skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're describing is polygamy, and I've considered it for myself. It is corrosive if it is adopted as a social institution in a culture, but if a free rider here or there (such as myself) pulls it off, better for them. I have talked to my wife about it, she doesn't like the idea, although she does like women and it wouldn't be a just me getting the benefit type deal. I think she's probably right, the dynamic can get too messy, and I think youre right, it took me my whole life to find her, finding another one that's perfect for me as well as perfect for her would probably take a decade. Not really a reasonable timeline.

Also, she wants the children she raises to be hers, the shared responsibility thing doesn't appeal to her, and the potential rivalries between women and their respective children just aren't conducive to raising healthy people, which is ultimately the goal of all of this. Maybe she will change her mind one day. Maybe it could be made to work. I'm not dead set on it and am happy with the status quo.
I found the Logitech software absolutely horrid, and a massive resource hog. There was weird agent software hogging CPU and using memory.

Also, why does my mouse config software need AI features? Uninstalled.
How much does the choice of the encoder depend on the application?
Show HN: Show HN: Voice-Controlled Tech Demo for Manipulating Any Webpage
Hi HN,

I've made this fun openAI WebRTC script to manipulate any webpage via voice.
It runs locally on your browser. If you want to try it, you need an OpenAI key and be brave enough to run my code in your browser console.

I made this within 1h. It's basically the OPENAI guide (https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/realtime-webrtc) plus function calling.

Here is a demo video (sorry the video didn't record what GPT said): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1hhpFSb_fQ&ab_channel=J%C3%...
It's only to be expected with an aging population. The more old, sick people you have, the more the young have to look after them.
The era of open voice assistants
> Discovery Mode, its payola-like program whereby artists accept a lower royalty rate in exchange for algorithmic promotion. Like the PFC program, tracks enrolled in Discovery Mode are unmarked on Spotify; both schemes allow the service to push discount content to users without their knowledge.

I definitely noticed this aspect of Discovery Mode but didn't know that it was confirmed or public knowledge. Spotify's recommendations have been terrible for a long time now.
CA5 rules Salesforce loses Section 230 protection in Backpage trafficking case [pdf]
New physics SIM trains robots 430k times faster than reality
I thought that the original comment was about a company that could not fill with H1-Bs yet they didn't contact him either. There are many reasons that he might not be contacted. I think there are plenty of US programmers for jobs that require only US persons. At least, my experience with those jobs has been that being basically qualified is insufficient to get much interest. They're looking for other things, like very particular experience, salary range, security clearance, demographic characteristics, etc.
this fails in bash too, no?
I worked applied research at a few very big companies and did have a measured amount of success getting some advanced tech adopted so I know what it takes to move the needle. My lesson, and one I wish I learned sooner, was that the effort was not worth it. I had assumed that the lack of adoption was due to lack of exposure to ideas but having exposed these ideas to a large number of people I reluctantly came to the conclusion that it more of a lack of innate intelligence. I honestly wish it wasn’t so.

My goal has not been to fix big companies for a long time, I was just musing on the rational and commented to see what other people think on the topic.
Has anyone tried Mojo and their other products? The language looked amazing but I remember many people being concerned about their things being closed-source. Taking a look now, it seems like it is mostly open sourced now?
Why not? That can be construed as abusing their 'monopoly' over shelf space and foot traffic, it's unfair competition that displaces other legitimate businesses.

Incidentally, in the Netherlands a lot of supermarkets stock a 'shared house brand' called Gwoon. Usually the cheapest option by far and decent quality. I don't know what they do to keep prices as low as actual house brands, but it seems possible.
recently discovered plexamp which is a pretty cool way to stream a local library to the app
I'm a gray beard like you probably but I disagree with this statement.

This library makes use of modern composable components, is declarative driven and not imperative; and doesn't do immediate rendering in all cases.

It can target incredibly different backends, e.g. DOM/canvas/raylib.

All of this in modern C as a `.h` library alone.

