skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worrying times for the dead weight in Shutterstock I'm sure!

A friend of mine works in their European HQ in Dublin and told me that their AI leadership are basically missing, leaving the office leaderless in favor of promoting themselves at tech conferences.

Hopefully Getty makes the necessary changes, because there are lots of good engineers in Shutterstock beholden to lots of bad management.
I know our discussion is most likely over but wanted to apologize for being unclear. I wasn't asking for an abstraction that was divorced from something material; I was asking for an example of an abstraction which has shown something true, where that true thing could not then be verified in the material world, as in my apple example. Basically I'm asking for an example of "they accumulated related truths to become greater than the material itself."
... which brings you nothing compared to just relaying or whatever. You could just as well blame TCP. The whole thing is preposterous, I'm out.
This one doesn't and neither does the Steam Deck. Generally these are packed to the gills with screen (no good space on the front for a camera) and cooling (taking the space that a back camera could use.
You don't have to be the one driving...
Right. Imagine facts as data points on some Cartesian plane, and the narrative surrounding the facts as the curve fit to those points. The data points might all be sound, but by selectively omitting some, or by weighting their "uncertainty" higher or lower, you can fit just about any damn curve you want to them.

One such instantiation of this: https://chomsky.info/consent01/
most household circuits can only support 15-20 amps at the plug. there will be an upper limit to this and i suspect this is nvidia compromising on TDP in the short term to move faster on compute
Proposed MVP architecture combines facial expressions and body signals (heart rate, sweat response) using transformers that can analyze longer 1-2 minute clips, outperforming previous systems by better integrating voluntary (facial) and involuntary (physiological) responses for emotion detection. The model utilizes cross-attention where facial data provides keys/values and physiological data provides queries.
I agree, you should be able to see pending notes even if you're not a CN moderator.
I've always done the diet sodas (Coke or Pepsi, whatever's cheaper), but I'm sure there's a lot of extra sugar in all the crap I was getting at Taco Bell.

I also had a habit of doing a small splash of sugary soda, with with the remaining ~95% as diet, which in a vacuum is probably medically insignificant but I think it was enough to keep sugar cravings going.
This. You're getting downvoted as bad as me LOL
Directors and up need a dopamine rush from bossing around the underlings.
You're bringing up subjective beliefs as a straw man. The idea that it's morally wrong to eat meat or burn carbon are subjective. I specifically said objectively incorrect beliefs. The idea that there exist races of humans who are uniquely "superior" or "inferior" is an objectively incorrect belief. It is not true now, and it has never been true.
> Nvidia's relationship with Linux has been... complicated.

For those unfamiliar with Linus Torvalds' two-word opinion of Nvidia:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OF_5EKNX0Eg
He explained it in the next sentence. If people are free to say it in Congress they should be free to say it on Meta platforms too, and that includes a range of non-binary opinions that aren’t intrinsically istphobic.
Gaming enthusiasts didn't beat an eye at 4090 price and won't beat one there either.

4090 was already priced for high income (in first world countries) people. Nvidia saw 4090s were being sold on second hand market way beyond 2k. They merely milking the cow.
Even worse: they cannot get open mental healthcare for this without loosing their license.

Loose-loose-situation.
Just in time for the surge commute pricing in Manhattan.
It's interesting how the Steam OS option is positioned as the cheap choice for the casual gamer.

On the surface level it looks it bit like the half-assed Linux efforts for the Steam Machines and EEE PCs.

This time the software - if it works as well as on the Steam Deck - is arguably more user friendly than Windows.

So it would have been nice for linux to also be a "premium" option.

On the other hand the Go S with Steam OS has a real chance to compare well against its more expensive Windows version.
love it how most Balkan countries are not even Europe in (this particular author's) medieval times...
Show HNL: Upload resume, get a motivational audio
What’s the issue here? (Why would a lock be needed for reading). Or is it a read in parallel with a write (seems very tricky! But people are very clever).
Digits is petaflops of FP4, roadrunner is petaflops of FP32.
So at least a factor of 8 difference, but in practice much more.
(IE I strongly doubt digits can do 1/8th petaflop of FP32)

Beyond that, the factors seem reasonable for 2 decades?
Following the chain of sources to the actual press release:

> ...the world’s first officially licensed handheld powered by SteamOS™.

https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-legi...
Radha but that’s n100 aka x64
Something a lot of people don't realise is that the last of the "Roman" states (that called themselves Roman) didn't cease until about 50 years before Columbus crossed the Atlantic (xref the fall of Constantinople).
If you have UTM on your phone, you can probably do that today. There's little point though, since the performance would suck.
One day you might have to patch a binary with a hex editor. For reason or another.
> Android is a Linux.

