skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 4.5 (better in creative writing, and probably warmer sound thanks to being vinyl based and using analog tube amplifiers, but slower and request limited, and I don't even know which of the other features it supports)

Is that an LLM hallucination?
AI Game • On scale {word1} to {word2}, {input} is ____
Since HN seemed to like the previous game I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43358016 I decided to make another one that again is A) simple B) multiplayer with leaderboard C) uses AI
It’s unclear how much is residual anti-mask sentiment from the pandemic and how much is related to events like this:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68923528

One might reasonably interpret events like that as protestors engaged in activity that is not protected by the First Amendment, is criminal and/or violates other student’s civil rights and/or improperly interferes with the activities of others. And one might credibly imagine that some of the protesters knew this and were wearing masks to hide their identities. And one might further credibly argue that, in 2024, these students were not likely to be wearing masks outdoors for health reasons.

Of course, the letter to Harvard doesn’t really explain what kind of mask ban is imagined or why it’s appropriate to ban masks when students are merely going about their ordinary business.
Or one can view it as the increasing intellectual vacuousness of ideas on the "right". (In quotes because the dividing line between left and right itself has shifted rightward over the years.)
It does seem to me that if for example OpenAI suddenly could raise no more money they could drop the free tier and raise the paid price and make a profit, if with far fewer users. The Zitron article seems to assume they are forced to provide free service to millions but it seems to me it's a choice to grab market share that they could step back from.
No clue about the FDA. But for DOE, I know two people who were laid off and asked to come back. I coached them to refuse and counter with a consulting contract at about 4x their prior wage (about 120% above what they could make in the private industry out the door). The idea is make them pay for the chaos they caused, and raise your baseline for when you step out into industry. And tobacoo has a lot more private-industry potential than nukes.
https://github.com/invisal/sqlite-internal/tree/main/public, or just download it by copying the URL from your network tab when you load it.
It’s not totally clear if it would be but here’s a summary: https://city-countyobserver.com/the-constitutionality-of-a-w...
The Supreme Court explicitly allowed property taxes in Pollock decision. They haven’t for wealth taxes (they still might allow it but they also might not).
Isn't that more about enumerating the microstates? The Pauli exclusion principle just ends up forbidding some of the microstates (forbidding a significant fraction of them if you're in the low-temperature regime).
I'm not a lawyer but my reasoning is this:

- as far as I know, double taxation by any given entity (Federal Gov) is unconstitutional

- a given dollar is taxed once as income. A federal wealth tax on the remainder of that dollar would be double taxation.

That does not prohibit the Federal Gov from taxing once, and your residential state from taxing you a second time.

There are other arguments about "direct taxation" I don't fully understand.
Molecular designed therapeutic LSD analogue with reduced hallucinogen potential
Seems quite cheap. If I was a state I'd buy it. Possibly give stake to the suitable university and then create internships and other learning opportunities. I would also subsidise products to SMEs and then invest more to ensure company can supply defence and other industries, decoupling the country from dependence on other countries from crucial tech.

I mean it's a pipe dream, but why not.
Gives an investor a chance to invest.

It gives the unwitting a chance to lose their money. “Do your homework” against professionals whose job it is to make your homework as difficult as possible, including the very tactic you seem to be arguing for.

Meanwhile, if things such as SPACs are such solid investments, why are they pulling such weasely stunts to begin with? (A rhetorical question, at least it is to me.)
I love that she could build so much of the world from the geographic descriptions, of things like mountains and rivers.
A cup of mustard powder? What does it feel like and how did you come across this?
Ok, that makes a bit more sense, especially since I have not owned an EV.

> Pre-heating an EV cabin before departing

Cars have been doing this for a years now with a keyfob. But I suppose over network/cell gives you greater range.

> Turning charging on and off via lets you take advantage of low electricity rates.

I would have thought that'd be a feature of the charger, not the car, but not an EV owner so maybe I'm just wrong here. That does make more sense for an app, but also sounds like a feature that could work fine without one too.
Consider the two following ideas:

An AI powered grocery shopping app where you put in all of your favorite recipes, and AI will break it down into grocery shopping lists and send it to Instacart.

An AI powered concierge that will plan an entire night out (e.g. dinner reservations, ride share, concert tickets, etc., and the whole time it works in the background automatically, like paying your restaurant bill and requesting your next Uber, and even requesting a Taskrabbit tasker to deliver flowers to your constantly updating location) or even a whole vacation (e.g. hotel, tours, restaruant reservations, and Uber rides that magically show up just as your tour ends).

The first idea is easily copied by Instacart because the secret sauce is just AI, the second is more complex because you need to partner with all of the various on demand apps like Uber, Taskrabbit, Opentable, or whatever, so the secret sauce is not just AI but the integrations. It will be harder to copy this one
Without rule of law no other issue matters.