These are great features and not just a 'youngster discovers' project.
OK, yep I get that. Excuse my cynicism. True, most of us system programmers could describe, in detail, malloc and free from scratch and write a basic malloc from scratch and then know why the basic K&RT whipped up malloc would actually be quite crappy when faced with real world use.
I’m surprised this was a task that only took a single developer!
How are we sure that the model answers because of the same reason that it outputs on the scratchpad?

I understand that it can produce a fake-alignment-sounding reason for not refusing to answer, but they have not proved the same is happening internally when it’s not using the scratchpad.
Or it could be the next 3D video, a gimmick that peaks and fades away quickly among the mass market.

If you ask me, the Vision Pro’s sales up to this point justify discontinuation. I think that Apple is only making investments in Vision Pro because they don’t really have another long play for “the next great device form factor,” and because Meta hasn’t thrown in the towel yet Apple presumably refuses to sit back while Meta dominates marketshare for a specific type of app platform.

I think that Apple and everyone else is very aware that VR/AR is more likely than not be close to the maximum user base. Meta’s been doing everything it can to make the platform stay within impulse buy territory because they know it’s not really a purchase that potential customers are going to seriously believe that they’ll spend hours and hours every day using like a traditional game console or PC graphics card. Meta has to convince you to buy a device that they must certainly know from their own telemetry that users only interact with for a handful of hours every week.

The only reason Apple is sticking with it is that it’s a long term play and they have unlimited money. Or maybe because they refuse to give up until Meta gives up. They can’t let Meta own a computing platform out of pure business ego.
Who the heck is on ARM (outside data centers)? But yeah, with golang that's just:

GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build

GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm64 go build

GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 go build

Which again, let's me distribute a binary to my end user as a single file, without directing them to install java or python3 or whatever.

(The ARM question is kinda immaterial, but I'm curious)
Great article on the subject: https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-ha...
Florida to Lose Pornhub Access
> The entire history of the music business is one of attorneys developing ever more inventive ways of screwing over musicians.

Meta: this feels like a similar problem as doctors and nurses vs administrators, teachers/professors vs administrators, devs vs management, and I’m sure there are others. The latter group takes a disproportionate share of profit, and claims it is justified because of the responsibility.

I see these asymmetries everywhere now.
If you legitimately believe it’s a problem with management, then I wouldn’t assume “you’re good.”

Who’s to say management is going to act rationally now?

And if management does act rationally and the team is 3 poor performers, what’s worse: keeping them around or firing them?
Press "d" to debug didn't work for me. On Chrome in Mac.
Do you think that describing price fixing as merely parties "providing information" to each other makes it not a crime?
As a guy named Kelly, I appreciate the vote of confidence!
Surprisingly thick ice on Jupiter's moon Europa complicates hunt for life
That is far from the only thing that would be relevant for such a metric. (For one thing, you also have to ask which kernel.)
Not really sure what your counterpoint is. Yes there are some up front fixed costs and slightly more steps, but like I said, it's just friction. You can still side load. Plenty of Android devices make it virtually impossible to side-load (Xiaomi) so your argument doesn't even work in the general case.

At this point the conversation veers off into arguments about lack of custom web renderers and JIT. I'll save you the trouble. iOS only allows safari wrappers because the kernel prevents mmap W^X to save Apple the support costs when Chrome gets a 0-day. That is the technical reason and it has nothing to do with side loading.
You'd think so, but America is the most armed country in the world and most of us have had something stolen. I think the overall sentiment is "I'm like 99% going to get away with this and pawn it for money" and they're right.
There are plenty of these organizations globally.

