skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using pictures instead of signals, allowing to do automation with existing (or obsolete) tools, is a true innovation IMHO.

> I can't imagine a location having a healthcare provider, ultrasound machine and ACEI accessible while still using an ECG machine obsolete enough to require this.

I can imagine many locations having no healthcare provider (or maybe just a nurse) and people putting a vest/belt/whatever whose electrodes are hooked to an obsolete machine, to get a quick estimations of their risk, using special software running on their smartphone to interpret the pictures.

Updating software running on the machine would be hard and risky.
People seem to forget hunters and fishers are still the biggest funding source for conservationism and are almost overwhelmingly conservative voters.
But no, the people who live deep in urban jungles have the audacity to call them “environment haters”.
Getting a GPS fix from scratch (aka a cold start, where the receiver doesn't know anything in advance) takes minutes.

Even if you take advantage of tricks like out-of-band time, almanac, and ephemeris data, it can still take in the neighborhood of 10 seconds to get a fix. I imagine wifi is also less susceptible to issues that plague GPS like multipath and urban canyons
Huh? Barely any programs on my computer can read mail. That’s a silly law.
Re: monorepos, I think we're talking about 2 different things. I usually hear the term "monorepo" discussed in the context of how it is practiced at places like Google and Facebook: having the code for all the company's services (micro or not) stored in a single source control repository.

A monorepo really doesn't have anything to do with how code components are deployed - your comment seemed to be contrasting a monolith architecture with a microservices one.
Also Maps, Android and YouTube were started by other companies which were acquired.
It hasn't passed the hype cycle yet.
The real question is why they do Module.function() and then function.() instead of .function()?

It makes no sense to have the dot at the end of an anonymous named function.
Go ecosystem is like a fraction of what .NET/Java is. Both in quality and size. Dart for instance is a better lang. It is also from Google. It also compiles to binaries. Why is that not the new...

The slim spot for Go is the devops tools space. Where Go may or may not survive. Considering the march of Rust.
Thanks! that's helpful. I've changed the wording to "open core" above.
Yeah that's entirely fair.

And maybe unavoidable: the US in particular is SO slanted towards absolute car dominance in most areas, that you end up with this sort of rhetorical whiplash just by favoring movement towards transportation balance. I've never heard the term "car brain" before you just said it, and yet I know exactly what you're talking about, and that for many people it will be entirely accurate.
> 1. Humans work 9-5 (or some schedule), but ChatGPT is available always and works instantly. Now, when I have some idea I want to try out - I start working on it immediately with the help of AI. Earlier I just used to put a note in the todo-list and stash it for the next day.

This sounds like the root of your problem, and entirely on your ability to enforce boundaries (which you may or may not have set for yourself). No judgment here; I think we all have struggled with this at one time or another. Or, you know, constantly...

> 4. I tried to put a schedule to use it - but when everybody has access to this tech, I have a genuine fear of missing out.

I definitely know that feeling. I think the likely outcome writ large is that this FOMO feeling will eventually subside. The economy for years has needed more developers than were available; ChatGPT and friends will result in individuals being able to do more and soak up demand that way instead of increasing supply. The long-term negative effect of this is more likely to be depressed wages instead of massive unemployment in the tech sector.

> 5. I have zero doubt that AI is setting the bar high, and it is going to take away a ton of average-joe desk jobs. GPT-4 itself is quite capable and organisations are yet to embrace it.

Another way of looking at it is that its going to create a number of desk jobs, but those who can't adapt to the tools on the market will suffer in the same way that people who couldn't adapt to the use of spreadsheets, word processors, etc, certainly had fewer job opportunities than those who did. Some people are going to get left behind, no doubt—this is why I'm in favor of a robust social safety net. But even with questionable public support for those people, I don't think anyone today would suggest we should retreat to an economy that didn't have such basic tools as spreadsheets and word processor apps today.
> That's extremely funny.

It's also funny because it assumes the global poor are too stupid to realize that global warming means they'll become victims of war, refugees, or starve (choose one or more).
We all wish we were the people our dogs think we are.

It's probably best not to listen to canine notions about economics, tho. Simplistic and somewhat mercenary, usually. Depends on the dog.

Central banks are a mechanism for theft from an entire society, all too often.
I've not researched this as much as I'd like to, but as far as I know, the entire point of this change is to facilitate/incentivize people to finally move away from natural gas to electric appliances.

To do this, folks will need a financial incentive to switch, which means an effective tax, but utilities can't really do that, so the idea is to just have everyone pay a large base for electricity, and then have diminishing returns on usage... where that doesn't exist for gas usage.

Think about your typical California resident's home set up. They have wall plugs, but then they will have a gas stove, gas heater, and gas water heater... and because of the "historic" nature of CA (non)development, many of these appliances literally belong in wasteful era of the 1960s.

