skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not AI but when I was looking into vocaloid music (the singer is 100% synthetic) I was surprised how much christian praise music on Youtube was using it. It seems the antithesis of being brought closer to god/a higher being and so weird. But today seeing this, it's already no as weird as it should feel.

I know my mennonite friend (less strict Amish) has been having discussions in his church group about how to use AI for their bible studies, teachings. They're a group of random old dudes in the middle of nowhere so they aren't great speakers/motivators/explainers. But I can't imagine being lectured on god by a robot is going to be better even if it's done in pretier prose.

Anyways if you want to hear spiritual music without any human connection to spirituality but also anime girls search 'vocaloid christian songs' on Youtube.
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I have a soft spot in my heart for Garmin.

I am one of the few people left that still use Garmin's car GPS. I currently use the latest model, the Drive Smart 66. It is my daily driver (lol?).

I recently went on a cross country road trip and this thing worked perfectly even when I was in the middle of the desert or driving through a canyon. It was nice to not rely on cell phone service for navigation on this trip.

Although the question often comes up: why not just use your phone? There are pros and cons for sure.

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Pros:

- You don't need a cellular connection for map data.
-- Counter Point: You can download map data on google maps. True, but it is something extra that you need to remember to do.

- You don't need to waste your cellular data
-- Counter Point: Don't most people have unlimited plans these days?

- A corporation isn't tracking your every move
-- Counter Point: Most people don't seem to care about this.

- Modern Garmin GPSs can get traffic data
-- Counter Point: It requires a cellphone and it is not going to be as good as google maps

- Modern GPS screens look just as good as a phone and you can get one that is as large as a tablet
-- Counter Point: you could probably use a tablet and google maps

- Garmin makes GPS units for specific vehicles like motorcycles and RVs and they take their vehicles quirks into account when routing trips. Google maps is one size fits all

- A Garmin GPS unit from 20 years ago will still work today as long as you can update the maps.

- Because of the previous point, it is very nice to keep one of these in the trunk of your car as a back up

- Garmin GPSes can handle sitting in the hot sun without overheating, which some cell phones are prone to do.

- I really like having the GPS on my dashboard so I don't have to look down and to the right to look at my car's infotainment screen -- Counter Point: You can mount a phone on your dashboard or windshield. They even sell stand alone monitors for your car where you can view apple car play as it was a stand alone gps.

Neutral

- The routing can make weird mistakes, but this is true for all GPSes including apple maps and google maps

Cons

- And this is the biggest: it is nowhere near as good at finding businesses as google maps. To me that is google map's killer feature
Only if they're from a friendly country. If the reason a user needs anonymity is geopolitical, that isn't a guarantee.
That is a roman salute, yes. And a swastika is also a buddhist symbol.
This documentation needs work. The entire project description appears to be

>Get up and running with large language models.

Okay... I have so many questions up-front before I want to install this thing. Am I stuck to a client interface or what? System requirements? Tell me what this is
Did you see how the discussion went on the first submission of the video/clip/story? Not so well.

There isn't much room for discussion or any real 'question' to get into on that particular story. Many, perhaps most, would rather not lend validation to it and move on. And the rest, well, as mentioned, the discussion devolves into insults and weird 'othersideism' and well, doesn't go anywhere.

An alternative option is also you're welcome to bring it up/seek to address it further, or even flag, the numerous Musk/Telsa/X related stories that come up around here elsewhere.
This is not a dark pattern, it's just a constraint that the app stores place on the pricing disclosure that is very non-intuitive. You have to mark your app as "free" to download if you charge a recurring subscription fee. You can only mark it as paid if there is a one time fee to download the app.

Our FAQ and pricing pages all list that it is a paid only app. All of our ads explain that it's subscription based. Anyone who asks we're very transparent about it. If there's somewhere else where you think we can list it to make it more clear I'm happy to add it, just not sure where that would be.
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Or, maybe Trump was saying something he had no intention of doing. You know, "baseless" or "unsupported" things. This seems more likely.
Another reason to work at a startup is if you have subpar grades and the company is willing to take on a risky hire (and pay peanuts for the risk). An alternative for those who don't have the option of working for MANGA. Speaking from personal experience :)
> My (wealthy) father in law

> I've no idea how he compensates them

I'm going to guess with a lot of money. That likely doesn't get reported to relevant tax authorities.
There are a few I'd recommend:

Loomio - this is usually for coops, especially decision making, but last I checked works well as a forum.

Lemmy - federated reddit alternative.

Discourse - the forum we know and love.