Can you run unmodified LibreOffice or Wine on it? I can on my Librem 5.
Widely used DNA sequencer still doesn't enforce Secure Boot
I don't know anything about game programming but I quite approve of your sense of humor.
It's an extra cost that doesn't add much to the device for north of 90% of their intended audience. I love my Steam Deck but barely use the trackpads except for the rare times I need the keyboard or I wind up in the desktop doing something.
Using outdated tensorflow (v1 from 2018) or outdated PyTorch makes learning harder than it need to be, considering most resources online use much newer versions of the frameworks. If you're learning the fundamentals and working from first principle and creating the building blocks yourself, then it adds to the experience. However, most most people just want to build different types of nets, and it's hard to do when the code won't work for you.
Yes. Depends what software you're using. Some will use more than one (e.g. llama.cpp), some commercial software won't bother.
Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system
Do I get this right: genes were flowing from Scandinavia down to mainland Europe in the first half of the first century (i.e. before the Vikings, are they talking about the ancestors of the Goths and Vandals, for example?) and it reversed direction during the Viking period?? Isn't that quite the opposite of what was expected?

Iron age British ancestry being found in Ukraine with Viking graves also sounds really fascinating.
Be aware in a microcontroller design, an lm324-type op amp might outperform the on-chip ADC you’re using anyway. Even the cheapest op amps from major players are better characterized and specified on their data sheets than most microcontroller ADCs. There’s no virtue in spending other people’s money and supply chain risk to use a “better” part just because it wins a bench race or it’s newer or whatever.
This site is actually an online shop for merchandise, like sweatshirts and caps. All packaged as an extremely innovative and advanced company.

https://enron.com/collections/shop
Sometimes Musk does post a factual claim that's wrong in some way, specifically asks for a fact check, or posts something misleading, and then a CN does appear. Examples:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1876435054622388257 (from yesterday)

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1876554867785007175

But why not sign up for a CN account like I did and go look. Last time I did this almost every tweet he posted had a gazillion proposed CNs but one of the rules that the community is good at enforcing is that a CN is not meant for just arguing with someone. Many of the proposed CNs on Musk's posts didn't meet the criteria to be a note and so they get meta-moderated out on the grounds of "no note needed" (NNN), which is the reason people pick when a tweet isn't making a factual claim to begin with.

Most of what Musk posts are either opinions or just retweets, and arguing with an opinion is always supposed to be marked as NNN. And CNs go on the original tweet not retweets.
The odds of you calling yourself "native new yorker" and having never actually lived anywhere else are virtually 100%
I agree that there needs to be a better standard than just “more likely than not”. Freedom of expression is a fundamental good, and there should be clear evidence of harm outweighing that good, before curtailing it.

Regarding my previous comment, my intent was to point out the GP comment’s position (because the parent’s comment seemed to be beside the point), not necessarily to endorse it.
yes, and we’ll love it.
This is the first third party steam deck, but you could just use any USB camera. None of these are really pocketable. You can hook up a raspberry pi or any similar SBC to a screen and peripherals and make a DIY Linux phone.
I don’t think it is a real word. “Turbo” means “very” or more accurately “extremely,” but is typically only used in a positive context, e.g. turbocharged. That makes the turbobloated neologism ironic and funny.
Chess.band creates its own team on Lichess, leaders get stars in telegram
Just keying off your comment about recumbents[1] to drop my new favourite bike obsession since the Brompton[2], the tiny and unusually designed Kwiggle folding bike: https://www.kwigglebike.com/en_US/ which has an upright riding position.

There's a German man on YouTube who is bikepacking with the Kwiggle and a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HQf71fMuIU

and it's small enough to fold into his canoe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exL-FCqtEOQ

The manufacturer has climbed the Stelvio Pass (1900 meters climb in 12Km) on it: https://www.kwigglebike.com/en_US/faltrad-stilfser-joch

and he has done 186 miles in one day around the Dutch IJsselmeer on it: https://www.kwigglebike.com/en_US/faltrad-300km saying "After the first test drives we noticed two things: the upright riding position is a lot of fun and even after long trips we were not tired at all".

[1] my favourite recumbent to read about/watch is the ICE Sprint with the extra large rear wheel. Worst HN recumbent story is jacquesm and his leg-sucked-underneath incident leaving a serious broken (shattered) leg injury: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38172519
My twitter account wasn't big, but it was non-trivial (~30K followers). A post could usually get me to experts on most topics, find people to hang out with in most countries, etc. There were many benefits, so deleting was very hard.

