skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can always notice them working for my car and other's cars.

Exactly. Noticing them working is very distracting. There simply shouldn't be the possibility of having such a bright light aimed directly at you from oncoming vehicles ever.
> Altman told students in a talk at Stanford University that OpenAI could say with “a high degree of scientific certainty” that GPT-5 would be much smarter than the current model.

I love that quote. "I can tell you with a high degree of scientific certainty that my product will be badass... for some definition of badass, please don't ask".

I, too, could say with a high degree of scientific certainty that while putting those words together sounds good, it makes no sense.
Archived: https://archive.ph/jAdSX
They’re garbage, they will always be garbage. Changing a 4 to a 5 will not make it not garbage.

The whole sector is a hype bubble artificially inflating stock prices.
I agree with prediction 1. Why do you really think prediction 3 will happen?
Yes, with NOSTR you get the benefit of creating random accounts as well as reusing existing ones. Good work with the platform.
JSON parser, http server are provided by many runtimes and if a runtime does not provide something it provides primitives that make it often trivial to build
My advice would be to investigate and address this, despite feeling ok with it.
Stammtisch is closed society. The fact that the members do not close the doors behind them and sit in public should not let fool you. Never sit at the Stammtisch table (which is not always obviously recognizable) if you were not explicitly invited.

In essence it is not unlike a British club. Not much help against loneliness if you are not deeply integrated in the community already and therefore likely not very lonely to begin with.

The less romantic way to see it, is that it is a hundreds of years old customer loyalty program. Regulars get a guaranteed seat and other perks like artfully crafted beer kegs with their names.
If you scale up the multipliers, you should be able to eliminate the variable shift, which would reduce the lookup table to 512 bytes.
Yes! But now you get a specific pop sci book _in any subject you want to learn about_ and _you can ask the book about comparisons_ (e.g. how were Roman and Parthian legal systems similar?). This at leas gives you a bunch of keywords to go silly in wikipedia and publications (sci-hub! Cough! Sci-hub!)
Inundate is a synonym for “overwhelm”. I do not believe one can be ready to be overwhelmed, definitionally.
I used to work in a company that hired dozens of programmers do do things like that. "Move fast and break things". Out QA team were saints.
Hmm... calling people "not engineers" is considered an attack now? I'm afraid this is actually revealing your own bias towards engineers. I never said engineers were superior or that we'd be better off with a whole world full of them.
Samsung doesn’t have airdrop: it uploads everything to a bucket and you share a public link to download.

Your private stuff. That you want to share to the person next to you.

That’s the difference with all of those “any smartphone can do it” features and what’s available on iOS.
Somehow I don't think it's that easy. But yeah, the way Java was used and with XML etc was horrible. Android development continues to be pretty horrible to this day, but due to a variety of reasons.

If I need to target Android natively today, I first consider Flutter (non-web).

For iOS only apps there's little reason to stay away from Swift.
Or the second album is what turned fans into critics :)
One with video report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21719848

And it's 2013, not 2019. Great story.

Edit: adding time context.
I think there's a subtlety here about what makes (e.g. English) tokens different to points in latent space. Everything is still differentiable (at least in the ML sense) until you do random sampling. Even then you can exclude the sampling when calculating the gradient (or is this equivalent to the "manifold"?).

I don't see a priori why it would be better or worse to reason with the "superposition" of arguments in the pre-sampling phase rather than concrete realizations of those arguments found only after choosing the token. It may well be a contingent rather than necessary fact.
Have fun with turkey like inflation in that case.
> why not throw a CDN in front of your site [...]

Because this is how the open web dies - one website at a time. It's already near-dead on the client side - web browsers are not really "user" agents, but agents of oligopolist corporations, that have a stake in abusing you[1].

It's been attempted before with WAP[2], then AMP. But effectively, we're almost there.

[1]: https://www.5snb.club/posts/2023/do-not-stab/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42479172
A human brain has been in continuous training for hundreds of thousands of years consuming slightly more than 20 watts.
Web dev context here. Just from the top of my head: django-constace breaks storage format with no built-in no downtime transition, django-modeltranslations, want to add translations to a heavily used field and you are using a database without transactional ddl good luck with that, django-importexport used a savepoint per row making it useless if you want to import csvs with a few thousand rows, requests doesn't officialy declare thread safety, I could go on and on ...
That’s the one, but I recall it having more interacting features like sliders?

It seems more static now.
Reminds me of a running joke with a friend.

His stock picks are so off I told him to create an inverse etf of his picks and I would pile into that, at least one of us would make some money.
I'm confused why you would even need AWS then (what's running on the VMs)?

My impression is the standard compute (as in CPUs+RAM) isn't expensive, it's the storage (1 PB is less than half a rack physically now, comparing with the yearly prices listed), and so if you don't have much data, the value of on-prem isn't there.
I'm not entirely certain I understand the benefit here.

