skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Lenovo Smart Clock changed a few days ago, I asked me to add a reminder for something (these would show up on my phone), instead of complying like usual, it wanted me to register my voice first. Great, more biometric data for them. Why do I even worry, they have hundreds of my voice samples.

It also changed its response from "Alright, your alarm has been set for 9AM" to "9AM, set.".
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34479284
This is just a different use of the same concept, as I and the article said.

A feature flag grants or denies access to a feature in exactly the same way as authorization - you could have 'feature' attributes in an ABAC system for example, and in fact I'm sure many systems use exactly this to provide feature tiers.

It's just that feature flags are generally used for a different purpose, ie targeted roll-out of new functionality, ie different policy concerns.

So, different uses, different policies, but the same abstraction/concept.
It's annoying that so many comments, depending on your tribe, try to pin the problem on one thing. Oh, it's because they're soft on crime. Oh, it's because Reagan shut down the mental health support system. And on and on.

The answer is: yes. It's all of these things. And all of the partisan, it-wasn't-us bickering gets us absolutely nowhere.

More housing needs to be built. Rezone everything.
Hire more police, bring back beat work. Prosecute quality of life crimes.
Commit those who are too mentally ill, or too addicted to proactively seek help on their own.
Honestly, I feel like the level of, um, I guess “hostile anthropomorphism” is the best term, here is…bizarre and off-putting.

LLMs aren’t people, they are components in information processing systems; adding additional components alongside LLMs to compose a system with some functionality isn’t “hand-holding” the LLM. Its just building systems with LLMs as a component that demonstrate particular, often novel, capacities.

And hand-holding is especially wrong because implementing these other components is a once-and-done task, like implementing the LLM component. The non-LLM component isn’t a person that needs to be dedicated to babysitting the LLM. Its, like the LLM, a component in an autonomous system.
Is it though? It’s pretty easy to read the first line as something like “Elephants are not native to Germany” and then assume the Munich question is a trick question. In fact the person who answers 1 or 2 because of the possibility of a zoo is actually using smarter logic than someone who takes it at face value.
Probably just to make something awesome.
> Artificially inflated prices and administrative overhead causes air pollution? You seriously wrote that with a straight face?

What artificially inflated prices? And...No? Nice strawman, though? Nuclear power plants have a massively expensive supply chain - their capex and opex expenses are huge, the highest of any form of generation. Every worker the plant requires, every manager, every gauge, every piece of pipe - all has a carbon footprint. And because it's for nuclear, all those parts are a lot more expensive because of all the documentation, engineering and reliability, and that means a higher carbon footprint.

> You know what also produces air pollution? Manufacturing and transport of wind turbines. Construction of hydro power dams. Manufacturing and distribution of solar panels. Mining, manufacturing and distribution of grid batteries.

All the things you name immediately start paying back 'dividends', solar/wind have a fraction of the opex, and produce electricity at a far lower cost than nuclear and are dropping in cost per GWhr, whereas nuclear plants take decades to "break even", only do so if you ignore the carbon footprint of their supply chain, and the cost of electricity from nuclear is going up.

> I hope you're browsing Hacker News using landfill-diverted computer hardware powered by a landfill-diverted off-grid solar power array, because otherwise your objections to nuclear power apply equally to your own life.

So cliche a response it's literally a meme.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
I'm not a beginner (12k cards, 10 years). What works for me personally:

1) test word -> meaning, not word -> word in other language

2) I don't test reverse most of the time, unless I really want to remember how to say something - output tends to emerge by itself given enough input

3) When a word has multiple meanings I add context (usually a related word or colocation as a hint - whole sentences can cause you to associate the sentence with the word but not recall it in other situations). Words with lots of meanings (in Japanese I guess that would be stuff like 引く or in English 'run'?) tend to be very common words so you don't need to use flash cards so much anyway.
I clicked on the article, was hopeful this was the FTC targeting a Chinese counterfeit seller & review hijacker.. but it was not to be
Since the construction company claims that the contract only called for 16 widebody gates, I don’t think that there was a failure during the design process. I’d be willing to bet that the project management changed their minds but failed to actually amend the contract.
Louis Rossmann recommends this one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01B4CLAKG
Well i listed 2 activities, you could certainly add more to the test. Just as we add many questions to an IQ test.

Even if the test doesn't predict performance in every single sport, that doesn't mean it has zero predictive power in all sports.

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Similarly, I'm not saying IQ is destiny or even the largest factor in any given endeavour, its not. But its equally wrong to say its not a factor at all. It is somewhere in the middle.

Like most metrics, it doesn't capture the entirety of the squishy concept as you say, but it does capture something about it.