But it was eating my brain. I found myself mostly having tweet-shaped thoughts, there was an irresistible compulsion to check mentions 100 times a day, I somehow felt excluded from all the "cool" parts which was making me miserable. But most importantly, I was completely audience captured. To continue growing the account I had to post more and more ridiculous things. Saying reasonable things doesn't get you anywhere on Twitter, so my brain was slowly trained to have, honestly, dumb thoughts to please the algorithm. It also did something to attention. Reading a book cover to cover became impossible.

There came a point when I decided I just don't want this anymore, but signing out didn't work-- it would always pull me back in. So I deleted my account. I can read books again and think again; it's plainly obvious to me now that I was very, very addicted.

Multiply this by millions of people, and it feels like a catastrophe. I think this stuff is probably very bad for the world, and it's almost certainly very bad for _you_. For anyone thinking about deleting social media accounts, I very strongly encourage you to do it. Have you been able to get consumed by a book in the past few years? And if not, is this _really_ the version of yourself you really want?
A desire for a portable but fully capable computer is mostly why I bought one of the original Steam Decks. You can trivially plug it into a dock and have a full and pretty capable "desktop" experience out of it as well.

At that point I didn't even own any Steam games and hadn't played a game in well over a decade, and had no interest in doing so. I'm a sucker for open hardware though. Forward a few years and I've been really happy with it. With games so easily accessible I have bought quite a few over the years now.

Adding cameras would be awesome! Though were I in charge of product for it, I'd want to think very carefully before doing so. It is a general purpose portable computer, but it's important to remember that the vast majority of the market doesn't buy it for that, and a camera and associated software may get in the way of it's primary purpose... Though, it could enable some pretty slick live video chat during multiplayer, which could be pretty awesome for people that play those kinds of games.
probably anyone this far in the thread remenbers long term capital managment, I did, but couldnt remenber if it was in the 80's or 90's. (1998)

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/longtermcapital.asp
I suppose you cannot watch Netflix on anything not having a certified DRM-supporting display tract, up to the encrypted HDMI interface. Were it not so, you could PIRATE a movie for free! (Now you need to pay for a $30 HDMI splitter, or something.)

I don't do Netflix, so I don't care. Youtube works fine.
OmniAI (YC W24) Hiring Engineers to Build Open Source Document Extraction
not sure if this is for infotainment, or the real time control of the car? or just for the autonomous computing? it's pretty vague to me.

or is it the redhat version of AGL https://www.automotivelinux.org/ which is more for the infotainment.
All that comes with linear increases of heat, and exponential difficulty of heat dissipation (square-cube law).

There is still progress being made in hardware, but for most critical components it's looking far more logarithmic now as we're approaching the physical material limits.
Honestly my water cooled 3080TI FE has been great. Wish it had more VRAM for VR (DCS, MSFS) but otherwise it’s been great.
Are you aware that mainline linux runs on these Jetson devices? It's a bit of annoying work, but you can be running ArchLinuxARM.

https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/pull/1580

Edit: It's been a while since I did this, but I had to manually build the kernel, overwrite a dtb file maybe (and Linux_for_Tegra/bootloader/l4t_initrd.img) and run something like this (for xavier)

sudo ./flash.sh -N 128.30.84.100:/srv/arch -K /home/aeden/out/Image -d /home/aeden/out/tegra194-p2972-0000.dtb jetson-xavier eth0
Unclear if they changed the article's title, but "How we saved millions on AWS" may be a more useful and informative HN title for passersby.
No, not over a certain level (low/no fibre would be it's own type of bad).

Carbs give a type of satiety I can't replicate with unlimited fat/protein/fibre. IMHO it's not actually hunger/stomach related but relief from withdrawal symptoms. Carbs are CNS stimulants that trigger serotonin release and very addictive to me at least.

After fasting or eating keto for a sufficient duration this carb specific form of absence/satiety no longer exists. Hunger/appetite stops feeling like a gnawing craving desire, instead it feels like a more neutral empty/weak signal.

Anyway, if eating carbs, best bang for buck satiety is the potato.
It's not just more roads, although more roads are one of the things it is possible to create.

You can also create more housing, so people are closer to their jobs and have to travel fewer miles. Manhattan has higher density than most places, but it also has more people, and would you be surprised to learn that the zoning in most of NYC no longer allows the buildings that are currently in Manhattan to be built almost anywhere? So as a result you can't create more of them and people who might like to live in Manhattan instead live in the suburbs around the city and drive into the city in a car.

You can also create things that aren't roads, like subways, which then allow you to remove cars and buses (and bus lanes) from the roads when it becomes viable for more people to take the subway, which reduces road congestion.
The lengths this city goes to keep free parking...
> A lot of the value I personally get out of chat-driven programming is I reach a point in the day when I know what needs to be written, I can describe it, but I don’t have the energy to create a new file, start typing, then start looking up the libraries I need... LLMs perform that service for me in programming. They give me a first draft, with some good ideas, with several of the dependencies I need, and often some mistakes. Often, I find fixing those mistakes is a lot easier than starting from scratch.