Flarum - decent alternative to discourse.

The challenge with all these is moderation: Lemmy solves it best by having subreddit style division of labour, with moderation per "board". Discourse supports trusted users if memory serves, and I'm not sure about the others.

I'm pretty sure discourse and Lemmy also support eg, log in with google/facebook/etc which eases onboarding a lot.

Personally, I'd go with Lemmy. It is less mature than discourse but probably more suited to your purposes.
Could even make an app for that.
While I personally make 95% of my food, I order delivery when I am so busy that if I don't, I will not eat.
This seems awesome actually. And a practical path in a small place. Print --> Online --> Online Community
I sold a mk3s because I could never get it to work to my satisfaction. I tried for weeks, trying everything I could find on the internet, using filament supplied by Prusa.

Eventually the print head crashed into a failed print overnight, fusing nearly the entire head inside a ball of PLA filament that formed after the printer happily carried on shoving out molten plastic.

I didn't have another 3d printer to print the replacement parts. I was so frustrated with it at that point I just got rid of it.

Until I can treat a 3d printer like a Brother laser printer (forget about it for 9 months at a time and then have it work perfectly when I need it with zero maintenance), I don't think I'll invest in another one.
Yes, but TFA starts with questioning whether women knew about insertion.
Yup, that was all accounted for in what I read (well over a year ago, can't find the link...sorry). It was also for a northern climate country (possibly the UK, maybe Norway, memory is failing me here), so it was not "best case" for heat pumps. They took into account losses from generation, transmission, number of days so cold that it is acting as close to a resistive heater (100-120% efficiency), etc. It was pretty comprehensive.

It was from a "what is the best way to lower our use of fossil fuels" perspective, and acknowledged that switching out all boiler systems for heat pumps would be a high cost, but it wasn't really a study on the economics of it. Just a resource usage perspective.
it's an interesting question. the unhelpful answer is Vulkan didn't exist when Tensorflow, PyTorch (and Torch, its Lua-based predecessor) were taking off and building GPU support. Apparently PyTorch did at one point prototype a Vulkan backend but abandoned it.

My own experience is that half-assed knowledge of C/C++, and a basic idea of how GPUs are architected, is enough to write a decent custom CUDA kernel. It's not that hard to do. No idea how I would get started with Vulkan, but I assume it would require a lot more ceremony, and that writing compute shaders is less intuitive.

there is also definitely a "worse is better" effect in this area. there are some big projects that tried to be super general and cover all use cases and hardware. but a time-crunched PhD student or IC just needs something they can use now. (even Tensorflow, which was relatively popular compared to some other projects, fell victim to this.)

George Hotz seems like a weird guy in some respects, but he's 100% right that in ML it is hard enough to get anything working at all under perfect conditions, you don't need fighting with libraries and build tools on top of that, or the mental overhead of learning how to use this beautiful general API that supports 47 platforms you don't care about.

except also "worse is better is better" -- e.g. because they were willing to make breaking changes and sacrifice some generality, Jax was able to build something really cool and innovative.
Can you explain why a base 2 number representation would help with interpreting dichotomies? They seem entirely unrelated other than the number 2 being vaguely involved.
Yes, it would, and other religions too.

Apologetics is about a lot more than texts. It includes philosophical arguments (e.g. for the existence of God), non-scriptural texts, and personal experience.

I do not think that LLMs are any better equipped to deal any of those other aspects of it either - especially not personal experiences.
The other way to see it is by just looking at the different outcomes of car behind door A, B or C.

Let's call the door you initially pick A.

car initial monty stick swap

A A B A C -- or Monty picks C, and you swap to B

B A C A B

C A B A C

So, if you stick, get it right 1/3, but swap get it right 2/3.
i couldnt come up with a proof for the initial problem (n^6+n^3+2n^2 is a multiple of 6 for every n)

because it's not true (simply insert 1, 2, 4 or 5)
> i'm surprised that more gig work delivery folks haven't tried to 'go independent' and become a new sort of personal assistant: select a handful of good clients and get them pay a retainer for you to drive around doing their busywork all day.

I think you might be over-estimating how much of a personal connection gig work delivery drivers have with the people they deliver to.

How many do you recognize? How many do you even know the names of? I'm not even sure if I've ever had a repeat delivery person, except from one restaurant that does delivery in-house instead of farming it out to one of the services.
(Disclaimer: I've never tried to move large numbers of people off of Facebook; I have organized community groups from scratch before, and I have led initiatives at work that consisted largely of convincing people to do a thing. Much of this advice is from that perspective. YMMV.)

