skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a 2023 equivalent to mh (CLI email client)?
That's actually pretty cool
Skip lists are more complex, require more pointer storage and are really intended for more dynamic data.

I would label this more of a hybrid hash/lookup table --- but without any wasted storage space.

The key observation here is that on modern hardware, a simple, linear, fully cache based search of 20-30 elements is often faster than a binary search. If a pre-computed index can easily and efficiently narrow the average linear search range down to this level, it is likely to be faster.

But re-arranging into Eytzinger order is sorta equivalent to building an index so as always, apply your own judgment.
As someone who doesn’t know much about it, I appreciated the previous comment.
The 10th gen mobile CPU’s are notoriously hot and power hungry. They behave similarly under windows. I mostly tried to purchase mobile Ryzen based laptops during that time.
Humanities departments at universities in the US have been getting smaller, and more professorship slots are moving towards STEM, in general. However, this has come at the end of a tremendous growth cycle in the humanities if you zoom out to the last 50-100 years. It also seems like more "traditional" fields like History and English are being replaced by Psychology, Sociology, and [x] Studies, which seem to have a very different focus.

Even in STEM, only about 10% of PhDs from top-tier universities go on to become professors. A small fraction of the rest end up adjuncting, but a much bigger fraction take the escape hatch into industry. A PhD in history basically only prepares you to be a history professor, though, so I imagine that the escape hatch is much more narrow in that field.
I have been struggling with my circadian rhythm and have been exploring light therapy and novel techniques that will help me wake up. I learned that a smart light I bought, from Kasa, has a solid community written python library that controls it on the local network. I made a little app that adjusts the lamp color based on sunrise and sunset hours. It's relatively simple technology wise, but it's forced me to rethink how I evaluate "smart" technology.

I am thinking of expanding it to be a notification light of sorts. Not for anything related to the internet, but for chores, like the laundry machine finishing, or reminders to take a break from work. It's helped me remember to grab lunch more than a few times this week. There's something pleasant about light notifications compared to vibrations or sounds.

I am working on making an advanced wifi enabled timer using an esp32. I love the idea of a dedicated timer, seperate from my phone, that I can use day to day. I have a basic display and webserver for scheduling countdowns/alarms, but I want to incorporate some sort of keypad and a couple input buttons. There's plenty of ways in can be improved.

I also have a first generation raspberry pi monitoring my washing machine, it sends me notifications when a cycle finishes. It uses a simple ultrasonic sensor and is hosting a web server showing a readout.
I don't think we have to wait that long. The bots of „Halo: Infinite“ received a lot of praise, and they are "handcrafted". See this recent video by Tommy Thompson from AI & Games: https://youtu.be/4bOsJSRk0i8
one day someone is going to die, and the root cause will be found to be some nonsense like an expired certificate, invalid [old] ciphers, ocpp, lack of publicly signed cert, or some other ridiculous security feature that you should be able to turn off or ignore in an emergency
No, there are quite large differences and thus kali itself actively advises against doing that.
That's probably generally true although I've also stayed in smaller towns in places like northern California and meal options were pretty limited there too. A problem is that you can devolve to fast food chains pretty quickly and the local options aren't necessarily any better. A good (pricier) restaurant in a small town probably isn't really supportable by just locals.
This is great. Something that always upset me is seeing people spend huge amounts of money building IoT products when an old phone would be better and cheaper. The waste is especially galling when it is done by a company that makes its money off ads, and is selling fresh consumer electronics at a loss. Recycling your old phone gives a better experience and save money for both the consumer and the producer.
Well, the error doesn't go away, it's a "fail state", but that still doesn't mean PEBCAK either.
In India satellite services are illegal except Inmarsat because they have a deal with them for surveillance. That's probably why. You can get in serious trouble there for carrying a satellite phone too.
Well how would you do it, then? It's not like CF hasn't thought about this a lot. Spam deterrence has been a problem since the start of the internet. It's clearly not an easy problem to solve.
"The bubble is never gonna pop!"
aka "Sneakernet"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
> In Europe there would definitely be an expectation that alcohol would be provided [...] It would also be expected that guests bring a bottle of wine or flowers or something to that effect.

