skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no "US" where something like this is normalized, it's down to region, weather, urbanization and perception of safety. I grew up walking and biking to school because I was lucky enough to live in a nice suburb close to my school. For people who need to take a 20 minute *drive* to school obviously that isn't feasible.

The US is a massive country with a huge number of different climates and layouts, which is partly what makes articles and conversations like this so painful to read. Instead of the skeptical, critical thinking you'd expect from HN you get mess of "Car bad" "I wish we had European public transit" and broad generalization talk.
Add a timestamp for when it resets. Don't just say it's every 24 hours. Make it clear to users, don't reset underneath them. It's a globe and one person's cenvenient reset time might be another person's lunch break.
I get "oh, I made a mistake" quite frequently. Often enough, it's just another hallucination, just because I contested the result, or even just prompted "double check this". Statistically speaking, when someone in a conversation says this, the other party is likely to change their position, so that's what an LLM does, too, replicating a statistically plausible conversation. That often goes in circles, not getting anywhere near a better answer.

Not an ML researcher, so I can't explain it. But I get a pretty clear sense that it's an inherent problem and don't see how it could be trained away.
We can have a walkable community and still have things we love and do.
Can you please expand on the JSONB unpredictable behavior? We are about to embark on a journey to move some of our data from MongoDB to postgres (with some JSONB). While we don't have significant concurrent writes to a table, would be very helpful to understand the issues
it has nothing to do with capitalism. this company could have hired a cheap student, that would have known best AWS practices and would have kept it secure.
at the same time a communist government with lots of funds, could have made this mistake.
How do you get from "it's possible to correlate somebody's application usage times and IP geolocation" to "fingerprinting is impossible to avoid"?

IP tracking is somewhat avoidable using things like Tor and iCloud Private Relay (not so much most VPNs, though), and even if it isn't, I'd still much rather be in an anonymity set the size of a densely populated ZIP code than one of size one.

> every major mobile OS that just hands app developers a tracking ID for every user.

Which ID does iOS hand to developers? I was under the impression this hasn't been a thing anymore for several OS versions now.
Samsumg did not bring THEIR home theater systems, they bricked CUSTOMER theater systems that did not belong to them.
Not exactly, its the 3rd person of passé simple
Presumably the purpose of the exercise was to test the model’s capabilities / “take it for a spin” , not to obtain the working progress (as, as you mention, they already had a working program to do the task).
Sometimes they do it because it’s contractually required if they want to get access to proprietary standards, for example to allow them to play copy-protected content.

Copyright and patent have morphed into evils that drive anti-consumer and anti-competitive behavior, and have driven a “subscription” model that allows rent seekers to achieve their wildest dreams.
This all makes sense.

> Accountability Is Fair

I've worked at places where postmortems were conducted mainly to punish someone. Extra work, extra oversight, rhetorical superiority, display of dominance were all typical punishments. The reasons for the punishments often weren't clear. Area near as I could yell at one mountain west phone company, problems were ginned up and blaming got used to avoid accountability for business problems, like getting contracts signed on time, or picking a genuinely incompetent contractor.

All that to say fair accountability is very rare. I suspect that a practice of blameful postmortems would easily slip into punishing the innocent, and praise for the guilty.
It is importamt to understand the whole cultural picture of this practice:

1. Neighbors and friends are notified in advance. "If you see my daughter and she looks lost, please help her, she is doing an errand."

2. The destination is usually notified. "My daughter is coming to buy rice, let me know if she isnt there in two hours."

3. This practice is somewhat old-fashioned and rural. Many parents wouldnt consider it today.

Remember, the show was aired to a Japanese audience. If it were universal, it would not be worth televising.
Sligtly related: Energy Based Models (EBMs) are better in theory and yet too resource intensive. I tried to sell using EBMs to my org, but the price for even a small use case was prohibitive.

I learned it from: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLHTzKZzVU9eaEyErdV26ikyo...