You think you are a citizen today because you've always been a citizen, you have papers to prove it. It's never even been questioned. What if those papers get destroyed? What if the officer interpreting your papers is employed by someone who doesn't like you because you're disobedient. Without rule of law your status as a citizen doesn't protect you. Without a functioning judiciary capable of providing consequences to those who violate rule of law, you have no one to appeal to.

This administration complains about single judges restricting their actions. That should literally terrify you. The judges are not stopping the administration, they are ruling that the law is stopping the administration. When the administration says it is judges stopping it, it is claiming that there is no law, only the actions of loyal or disobedient men.

We are in a constitutional crisis. We are effectively lawless. Right now, we cannot depend on the law to restrict powerful people's actions. We have no predictability about what is possible, and therefore no way to act as if the law protects us.
That was certainly the dream, but unfortunately for them it didn't turn out to be a new market.
And less disastrous for Xilinx, given they could basically just keep going as they were before, instead of being significantly diverted onto a sinking ship of a process.
quadlets is an answer to the question "but what if we also threw a docker compose substitute into the systemd kitchen sink"?
This may have been tempting a few weeks ago before Trump cratered the US economy and the value of the dollar.
Ketamine curbs IL-17 secretion pretty hard. Psoriasis tends to vanish pretty quick after a therapy session.
So a multicast like derivative that is peer aware and can redistribute locally any available parts - which would require some sort of caching, which would probably break copyright etc... So perhaps that's the reason why nothing exists. \o/
Not true. Judge Thacker’s opinion references a lower court’s reference to an Associated Press article about a memo about an agreement.
> My first amendment right not to be forced to support causes I disagree with is being harmed. I don't want my tax dollars going to support discrimination against Asians and others.

This is absolutely NOT what the 1st amendment is about, you are confusing tax and speech but they are treated separately in the Constitution.

The reason for that is simple, if every taxpayer could deny the funding of everything they didn't agree with, we'd have a very different Constitution. The ability to FULLY defund something YOU don't agree with requires the powers of a king... If you scale that ambition back a little and ask only for the power to decide where YOUR own money goes, you'd be speaking of something other than a tax because this isn't the way taxes work.

I'm not explaining this because I see much good coming out of Harvard, in fact I don't, but that's a different conversation. Both political parties, as well as certain private organizations have their hands deep in students' brains - it's the ultimate cookie jar after all. The real problem is the attempt to legitimize overt government meddling in the "cookie jar" instead of focusing on transparency and examination of the current forces involved in that process.

BTW can you elaborate on your assertion about "discrimination against Asians"? Neither the government letter nor Harvard's response mention Asians! Were you trying to comment on another post? Maybe something about the tariffs?
> "removing power from non academic activists"

That sentence (from the letter) makes no sense. An activist isn't someone with power to do something. If they had that power, they wouldn't be advocating it, they would do it.

What that insisting the University do is shut down people talking and protesting with viewpoints they disagree with. They list those viewpoints in their letter: "..., Students for Justice in Palestine, and the National Lawyers Guild". The pro Israeli protests that happened aren't mentioned. If they get away with this, I'm sure a lot more viewpoints will follow.

This isn't about powers. It's about controlling what people can and can not say on a University campus.
Big Tech does a delicate dance as Trump tariffs loom
Make Importing Peak Again?
> Otherwise, I think simple, procedural programming is generally a better default paradigm.

I think this is almost the opposite conclusion from the one TFA (and in particular the longer form article linked elsewhere here), which is more like: most standard imperative programming is bad and standard (pure) FP is at least slightly better, but people generally don't draw the right conclusions about how to apply FP lessons to imperative languages.
Great! Glad to hear we have a simple solution for this issue. It is interesting to note your trouble, because another player in this post is running Arch and says it worked flawlessly. I guess Mono gets in the way a little.
It is about enumerating the microstates, but in a way that takes into account how the particles interact with each other (aka making assumptions about the dynamics).

If we didn't take into account any interactions, we'd be unable to do anything with statistical mechanics beyond rederiving the ideal gas law.
I also want an OSS framework that lets me extend it with my own scripting/modules, and is focused around being an assistant for me and my family. There's a shared set of features (memory storage/retrieval, integrations to chat/email/etc interfaces, syncing to calendar/notion/etc, notifications) that should be put into an OSS framework that would be really powerful.

I also don't have time to run such a thing but would be up for helping and giving money for it. I'm working on other things including a local-first decentralized database/object store that could be used as storage, similar to OrbitDB, though it's not yet usable.

Mostly I've just been unhappy with having access to either a heavily constrained chat interface or having to create my own full Agent framework like the OP did.
Podman doesn't have a dependency on systemd. e.g. it is packaged in Void Linux.

Podman has a better architecture than Docker in that it can easily run on a non-privileged user.