Nope. I was born and grew up in Germany.
My parents have friends in France and Italy whose kids and whos families I grew up with.

I am regularly in Italy and France still but also other parts of Europe, particularly the south and Scandinavia and I have friends everywhere on this continent so dinner invitations when traveling are frequent.

My experience over 40 years of this contradicts what you say.
I'm fairly sure there's a VNC server for rooted Android phones, am I mistaken?

Looks like this one will work without root: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.christianb...
I split my time between the US and UK. If the food options in the US are "appalling" relative to the UK, it makes me wonder what parts of the US you've been spending your time in.

Food and cuisine in the US is highly regional, and varies immensely. In the part of the US where I currently live (Pacific Northwest), the local food is much healthier than is typical in the UK and higher quality. Portion sizes are not uniform across the US either but I would agree that on average the UK is significantly smaller.

I wouldn't characterize typical food in the UK as particularly healthy, it reminds me much more of the diet you see in the Rust Belt of the US. The relative dearth of fresh, high-quality vegetables in the UK is particularly noticeable for people that have lived on the west coast of the US (which has amazing fresh vegetables generally by global standards).
> Just a few years ago it would have been regarded as unbelievable science fiction that a model with such capabilities would soon be available.

No, it wouldn't have – not to people in the know. We just didn't have powerful enough computers back in the 90s. Sure, the techniques we've got now are better, but 90s algorithms (with modern supercomputers) can get you most of the way.

Transformers are awesome, but they're not that much of a stretch from 90s technology. GANs are… ridiculously obvious, in hindsight, and people have been doing similar things since the dawn of AI; I imagine the people who came up with the idea were pretty confident of its capabilities even before they tested them.

Both these kinds of system – and neural-net-based systems in general – are based around mimicry. Their inability to draw limbs, or to tell the truth, or count, are fundamental to how they function, and iterative improvement isn't going to fix them. Iterative improvement would be going faster, if researchers (outside of OpenAI and similar corporations) thought it was worthwhile to focus on improving these systems specifically.

ChatGPT is not where transformers shine. StyleGAN3 is not where GANs shine. Midjourney is not where diffusion models shine. They're really useful lenses for visualising the way the architectures work, so they are useful test-beds for iterative algorithmic improvements…¹ but they aren't all that they're made out to be.

¹: See the 3 in StyleGAN3. Unlike the 4 in GPT-4, it actually means something more than "we made it bigger and changed the training data a bit".
Error between monitor and chair
Yes, yes it is, because it's an intrinsic advantage the human doctor could have that's being ignored.

Palpation, especially for musculoskeletal issues, is an incredible diagnostic tool. And manual therapies are surprisingly often an effective alternative to surgery or drugs.
> This is sometimes called the AI singularity or a superintelligence explosion.

Nitpicking but an intelligence explosion due to an AI able to enhance itself is called the "technological singularity":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
Have you tried using a prefix-based window manager? Now I have the same keys in window manager, multiplexer, and editor, just with different prefixes. It also nests well if you do remote or virtualized graphical sessions.

I wonder if anyone already made tabs for StumpWM..
So we shouldn't have manmade diamonds because... people hide things in them? That really seems like a stretch.

I would posit that the exact reason manmade diamonds are rising in popularity is that they're not mined at all. It's better for the environment, for workers, and for the customer paying the bill.
> • Fix Cloudflare “[email protected]” stupidity without having to run the page’s arbitrary JavaScript. (Basically: take their deobfuscator script and just run it myself if it gets used. Only people that deliberately block JavaScript are likely to have seen this, but it’s quite common. The filter they use is evidently very dumb, obfuscating quite a few things that are not email addresses, including things like “package-name@1.2.3” (not even valid—IP address hosts have to be in square brackets, and DNS doesn’t use numeric TLDs) and “user@host” in console logs.)

