skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 for probability via measure theory & functional analysis

I would add the need for geometry and topology becoming more of a pre-requisite for picking up modern methods: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13478
I agree, and it’s an excellent point. I guess I also wonder if we can be more aware as individuals of the forces shaping society and culture, and actively try to engage in changing them. But it still starts with ourselves.
> One idea is to use other models to shorten text by throwing out meaningless words.

Does this mean GPT does not need coherent sentences to understand?
> Uglier than Python and approaches C++-level eyebleed.

It's quite verbose, as well, or was the last time I looked at it.

I don't demand a Perl level of terseness (that's going too far the other way), but neither is reinventing the verbosity of COBOL a good idea.
I guess this is evidence that no one owns their social media handle.
Amazing product. Something I will gladly be paying for!

You mention that you have invested 500 hours into prompt engineering. Are there any specific resources you would suggest to get maximum value out of GPT? Any videos, websites, podcasts, ebooks, books, anything that really stands out?

I have been playing with it for a while now and am getting good at having it spit out what I'm looking for but usually it takes an extra 3-4 prompts to rearrange the responses that I want.

Thanks and again, great execution on a cool idea!
At this rate, assuming my work costs nothing and no hardware ever breaks and no prices ever go up, I'll break even with Marginalia Search in Q2 2031. So there's that.

But it's not really a get-rich scheme.
Except for a lot of people Bumble often just doesn't show your profile to anyone you swiped right on. Might be if you don't meet conventional attractiveness thresholds. It's a waste of time if you're not some DiCaprio. I get enough matches on other apps with the same profile that it's pretty clear there's something fishy going on in their algorithm.
Target Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdl1GKIbaWo

Video has less than 30K views
Free plan is limited to videos less than 1 hour long and with more than 30k views

This is a very lame limitation in regards to views. Honestly trying to see if my videos were delivering enough value to justify the title.
Sometimes a little bullshit is fine
2500 km == 1500 miles, or the driving distance from NYC to Dallas. If you wanted to go from Dallas to Los Angeles, that’s another 1400 miles (2300km).
Feedmas: https://feedmas.com

Collecting feedback and customer support tool. For one of our products, we got tired of using a customer support tool that did too many things, we wanted something simpler but without compromising the core of the intent - supporting customers and helping with their issues. So, we made one of our own and have been using successfully for over a year and decided to make it available for others. Got some signups but not paying customers yet.
That depends very much on your demographic. Over 60s? Over 70s? From personal expereince helping older people with devices I doubt that it's familiar to quite a few people around that kind of threshold.
The Business of Book Styling
Thank you! SteamDB has been super helpful for me. I like to be able to pull posters and banner art for games, and it's also super helpful for untangling bundles of Rocksmith DLC.
> I find them really interesting because they are a whole other world, the "road not taken".

This is so interesting, having witnessed the commoditization of PCs, the Cloud, and now virtual desktops on the cloud. We're basically reinventing the multiuser mainframe after discovering it actually had good proposals.

The problem is, it's being reinvented with a monstrous degree of complexity and fragility. It's retaking the road not taken, but carrying the other road with as well.
I've been incredibly impressed with the de-aging work on Firefly Lane. It's a sci-fi effects extravaganza; it's your basic soap opera. The two 40-something stars also play their 20-something selves, and it looks seamless.

(This isn't Disney's tech, but clearly this isn't something Disney has a monopoly on.)

The weird part is that aside from the two stars, they use conventional makeup for aging up other characters, and it looks really bad. Not even close to prosthetic state of the art. The "mom" character (who has to play three different age ranges) looks as if she's been aged by throwing some eyebrow pencil on her forehead -- the way I do it in community theater.

It'll be nifty to see what kind of storytelling this enables. Firefly Lane is an interesting project -- in part because of the fine acting job done by the teenagers playing the youngest versions of the characters, who have to both play the part and mimic the beats of the older versions, which they nail. Telling that kind of decade-spanning drama has always been tricky. Audiences usually grant wide leeway between "bad aging/de-aging makeup" and "clearly a different actor but close enough if the story is good".
Assuming that is bad, it is then very bad that we are now accelerating that process by many orders of magnitude.
https://www.stoxmap.com

its just interesting to see how the globale economy is doing, although nobody seems interested :)
Wow. That is really amazing; you don't often hear this about contributions. Kudos to Open Library team. Thanks for capturing.
Adding officers doesn't lower crime. I've never seen data showing that it does.

