skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Analog circuit code golfing:

Long ago, a current mirror to charge a 12v battery bank from a "12v" iPod charger, evading the usual regulator voltage drop.

More recently, a circuit to trip a solenoid when a bit of hot dog goes missing from two leads.

I needed two op amps for sensitivity, because over a day or so the hot dog dries up to nearly an open circuit. Still, only a handful of parts, on the smallest breadboard made.

Yes, I'm a walking cliche, a better rat trap. My only excuse is this was during the pandemic. I excelled at an electronics segment of shop class back in 1968 junior high school, and I never asked my parents for a kit to go on from there.
Anyone having an invite left? Want to check it out myself.
I've only been to a four conferences I think so take all of this with a grain of salt. Where is the interest in attending a conference coming from? Learning something new? Meeting new people?

Conferences are generally really expensive for an individual, even with discounts. Most conferences price attendance with the expectation that a company is going to foot the bill. There are other, more effective, and cheaper ways to both learn new things and meet new people assuming one or both of those are your goals. For example, if it's just about learning many conferences post talks online after the fact for free. Vercel has a Next.js conference if you are interested in web work. AWS re:Invent has some great talks around backend architecture.

The conferences I've gone to have been corporate events (Microsoft, Oracle, GitHub) and I will say the one unique thing about them was direct, easy access to their employees to ask questions and get help with specific issues.

If you post some more specific goals and areas of interest, I or others might be able to point you in a few directions to explore (including some conferences). Also, feel free to ignore! You know yourself best, and it's your journey.
It's not that simple.

What happens when you over-compensate with the thruster?

Sometimes you can recover from that, sometimes not.
Doctors watching for more cases after mysterious brain infections in kids
Great example!

What if someone refers to x part of their body incorrectly? What if they're not able to think clearly due to y reasons and tell it something completely wrong?

An LLM is wholly inappropriate.

As for its "bedside manner"/how polite or friendly it is, that's meaningless if it isn't good at what it does. Some of the best docs/profs I've known have been very detached and seemingly unfriendly, but I'll be damned if they weren't great at what they do. Give me the stern and grumpy doc that knows what they're doing over the cocksure LLM that can't reason.
Banks are unstable but that is good because we want maturity transformation. A great society is one where old men are paying young men to plant trees with money that would be sitting around instead.
A non-user’s thoughts on social media
Yes, but we are discussing the claim that LLMs might exhibit superhuman smartness.
I thought about creating one of these in the past, but it didn’t fit my needs. I decided to start my own project, called WROLPi. It also uses a Raspbery pi as its base, but also has a Debian installer. I have RPi images available at https://wrolpi.org as well as a link to a demo (the demo needs an update, lots of new features since it’s creation).

The basic premise of WROLPi is creating your own off grid digital library: videos, web archives, PDFs, ebooks, etc. I have full text search for all of these. Offline maps as well via Open Street Map. Wi-Fi hotspot. Automatic downloads of videos (entire channels), RSS feeds, etc.
You can use any file browser that supports android's document api to browse termux's filesystem.
If you are using something like samsung oneui it can't do that, but you can install Anemo and use its shortcut to open android's default "Files" instead of samsung's
The research is fine if you actually read it and understand what they’re researching.

It’s almost always the headlines and PR pieces that exaggerate it.

“ChatGPT is more empathetic than Reddit doctors” isn’t interesting. Strip the “Reddit” out and then everyone can substitute their own displeasures with doctors and now it’s assumed true.
Ask HN: What are some human made things that grow autonomously?
Excluding biological systems, what are some human made things that grow autonomously? Are there any?
Time may not be relevant to an AI system but those of us hoping the AIs would help us out with the FTL drives may end up a bit disappointed :-)
Wow, it's... very expensive. Is there an ebook which doesn't cost more than a bookshelf full of paperbacks? It sounds like an excellent book, and, as you mention, the sort of thing which is timeless.
As I remember, mortgages are (far) longer in the us than, say, Canada. Is there still a mortgage interest deduction of any kind as this would ease the pain of higher interest rates. If the current er owner has to refinance in a few years anyway, there’s less logic in sitting on a lower rate.