Code reviews are how you share knowledge among the team, learning and teaching best practices.

Code reviews (alongside pair programming) are how you help more junior devs grow.

Code reviews are how you ensure that everybody is aligned on the same goal.

Code reviews are how you learn the rest of your internal APIs.

In my experience, if you remove code reviews, you destroy the team.
A list of open source projects with links to contribute or donate
Show HN: I made a tool for instant voice searches and AI questions
Hi Everyone!!

I am Tikhon Sokolov, Independent developer working on Productivity, Usability and Automation tools.
I was always passionate about improving workflows and removing barriers in human-computer interaction, as well as improving accessibility for everyone.

When Speech Recognition was introduced to browsers, I started experimenting and built myself a number of tools, and VoiceCommand is the outcome of this research.
Weird consensus for new movie trailers is so bizarre.
It's like saying bacteria reproduction is way faster than humans so that's where we should be looking for the next breakthroughs.
Some open-world video games are very long to finish, but they have a primary story/quest that's not too hard to complete, so it doesn't feel bad to stop there. Time is important, watching a series instead of a film is rarely worth it.

Technical books have whole sections you can easily skip until the day you may need it.
Non-fiction can be read faster when it's explained in details.

I guess fiction big books are the ones you have to read entirely to be satisfied.
And can judge which one is an expert and which one is bullshiting for the consultancy fee.
I am from "traditional background" but I do lots of programming in my free time, so I think it is fair to say I care deeply as well. Please tell me how to find such an employer.
Nice one. It would be great to use filtering. For example, I want to check the TPS of Llama 3.3 across multiple providers.
The antipsychotics turn the body bitter, making it less comfortable for the demon. Hence the demon leaves for a better target.

Well, probably not. But if demon possessions were a real thing there is no reason why only medieval remedies should be effective against them
These things are good or bad because of the community of people who use them, not the technology per se. And that community is shaped by both culture and moderators.
NATO: APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE

Modeling the Impact of Combat and Influence Actions on Population
Attitudes toward Forces

During the last decades, stabilization, COIN and CT operations around the world have brought to light an increased need for influence capabilities on local populations and key individuals. Today, western Forces often face non-state actors and other kind of irregular opponents, which have strong interactions with the “human environment'' and find there some support based on ethnic, political or religious affinities. Influence actions aim at altering the perception, attitudes and behaviors within the population and at hindering proinsurgent dynamics. In order to counter them and stabilize the crisis zone, one must win the so-called ‘‘heart and minds’’ of the local population. The understanding of the human terrain and its dynamics is the key for answering those new operational needs and obviously calls for a modeling and simulation effort. Our goal is to develop a simulation of the dynamics of the population in terms of attitude and behavior change and to use in training and decision aid applications.

Source: https://perso.limsi.fr/sabouret/ps/MP-SAS-105-BROUSMICHE.pdf
The issue is for finding stuff that doesn't cater to the "average person". I'm not interested on what the average person like if I'm looking for artistic value.
Really the killing part was not necessary to make your point and thus injecting your Sisyphean prose.

Any technology may kill us, but we'll keep innovating as we ought to. What's your next point?
It will probably really wind the old git up reading that despite all he his best efforts, I never even realised it wasn’t allowed, wanker (that’s just in case he reads this)!
I've had these pernicious pseudo voices off an on since I did something stupid as a lonely teenager: tulpas or tulpaforcing. Basically an imaginary friend that you try to hypnotize yourself into believing it really exists.

Once I got really busy in my late teens and early twenties it became just a chapter in a shitty past life but in times of stress or use of drugs like weed it comes back. Crazy how impressioned the practice became.

Lately the stress and boredom of being unemployed had morphed it into having old traumatic relationship experiences becoming that pseudo voice. Like my own mother abandoning and rebuking me. Quite luckily I found out that cimetidine helps a lot.
Interessting point with the tax right off. I asked my boss to donate to a open source software we used a lot in our dev department and he labeled it as license costs because donations aren't something he could argue for (big company tho).
For Arma it's VBS, but the games company (Bohemia Interactive) and the simulator company (Bohemia Interactive Simulations) have been seperate for quite some time, so VBS is based on older Arma titles.

IIRC the PLA actually used modded Arma 3 for training.
I believe the smart bidet was an idea some Japanese researchers developed some years ago. Maybe this one was geared to detecting blood in faeces. Whatever,the approach you describe has a huge number of possibilities for alerting us to health problems without even having to think about them on a daily basis. A huge advantage. On the other hand this is a difficult one to implement bearing in mind the kinetics involved.
Your wild assumptions and snarky accusations are unnecessary. The library is for me to use; there isn't a "someone else" for me to pass problems onto. I then did what I usually do — start writing real code with it ASAP, because real code is how you find real problems.