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/relation...
Most of the exemptions are for e.g taxes on fuel, or land taxes for airports etc. Taxing flights the same way e.g cars are taxed would make trains more competitive, but wouldn't really lower the price for trains. In many places train infrastructure is also heavily subsidised.

The sad reality is that air travel has much lower cost for fixed infrastructure (≈ airports) compared to trains, per passenger km. If we build an airport, an airline can more or less just fly wherever from that airport. If someone wants to fly 2 hours west to a large city, and others would like to fly 2 hours south, they can just do that without really impacting the other (except for taking up slot times).

With trains every single km of track you lay can only be used going in that direction (duh), and needs to be maintained year around. You have expensive tunnels, bridges and "advanced" control systems and infra all along the track. To extend the rail network to another city is an enormous up-front const, and only "unlocks" one new city (or direction). A (large) airport can be used to go both 45 minutes away on domestic flight or half across the globe.
Frankly, I would think the Gen X people would be the most familiar with the pattern. I'm Gen X and I grew up with computers from the Commodore 64 to modern computers. I learned about the clicking the logo to go to the home page back in the mid-90s, even before I became a web developer myself. It was my generation that came up with that design pattern.
You're not addressing the part about the article stating 25%.
I mean, real talk: every time I ever objected to something like that, they always said something like: "oh, we don't care what you do in your off time. You can always e.g. ask for an exemption for specific open source work later", and "its very unusual for us to change this, we've never had anyone ask for this kind of thing in the past".

If I had followed this advice, I would have missed out on one of the best jobs I ever had. So, just YMMV.
www.timeblocker.dev

A webapp to manager your tasks and your time. No other todo app has a view that combines these things.

I'm overhauling it now and hope to launch it in a few weeks. Currently it's making $0.

If anyone is interested please let me know, I'm looking for a first 1-5 customers to use it for free and give me feedback.
I've come around on this one. I (now) like having a separate interface, having just method signatures separated out makes it easy to get an overview of the class. It also makes it a bit easier to agree on the interface.
Trains have hauled passengers for about 200 years. I’d love them to increase in popularity and availability, but suspect that there won’t be huge change if it hasn’t happened by now.
a few wordle variants

https://xordle.org (two puzzles on one board)

https://fibble.xyz (lies to you once per row)

https://warmle.org (clues based on alphabetical proximity)

i don't have any intention of making any money from them. just my contribution to a fun and ad-free internet

all 3 coded by me but the twist for fibble was from k & r garfield and the twist for warmle was from mike elliott
It would be really cool if this was a browser extension that talked with the AnkiConnect protocol! Then I could just open it up on an article I like, make some cards, and click which ones I want to add instead of copy and pasting.
Here's at least one very good reason: the 74LVC161284 buffer is only available as SMD. 0603 resistors and caps are pretty easy to solder by hand and you can buy convenient component boxes with a hundred different values that take up the space of a book.

Soldering the whole thing together took less than an hour. Having a microscope definitely helped.
ancv: https://github.com/alexpovel/ancv/

Idea: renders your resume as pretty terminal output. Others can view it in their own terminals:

curl -L ancv.io/heyho

Pipe to a pager for best viewing. Yes, it's just a nerdy gimmick with almost no real use!

I provide a GCP-hosted server that works off GitHub gists (where your resume can live in JSONResume form). However, self-hosting is a first-class citizen and easy to use as well.
Good to know. Thanks for taking the time to share your insight
I disagree. My employment attorney recently reviewed a "non compete non solicitation" doc for an engagement and said, "it's copied from LegalZoom and is so badly written it will be unenforcible in the jurisdiction and here is why." They earned their $300 for reviewing my employment docs (for reasons beyond this specific issue). When in doubt, seek counsel and follow their guidance.
No, that’s usually not how it works. People usually get called a conspiracy theorist for making claims not based on (scientific) evidence. Often conspiracy theorists are not experts in the field and cannot distinguish between good and bad arguments (even though some conspiracy theorists have a uni degree in the field).

Questioning a study does not a conspiracy theorist make, quality of of your arguments does.
When my dentist retired his practice they actually sold the client list specifically, so I am not sure this is legally true. Morally I agree.
It's an interesting distinction for sure. Perhaps "Activate menu" and "Deactivate menu" would work too, particularly as there's no reference to visual things - what would "expanding" on the screen mean in the context of a blind user?
I'm not sure if many rowers are also programmers, but I'm building a rowing app making $0 per month.

iOS only for now: https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/oxun/id1624866789

Works with any Bluetooth rowing machine (WaterRower etc), currently building support for Concept2 PM5 machines.
It's one of the few apps that allows you to row indoors and outdoors.