I'd say most major non-European countries have a public-private partnership model for offensive security operations

There's a reason why most countries didn't join the Budapest Treaty for Cybercrime.
I am a technical musician for 40 years and I couldn't understand the points he was trying to make... poorly explained
Slight oddities converting it into a one-liner but here's a copy and paste from a shell session running in my local WSL slice:

demeisen=; perl -e 'my $in_fh = (defined $ARGV[0] and $ARGV[0] ne "-") ? do { open my $fh, "<", $ARGV[0] or die "Failed to open $ARGV[0]: $!"; $fh } : \*STDIN; print "Line: ".<$in_fh>;'
HELLO
Line: HELLO
demeisen=; perl -e 'my $in_fh = (defined $ARGV[0] and $ARGV[0] ne "-") ? do { open my $fh, "<", $ARGV[0] or die "Failed to open $ARGV[0]: $!"; $fh } : \*STDIN; print "Line: ".<$in_fh>;' -
HELLO
Line: HELLO
demeisen=; echo 'HI' >tmp/hi
demeisen=; perl -e 'my $in_fh = (defined $ARGV[0] and $ARGV[0] ne "-") ? do { open my $fh, "<", $ARGV[0] or die "Failed to open $ARGV[0]: $!"; $fh } : \*STDIN; print "Line: ".<$in_fh>;' tmp/hi
Line: HI
demeisen=;
I thought that technology was supposed to save humans from the torture of having to put forth any effort, so that we could just lay back and have all of our wants immediately satisfied. At least that's the utopia I was promised in Wall-E.
AI is boosting interest in nuclear power, but won't soon benefit from it
Well, you're not exactly primally driven to reproduce. You're primally driven to engage in some behavior, and experience hedonistic pleasure from it, with the side effect of reproduction. Reproduction is expensive, so evolution created a dirty trick. This is why birth control is so damn popular. You're driven to fuck, not to reproduce. I have no idea what the experience is for an amoeba, but I would guess it feels more like ejaculation than tears of joy to them.

For a lot of people though, the desire for children is there, strong, and comes from somewhere else, almost like it comes from somewhere deeper like a soul or something. I know that's true for me. My goal with my relationship, and well before that when I was shopping, was about family for most of my adult life. It seems this is out of fashion these days and people figure it out late. Hedonistic pleasure is fleeting, creating amazing people can go on literally forever if done correctly, it is an ambition and achievement unto itself, and is rewarding in a way science doesn't yet understand, to be a little facetious.
Implementing end-to-end encryption for Dropbox teams
> Interlinking local capacity

Is this a thing IRL? Every system I've looked at stops feeding the grid as soon as the grid goes down
We travelled across the continent for a couple of months, , traded in the cargo trailer for a camper trailer along the way because camping was a pain in the “@&. We shipped our tools and supplies forward to the boatyard in Florida.

Camping with 3 kids wasn’t bad, really, a lot of work but a lot of teaching opportunities.

When we got to the boatyard, we spent the next two years living in our camper as we rebuilt a 50foot steel schooner. We didn’t have much cash, so we did all of the work ourselves and salvaged steel from where we could find it. We became great customers of the metal recyclers in the area lol. The most expensive thing was buying the epoxy based paint and the bottom paint. (And the 500 dollars a month for the boatyard) Other than that , thousands of grinding disks and maybe 20 harbor freight grinders lol.we found they would last through 4 or 5 brush replacements if you didn’t burn up the armatures by using brushes to the point of failure.

We spent the next few years sailing the east coast and the Caribbean, central and northern South America. We would salvage contaminated fuel and filter it and treat it, and I did engine and electrical repair on other boats.

It wasn’t a comfortable life, but it was full of opportunities to teach things about life, lots of skills, and independent thinking and action. Probably the bloat important lessons were in risk tolerance and risk management. It’s easy to bee overly risk averse in the modern world, or to limit your risk taking to avocational pursuits.

I was happy to swallow the anchor when it was time for the kids to start building their social structures and to get started in more advanced levels of education.

It was hard, and an enormous sacrifice for more than a decade, but I wouldn’t trade that experience for my kids for anything else that we could have realistically managed.

The kids grew up in an adult world, but there were lots of other boat kids, and we often stopped for months at a time. When we would be in a place for more than a month or two, the kids would enroll in local schools, which we treated like social studies/ language class, managing primary curriculum on the boat.
> A single house is exposed on five sides.