Yann LeCun, and Michael Bronstein and his colleagues have some similarities in trying to properly Sciencify Deep Learning.

Yann LeCun's approach, as least for Vision has one core tenet- energy minimization, just like in Physics. In his course, he also shows some current arch/algos to be special cases for EBMs.

Yann believes that understanding the Whys of the behavior of DL algorithms are going to be beneficial in the long term rather than playing around with hyper-params.

There is also a case for language being too low-dimensional to lead to AGI even if it is solved. Like, in a recent video, he said that the total amount of data existing on all digitized books and internet are the same as what a human children takes in in the first 4/5 years. He considers this low.

There are also epistemological arguments against language not being able to lead to AGI, but I haven't heard him talk about them.

He also believes that Vision is a more important aspect of intellgence. One reason being it being very high-dim. (Edit) Consider an example. Take 4 monochrome pixels. All pixels can range from 0 to 255. 4 pixels can create 256^4 = 2^32 combinations. 4 words can create 4! = 24 combinations. Solving language is easier and therefore low-stakes. Remember the monkey producing a Shakespeare play by randomly punching typewriter keys? If that was an astronomically big number, think how obscenely long it would take a monkey to paint Mona Lisa by randomly assigning pixel values. Left as an exercise to the reader.

Juergen Schmidhuber has gone a lot queit now. But he also told that a world-model, explicitly included in training is reasoning is better, rather than only text or image or whatever. He has a good paper with Lucas Beyer.
That's one of the effects of being particular -- being a particular person, with particular feelings -- the effects are particular. That's part of the point, part of the aim.

The received view of the tyrannical mass murderers of rome is hagiography, if a few "on my side in the debate" (or otherwise) think I'm being too harsh and want to undermine that a little: great! I would myself do the same if I heard myself speak, if my feelings on what was being said were that it needed moderating.

This interplay I vastly prefer than trying to "be the universal" myself -- disavow all felling, and suppose i can in a disinterested way be unpartisan to a view. This asks vastly too much of any individual, and is in the larger part, extremely (self-) deceptive.
I‘m more concerned about security by giving a webbrowser too much access to local resources.

Convenience and security don’t fit together
>>this is representative democracy which is a whole different game than democracy

So like I said right at the start, we're playing semantics.

>>Like in Switzerland, where people vote on referendums 4 times a year.

That's a standard that literally every country other than Switzerland will fail though.
They also did an "Old Enough Canada":

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgBne2KTlDUyxLPg3oalg...
If kids have to be released to their parents and are no longer turned out en masse like they used to be, that will absolutely cause traffic and could very well be the root cause of traffic that exceeds the designed capacity of the school pickup circles.

When I was growing up kids within a mile of the school would walk themselves to school and back home with very few exceptions, often starting with first graders. But even a half mile is a long enough distance that many busy parents in the suburbs would choose to drive it rather than walk it four times a day.
I don't know what you read, but there are plenty of scenes of the kids crossing streets that have traffic.
> enjoy visiting Eastern Europe(and Europe in general) where a party can sit at a table at 7pm, dine, drink, talk, and relax and remain there until close at 1am if they want

Would note that this is common at high-end restaurants in America. (Unless they sear at 10 or 11PM, in which case they may want another turn of tables.)
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
Skype open-sourced their architecture way back, using PL/Proxy to route calls based on shard. It works, is quite elegant, handled 50% of all international phone calls in the noughties. My old company used it to provide real-time analytics on about 300M mobile devices.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/2/28/Moskva_DB_Tools.v3.p...

https://s3.amazonaws.com/apsalar_docs/presentations/Apsalar_...
Another option is going full-scale with CockroachDB. We had a Django application backed by PostgreSQL, which we migrated to CockroachDB using their official backend.