Quadlet (aka podman-systemd.unit) is a podman-systemd integration which can make it easy to launch and orchestrate podman containers via systemd. You can get all if the systemd dependency handling, require other units to run after a container finishes, and all sorts of other useful things. Systemd "user" units (systemctl --user) also works here with the containers running as a non-privileged user in a non-root systemd context.

Just to be clear, Quadlet is just an integration and you can still run podman without it. You can still run podman on non-systemd systems as well.
Sure, if they wanted to intel could have done what nvidia did with CUDA: Put the tech into everything, even their lowest end consumer devices, and sink hundreds of millions into tooling and developer education given away free of charge.

And maybe it would have lead somewhere. Perhaps. But they didn't.
Wonderful, thanks for playing!
And some people call generative AI nothing but a copyright laundry…
How the United States became a science superpower
Joe Biden did nothing remotely comparable to what Trump is doing now.

And unlike Trump, Biden faced constant criticism from within his party. He would have faced outrage if he tried to, for example, cancel all federal grants containing the word "conservative" in them.

Meanwhile we're heading towards a future where Trump can deport anyone he doesn't like to an El Salvadorian prison without so much as a trial, regardless of whether they broke any laws. Why doesn't this terrify people on the right?
Awareness started in the 1980s in Australia with Sid the Seagull:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGgn5nwYtj0

https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/sun-safety-campaign/103...
I doubt it's going to be weeks, the months were already turning into years despite Nvidia's previous advances.

(Not to say that it takes openai years to train a new model, just that the timeline between major GPT releases seems to double... be it for data gathering, training, taking breaks between training generations, ... - either way, model training seems to get harder not easier).

GPT Model | Release Date | Months Passed Between Former Model

GPT-1 | 11.06.2018

GPT-2 | 14.02.2019 | 8.16

GPT-3 | 28.05.2020 | 15.43

GPT-4 | 14.03.2023 | 33.55

[1]https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BWMKzBunEhMGfpEgo/when-will-...
In a similar vein, if interested in that type of thing, is Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium.
I have The Silmarillion on Audible and use the chapter Of Beleriand and its Realms when I'm having trouble going to sleep.
It's actually quite believable when you define a combatant as males aged 13+
i can do it myself, but there's no need. they also sell aftermarket hitches that attach to pre-designed mount points on the frame for most BMWs
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keeping that in mind is almost a life philosophy. but also, reducing your fears comes from experience. the more you travel, the longer you live, the more you discover things that you didn't need, if you pay attention to it.
Einfach in allen Fragen und Lebenslagen immer wieder mehr Dada wagen!

Deepl/Googl: Simply dare to be more Dada in all questions and situations in life!

Yandex: Simply dare more and more Dada in all questions and situations of life!
For local development I found no advantages, if anything I found it a little less convenient.

For servers where you don’t need the complexities of Kubernetes etc, using Quadlets is nice as you can manage containers as regular systemd services and no Docker daemon running as root.
how the USA lost it's ranking as a science superpower...
Oh wow, thank you for the clarification. I completely didn't even consider to audit for that in the ZIP source (though the ALL CAPS maybe should have been my hint). I'll update the post with this and another small thing another player found.
Interesting idea. Parcellite works better for me though. It's been around forever, captures both 'select' and 'copy' and can paste with a middle click or Ctl-v with or without formatting.
A lot depends on where you think AI will go. Zitron is obviously skeptical and calls the AI 2027 article "a truly offensive piece of fan fiction." That article starts:

>We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution.

And if that happens investing a lot will make sense. If not I guess OpenAI will have to scale back and drop much of its free service. Or maybe go bust. I'm not sure it's as doom and gloom as Zitron makes out. Maybe a bit of an over allocation of capital to OpenAI and LLMs but things will go on. Even if OpenAI folds Google and others will probably do fine.

(HN on AI 2027 - generally skeptical - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43571851)

I figure the reality is somewhere between Zitron's skepticism and AI 2027's over optimism.
> The workflow reminds me of programming 30 years ago - you did something, then waited for the compile, see if it worked, tried something else...

Well sure... if your compiler was the equivalent of the Infinite Improbability Drive.

I assume you're referring to the classic positive/negative prompts that you had to attach to older SD 1.5 workflows. From the examples in the repo as well as the paper, it seems like AudioX was trained to accept relatively natural english using Qwen2.
In the same jurisdiction*
Sounds fine, test for those things and admit the best. Or do a random lottery.

Just dont pick and choose students to disqualify based on race.
The wildest thing I read was:

> Harvard will immediately report to federal authorities, including the
Department of Homeland Security and State Department, any foreign student, including those on visas and with green cards, who commits a conduct violation.