Cheers!
Yes I agree, it is telling.

It is similarly telling that conservative wikis have barely any articles on core topics like engineering, mathematics, philosophy, and the sciences. These intellectuals you're describing oddly don't seem to have much interest in things most people would deem intellectual...

For example, compare the Wikipedia article on Leonhard Euler with that of conservapedia... It's so absurd I had to double check the self-proclaimed "conservative wikipedia" wasn't satire.

Probably a false flag by the deep state though. Conservapedia has more on that than the entirety of linear algebra and computer science, lol.
I understand that Rust has somewhat different semantics, but for purposes of illustration I focused on the syntax.

For example, D could would likely throw an exception, rather than use pattern matching, for error handling.
I started to read the article, and it said chatgpt passed the bar, and when you actually get to that paper - chat gpt did not pass the bar. It did okay on the multiple choice section though.
For a lot of people, not needing to drive into the crowded downtown is a feature, not a bug. Where I live is somewhat unusual as there's a suburban Amtrak station while the airport is adjacent to downtown. One reason it's more convenient to take the train to NYC.
That’s the drosophila field for you. All about the silly names
Natural language is the lazy user interface
What’s stopping you from using this token with a bot?
I would add that even farther East than that, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary have decent infrastructure for cycling long distances.
Yep, the idea is that the stream of music it plays is both time appropriate and always relatively fresh. You can tune its selection algo too with the thumbs up or down (long pressing on either for more fine controls).

Web is due out in the next 2 weeks. Alexa skill has been on the roadmap forever as I've always seen smart speakers as like the place it makes the most sense.

The apps are Svelte based with capacitor (planning on switching to Tauri when that gets proper mobile support) and some custom plugins for the native stuff. It was a native iOS app but got a full rewrite to support Android and iOS with the web planned as a fast follow.
I tried that first, but I'm terribly at judging the amount of solder paste needed. The result was a bit of a disaster, so I took my losses and switched to hand soldering.
Knowing things is good, but I think the real benefit of a PhD is in developing the skill to learn new things quickly and fill in any gaps as needed. It’s important to get practice learning many things in depth but the goal isn’t to become a storehouse of knowledge, it’s to develop the ability assimilate existing knowledge and apply it to figuring new things out.

The amount of topics I’ve studied in depth dwarfs this list (and the same is certainly true of its author) but the set of things I could teach a class on today without preparation is much smaller. The important thing is that if I have a problem, I can use the impressions from all I’ve learned before to get a sense of where to look next. My memory isn’t great but it doesn’t matter because I can refresh, learn, and figure things out as needed.
Awesome stuff! What were your biggest learnings from iterations on prompt engineering?
I choose my leaders based on those who volunteer. To quote Bill Clinton "the best candidate never runs". If the choice is a demagogue or an idiot, which do you choose?

And if you're not happy with these choices, why aren't you running?
I was interested to understand the concept behind this service, went to the site and clicked the Docs link, but got " Not Found". Can you provide a simplified explanation for the concept behind the site? Thanks!
30 grammars added to Tree-sitter grammar list
The question is, then, is the human-borne friction enough to slow the diffusion of GPT-derived "knowledge" back onto Wikipedia through human inputs? It is very easy to imagine that GPT-likes could apply misinformation to a population and change social/cultural/economic understandings of how reality works. That would then slowly seep back into "knowledge bases" as the new modes of reasoning become "common sense".
1. When a company goes out of business, stops selling older versions of their hardware/software for a period longer than 12 months, they should be required to release their source code under a FOSS license. "Use it or lose it".