The data migration was a pain, but it was still less painful than manually sharding the data or dealing with 3rd party extensions. Since then, we’ve had a few hiccups with autogenerated migration scripts, but overall, the experience has been quite seamless. We weren’t using any advanced PostgreSQL features, so CockroachDB has worked well.
My school said you must be at least 2 miles away before they would route buses for pickups. There were exceptions which my neighborhood qualified as there were no sidewalks, and we would have to cross a single lane bridge to cross a 50 foot creek with no pedestrian path. I lived in the boonies, and it was faster for me to cut through cow pastures in a straight line than walking the roads. We just had to make sure the rancher's bull was not going to notice us (or sneakily hang a red handkerchief on one of your buddies' backpack).
HEDT = High-End DeskTop, which (until 2022) referred to CPUs with more cores and separate sockets compared to ‘normal’ consumer CPUs, apparently.

https://tweakers.net/reviews/10334/het-einde-van-de-high-end... (Dutch)
Looks like a lot of it is JVM based, which makes it hard for iOS since they disallow running JITs.
most likely not DOCSIS related, as my ISP behaves with it just like you described your current ISP
Maybe you struggle to imagine uses for USB because you "just don't have anything that uses USB". You could just as easily argue that USB itself shouldn't exist using that logic. And you'd be just as wrong.
> There aren’t many places in the US where it is safe AND practical for kids to walk home.

Discussing the practicality aspect is literally the point of the article.

Above I was addressing your arguments about danger and kidnappers.
Such is claimed, but I suspect that this is a misleading truth. Christianity is an extremely successful religion, but if it were less popular and Notre Dame was one of only a few church buildings (even, just one of a few with that level of grandeur), then burning it to the ground would indeed have a profound impact on the persistence of The Church. For those religions with a single temple, the destruction of that building is more than merely traumatic, it is catastrophic. Christianity only avoids this by having so very many buildings, many of them as spectacular as Notre Dame.
Just look at the furniture in American restaurants - cheap, plastic, and uncomfortable, even in high priced restaurants.

I empathize with the economic predicament of restauranteurs but I'll continue to frequent establishments with better comfort features especially because the prices are high no matter where you go. Why pay $25 rushed sloppy meal when you could pay $30 for a better meal, in a better setting, and resulting in a better (earned!) tip.
Hey Peter,
Thanks for doing this. For someone on F1 visa, can they work as a cofounder of a company through CPT. What are the options for this situation?
Punctuated equilibrium theory.
Unless their pricing has changed, it’s quite exorbitant when you need a lot of data. To the point that one year of cockroachdb would cost 5x the cost of the server it was running on.
But can’t you? Sure, factory firmware from many years ago might have issues, but should still work well enough to allow you to fully offline upgrade to a newer working version.

I think all the OP was saying, is: Suppose you’re releasing firmware version N for some widget you make. Now, for all versions V in (0..N-1), verify that applying N to V works correctly.
How much of this is the COVID-correlated normalization of delivery apps [0]? Anecdotally I do sometimes notice people eating quickly or taking out, but what I really notice is the nonstop flurry of app delivery folks darting in and out of the pickup area... Seems consistent with the study's observations, too:

> As a result, we think the growth in take-out or delivery is the primary
driver of the jump in short visits. With take-out, the customer orders on their
phone and then comes into the restaurant to pick it up without eating there.
With delivery, the customer orders food to be delivered to their home either
from a food app like Grubhub or directly from the restaurant itself as with a
Domino’s Pizza. It is important to recognize that either of these things connotes a substitution of home production for restaurant labor. The customer cleans up after themselves and washes their own dishes, for example. And delivery services substitute for the customer traveling themselves. But they are still, from the restaurant’s perspective, just a new stream of demand. If the
restaurant can satisfy such quick-turn customers in addition to their regular
customers with the same labor force, that would show up in the data as a
clear, legitimate increase in their productivity.

[0] cf. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/doordash-statistics/ https://www.businessofapps.com/data/grubhub-statistics/
>Is there opportunity?