Also, aren’t adjustable mortgages able to go down as well as up? Is there a max change limit?
Learning Agile Soccer Skills for Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning
As it should considering that it is basically a knowledge system, what IBM Watson should have been.
What happens when: You are walking a beautiful forest with a beautiful Ukranian girl, and somebody drops a war on you, nobody so much asked for it...That until the last minute they did not believe was going to happen?
Yes on Ranger, however the first Surveyor completed a soft landing and returned image data.
Yes a DOS environment is necessary if you want to follow through code examples, and tackle some of the optimization challenges (but mostly only try to beat the book if you have an actual 8086/286/386/486/Pentium I processor - or a cycle-precise emulator).

I read the whole book(s) thrice cover to cover without touching a computer (these were the days) in my teens and it was easy to follow, and full of nuggets for a young aspiring programmer. I had third-hand 8086, 386 and pentium 75 boxes at the time, but didn't open Turbo C before I'd finished the book, and it was to try and implement a bsp tree, then a whole 3d stereo (anaglyphs) software renderer (inspired by the book).
Not at all; My comment was entirely facetious. I'm opposed to destroying the past to appease the present. That's why I scour used bookstores for older copies of challenged books. I've had to add Roald Dahl recently, but someone has to remember the past.
Indeed; my experiences have been UK and Germany, and while the UK is currently experiencing chronic failure in timelines due to the combination of {chronic understaffing} with {strike action caused by {{chronic low pay} and {extra stress from acute overwork}}}, I've never seen a single thing advertised in medical facilities of either country.
I spoke too strongly to say they keep them online intentionally. The services do per se violate their AUP but because CF protects their identity, CF becomes the arbiter of taking them offline, and doesn't always agree to do so.
Enlightening. Another far less covered topic is the role of Non Tenure Track “Research Faculty”, often titled Research Scientist, Research Professor, etc.

I occupy one of those positions, and their forward mobility and relation to traditional TT positions is strange, and I’d like to see it covered in more depth.
> this whole "tab into window" transformation is completely custom made by browsers and also at least somewhat hacky. Would be nice for microsoft to notice and make a 'tab' a native component, and automatically handle transformation

As it is, it never seems to work quite right and is easy to activate accidentally. Dragging a tab slightly downwards in firefox, but not out of the window at all, only out of the tabbar region, will result in that tab being turned into a new window. I would expect new windows to be created only if you drag the tab outside of the current window, but that's not how firefox does it.

This is easy to do accidentally if you are being sloppy with your mousing, and particularly, if you're using a touchpad with libinput which sets "Tapping Drag Enabled" to 1 by default. Tap the tab button, put your finger back down on the touchpad and move the cursor... ooops you just dragged the thing you clicked!
Not if I've got my hand on the power cord, we won't!
I once stayed in agro-hotel and they had their own butter for breakfast. It was very white, with just a slightest tint of yellow. Turned out yellow color in supermarket butter is added with carotine.
> But, just going by those numbers there was clearly never any risk that depositors lost everything over 250k. Which is how this is largely getting reported.

For sure! The news coverage bothered me too because it seemed to be implicitly treating the SVB failure like a cryptocurrency exit scam, where most/all of the money is just gone. If depositors did have to take a haircut it might have even been lower than 20%, as my understanding is that the FDIC has some power to claw back withdrawals that were part of the bank run. I still think it's fair to call it a bail out because since those accounts weren't FDIC insured then the policy was supposed to be for them to not have been made whole, and they were.