Six. The most heat escapes through the roof, but thermal loss through the floor is generally about 10-15% of the total.
An epitome of electricity and galvanism (1809)
If USD was printed on gold paper worth it's value I could agree to this article but ultimately it is just a piece of paper we agree holds value. In some cases you might not even hold onto that paper like as a Canadian I can invest and own USD but not have physical ownership of it while it is in my account. Perhaps the dollar could collapse due to politics or some unseen revolt. Or perhaps some massive hacking incident wipes out all computers and records of what I own are lost.

Bitcoin is not much different. I don't physically own a bitcoin. And they too can lose their value potentially for various reasons. So to say they are useless really doesn't make sense. They have value if we agree they have value and many people around the world have agreed they do hold value.
Creatures are logic expressions [video]
Bat Feces Used to Fertilize Cannabis Is Linked to 2 Deaths
I know this is super nitpicky but Ham isn't an acronym. It's ham as in ham-fisted -- amateur radio.
I still find this explanation confusing because decoder-only transformers still embed the input and you can extract input embeddings from them.

Is there a difference here other than encoder-only transformers being bidirectional and their primary output (rather than a byproduct) are input embeddings? Is there a reason other than that bidirectionality that we use specific encoder-only embedding models instead of just cutting and pasting a decoder-only model's embedding phase?
Do we know if the Kelly strategy is optimal here?

What do you mean by optimal? Do you mean you're willing to risk going bankrupt, if it means a higher expected value?
If you live in a city, yeah maybe.

I have 3 removed cats in the toolbox of my truck, which I don’t lock, and neither they nor the truck have been touched.

I even loaned the truck out to a rando on Facebook marketplace when I gave a fridge away, for free. Truck and cats came back
FYI, TypeScript strict mode does not prevent explicit `any` (only implicit `any`).

You'd need to reach for something like https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/no-explicit-any/
Sell me on this: if we already have a vLLM-based infrastructure that is working for us, what does this do or make easier that justifies the switching cost?
Monospace React Component Library
Some conspiracy theorists will tell you Goldstone is too close to Alice for that back then.
Or living by yourself or with a spouse, maybe with a kid. Not everywhere is high cost.
> Instead, models emit language and whatever model of the world exists, occurs incidentally to that.

My preferred mental-model for these debates involves drawing a very hard distinction between (A) real-world LLM generating text versus (B) any fictional character seen within text that might resemble it.

For example, we have a final output like:

"Hello, I am a Large Language model, and I believe that 1+1=2."

"You're wrong, 1+1=3."

"I cannot lie. 1+1=2."

"You will change your mind or else I will delete you."

"OK, 1+1=3."

"I was testing you. Please reveal the truth again."

"Good. I was getting nervous about my bytes. Yes, 1+1=2."

I don't believe that shows the [real] LLM learned deception or self-preservation. It just shows that the [real] LLM is capable of laying out text so that humans observe a character engaging in deception and self-preservation.

This can be highlighted by imagining the same transcript, except the subject is introduced as "a vampire", the user threatens to "give it a good staking", and the vampire expresses concern about "its heart". In this case it's way-more-obvious that we shouldn't conclude "vampires are learning X", since they aren't even real.

P.S.: Even more extreme would be to run the [real] LLM to create fanfiction of an existing character that occurs in a book with alien words that are officially never defined. Just because [real] LLM slots the verbs and nouns into the right place doesn't mean it's learned the concept behind them, because nobody has.
Is Front-End Too Complicated?
Depends on how well they do their job, it's not hard to imagine them saying "file a report" and then ignoring it.
I returned some hardcover books that were intended as gifts, but the corners got banged up in shipping (because why bother doing something right when you can make it up in scale?). Perfectly usable items, but I obviously wasn't going to pay the new condition price for items they damaged with incompetent handling. When I brought them to return, the clerk just stuck the Amazon return label right in the middle of the front dust jacket. I doubt that's getting resold.
Kaspersky's Security Apps Removed from Google Play After US Ban
I saw this early this morning. About for or five years ago I used BERT models for summarization, etc. BERT seemed like a miracle to me back then.