Conduct violations at Universities are a pretty broad set of rules at universities and don't necessarily line up with what's legal or not but more with the university's cultural and social norms.
Agreed. Even simply I'm sure a service like this already exists (or could easily exist) where the workflow is something like:

1. User provides information

2. LLM generates structured output for whatever modeling language

3. Same or other multimodal LLM reviews the generated graph for styling / positioning issues and ensure its matches user request.

4. LLM generates structured output based on the feedback.

5. etc...

But you could probably fine-tune a multimodal model to do it in one shot, or way more effectively.
"In December 2015, Intel acquired Altera for $16.7 billion in cash."
$21.5 bn inflation adjusted. Amazing ten year performance.
If only someone could have come up with a plausibly profitable use-case for advanced FPGA's and highly performant, efficient, real-time processing or hardware acceleration in those intervening years? What are ya gonna do?
This seems to be common for corporate America in general. I used to work at a YC startup. We kiiiiiinda maaaaaaaybe ran out of money (not my department) and happened to get bought by a large investor that also happens to be a US-based hardware manufacturer. Two years and countless reorgs later, they laid everyone off and as far as I know, are no longer in the business of selling the software products they bought. They never figured out how software worked, never had anyone managining the division for more than 6 months, and got bored. I think they thought by moving everyone over to Microsoft Word and Windows laptops (peppered with a half-hearted threat about RTO), they would just magically make billions of dollars the first month. It didn't happen.

I am beginning to think M&A are just some sort of ego thing for bored megacorp execs, rather than serious attempts to add efficiency and value to the marketplace. (Prove me wrong, bored megacorp execs. I'll wait.)
Mbone was fake multicast (today you'd be better off using a CDN) and I don't know if it's still operating.
When in the process of removing the watermark do I distribute the work?
You should really read those articles that you linked instead of ignorantly pointing at them in outrage, against something you clearly never engaged with other than through conservative media. At least read the Nature one, damn. It's directly addressed to people like you, who might think they have issues with this stuff, for reasons.

No one is out to cancel theorems or whatever other bullshit. Also those concerns over the freedom of science are rich coming from the party that's actually defunding labs, arresting researchers on ideological grounds and burning books.
I don't know enough about hardware to know why - why didn't this story play out as hoped?
XML was a good idea ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> You think you are a citizen today because you've always been a citizen, you have papers to prove it. It's never even been questioned. What if those papers get destroyed?

An opening scene of The Handmaid's Tale paint this vividly: two characters' marriage licenses are simply not recognized.

What gives papers power is the powers that recognise them. If authority just stops recognising your citizenship or homeownership or bank account, for that matter, your papers go back to being shitty kindling and bits in a void.
There is no need to resort to personal attacks
that’s the faculty of arts and sciences—is this administration going to mandate university economics and business schools —which likely lean heavily capitalist—demand ideological diversity and bring in more communists?
It doesn't work for live streaming without modifications though.
It was the thought at the time that they'd do this. It's amazing that they don't seem to have actually tried ? Any sense as to why or what went wrong?
Podman seems to have lower memory overhead than Docker. I assume that is a consequence of your point 1
> Intel soon discovered the obvious, which is that customers with applications well-suited to FPGAs already use FPGAs.

So selling FPGA's was a bad move? Or was the purchase price just wildly out-of-line with the--checking...$9.8B annual market that's expected to rise to $23.3B by 2030?
There has been talk about this pretty much since CNNs got good at object recognition ~2012.

But healthcare is a rather conservative industry (for good reason) so it has taken a while to build confidence in the technology and get regulatory approval.
I was about to down-vote you, but that would be unfair, as this has roughly the typical level of correctness of most bash scripts.
Nitpick in the article conclusion:

>Heat flows from hot to cold because the number of ways in which the system can be non-uniform in temperature is much lower than the number of ways it can be uniform in temperature ...

Should probably say "thermal energy" instead of "temperature" if we want to be really precise with our thermodynamics terms. Temperature is not a direct measure of energy, rather it is an extensive property describing the relationship between change in energy to change in entropy.
Probably yes, foreign money flowing to a bank account used to fund a political party will blink in all colors in the corruption and money laundering dpt of any bank.

I don't know in Canada, but in a lot of other countries, all accounts and money used by a candidate to an election is tightly limited in income and expenses. Not just anyone can use that as a current account or send in any money from random individuals.
It's even more granular than that.

My neighbour who is a doctor moved to another city because that's where he managed to get a spot to train for his field.

It appears that he's learning much more there than he would back home because in this country some procedures are rare outside of his current location.
This comment is textbook Poe's Law.
I may have overreacted. I'm a scientist, and I'm surrounded by scientists. When I hear about "supremacy of science" it's usually being presented as a straw man. I don't know any scientists who believe it, beyond the temporary phase in everybody's education where they get caught up in the "master of the universe" feeling.