So: my advice is to not think of it as all-or-nothing. You will not be able to move 300k people off of Facebook overnight. This is somewhat akin to every IT migration project ever: it always takes longer than you think, and is not always a linear process from "fewer people migrated" to "more people migrated".

It's also akin to community organizing: there is no substitute for actually talking to people about it, especially in the initial phases. Or: high-touch sales, where you may initially need to spend a lot of energy and time per person successfully moved over. The other common thing here is that you will hear "no" a lot, which is a valuable experience anyways (but will be frustrating).

Also: unfortunately, no one will care if it's self-hosted or federated, outside of niche tech circles. They will care about whether they can reach the people they want to reach, and whether the user experience is good or not. This is reality: talking about these points will not help you.

Some things you'll probably need to do:

- Identify a single credible alternative platform.
- Identify specific groups of people who are willing to be early "de-adopters". For instance: a local youth group, a sports club, whatever. Ideally you are a part of this group already; you then have a much better chance. Businesses will likely say no, so you want community groups.
- Within those groups, identify champions: people who care about the same thing you care about, and are willing to commit time and effort to help.
- Together with your champions, build a toolkit that allows you to scale up your efforts. This may be guides on how to talk to people about the change - what works, what doesn't. This might be instructions for setting up a specific platform. It might be communications channels, leaflets / flyers for putting up in public places, whatever.
I don’t have a plan for what happens if TCP goes away either, but that also seems fine.

EC2 and S3 are backbone/foundational enough that I expect they’ll be running the last year that AWS exists.
This particular Oxide and Friends podcast includes a fantastic discussion of AI agents, the problems with their definitions, and at least one promising use case: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/predictions...
You really don't want to pay a one-time fee, it incentives the developers to stop maintaining the app.
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I'm not sure how much if it makes any sense.
Apologies since I am not an employee but I wanted to share this story because I had this exact question back in 22: I went to DEFCON two years ago and visited the Aerospace Village where they had a handful of SpaceX employees running some sort of challenge and generally discussing what things SpaceX is working on (Starlink etc.)

Keep in mind in 22, the software dev community was just starting to wake up to the kind of person Musk was post Twitter, people in the automotive/space industry were screaming about him for years prior(anyone from /r/realtesla?)

Nevertheless I was determined to confront these employees and figure out why they continue to work for this guy. The pay actually sucks all things considered and the hours are long and brutal. We occasionally see that even if you are successful it is still not enough and he tosses employees out the door after they have worked so hard(just look at the recent firing of Rebecca Tinucci and her team).

They were very clear, its all about being a part of a team that is executing at a level no other company is doing. If you are a naturally exceptional performer, you want to be working with other exceptional people. Too many companies are just compromising at some level in the bureaucracy whether its poor management or tolerating poor performers or making decisions that kneecap the best people in the org.

As they were making this point, they showed me the teardown of the Starlink antenna, its a very nice looking design very impressive what they came up with in such a short timeframe. To them, this drive for excellence tops all. Maybe everyone has their own red line but you have to consider what you are giving up if you leave the Musk universe in favor of some principle: the loss of being on such a fast moving high performing team.

I do recall that they were uneasy talking about this subject but that could have just been because they dont know who I am at a hacker conference. Observing the Tesla fanboys over a decade, they have a built in paranoia and trauma from years of. watching the musk companies teeter on the brink and dealing with short sellers. In the past when covering Tesla from afar, ive observed this with the employees as well. (this is just my observation, I could be wrong)

We see the results: no one is even close to SpaceX, all the other satellite providers don't hold a candle to StarLink, while there are competitors to NeuraLink, he is blazing forward everything else be damned. Tesla still sits near the top of the technology stack when it comes to EV innovation only to potentially be outdone by the Chinese but if you are an American, you have few companies in the US operating at that level (probably Tesla, Rivian and Lucid to be honest). I am reminded of this every time I end up at an EVGo or Electrify America station only to curse off the company for not fixing their junk equipment.
I understand the author's conserns but I wonder of his standard of "true" is a bit unrealistic. Maybe the standard should be "less false than the average human produced work."

Yes a human expert who is devoted to uncovering and communicating truth will do much better than an llm. But that is not what most of the content in the world consists of.

Most content is written by people with questionable expertise who write with goals like fame or viewership numbers or advertising dollars. Most content on the internet or in the world does not seem to be written with the goal of uncovering truth.