This to me is the biggest advantage of LLMs. They dramatically reduce the activation energy of doing something you are unfamiliar with. Much in the way that you're a lot more likely to try kitesurfing if you are at the beach standing next to a kitesurfing instructor.

While LLMs may not yet have human-level depth, it's clear that they already have vastly superhuman breadth. You can argue about the current level of expertise (does it have undergrad knowledge in every field? PhD level knowledge in every field?) but you can't argue about the breadth of fields, nor that the level of expertise improves every year.

My guess is that the programmers who find LLMs useful are people who do a lot of different kinds of programming every week (and thus are constantly going from incompetent to competent in things that other people already know), rather than domain experts who do the same kind of narrow and specialized work every day.
I would have done worse, but I am a bad businessman. Being good at business doesn't also make you a revolutionary thinker in technology, let alone the broader themes that are discussed here.

I would be interested in hearing his thoughts on philanthropy and how he's working to convince other billionaires to follow his lead.
> AFAICT the participants' goal was just to judge the humanness of a single witness, not to maximize their long-term likelihood of judging correctly over many trials

Why do you think this matters? Even in a single trial, I would judge very differently if I knew the population to be 99% human vs. 1% human. Wouldn't you? If you were judging whether a single mushroom was poisonous or not, then would you not care whether it was found in a forest (mostly poisonous) or a supermarket (mostly not)?

The question of whether probabilities are meaningful for non-repeated events was controversial in the eighteenth century, but I thought it was pretty settled by now. Bookmakers manage to estimate a probability that a given team will win the Super Bowl, with no requirement for the same pair of teams to play multiple times.

> If they had wanted "indistinguishable" as a threshold, then obviously their pass criteria would have been for the machine and human pass rates to be equal within an error bar, right?

The title of the paper is literally "People cannot distinguish GPT-4 from a human in a Turing test". They're very clear that they think that's because 50% means indistinguishable:

> A baseline of 50% is better justified since it indicates that interrogators are not better than chance at identifying machines [French, 2000].

That statement is true for a Turing test with a binary choice, but false for theirs. I agree that "for the machine and human pass rate to be equal within an error bar" would be closer to a correct criterion, and they weren't:

> humans’ pass rate was significantly higher than GPT-4’s (z = 2.42, p = 0.017)

So do you think their paper is correctly titled?
> Having to show an ID to a poll worker to get a ballot is a higher bar than signing something.

I agree, but it's also true that 1) strict ID requirements inconvenience poor and other disadvantaged people the most, and 2) there have been multiple studies on the effectiveness of voter ID laws which have found them to have little impact on voter fraud.

Additionally, if my data is correct, only 11 US states have strict voter ID requirements. This means that for a majority of Americans, an apples to apples comparison would be "signing a ballot" vs. "giving a poll worker your name/address." Of those two options, I would argue that signing something is actually a higher bar than giving your name to a poll worker, because it could later be more reliably verified to be fraud, if necessary.

So, I don't accept that mail-in ballots are "the most open to abuse."
4k90 is about 6 times that, and he probably has the options turned up.

I’d say the comparison is what’s faulty, not the example.
As a Harris supporter, I actually agree, I think it was way too heavy handed and hurt Harris more than helped. I’m not sure anymore what the goal of fact checking is (I’ve always felt it was somewhat dubious if not done extremely well).
In that case I would offer $250k, of course, but that assumes there is no other firm that can put that person to work on something equally profitable.

Either way, engineer wages at Google would not be a factor.
>Of course fact check suppresses information! That's the whole point

Its not. The fact checkers in this case, and almost all cases we're discussing ADD information that challenges the posted data, not censor or restrict it from being posted.

Outside of illegal content that is. Content deemed illegal was removed by moderation teams, this was before fact checking, and will continue with community notes with little to no change.
2080 TI though is a really good sweet spot for price/performance.
With apologies to stephen_g, who I'm sure writes excellent firmware, this is the quality of decision making I would expect from median firmware.
Haha, the problem is: we still haven't gotten AI to generate voices! "State of the art" just uses regular TTS engines and then adds extra inflection as "special sauce" or stretches it out, etc. At least, that is how it works for these AI generators that need to do it "at scale." When you can spend more on classic speech models, you can go well beyond that (see Siri, Google, Alexa, etc).
if there aren't enough seats and they're still running 30 minute headways, that's incredibly stupid.
Curious, have you always been a market determinist, or did that develop in a unique way for you?
11 incumbents lost their seats in 2024... that's accountability.