed plugins in the client, 2) you won’t inject analytics software of your own.

I’m not managing the version of the client I download from your site, you guys do that.

EDIT: We are transitioning to a world where Govt jobs are currently being handed out by party affiliation, right now Charlie Kirk is vetting candidates for DOGE based on loyalty. There is nothing to stop companies doing the same, and I assume many of them do, with a simple review of a person’s social media activity before hiring.

This next political cycle is going to be dominated by data weaponization at a personal level IMO.
So poor countries will get the best AI doctors for cheap while they are banned in USA? Do you really see that going on for long? People would riot.
It doesn't help that this was posted to HN with the "Usages" section of the README left blank. That alone would probably have addressed your question. The submission is just a little prematue.

Beyond that, while it does seem like its primarily vision is for speech-to-speech interfaces, it could easily be stretched to do things like send a templatized text prompt that was constructed based on toggle states, sensor readings, etc and (optimistically) asking for a structured response that could control lights or servos or whatever.

Generally, this looks like a very early stage in a hobby project (the code practices fall short of my expectations for good embedded work, being presented as a library would be better than as an application, the README needs lots of work, etc), but something more sophisticated isn't too far out of reach.
House passes bill to avert shutdown hours ahead of deadline
I doubt that I actively disabled webm. But yeah, it's been years of switching this or that, firefox adding or removing this or that, etc. That does add up. One of these pages seems to imply that "webm" was turned off when it first came out in firefox. And until not so long ago, Google didn't send everything in webm.
If their mission is the wellbeing of their peoples, they should take any action that ensures that.

Besides regulating the technology, they could try to protect people and society from the effects of the technology. UBI for example could be an attempt to protect people from the effects of mass unemployment, as i understood it.

Actually i'm afraid even more fundamental shifts are necessary.
I want to add more. The whole “30 is gay death” expression, I bet, especially since it’s not really a thing anymore, was greatly influenced by there being very few gay people over 30. Because the rest were dead.
Claude api lacks structured output, without uniformity in output, it's not useful as agent. I've had agents system broke down suddenly due to degradation in output, which leads to the previous suggested json output hacks (from official cookbook) stopped working.
My PC is water cooled.

However the VAX 9000 wasn't. It was initially designed to be water cooled but during development they improved the air cooling enough that water cooling was never shipped.

One VAX 9000 CPU did around 70k Dhrystones/sec, so 40 VAX MIPS (DMIPS as we call them now).

A modern simple RISC 5-stage in-order CPU (e.g. Berkeley RISC-V Rocket) with decent branch prediction does 1.6 DMIPS/MHz, so will need 25 MHz to match the VAX 9000. However the December 2016 HiFive1 ran at 320 MHz, so would be around a dozen times faster than the VAX 9000 -- but without FPU or MMU. Today, a $5 Milk-V Duo running at 1 GHz (64 bit, and with MMU and FPU and vector unit) will be 40x faster than a VAX 9000.

The VAX 9000 has a vector unit, capable of a peak 125 MFLOPS. The Duo's C906 VFMACC.VV instruction has 4 cycles latency, for two 64-bit multiply-adds or four 32-bit multiply-adds, so at 1 GHz that's 1 GFLOP double precision or 2 GFLOP single precision, 8x a VAX 9000.

Don't even ask what a modern i9 or Ryzen can do!
A lot of people like to point to Palestinians and organizations saying "From the River (Jordan) to the (Red) Sea" as "evidence" of this.

Most of those people are unaware that Palestinians and those organizations directly took that saying from Likud, the hard right political party currently in power in Israel - the saying was a literal election campaign of Likud in the 1970s.
Using Perl for sequence alignment? Oof, I did not expect to be blindsided with such an incredibly esoteric flashback to one bioinformatics class many years ago.

I eventually ended up rewriting the thing into an excessive Java/Swing program which animated its work through all the comparisons, showing show best paths and dead-ends. It involved a BLOSUM64 matrix, so I must've been aligning based on what amino acids were being coded-for, even if underlying base pairs differed.
I've seen programs blow up because they think they need to "canonicalize" the path, when all they actually want is a full path (a rooted path rather than a relative path).

Canonicalizing the path resolves all drive letters and symbolic links. The Rust function that canonicalizes a path can fail on some mounted filesystems if the drive letter wasn't registered using the Windows Mount Manager.
About 50% of people are below average.

About 50% of people in your specialization are below average in that specialization.