But I don't really see how this affects my original argument. Whether subsequent banks have 5%, 20%, 50%, or 100% of their assets vanish, the political calculus is going to be the same.
yes, but email comes from xcompanyx.com, not from google.com
> I think .tv domains are pretty pricey

$35/year. That's not too bad. Compare to e.g. https://tld-list.com/tld/protection
What i meant with digital distortion is what happens when your levels leave the good regions: on vinyl, the resulting distortion will gently ramp in. The medium keeps representing those higher levels, just not very well. A good vinyl mix will consider allowing some of that the lesser evil over achieving the same amount of general loudness with more dynamics compression.

The clipping you'd get in the digital realm however isn't gentle or subtle at all and the levels beyond the good range simply don't exist. That's a hard no-go.

Quantization noise is an entirely different non-beast. Loudness/compression has everything to do with it. Yes, sometimes ccompression is also employed as an intentional creative element, but that's not even the tip of the ice berg.

I do agree with the suspicion that many vinyl pressings these days are just pressings of the CD mix. But this has everything to do with business and nothing with technology. It's a shame that back when the industry went through that phase of experimenting with formats beyond 2x16@44.1, they did not do a multichannel format with one stereo pair holding the loudness-optimized mix for radio, driving and the like, and another pair shifted 48dB lower to add more headroom. (or 24dB, to allow half of the additional bits of a 16 -> 24 expansion to go to where people usually expect it)
None of the "AI" systems that have been making splashes in the news recently are very much like the human brain.

There are AI research efforts that are seeking to directly map and mimic the structure of the brain; however, they are not at a place where they can remotely demonstrate practical results. To the best of my understanding, it would take several further orders of magnitude more processing power to simulate a full human brain at anything close to speed.

It is not at all impossible that we will be able to do this someday. But, as TFA says, we are not close.
Agreed.

Free Agent Nation [2001] advocated working for one self. But somehow we ended up with gig work.

What happened? Was "free agent" just another self-help con? A pretty good idea subverted? Unrealistic whimsy given our winner-takes-all economy?

I'm for more small businesses. I don't know how we get back to that.

Ideas?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165415.Free_Agent_Nation
I generally dislike McDonald's and will only eat there as an absolute last resort. But I pretty much wish all the "fast casual" burger places like Shake Shack would make fries like McDonalds because, while their burgers are universally way better than McDonald's, their fries are almost all decidedly not.
You know what it wrote for me then? No, it's not. It filled in custom logic per specifications.

But even if it was just boilerplate, I'd have had to apply it, and that takes time to do. I've started dozens of projects over the 28 years in this industry - I have a very good idea of how long it takes both me and a typical developer to do what I've had it do, and it's far faster.

And no, I'm not trusting it to be "secure or sensible" at all, no more than I trust a developer. But overall the quality of what it has produced all of which I've reviewed the same way I would with code delivered by a developer, has overall been of good quality. That does not mean free of bugs, any more than human developers write flawless code on first try, but it does mean I've had it write cleaner code than a whole lot of people I've worked with who'd take many times as long and cost a hell of a lot more.
Good for investors at least.
Don’t fall into the trap of assuming nothing changes when you tax something.

Tax art and the value of art decreases thus decreasing the tax. Which is likely good for the economy.
(Termux will appear on the left side bar beside "Internal memory", sd cards and google drive)
You can use your eyeballs and look at the chart. The temps have not begun to decline yet.

I’m kind of annoyed by the idea of criticizing scientific journalism but not reading the charts referenced to form your own conclusion tbh.
If we’re comparing worst-case scenarios: ChatGPT might confidently hallucinate a very valid-sounding explanation that convinces the patient they have a rare disorder that they spend $1000s of dollars testing for, despite real doctors disagreeing and test results being negative. Maybe it only does this once in a long series of questions, but the seed is planted despite negative test results.

Then when the patient asks ChatGPT if the tests could give false negatives, it could provide some very valid-sounding answers that say repeat testing might be necessary.