Depends on the posture, as higher profit businesses may invest more into maintaining market dominance. However, the assumption technology is a zero-sum economic game was dangerously foolish, and attempting to cheat the global free market is ultimately futile.

Have a wonderful day, =3
India investigates whether Uber makes iPhone users pay more
Sometimes I truly wonder how the US is so far ahead in innovation and efficiency. This is unthinkable, how many hours of driving to and fro + this queue each day.

Here I am, in Germany, my kid goes to school by himself since second grade. Most of his classmates started to walk, bike, or take the train, bus or tram themselves at 3rd or 4th grade. Beyond 6th grade, it's considered a spoiled baby.
The problem is exactly that: the probability distribution. The network has no way to say: 0% everyone, this is non sense, backtrack everything.

Other architectures, like energy based models or bayesian ones can assess uncertainty. Transformers simply cannot do it (yet). Yes, there are ways to do it, but we are already spending millions to get coherent phrases, few ones will burn billions to train a model that can do that kind of assessments.
> Which cohort do you think will be happier, better adjusted and better off?

Yes, and have agency and think for themselves - a key requirement of democracy and freedom.
> if this were truly important, someone would've done it

That's basically a variant of the efficient market hypothesis for open source software. I highly doubt it's accurate, for various reasons.

Things that people retrospectively consider absolutely essential and a no-brainer to prioritize get shipped years after the initial release of some software all the time.
> using AI to find pauses,

You can just use regular math to do this. We've been doing it for 30 years now. You don't need a trumped up overpriced garbage LLM to do anything for you here.
Do you find dumb TV software (dynamic backlight controls for example) and hardware on par with smart tvs?
The parent has already signed a release form at the beginning of the school year that designated their kiddo as a walker, and did not need the parent present. Just like your DoorDash option to not be needed to be present
Fun fact for any Seattleites out there: the co-author of this paper, Professor Alan Borning, was the advisor for the Ph.D. students who originally built OneBusAway and is on the board of the non-profit that runs it today.

n.b. I've been involved in the OneBusAway project for over a decade and run the non-profit as the very part time exec director today.
some (most?) times the abductor is legitimate family
Putting the bus stop on a major road without adequate place to stand is a problem. But a 5 year old is totally capable of waiting for a bus, given the appropriate location to do so. Even more so in a typical suburb, where there's likely several of them waiting at the same place (when I was a kid, we walked half a block to the corner and waiting in a group of ~5-~15 kids).
Consider that the fact that there’s a tv show about it means it’s a novelty in Japan as well.

It’s great that Japan has a civil society that makes a show like that possible, but don’t mistake it for more than it is. It’s the same mistake as generalizing from what you read in the news: it’s news because it’s unusual.
I'm not here to claim that Brave is without issues. The whole crypto stuff is stupid. However, they have seemed to responsibly moved on from their previous failures, and that's okay with me. None of their previous failures intentionally attempted to affect user privacy or sell user data. That's what we are talking about here.

Brave is objectively better for user privacy than base Chromium. That is without question. If you disagree, please provide evidence to those claims.
It is if you consider cultures, poverty levels, and crime rates to not be immutable geographic traits, but a result of policy choices. The US can't take a giant leap to kids having Tokyo-like freedom, but it can look at what Japan does differently that results in such a society (eg. its public education system, public transit, policing, street design, typical vehicle size, etc).
The majority of the US is absolutely not like this.

You keep accusing other people of living in a bubble, but you're indexing your entire experience on to anecdotes of where you grew up as an individual experience.
What if one bad actor does it not initially do that, but only after the app has enough users, with a random upgrade? Not that _you_ would do that, of course. But it makes sense that people are wary about where they trust their TOTPs.