I developed the library interactively, one API call at a time, in a manner akin to pair programming. Code quality was significantly better than I'd expect from $2000 worth of a GOOD mid-tier programmer — the code was well written, well organised, and comprehensively annotated. The code wasn't perfect, but a majority of faults had a basis in the underlying documentation being wrong or ambiguous.

The $20/month for Cursor Pro literally justified its cost in less than 10 minutes.
I don't think data smuggling is relevant in star style scenarios. You're still validating the final output. If it works on test data, what could be even smuggled.
I'm a big fan of Tldraw and the people behind it. The tech behind Tldraw is impressive and the people are great.

But they just seem to be churning out random AI demos?
HA can be deployed as a container. Yes it uses containers.

I’m impressed with your knowledge of the Linux ecosystem. Regardless, passing usb devices to the containerised version is still more effort than it’s worth for the average user.
Industrial civilization will continue to follow along the "Business as Usual" trajectory of the 1972 Limits to Growth publication [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth#Compariso...
I don't know if this is related but I work on a project with a language parser and so a tokenizer and one issue we have is the parser/tokenier was not designed to work on incomplete code so it's not useful for auto complete.

That property of how good the design is for helping write and debug (useful error messages) seems like yet another metric that could be used

I also don't know if tokenizers can be divorced from parsers. Some languages have constructs that require context that comes from the parser
Not formal education but definitely needs a lot of training on listening critically to music to ponder about how it relates to the overall body of works.

That's much more needed in any non-mainstream analysis/critique of music. How do you expect someone who never listened, for example, to noise music to be able to judge the quality of a new artist in that field/genre?
Please don't crack ones like that when I'm drinking my coffee.
AGI and beyond will be reached either by deregulating nuclear power plant construction or breakthroughs in quantum computing both of which we're on the verge of achieving.
Time spent writing code is IMO the smallest part of software engineering.

Optimizations give better results when care is taken first about the most costly parts.
So my hot take:

LLMs have got to the point where they have (more or less) encoded everything ever written by humanity. And encoded it in a gazillion dimensioned matrix so they can take a query and predict, given everything ever written, what the most likely set of words are triggered by that query - and then produce that as a sane parseable output.

I mean this is beyond awesome

But, this reminds me of Aristotle reasoning from his current set of knowledge - and ending up with Eagles having three testicles.

No matter how much reasoning we do from current knowledge, we need to test that against reality - that LLMs are great but the scientific method is greater.

Google is in trouble, yes.

But humanity needs to hold on to science and it’s precepts or we spin into a new dark ages
> Capitalism is not and never was the problem, the lack of regulation around it is.

I simply disagree. Read the book.

> Compare that things are generally better in countries with more regulation like NZ and Norway.

I don't think they fixed the problem either.
>Not text, he had petabytes of video, audio, and other sensory inputs. Heck, a baby sees petabytes of video before first word is spoken

A 2-3 year old baby could speak in a rural village in 1800, having just seen its cradle (for the first month/s), and its parents' hut for some more months, and maybe parts of the village afterwards.

Hardly "petabytes of training video" to write home about.
A junior dev wouldn't have produced output of such consistency, and they wouldn't have annotated their code nearly as well. The majority of code was better than I'd expect from a junior, and the comments were better than I'd expect from the majority of people at every skill level.
Time to tighten those PiHole lists.

Then again, my workplace is using Google.
Is there any relatively easy way of routing Google traffic via an intermediary, say a vps?
What is this “great use?” It seems like the purpose of critics isn’t to entertain people with an opinion about a record, but instead bolster the feelings of the insecure who aren’t sure what to think and need someone else pointing the way to an ideal of what cool is.

Critics feed ideas to those that attend parties so those can have an opinion to express when they feel no confidence in their own taste. Critics are Cyrano de Bergerac.
You could also use gVisor which doesn't need nested virtualization.
(Author here) No contradiction.

I think what happened is

1. The recording engineer dialled the operator. Could have been pulse dialling, could have been DTMF, doesn't matter.

2. Operator answered and the engineer said "I'd like to call London, collect, number 01xxx831".

3. Operator entered 044 1 xxx 831, and this was transmitted to another exchange in SS5 tones.

I didn't grow up in the USA, but a couple of people who did have said that, yes, they think that at least some of the time, you could hear the SS5 tones and also the initial conversation between the operator and whoever answered the phone. It may be that it depended on the operator, since they probably had a mute button, and maybe on the particular exchange the operator was in.

In the film, we hear from 3 onwards.
Last year I wen't to fosdem alone, met up with some people who listen to the same podcasts... We had a great time!

You know when you are forced to socialize and you don't know what to talk about? Well, that doesn't happen when you are with a group of people who are all avid self-hosters, they all have cool setups and there is so much to learn.