You are likely below average in many respects, also.
No, we pay monthly, but because we're a cold country that doesn't have widespread domestic air con, energy usage is _way_ higher in winter, so talking about monthly averages doesn't make much sense.
Why does Apple still take a large cut from sales outside App store?
> APPEND is one of the things that are completely irrelevant 99.99% of the time… yet can be extremely useful when the need arises.

Is it really that irrelevant? I mean, if you look past the specifics (directories, interrupts, DOS versions), this seems to be implementing the idea of bringing something into scope, in particular bringing it into scope from the outside, to modify the behavior of the consumer (here, assembler) without modifying the consumer itself. Today, we'd do the equivalent with `ln -sr ../../inc ../inc`.

I'd argue the general idea remains very important and useful today, though it's definitely not obvious looking back from the future what this was what APPEND was going for.
I think SUBST can break when you run as administrator (elevating your own privileges).
Well said! There's no way big tech and institutional investors are pouring billions of dollars into AI because of corporate greed. It's definitely so that they can redistribute wealth equally once AGI is achieved.

/s
Death of a Forum: How the UK's Online Safety Act Is Killing Communities
Something may have changed more recently. The first stage of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line in Toronto looks like it will come in at around (converting currency and distances) 9B for 12 miles. Locals generally don't seem to think this represents a success. (Despite being light rail, about 2/3 of this first stage will run underground.)

(The REM in Montreal - https://www.cdpqinfra.com/en/projects/rem - is doing much better than that, despite going over budget and being delayed quite a bit.)
Nuvia never even had a finished product. Not sure what ARM thinks their losses are considering Qualcomm already had an architectural license...

ARM is (edit) figuratively blowing up their ecosystem for no reason; now everyone will be racing to develop RISC-V just to cut out ARM...
It requires seven Venus flybys, and 24 orbits around the sun[1]. Wikipedia has a nice animation of the trajectory[1], and NASA has another one here[2].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe?wprov=sfti1...
[2]https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3966/
They may well block the transaction before it's made, for cases like this.
Infinilearn – our nations most advanced education platform
Hi all!

I've been working on our nations most advanced education LMS (think canvas but better) in collaboration with Meta and we launched. Would love feedback!
He means 10 humans voting for the answer
It's not about the west (or anyone in particular) doing the R&D, it's about the west providing a market for that R&D.

Although having said that, I do note this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/11/china-...
It could be that it “assumed” you meant “from China”; in the higher level patterns it learns the imperfection of human writing and the approximate threshold at which mistakes are ignored vs addressed by training on conversations containing these types of mistakes; e.g Reddit. This is just a thought. Try saying: As an astronaut in Chinese territory; or as an astronaut on Chinese soil. Another test would be to prompt it to interpret everything literally as written.
> but I just don't see how it can possibly scale to over 1 billion users that aren't paying like gmail has.

Why not charge for support?

You bet your ass I would pay a support fee if my Gmail account was having issues.
This is pretty much the opposite of every explanation I have seen of this principle
In many cases the issue isn't the microphone but the horrid amount of reflections that the sound produces before reaching it. A quite good microphone can be built using cheap, yet very clean, capsules like the AOM-5024L-HD-F-R (80 dB s/n) which is ~$3 at Mouser, but room acoustics is a lot more important and also a real pain in the ass when also not a bank account drain if done professionally, although usually carpets, wood furniture, curtains to cover glass and sound panels on concrete walls can be more than enough.
The people who are staggeringly smarter than us have better things to do with their time than post on HN.
And not to mention Hamas got so big because of Israel actually funding them.

Why fund them? Because for whatever reasons, in his later years, Arafat and the PLO were becoming tired of endless conflict and far more diplomatic and open to negotiation. This lead to increasing criticism of Israel because now they were being seen as the stubborn party, refusing to compromise, and increased sympathies for the plight of Palestine.

Israel's hard-right plan for responding to that? Fund Hamas to "beat" the PLO and provide a better target/focus of attention for disdain.
The linked "bitter lesson" paper by Rich Sutton is so good!

http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
> you can arrange for the CI system to build from a random path each time

Or you can end up having to use the magic path for all builds.

At work, we have a subst’d drive. The way we set it up means that some <evil crap> requires it (by the virtue of hardcoding, or by common configuration). But I do most of my development from a fully separate, leaner copy of the repo, and consider the subst drive to be a garbage pile.