2. Mandate release of software developed using public funds under AGPL (e.g. government portals) or GPL, with obvious exception carved out for defense projects

3. Mandate implementation of manual overrides that allow owners to flash unsigned firmware/software on their devices, similar to Android phones

4. Legalize and ban EULA prohibitions against reverse engineering

5. Legalize and ban EULA prohibitions against unauthorized changes, carve out exceptions where strictly necessary (e.g. medical equipment and equipment critical to public safety, online games?)
How much energy will the chain of AIs and counter-AIs between content production and content consumption/discovery burn? More or less than Bitcoin does? Because we complain about that, but this crap would be even less beneficial than Bitcoin is. But how can one opt out of this game? If you do it unilaterally, it just means you lose. Government regulation, the usual solution to this kind of coordination problem? What would that even look like?
There were a lot of "DUNC" jokes about the poster, like that the main character was named "Dunc". (Real Dune heads may have some "well, actually" thoughts about that.)
PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever
Weird its in french. Thats all controlled by Spotify which suggests your Spotify is set to french. Might be worth checking to see if your Spotify is being accessed anywhere else...
Maybe try and take Apple to small claims court for not honoring the warranty?
Have a website with photographs/info of found bags and where they were found, which gives you a decent guess about where they were lost. IF you lose a bag, you submit a description of bag type/color and you get and email showing the most likely candidates to be your bag.
I'm about break even on a learning project for me: https://chrono.quest -- until you factor in my dev/user support time lol

It's a bite-sized daily history game, much inspired by Wordle.

Why do it?

Every once in a while someone emails about how they play it with their friends or family every day and it helps them keep in touch.

Also, as a data engineer, I wanted to understand more of what goes into deploying a consumer web app. Turns out I much prefer crunching data :)
This is also why 'gaslight' became a term in popular use.
Is this a clever advertisement for antimetal.com? I'd never heard of it.
Relevant PR[0]

[0] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/2058/files
The Intel Core I9-13900KS Review: Taking Intel's Raptor Lake to 6 GHz
With enough compensation it could work. I'd sign "we'll give you $5M to not work for 1 year." Stream casual games on Twitch for a year :)
Show HN: ML paper podcast generator using GPT and Tortoise-TTS
I built a pipeline that turns tweets about ML papers into a podcast.

Code's up here. Happy hacking. https://github.com/yacineMTB/scribepod
Show HN: Audio/Video to Blog Post Using GPT
You can use Find My to isolate the bag. It'll lead you to the general direction, you can pull the bag from the bunch based on a passenger description, and then you can just walk it away from the rest to see if it is correct.
It makes sense though, because you might be the only one interested in a summary of those long-tail videos, whereas the cost of the summary of more popular videos can be amortized across many users.
These days photomontage students get all the research accolades. No one appreciates the work that goes into a quality collage any more.
No it's not. Positive train control is universal on high speed lines. As soon as the train approaches a red or yellow without slowing the brakes will go into full emergency. Most such systems will also enforce a full stop if the speed limit (which the train knows, and is based on the derailment speed with a healthy margin).

The only real credible threat is mass violence against the passengers. That could just as easily occur in any crowed public space.
Added benefit is sish handles all of the hostname/certificate provisioning on its own and does things like internal tunnels, TCP tunnels, and gives you a little website debugging tool as well. All in a single binary :)

Disclaimer: I'm the author of sish
It’s an interesting equation. You need to add about 2 hours to the flight for check in, parking, travel etc. and then you need to add a bit more to the arrival for getting out the airport and transport to where you are going.

If the train is an overnight with a bed, and goes midtown to midtown, I’d take it every time.
Thank you!!

> Please could you give an overview of how this actually works?

1. I download Youtube subtitles (it doesn't work for videos without youtube subtitles yet. my analytics shows that 15% of videos don't have subtitles. I tried to use OpenAI Whisper, but it takes several minutes to transcribe a video, so I put that task off for now)

2. Then I break the transcript into parts.

3. Then I summarize each part with GPT → and then I summarize the summaries to get chapter names → and then I summarize again to get the title.

Yes, I use OpenAI GPT API. I pay them their standard pricing for davinci-003 and the cost for 1 video is between $0.1 and $0.9 depending on the video length (actually, the transcript length). I have a hard limit to prevent abuse.

Yep, it's fully customizable. Yes, you can provide data to it. It would take 1 hour of coding to make a prototype of a chat bot. And then 500 hours to make it work well.
IMO, companies should have draconian rules for this kind of corrupt shit - if that's the case. Fired on the spot. Clawbacks. etc.
More weight and energy/faster recovery with his circuit training. His overall lean muscle tone has visibly improved.

Haven't asked him about his cardio training but he's moving more weight around than he did before and that's creating benefits for him overall.
Intel also had a pretty robust ARM offering, the Intel StrongARM (acquired from DEC in 1997). They continued to evolve the line, renaming it to XScale at some point. They then sold it to Marvell in 2006.