It may feel weird, but it's so worth it to do this, even if you generally have a bad time in some bar while your normal (normie) friends are out socializing with the people around them.
If we stay in this example - and I am neither Judge nor Lawyer, so I'm just a layperson: To be specific, every citizen has the right to control the distribution of their own image. Merely taking a picture is not illegal, except for certain areas of "highest privacy", like a bathroom in your home. It only becomes problematic if the picture is distributed. For example, this is why many concerts include waivers that you agree for your picture to be distributed in the context of this concert.

Thus, an artificial eye recording -- and even recording to an SD card -- would be no problem.

And that is how a good law should be written: It should be written with the rights, duties and protection of citizens involved so it allows the judges to make new technology fit into the framework of the rights of the people.

And sure, it may fail at times. But that is what appeals and adjustments are for.
Sure, there is some value in knowing what the average person thinks about it. But if I want a more expert or educated opinion, then there is more value in asking someone that knows more about the topic.

The labeling of any sort of expert opinion as “elitist” is precisely the issue.
That doesn’t install Xcode.
I feel like a reasonable way to deal with this situation might be to look at the user agent: if two requests come from the same IP but different user agents, then it's likely that it's either actually two completely different people (behind a NAT), or this situation the GP described.

That's certainly a bit more effort to implement, though, and the author night not think it's worth the time.
The question wasn't "does this use AI". It was, "does any AI use this".
Will there be any conflict between Musk's supposed eco-credentials and Trump's ambitions to destroy everything green?
Wouldn't have helped
Are you still using them? It seems like Apple is basically killing them…?
First movies written post chat-gpt will hit the theatres. This does not mean that GPT was used to write the films, but there is some
AI elements stuffed in there. Recognizable AI video-gen artifacts start to be used as visual cues in scifi, but these will be hand made by VFX artists as the AI tools remain still a bit too finicky to use in actual production.

The real AI film wave will continue in youtube etc. by hobbyists using all the AI tools especially the chinese ones that have no brakes. This aesthetic will be so detached from professional film world that it will take Hollywood a decade to figure out how to cash it out.

Lot’s of people will once again lose their money when Bitcoin fails in catasthropic fashion and hits the lows of 72k end of the year. The whole thing is finally dead I will say for the fifth time.
I was in Iran 5 years ago and the "3rd place" was the tea/coffee places full of men mostly talking and playing chest during the hotter part of the day. Women gathered at home on their huge sofas. At Friday/Saturday night (IIRC) all the cities families go out and gather in public parce for night picnics. It's a fantastic experience to have. People make music, kids plays together, and families talk to each other over the shoulder. There's many wrong things with that country but ho boy they know of to gather. People bring their huge carpets and some food/drinks. Sometime they're walking merchants or a small kiosk.

I now live in suburb of Paris, there's probably more muslims that in the average French city (but they're still a strict minority) but no coffee place neither an alcool one and definitely not collective picnics at night.
The indoor scenes look completely plausible, but the outdoor leaves a lot to be desired. Very much behind the state of the art.
So the team I lead does a lot of research around all the “plumbing” around LLMs. Both technical and from a product-market perspectives.

What I’ve learned is that for the most part that AI revolution is not going to be because of PHD-level LLMs. It will be because people are better equipped to use the high-schooler level LLMs to do their work more efficiently.

We have some knowledge graph experiments where LLMs continuously monitor user actions on Slack, GitHub etc and build up an expertise store. It learns about your work, your workflows and then you can RAG them.

In user testing, people most closely associated this experience to having someone just being able to read their minds and essentially auto-suggest their work outputs. Basically it’s like another team member.

Since these are just nodes in a knowledge graph, you can mix and match expertise bases that span several skills too. Eg: A Pm who understands the nuances of technical feasibility.

And it didn’t require user training or prompting LLMs.

So while GPT-5 may be delayed, I don’t think that’s stopping or slowing down a revolution in knowledge-worker productivity.
Show HN: Whispr – Push to talk application for macOS in Rust
I had a discussion with someone on here about the magic pills and how they are a crutch for the 3 items you mentioned. They ranted about how helpless humans are and how unfair it is for them to have will themselves to be healthy
A person/group has their entire life to make their first album, but usually only a year or two to make their next one.

Being able to conjure creativity on-demand and/or under deadline -- self-imposed or not -- seems to be the exception rather than the rule.

My opinion is that perhaps 10% of artists continue to produce equal or greater work as their career goes forward, depending on their life circumstances, how they handle their success or lack thereof, and how their label treats them.

They seem to be like programmers and Dunning-Kruger test subjects: 10% are exceptional, talented and humble craftspeople that produce work that is enjoyed by others as the years press on. The rest either only had a few good ideas or are such true artists that their explorations move them away from the kinds of art that their fans or critics enjoyed in their earlier work.