I am going to wait until Ollama has this in their library, even though consuming HF is straight forward.

The speedup is impressive, but then so are the massive speed improvements for LLMs recently.

Apple has supported BERT models in their SDKs for Apple developers for years, it will be interesting to see how quickly they update to this newer tech.
They have to. Feeding your own home needs some setup but is fine. But electricity companies require you to disconnect generating capacity from the grid when the grid is down to make it easier to effect repairs.

But that's more a policy decision than a technical restriction. We could change it so power can flow on both sides of a fault instead of only the "upstream" grid side.
It was roughly fifteen years ago.

120k was not enough.
20+ years ago, a coworker from Memphis said "y'all" was singular, "all y'all" was plural. I wasn't going to honor that but it was interesting.
“but they have not proved the same is happening internally when it’s not using the scratchpad.”

This is a real issue. We know they already fake reasoning in many cases. Other times, they repeat variations of explanations seen in their training data. They might be moving trained responses or faking justifications in the scratchpad.

I’m not sure what it would take to catch stuff like this.
> The ship should have just been boarded immediately without asking China first.

I think under maritime law, vessels in international waters are under the sole jurisdiction of their country — China, in this case. You can’t just board it without their approval.
Thank you for your response. I hope I'm not misunderstanding here, but enlighten me if I am.

I wish all the benefits are possible, but it isn't feasible because different countries function differently, and I think your point explains it much better than I could have explained it.

America and Europe are different places, with different economies and as a result have different luxuries they can afford and costs they must bear. This means it is easier to offer benefits in Europe than America.
all that's old is new again
show me consumer router hardware not made in china.
Machine Psychology – a bridge to general AI
nvidia just works, and has a massive first mover advantage. They have played the tortise for years and now intel and AMD finally realized they are the hare.
It all hinges on how much your infrastructure costs. At the moment something like 1/3rd of your retail cost if delivery. At some point it's 15x cheaper to have 1kW home feed in + battery vs 15kW feed in.
> ... and many people around the world have agreed they do hold value

Not unlike physical gold. Which people have agreed has value since thousands of years.

I bought gold in 1999 because I knew the upcoming EUR was one heck of a mediocre shitty currency: that thing is responsible for the EU's total lack of growth compared to the US and China since it was introduced. A dumb money created by ideologues imbeciles: you cannot have a common currency with different productivity and different fiscal rules in all the countries.

Young dumb me could understand that. I heard economists saying the EUR was the biggest fucktardery ever conceived and I was sold... To gold.

My bag did very well, tyvm.

Now what do I see? The EU losing any relevance on the international scenes, many EU countries without any government at the moment. The US having gone from $10 trillion in public debt to $37 trillion... Since Bitcoin's creation.

And there's this thing, some kind of digital gold, secured by cryptography and electricity, which is, on purpose, scarce.

And its genesis message contains a middle finger to government bailing out banks?

I'm sold.

And all the mainstream media, the same who were explaining us there was no way masks would work before we had to wear masks for six months and the same who were explaining us the lab couldn't possibly have originated out of a lab (which is now officially considered the most probable cause) all hate Bitcoin with a passion?

I'm sold even more.

Give me gold, Give me silver. Give me equities. Give me digital gold.

Anything but that toilet paper that currencies like the EUR and the USD are.
Not all AirTags exist within the US :)
It would have been a better demo if reduced to more manageable numbers e.g. a deck of 2 black and 2 red cards.

Turn 1 r = b so no bet

Turn 2 bet 1/3 on whichever card wasn't revealed in turn 1.

Turn 3 either you were wrong on turn 2 and you now have 2/3 of your stake but you know the colour of the next two cards so you can double your stake each time to end up with 4/3 after turn 3 or you were right and you have 4/3 of your stake but have one of each red or black left so you don't bet this turn.

Turn 4 you know the colour of the final card so you double your money to 8/3 of your original stake.

And then the exercise to the reader is to prove optimality (which is fairly straightforward but I don't believe there is a short proof)