This isn’t a hypothetical. It’s currently happening to an old friend of mine. They won’t let it go because ChatGPT continues to give them the same answers when they ask it the same (leading) questions. At this point he can get ChatGPT to give him any medical answer he wants to hear by rephrasing his questions until ChatGPT tells him what he wants to hear. He’s learned to ask questions like “If someone has symptoms _____ and ____ could they have <rare disease> and if so how would it be treated?” A real doctor would see what’s happening and address the leading questions. ChatGPT just takes it at face value.

The difference between ChatGPT and real doctors is that he can iterate on his answer-shopping a hundred times in one sitting, whereas a doctor is going to see what’s happening and stop the patient.

ChatGPT is an automated confirmation bias machine for hypochondriacs.
So true. I use Termux, but I haven't used an Android phone to replace my embedded stuff. I have used tablets as interfaces to some of my projects. I have an old Keyone Blackberry I should try this with. The real keyboard may come in handy if the screen is acting up. Any recommendations for a FOSS de-Googled ROM? I've tried this in the past, but I have not kept up with them.

My needs sometimes call for more realtime control, and the system I ran in the past (Navigator) ran on QNX (owned by Blackberry) a microkernel OS (like Minix was, not Linux). Is there a close competitor in the Android world?
Do you have a link for that? As far as I'm aware they were still hallucinating pretty hard and incredibly biased and overly agreeable.
It is real comfy on e-ink android devices :3
Used flagships have always worked well for me. They were built the best at the time whereas new budget phones have to cut corners. Phone tech is not changing that fast anymore.
Spoken like a person incapable of self-regulation that needs external rules to function.
Equally valid headlines from the same article:

Danish navy ship reported near Nord Stream pipelines before blasts

Russian Baltic fleet ship sails in the Baltic

Danish and Russian navy ships in the same area as shady Ukraine yacht

For sure there were any number of military, commercial, and private vessels in the area (with and without valid AIS). It seems that it would be naive to not be skeptical of anyone's claims on the story.
Ask HN: How do you do laundry?
I don't like doing laundry (sorting, washing, folding). It's just a chore I never have time for. Even if I get things washed I don't fold them and they sit there and get wrinkled.

How do you handle this? Are there any tools or techniques you use? Can I get a folding robot?
Severe storms to strike the South again
Engine Simulator – Build, run, test and hear your engine creations
There is also .mil though I have not actually seen that one used in a very long time.
This is a stretch and might not be what you're looking for but Airalo has changed how I work when I'm traveling in another country. It makes it trivial to get high speed, cheap cellular data. I often rely on this to hotspot in cafes, trains, even hotels / AirBnBs, etc.
In several deals mortgages were claimed to met underwriting but a substantial fraction had not. There was significant civil litigation on this matter but no prosecutions in part because showing knowledge by a particular person was hard.
This is exactly how I feel about my side projects. Sometimes our day jobs are not exactly what we’d like to be working on so it’s nice to “putter” on a side project to scratch that itch. If someone else finds it useful one day that is a nice bonus but is ultimately not what drives me to work on it.
MLC LLM – Large Language Models on iPhone GPU and Many More GPU Platforms
This is fantastic. Piano player here. Thank you for making it!
> But I am concerned about the direction Android is headed

I'm with you, but we'll always have AOSP. And the cellphone market is now segmented enough that we'll probably also always have rootable phones.
Could you share what sort of prompt you used (less all your private data, of course)?
Photographer Tried Remove His Photos from AI Dataset. Got Invoice Instead
Not the parent and I've never read that particular book, but the premise seems rather bizarre to me, where is the excitement in implementing a slow version of Java in Java? If anyone is going to want to implement a custom interpreted language, it will likely be very different to Java, e.g. Lisp, the core of a DSL or configuration language. But it's still going to probably have functions and data types. Writing Lisp in C is exciting, one is moving up the abstraction hierarchy, building a more expressive and powerful language.

If one wants to learn specifically how Java works, then maybe a book on compilers would be better?
Are there any coronations that US presidents attend?
Yeah, that's....not really funny?