To create a more truthful world AI doesn't have to be as accurate as an expert. It just has to be more accurate than average. And in many areas, that's a very low bar.

To choose a less controversial area than religion, I think adding AI to nutrition advice on the internet will be an improvement. It's true you will inevitably get inaccurate advice communicated with confidence, but any AI trained on any kind of credible scholarship for will still be miles ahead of Internet nutritional advice that is often filled with zany pseudoscience.

Yes it will produce inaccurate results but on average the information will be more accurate than what already exists and what is currently being perpetuated
I think those kind of assistants are called henchmen ;-)
Mostly true, but Everybody 1-2-Switch was pretty close to being junk though.
It's not censoring, it's a private corporation and they can do whatever they want with their platform. They just want that type of speech on their platform, but you can build your own social media if you want to :)
I'd love to do such a quiz -I might even be willing to pay for the privilege! I'm quite convinced I'm really accurate at calorie estimation without using a scale but would love to be proven wrong. Zero food industry experience here, just from reading hundreds of food labels per year since very young, maybe 8 years old.

Thinking about it again, I'll probably do a lot worse from a picture because I can't have a bite of the food! Just having a spoon makes it so much easier in terms of ratios.
I'm guessing it's basically doing RAG over the full toolset to surface only the most relevant tools for any given message?
He braces himself, makes an aggressive facial expression and stiffens his arm (not a thank you loving face), his palm facing down, elbow stiff, fingers locked together (not how one throws their heart), does it a second time, then comments that 'the future of civilization is assured'. Go Google images and look from multiple angles. Of BOTH salutes. Try not to puke at the smiles/cheers in the crowd.
Subtle Elon used the Fraktur font on his MAGA hat. Elon supports the AFD. Elon intentionally does a Nazi salute twice. Elon likes/responds possitively to Nazi's and white supremacists on X. Elon talks about 'declining birth rates and immigration policies' as closely as he can get away with to 'race replacement theory'.
Linux 6.14 Resource Control to Allow Total Memory Bandwidth Monitoring
Careful there. Isaiah 55:11 "so shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: It shall not return unto Me void"

There's a real chance that God is a functional forth programmer.
It's all a big joke to Elon. Some people take government seriously, but not him.
I've heard them best described as 'mansplaining as a service'
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The naming implies it’s a KDE desktop process monitoring tool with history graphs.
> Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

This is a self-defeating statement. The statement itself is a claim about God. If it is true, then it contradicts itself because it asserts a truth about God (namely, that no truths can be defended about Him). This undermines its own premise.
Rural Facebook communities aren't trying to change the world. They're there for light conversation, gossip and organizing get-togethers.

It's important to note that Jadav didn't get other people to change and join his crusade before it happened. He merely went out and did what he wanted. People were inspired by seeing it happen.

People aren't going to be inspired by yet another social network touting federation and other technical mumbo-jumbo, because it doesn't help them do anything they weren't already doing on Facebook.

This whole conversation is very strange to me indeed.
Speculation (I've never been employed by either, nor X, nor ...) -

Those employees have known for years (or decades) that Elon is a loose cannon with a big ego. Their priorities and ideologies are not close matches to what is generally PC to profess on HN, and they don't view Elon as a deal-breaker.

And they see very little upside to commenting here.
"Hard down" such a strong term
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Or, just mail a copy to everyone once a month. I don’t think 50K mailers costs all that much these days. Maybe start smaller? 5K?
The accuracy of this geolocalization depends very much on peering agreements.

I don't know about the UD bit this will not be very accurate within the EU.

As an example:
In Hungary, there's pretty much only one peering hub (bix) and there's only one Cloudflare datacenter. You've already geolocated me better than this hack just by knowing my language or phone prefix.
Brazil nuts are so high in selenium that you aren’t supposed to eat too many of them
From where are you deriving your sense of "pointlessness"? If there is no absolute standard (such as God), then all truths, including moral truths, are determined by individuals or societies, making them relative.
>You'll never convince someone logically of something that has to be experienced viscerally

"poofy guy in the sky doesnt care about war or rape or torture because someone ate an apple. sent his kid in the form of a human. kid was killed/human sacrificed. that saved all humanity. this doesn't stop rape, war, torture but it saved humanity"

the brain has to do some gymnastics to deal with dissonance
I guess this is where the savings from the shutdown of https://reproductiverights.gov/ went
I think you’ve missed the point - the rambling is not desired, thinking could be improved if, like another commenter suggested - there was a length penalty applied.

You want thinking, but you want to penalise rambling, for many, many reasons.