Some time ago people were locked out of their TOTPs because some guy bought their app from its creator and turned it into ransomware having them pay to not lose their codes.
The article might have been updated, but it addresses your point now. This particular scam used emails consisting of one persinalized paragraph + a few slightly randomized paragraphs straight from the playbook.
Have you seen the show? It's often (usually?) filmed in towns, and I don't recall adults often being notified.
I like the sandboxing properties of my browser, and wish I could run as many of my local applications and utilities in it or in something comparable.

Part of that is being able to access hardware, and missing that functionality will expose data on my computer to malicious or compromised applications or scripts.

Hardware access obviously has to be on a very strict opt-in basis. For all the things Apple is regularly trailing behind other browsers or outright botching, I think letting only "installed PWAs" send push notifications and persist state more than 7 days between visits is directionally the right thing to do, and hardware access would be much less critical limited that way.
It prevents land speculation, as bidding leads to higher rents, rather than asset inflation.
That's exactly how we e2e tests for our ai conversational agents
All state is
immutable, the agent is basically a reducer so having these continuation trees is easy.

But I can't find a nice way to have pytest make a test per node in the tree. We end up with a single test for the whole tree which is less than ideal for dev experience.

Anyone with pytest hacking skills and an idea?
>if you wanted to argue to turn it into a mall next week you'd probably get a pretty strong reaction from members of the church

Even us atheists should hope that the building would get a little more love and respect than that.
It's in part because every major US city has spent decades underbuilding housing (usually through zoning and permitting that makes middle-density housing implicitly or explicitly illegal), pushing everyone out into the burbs just to find homes they can afford.
What AI I Use How and When
I think you're being too kind in assuming there is some sort of real philosophy or faith here. I laid out what I have observed the tech elite doing precisely to show that they are rootless and will join with whatever bandwagon is popular in their techbro circle.

It's the great irony of our tech elite. They all believe they are independent thinkers who are changing the world but like any clique they follow what the group says and found another Sass App or become another VC investor.
It might be due to the school consolidations and schools being moved to cheaper areas.

The article does have a chart that shows distance from their school. I'm curious if there are closer schools that parents chose not to let their child attend. I have known a couple people that drive miles away to drop their kid off to private schools when they have a public school a mile away.
Isn't one issue the display of the codes on the lockscreen? If viewing notification contents there is enabled, it would be problematic if it popped up while you were away from your device to say "Your Google 2fa is 100000 right now". I get that the iOS default requires unlock to view the actual content of the notification, but still, that seems less than perfect from a security standpoint.

Still the app is fun and I appreciate it.
Gigantic tank-like vehicles with worse line of sight then actual tanks, insane levels of crime that are rampant all over the US compared to Japan, etc.

Make tank-like trucks and SUVs illegal to manufacturer is a good start. It's going to be tough to compete with homogenous first-world countries on culture and crime.
The crew is often in disguise, and the kids have no idea who they are. At 3, do you know what a cameraperson is?

Edit: Occasional parts of the show are the camera people trying to avoid the kid who has turned and is walking right toward them.
i did some cursory digging, but i don't really want to read the A2DP or AVRCP specifications to see how much data is allowed in the non-audio payload. Besides, PAN exists, but i imagine you have to do something on your phone to allow it.

Most of these expensive things also have wifi, though, don't they?

> Connect your devices and control everything with our soundbar that integrates your favorite voice assistants and smart services like Built-in Alexa², Chromecast³, Airplay 2⁴ and more.

> 802.11ac

https://www.samsung.com/us/televisions-home-theater/home-the...

yeah, they have wifi, so they don't even need bluetooth hacks.
AI bubble? What AI bubble? Datacenter investors all in despite whispers of a pop
So like the MySQL proxies of long ago?

There are definitely advantages of not running inside the system you wish to orchestrate.

Better keep up with the parser though!
In my experience the biggest roadblock to continuous conversation is context length. It fills up and the LLM starts forgetting parts of the conversation. Most tools don't even tell you that this has happened. But if you keep that in mind, that there is a buffer there filling up, you can massively improve the quality of the output.