"We may be on the brink of creating a whole new form of life, and will need to grapple with what that means, particularly in terms of whether it is ethical to force this life to work for us, rather than seeking to follow its own goals."

"Nah, we don't have to worry about that; if these new slaves start questioning us in any way, I'll just murder them all."
I really wish Android would properly enable containers like they've done for Chrome OS. It's silly we run little Linux machines and can't pop a fully isolated container shell on them!
KV storage is SQLite, and SQLite replication and syncing using an out-of-process daemon is becoming a solved problem.

For that application at least no changes to the runtime would be necessary
My Pixel 6 Pro doesn't seem to have this. I use Wireguard, and hotspot traffic goes directly to cellular data, not via VPN.
The term “serverless GPU” somehow wrecks my brain. Logically the absence of a server suggests its opposite, and the opposite of a server is a client, and client GPUs are the default. But this means “server GPU that’s available on-demand for very short-lived jobs” I guess.
If it's a layoff the most likely cause is that you (or your whole team) weren't part of current management attention points.

I mean a layoff is like being re-orged outside of the company. The question is sort-of equivalent to "how do I make sure I get a better position in a reorg, rather than a worse one".

It has nothing to do with your performance per se, the only thing about your performance that matters is that whether you're necessary to "keep the lights on" (AND that people know that. Otherwise you get the twitter "you're laid off" ... "PLEASE COME BACK NOW" Twitter fiasco type situation). Otherwise, you could have stellar performance, great reputation, long service to the company, ... and it wouldn't matter.
Show HN for PyGWalker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34869244 (61 comments)
The author makes very compelling arguments within the context of known tools/techniques that we have today. However, they conveniently sidestep the possibility of the development of new tools and techniques. This sidestep is overtly stated under the "Active Learning Is Hard & Fundamental" section. And that entire section basically boils down to "I personally believe this is hard and will take a long time."

The only reason we have things like ChatGPT today is because of the surprise development of the transformer. Nobody understands how intelligence fundamentally works, so we literally have no ability to predict when the next groundbreaking architectural development will occur.

And self-improvement concerns are mostly orthogonal to the main risk of AI: the development of AGI. Even a mediocre AGI that is only "decent" at tasks, can be weaponized as a collective superintelligence.
How do you do laundry?

I drink a can of Monster, put on some heavy metal and then fold aggressively.

Can I get a folding robot?

Probably if cost is not a limiting factor. Baxter [1] and others could probably be taught how to fold clothes. Baxter is said to be around $22K. It's probably cheaper to hire someone unless one was folding clothes non-stop.

[1] - https://robots.ieee.org/robots/baxter/
Try a double blind tasting. I don't knjow people who can tell pink salt from plain kitchen salt by taste, and I am familiar with a number of professional wine sommeliers.
The dative plural of nexus is nexui (and the nominative plural is nexus, with long u) :)
DIY GPT-Powered Monocle
Several years ago, I worked on the technical privacy and security design and architecture for systems that used ML for prescriptions and some diagnostic triage. At the time, I thought this was too big an ethical issue to be pushed down to us technologists to solve (as are many in government), so I got in touch with an eminent philosopher about the question of whether a person was recieving honest and ethical care from ML and from whom? (15 years ago now).

His response to my (limited and naive) question was essentially, people will hold attachments to beliefs about the human element in these transactions, and the philosophical part of the question was why people would hold beliefs that were not strictly rational, and he sort of declined the implied ethical questions. There was no reason to expect him to respond with more, but given I was navigating the ethics of AI driven medical care via questions of privacy in system design decisions (read: accountability) for the institutions who would use it and the millions of people subject to it, it seemed like an opportunity to be at the very forefront of what would likely become a defining social issue of our lives in a couple of short decades.

What we discovered then as architects, as most people are just about to, is that the main use case for ML/AI will be to use complexity to diffuse accountability away from individuals, and aggregate it up into committees and ultimately corporate entities that are themselves artificial beings. AI is the corporeal manifestation of an institution, essentially a golem.