> • Hold z to make a currently-playing audio or video go at 4× (the fastest you can go before Firefox cuts off the audio).

Are these open-source by any chance?
Interview Coach GPT
You can get useful results out of a whole lot of them as long as you actually prompt them in a way suitable for the models. The point I made originally was that if you just feed them an ambiguous question, then sure, you will get extremely variable and mostly useless results out. Ironically,

And I mentioned ChatGPT because from context of your comments here it was unclear on first read-through what you meant. Maybe consider that it's possible your prompting is not geared for the models you've tried.

Not least, specifically given that if you expect a model to know how to follow instructions, when most of them have not been through RLHF you're using them wrong. A lot of them needs prompt shaped as a completion, not a conversation.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey says Musk wasn’t an ideal leader after all
That's how I use emacs every day. Once it is open, I rarely need to do anything outside of it. Code, compile, debug, web search, etc. It can handle everything I have thrown at it.
No atmosphere - need to brake all of the velocity difference with engines & can't use aerodynamic surfaces or parachutes.

On a body with atmosphere you can essentially just drop a payload up to some maximum size with a proper heat shield and a parashute and it will end up (somewhere) on the surface in one piece.

On an atmosphere less body you essentially need to run precisely controlled flight all the way to touchdown.

Everything has tradeoffs. :-P
Sweden is building world's 1st electrified road for EVs to charge while driving
Here in Canada I would 100% rather deal with ChatGPT than a doctor, so long as ChatGPT also controlled the keys to the gates of the medical world (i.e. ability to make referrals).
That's pretty ideal for satellite services. It doesn't cope well with large clusters of customers, having them spread out is pretty ideal.
The idea isn't that you tell it to simply change what it wrote on the first try. The idea is that having a first draft to work with allows it to rewrite a better version.
So, yes, gpt4 isn't suddenly going to become godpt.

But when people say we're close, I think they mean 1 accidental breakthrough away.

Like the "just add more layers" meme, the solution to the own-dataset creation problem could be stupidly simple, just waiting for some bored student with access to a decent machine to accidentally find it. For example, maybe just giving the AI the right novelty seeking behaviors (like children have) will be enough to get the process kicked off.

My objection to the singulatarian concept of a self improving AI is simply that I haven't really heard a reason to think that there exist intelligence algorithms that are dramatically superior to ours. It is entirely possible that our thinking algorithms are optimal-enough that rapid self improvement leads straight to something not much different from human intelligence, just faster, and in silicon.
Indeed, I do use coarser salt or fleur de sel, but only on few things (e.g. on top of a steak, fish, or on oven-baked potatoes), and I do notice the difference. To me, pink salt just doesn’t taste different to comparably-sized white salt in a noticeable way.
that website's ads feel like a dystopia
But if it is, let's say 7 million dollars, even earning 0 interest, it can be used as collateral for loans that they can then use in places that has something to beat inflation.

Notably, this has a finite lifespan on how often you can do it. It is not some magical process that has no downside. But, to pretend the people that will buy yachts care about inflation loss on things is silly. Every single asset they buy will result in worse loss than inflation. Having safe assets that they know won't be taken is a very nice source of collateral. And note that I never envision them putting their billions away, in this manner. Just many millions. Because they have many many millions.
>The Apple Silicon chips are a massive innovation

I have seen this repeated again and again. As if Apple Silicon was made for the Mac.

Apple Silicon came from iPhone and iOS. Using the same Ax SoC on MacBook just happened because they became fast enough.
I get that, but that doesn’t explain why they’re always so overeager to prescribe hardcore drugs or over-operate routine problems. The role of doctors in the entire opiates crisis is pretty damning.