I think we understand this in many other areas. Look at PE ratio or revenue growth for a stock, look at goals on target for a football striker, VO2max or running economy for a runner, mileage for a car. IQ is understandably more controversial but the concept is the same.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

Bible as a LLM confirmed!
By not falling into the trap of consumerism and keeping up with the Jones's

If most people didn't buy a brand new car with $500-800 a month payment + insurance, they could afford buying a single rental property and immediately retire in a low cost of living country.

People love to buy useless crap though and live beyond their means.

Rent too high? Live with a roommate.

House-hack - buy a house, get 2 friends to live with you and pay you rent - your mortgage is paid off without you paying it every month. Save up for another year or two, rinse and repeat.

Life's not hard, but people fall into the trap of consumerism and working to live and get by paycheck-to-paycheck.

First generation immigrants save more on a minimum wage job than most people do with a high paying job. Simply because their expenses increase as their income increases, rather than saving and investing their income.
Amazingly I don't disagree. In my usage the desired return result is two-part. The first is indeed boolean, but there is also a "why". Was it an auth rule? A complex FF? I think the ideal interface would give sufficient context to callers so they could do the right thin with these 401s as you describe.

Granted, the reason I want this is more that I've spent too much time try to help customer support figure out why person X can't see Y, which can devolve into checking 3 different systems too often.
While the closing of a major supermarket like Whole Foods in Downtown San Francisco is certainly concerning, I think it's important to maintain a balanced perspective and not jump to conclusions about a "doom loop" for the entire city. Urban environments are dynamic, and they undergo cycles of growth, decline, and revitalization. San Francisco is no exception.

The pandemic has unquestionably changed the way we work and live, causing a shift in foot traffic patterns and affecting local businesses. However, we should also consider that this particular store might have faced unique challenges, such as its location in a neighborhood grappling with increased drug use and crime. It's possible that the company's decision to close the store is more a reflection of those specific circumstances rather than an indicator of a broader downward spiral for San Francisco.

The closure of this Whole Foods store is undoubtedly a loss for the community, but it should not be interpreted as an inevitable sign of a citywide "doom loop." Instead, let's focus on finding innovative solutions to tackle the challenges faced by the city and work towards a more vibrant and resilient San Francisco.
Is this why the Pythagoreans didn't want anything written? Hmm!
I don't see that as explicitly a bad thing.

If a rational founder thinks they can gain more by working on their friends startup, it might be better for the collective to have more people working on the more promising project.
It's pretty awesome & very cost effective! When I was at Twilio we streamed logstash/fluentd (forget which) -> kinesis -> BigQuery and it worked great - certainly better than the days we were trying to manage ES ourselves
Last week, a drug-addicted homeless woman gave birth to a baby on the street in SF like an animal. It's worse than a 3rd world country in SF these days.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/woman-gives-birth-on-san-francisco...
I once spent over a year debugging a furnace. It would run fine, except every now and then on it would just refuse to turn on for a day or two. Eventually noticed it was only rainy days, and was due to it thinking the exhaust was blocked because there wasn't enough pressure differential between input air and exhaust.

Turned out the installer had failed to put in the high altitude kit which told it to expect a smaller pressure differential. Mostly it was fine, but on rainy days with low barometric pressure, the difference would drop below threshold. But I had to be home for enough rainy days to figure it out.
Most other things in the human body seems to be use it or lose it. Sure, innate talent matters a lot, but so does training. You’d never be a track star even with the best genetics if you never left the couch.
The homeless folks in Portland weren’t as violent as the folks in SF, by my memory.

I don’t like a lot of what the parent post says but I think we should consider that there’s a grain of truth somewhere in it.
chain of thought prompting. It's well known

https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11916

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903
Serious question, why does lodash.isNull exist?
This is interesting, but maybe our software is doing a lot more today than it was back then. I guess the question is whether those things are necessary. There is of course some software that is just slower because of negligence too.

I remember using a computer 20 years, and they would take multiple minutes to boot into something that was usable, and executing programs would take quite a few seconds because the HDD had to go searching for stuff the executable required.

My current desktop has a Samsung 970 NVME SSD, it boots up in like 20 seconds or something, and everything is extremely responsive as far as reading from the disk goes.

It's interesting that the one thing that hasn't been completely neutralized by the treadmill is SSDs!

Also the LLVM and Rustc thing is interesting. I imagine they are doing much more advanced optimizations than what compilers did 20 years ago so they probably have a good excuse, but I think these optimizations are also neutralized by the treadmill eventually.
Everyone should keep a jumper in their glove box.

It's with the price just to see the looks on the faces of stranded motorists you help jump start in one or two minutes after they've been trying for an hour to jumpstart a minivan with a hatchback.
Someone, somewhere, always has to suspend disbelief about locations in movies and TV shows, especially TV shows. :)
> Most people would also probably be quite happy with the version of Android or iOS they are using if it kept getting bugfixes and security updates.