I’ve had a couple of surgeries and the eagerness of doctors to give me opiates for pain relief was baffling, even when I clearly told them that I can tolerate the pain and don’t need anything stronger than ibuprofen.
Not research per se, but I do read, as do most with an interest in early Christianity. The following are some suggested physical books for those interested:

Marcion: The Gospel of the Alien God, 1921, ISBN 1556357036
Marcion: On the Restitution of Christianity, 1934, ISBN 149829359X
The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon, 2013, ISBN 1598151312
also available on CalyxOS
Flying a paramotor must be so fun
> We would like to automatically construct datasets, but we don’t currently have any good approach to doing so.

wouldn't fine tuning an existing LLM model like GPT4 could be enough to filter our automatic dataset from "garbage"?

if so we could basically do the same iterative process, but on different level
use ai to improve dataset, retrain ai, use new ai to even better improve dataset
"For the next BMW car everything is rebuilt from scratch" does sound very different to me from "the system is developed by a different company in each multi-year cycle that covers dozens of models".

Maybe you're trying to tell me that I should have understood that you couldn't really mean what you wrote because that's just absurd? In that case you may be right.

I guess that when you say "nobody is iterating on anything" you cannot really mean that either - because it's just equally absurd to think that completely independent systems were designed from scratch multiple times without any reference to the previous ones and it's just by chance that the first version had a dial only, the next "non-iteration" a similar dial and two buttons, later more buttons appeared, etc.
This is cool, but I'm confused by the licensing. The LICENSE file says GPL, but then there's also a legal section in the README that says it's public domain but also non-commercial use only:

> Dethrace is released to the Public Domain. The documentation and function provided by Dethrace may only be utilized with assets provided by ownership of Carmageddon.

> The source code in this repository is for non-commerical use only. If you use the source code you may not charge others for access to it or any derivative work thereof.

If you release something to the public domain, you can't place restrictions on its use, so which is it?
When I converted all the micro services in my big app from HTTP to WebSockets my test automation performance in the browser instantly became 7x faster. I am still using JSON and not using protobuf.

The reason for the performance difference is that a WebSocket is a single statefull TCP socket with a tiny extra binary frame header sending messages back and forth. HTTP is stateless so it creates a new socket for each and every message. HTTP also has a round trip, request/response. The round trip means twice the message frequency as compared to the fire and forget nature of WebSockets.
It is pretty normal in the US to share dishes between people at restaurants. Some restaurants also offer half portions even if it isn't listed on the menu.
Deno SaaSKit: An open source SaaS template by Deno
Balanced take. Appreciate it.
> JavaScript “How can I merge two JavaScript objects and remove any duplicates”

(This is a genuine question) Is it hard to find a solution to that question on the web by using a search engine?
Iridium uses that kind of orbit so they have excellent coverage over the polar areas. With the few customers in that area (all commercialor institutional so they can afford it) they pretty much have that market covered.

Ps talking about the real polar areas here, not Alaska, Nordics etc.
An in-law had a minor tremor to their left hand, and whilst this wasn't pointed out to said in-law, it was noticed, and there were other small tells about what the problem might be, which ultimately led to a diagnosis and appropriate treatment.

Any kind of LLM and its frequency of hallucination means that LLMs are inappropriate as a solution in this scenario. An LLM is not a physician, it's an LLM.

You can make soup in an electric kettle, but it doesn't make it the right tool for the job, and comes with a lot of compromises.
Who f-ing cares if we call it a "superintelligence explosion", the singularity, or Roko's Basilisk? Everyone is trying so hard to coin the new concept that will enshrine their name through the ages that we're losing sight of the forest for the trees.
So, bigotry as a spam filter. Hey, whatever works for you.
Nice, but bad licensing. Don't invent your own, just slap something common on it, please. There's plenty to choose from.

This:

> Dethrace is released to the Public Domain.

And this:

> The source code in this repository is for non-commerical use only. If you use the source code you may not charge others for access to it or any derivative work thereof.

Don't align with each other. If it's public domain, then commercial use is perfectly fine.
Agreed. The Apollo project was 2-3% of GDP at the time, compared to some modern projects:

- Second Avenue Subway at a projected total cost across all phases of $17B vs. the GDP of NYC at $1T = 1.7%

- Berlin Brandenburg Airport at a final cost of €7B vs. the GDP of the city of Berlin and the federal state of Brandenburg combined at €228B = 3%

- California High Speed Rail at a current estimate of $128B for the full LA-SF system vs. the GDP of California at $3.6T = 3.5%

And all of these examples understate the problem, since the GDP was lower when the projects began, the costs may continue to rise as the projects progress, and outside (national-level) funding assistance is also used. So there is at least some merit to the idea that we just can't build as well as we used to.
Moon is indeed hard to orbit (without constant course corrections) due to its lumpy gravitational field:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_concentration_(astronom...
Wow. No idea this existed. I was about to set up a TV tuner with my Plex and pay $4.99 for the ability to broadcast live TV over Plex but see that JellyFin has this feature for free.

THANK YOU!
Nevertheless, it got 2 out of 7 wrong, not just one.
The project seems to be using Kiwix, but not only that. For example, you can't serve OpenStreetMaps cards using Kiwix (at least to my knowledge).
This sounds like hell but it's also infinitely different from how it works here (in Western Europe, but I'd assume it's different from almost anywhere but the US). Also, pharmaceutical ads are forbidden here, and antibiotics are very sparsely used.
Ask HN: Conference recommendations for a CS first year undergrad?
What conferences should a first year CS student attend that would be:

-- Relevant to CS

-- Not too overwhelming

-- Not too expensive / possible student discounts
Martin Shkreli's new project is kind of like this. They use an LLM that's fed with medical data to make a diagnosis. With the disclaimer that it's not actual medical advice of course. https://www.drgupta.ai/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_9

> On 3 February 1966, the Luna 9 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to achieve a survivable landing on a celestial body.
Couple dozen Ranger and Surveyor probe craters to get the landing technology right.
So the issue is see with lack of dep management...

1. My code depends on dep A and B, which also depends on A.

2. A has some issue, so I update my reference, but B does not.

3. Given dependencies are bundled, B still contains the bad A.

So how can I updated the A used by B? (Without effectively forking B) This is more a problem with bundled or censored dependencies than the lack of dependency management. Dep Mgmt aims to solve this issue by having only one copy of a dependency
Radio towers are at much lower altitude, so you need way more of them than satellites to cover the whole planet. Also you need permission on land and you need a boat in addition to the tower on the sea. Plus always having line of sight to the tower is harder unless you make them extra tall. I assume that makes them much more expensive and is why cell phone coverage is not global.
This seems very cool. I’m trying to figure out if anyone would take a donation to build say 1000 of these and give them away, but I can’t find any kind of contact info for IIAB. They link to Wikimedia Medicine which I also can’t find any contact info for, apparently communication should happen over “meta” which must be some wiki thing?

Anyway, if you have or know about a 501c3 that can build and give away these devices, please share contact info here.
And unsurprisingly, the average 52 word Reddit comments [isolated from the context of other comments] didn't provide very much information compared with a much more verbose chatbot. The relevance of the ChatGPT response to the actual patient condition remains unknown.

This is relevant to the real world of primary care only if your sole access to a medical professional is Reddit...
So what exactly do you disagree about with the commenter? If it's equally speculative, then what's your point?
Fwiw, you can't use gRPC over HTTPS proxies if they don't implement ALPN correctly, and some of the biggest vendors of corporate security HTTPS proxies don't. It turns out a bunch of Google Cloud APIs are only available as gRPC. So you basically can't use Google Cloud APIs from a corporate network.

The internet and common protocols used to be designed with real world use cases in mind, but now all technology is designed with only one generic consumer user in mind, and everybody else gets left behind.
Vinyl records are a way to display the album art in a large-ish format. CDs are tiny and not as good for displaying.