Absolutely! Most non-tech folks would be delighted by this. Regular users generally don't care one bit about whatever fad style or trendy feature got added with the latest update, they are just annoyed that their buttons or icons got moved around.
That's not true, people were able to make a reservation for one of three different models and select options like FSD to lock-in the FSD price before it was raised.
I have this https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Hakko-temperature-limiting-sol...
As a Brit: America is a big and scary place.
For that id say it's the simplest explanation: warm weather. so all west coast has it harder with unsheltered.

cities that are more progressive, like portland, sign themselves up for the worst of it, yes!

fwiw im a socal native, and not all west coast cities have unsheltered problems. but the solution is obvious: have no regard for human life. Irvine, Ca is "so safe" and pristine and lovely because it expels the riff raff outside of its borders.

out of sight out of mind
Agreed about pandemic affecting downtown being the man culprit.

I wager SF was affected harder more than most downtowns due to high commercial rents, tons of startups that were nimble and moved, and lots of progressive big companies that are actually adapting to WFH reasonably well.

I wish commercial rents would drop significantly and more mixed use was permitted for new galleries, bars, clubs and residential.

I personally have hope SF will figure it out. It’s a town of constant change.
https://bellriots.netlify.app/
I'm very happy with the Pinecil. The $25 price is very reasonable for a reliable soldering iron that is open hardware[1] and runs on upgradable free and open source firmware.[2]

[1] Schematics: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinecil:_How_to_Repair#Schemati...

[2] IronOS: https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS
I absolutely love the idea. However, I found it a bit annoying that the sign up page is integrated with two companies I don't trust, Twitter and Google. I tried to sign up with an anonymous email address instead and got the error "Something went wrong".
Any references or links on AHI and bad sleep? Seems like that is the gold standard for measuring severity of sleep apnea but I haven’t found it a very good measure for my own experiences.
Where do I find interviewers like you?
I have a similar set of headers. Added auxiliary vector support to the entry point. I wonder if they'd be interested in such a patch? Not sure if they're open to adding a new argument to main.

struct auxiliary {
long type;
union {
char *c_string;
void *pointer;
long integer;
} as;
};

long main(long argc, char **argv, char **envp, struct auxiliary *auxv);

This is the complete set of parameters the kernel passes to the process.
Martial artists train to 'fight' within a constraining set of rules. In a real fight there are no rules.
> I'm talking about a mental model for understanding and predicting when and why it works well vs when it doesn't.

I'm talking about it too. If I enter a specific phrase into a search engine that can be only found on a handful of websites, I expect it to return those results to me. Like, typing the VAT ID of my company will return bunch of information about it on various sites. This is absolutely not going to work with a LLM - instead, at best it may notice that what you typed looks like a VAT ID and will then proceed to give you information about a company it completely made up. The mental model of understanding what works with LLMs and doesn't is drastically different from a search engine. Human memory on steroids is a much better (though of course still not perfect) model.
Self-publishing doesn't count as "publishing" for most purposes. Trying to claim academic priority based on something you uploaded to your website or the arXiv is a recipe for getting laughed at, or, even more likely, for getting ignored outright. At least outside of those very few fields where the arXiv has become somewhat established, like math, computer science, and to a lesser extent, physics.
Does anyone know if there is there any way to prevent the Nvidia drivers from accessing the internet on Linux?

I would think that I could just add it to some no-internet group or something but I am not sure if Nvidia could bypass that given that they have a physical card on the PCIe bus.
It's disheartening to hear such stories, but generalizing San Francisco based on isolated events is unfair. Like any city, SF faces challenges like homelessness and substance abuse. Instead of making comparisons, let's acknowledge the ongoing efforts to address these issues and work together to foster positive change...
Computers have memory! Oh, wait... so does ChatGPT. Or am I forgetting something...
Japan has somewhat of a "sanctuary district" in Sanya, Tokyo, it's been an area for those left behind for a long time as I understand it.

People in need tend to congregate around help services provided by the city, and Sanya has a lot of those services. It is unclear if homeless are "moved" to Sanya or if it is just a natural place for them to end up, because of the mentioned services. Housing, food and vending machines are also extra cheap in Sanya.

The situation for homeless Americans is a lot more dire than living in Sanya, from an outsiders perspective. I don't envy having to sleep in SF streets.
https://console.dev/tools/

I find a lot of tools from their newsletter.
Thats not a good argument when you take the fact that Sweden has the same population as Michigan.

fwiw more swedish people live in the US than in Sweden.
Because 'null' in Javascript isn't intuitive https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Well yes, if you look at the paper summary they are comparing the scores for an overlapping set of questions, all from one question bank used in many tests if i understand correctly.
I used to shop there all the time - crime was a massive issue. And not just shoplifting either, pretty much every employee I talked to either had been physically assaulted or knew someone who had been.

> I've noticed a pattern of using whatever convenient trendy excuse (crime in SF) for leadership to avoid stating the real reason

Interesting, because I’ve noticed a trend of people bending themselves into pretzels to avoid starting that crime is an issue.
What if surgeons get replaced by better robotics hardware (more accurate cutting techniques than a human hand) and better AI software. The premise that a more experience surgeon is a lot better than a newbie surgeon holds true. How do you become an experienced surgeon? By seeing a lot of cases and knowing what to do when things don't go as planned.
What does AI do? It learns over time by seeing more and more cases.

Will it replaced a true star surgeon within the next decades? Likely not. But how many of us have access to the world's best surgeon? Or the world's top 10 or top 1000? Vast majority see one who is local and good enough (or have no choice if you land in an ER with an accident). Those are highly skilled highly trained positions earning high pay.

If you asked me a year ago I would have recommended kids to go into studying medicine and become a surgeon as that surely wouldn't be replaced by computers.

Today I am not so sure this will be a profession for the majority of cases (that don't get to see the highest of skilled) even in 10 or 15 years from now.
Yeah I learned pretty much every kanji with jukugo (did Remembering the Kanji at first, but it wasn't that helpful). A lot of failed cards at first since I was trying to learn recognition of the kanji, the kana reading and the word's meaning - but it got easier over time.
Apple BKC opens April 18 and Apple Saket opens April 20
I think two blocks away, at 6th and Market, is sometimes thought to be scarier.

Although that same corner where the Whole Foods was was the first place I saw someone openly injecting heroin on the street while other people were watching (while the Trinity Place building was under construction a few years ago).

There are a lot of weird and intense juxtapositions right over there.
Sun Tzu's chief virtue, and weakness, is brevity.

Compared to Clausweitz, Sun Tzu would have been a Twitter guru, inviting the question: So, what?
A child asked her mother, “Can I put my hand in the fire?”. The mother responded, “That’s a stupid question. Of course you can.”. The child put her hand in the fire and got severe burns on her hand. She learned then that instead asking “Can I…” she should have asked, “Is it advisable…”. Unfortunately for her she lived in a society in which people frequently say things like, “You have to file taxes on or before April 15.” when they mean, “You can file taxes after April 15 but you may incur fees and penalties if you do so.”. She later became a teacher and was very patient with her students.
"safety". Who's safety?
San Fran is just reverting back to San Fran pre tech bro era, and the gentrimmigrants are baffled.

It's interesting to see so much 'the city is changing' type messaging when this is just how San Fran has always been.

Thanks for your stay, we hope you had a good time. Try not to get stabbed or shot on your way out.
So does Australia: 28% to the US 27%. I've also lived in SF before, and most of the junkies and crazy people had US accents. I really doubt it's international immigration that's the problem there.
Then you would have a branch of computer science “Artificial Niceness”…
Addition can be total if you have a single infinity, just make infinity + n = infinity for all n

Subtraction, multiplication and division is harder

But making further operations partial isn't that of a big deal; in fields the division is already partial due to division by zero not being defined.
> The visible homeliness wouldn’t be solved if rent were half - that doesn’t treat schizophrenia

By itself? No.

But literally every viable path to addressing serious mental illness requires stable housing as a prerequisite. Without it, there's literally no way to manage the problem - just different ways of shifting it around over and over again.
But this is not raw Reflexion (it's not a result from the paper, but rather from follow-on work). The project uses significantly more scaffolding to guide the agent in how to approach the code generation problem. They design special prompts including worked examples to guide the model to generate test cases, prompt it to generate a function body, run the generated code through the tests, off-load the decision of whether to submit the code or to try to refine to hand-crafted logic, collate the results from the tests to make self-reflection easier, and so on.

This is hardly an example of minimal hand-holding. I'd go so far as to say this is MORE handholding than the paper this thread is about.
what is your point, are you trying to argue for this statement of the parent, the reason why Sweden was even brought up?

> everyone looks acts and believes all the same things in all the same ways

then you are not making a good argument because clearly not everyone in Sweden looks and acts the same, considering the fraction of its population who came from overseas.
I assure you there is no such thread limit (or if there is, we aren't close to it).

You suppose me to be attempting to refute an argument that IQ is genetically determined. I don't have to do that. No valid argument has been presented that it is. Your original argument supposed that the evidence for genetic determination was "overwhelming", but you believed that because you mistook the term "heritability" as a synonym for "genetic", when it is in fact a ratio "genetic/everything".

As for research funding: you also can't get a grant to prove that the Earth is flat, and that fact is persuasive to some people, who have taken to renaming the atmosphere the "atmosflat". Generally, you want your logic to be stronger than that of flat-Earthers.

That doesn't make your supposition that IQ is genetically determined wrong (I think it's wrong, but don't pretend to have demonstrated that). It just makes your logic faulty.