The new structure will be painful for folks unwilling to switch to induction/electric range/stove, heat pump, and electric water heater, which is where the income-based rates become relevant. Every person of every income will have an incentive to switch to electrification, but a flat-tax would basically wreck poor folks, while providing zero incentive to change for wealthier folks.

In theory, I honestly think it's a pretty smart way of doing things, but there are some notable priors and caveats. The first prior I have is that climate change matters, and swapping natural gas usage for electric will actually notably reduce GHG emissions (I think this is the case). The caveats are that they need to come out and say this is about climate change (they do in the actually detailed texts -- https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cpuc-website/divisions/energ... -- but they don't actually address it when discussing it. The second caveat I have is that this actually fucks over renters pretty hard.
I've had more luck with getting it to output XML as (1) You can imbue XML with actual language/meaning (which LLMs adore) and (2) parsers can be made to be more forgiving. I get why people want to make JSON, but to me it's a bit like trying to get a cat to swim - you might eventually succeed, but it's not their natural inclination.
Tapping a location icon on the map or using Assistant works as expected but trying to use a shortcut or one of your hotbar locations like Home or Work or trying to re-center the map gets me a demand popup and a refusal to navigate or show directions, with a "Can't apply some route options" if I try again. If it's like last year the wifi scanning demand will expand to more and more of the map functionality over time.
You sort of, kind of, maybe just asked for roughly what RSS (Really Simple Syndication) provides...although your wish is more of a "pull", while RSS is more of a "push" in content access/distribution. :-) Don't get me wrong, I'm in agreement with you. I wish every website, web app, well, pretty much everything digital had an automated RSS feed available to consume and subscribe to!
It could also be the sheer concentration of CO2. I work in a forest: 400ppm in the office every morning. Back at home, in the city, 5km away: 580ppm minimum all day long. Maybe cities make people stupid :D
What does it mean to attribute something to irony?
Mechanistically, I think this library takes the simple idea of masking part of the vocabulary space and steps in time efficiently. Great!

I am curious, however, for the ones who have played around with such libraries wrapping base LLMs with output structure: do base models like Llama2 work very well?
My experience says "hell no!" and you do need a fair bit of instruction-tuning for specific use cases to actually get things to work.

And even then, it seems very counter-intuitive to me that given an instruction-tuned model, post-hoc masking of the state-space during generation then amounts to just changing the generation distribution, and potentially detrimental to instruction-tuning?
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I disagree pretty strongly with most of the tractatus, but I think you're doing a disservice by acting as if it's undiscussable nonsense.

A lot of important developments in formal logic, for a specific example, modal logic and Lewis' analysis of counterfactuals, would almost certainly not have been advanced if it is wasn't for the opening sentences that you dismissed as meaningless.

I think its also worth pointing out that Wittgenstein later came to reject everything he'd said in the Tractatus and laid out very different views in his later writings, which are arguably even more influential.

That's a long way of me saying: go ahead and disagree the tractatus, but don't pretend there's nothing worth discussing in it.
The New York Times prohibits AI vendors from devouring its content
Honestly, sqlalchemy is such a different breed of ORM, whenever people slander ORMs, I'm imagining they're thinking of like Django ORM or ActiveRecord which are like the duplos to SQLalchemy's Legos.
El Salvador has reestablished security, time will tell if it helps accountability and policy effectiveness.
Those who have the power will never give it up. If they DO give it up, be afraid, be very afraid as they have moved on to a bigger power, and let you have the old rusty one.

I do insist about the power of the Law. And I do insist that we should either respect or change a law. An unfair law should not exist.

But we should never make law voluntary. But that's my opinion, it's not the Law :)
Yea this is a good take, but it’s not as pessimistic as it sounds. “I told you so” never works, even if you explicitly reserve the right so use it, and even as a joke.

What does work though is having a prepared refactoring plan ready to go when it all blows up. “Do that risky refactor we’ve been avoiding because of downtime?, well it’s all down now isn’t it”
I run nextcloud on a thin client, but i mist admit it’s not that “thin” actually.

It's the fujitsu esprimo q920 (iirc) and it features a 4th gen core i5 (4c/4t) and 16gb ram. It’s been working fairly well for the last ~3 years.
Just to underline that, Microsoft has been using "x64" for about 20 years; the architecture was supported on Windows XP and Server 2003.

It's probably the clearest term to use when you're talking specifically about Windows binaries (PE files).
And more effective/efficient, if this were a serious discussion of options
Maybe my case was exceptional and most cases were like yours. That would explain why I'm in the minority preferring old strings.
It'd be hard to pass a law that requires individual environmental improvement, but it seems pretty obvious that a law saying to ignore it is the opposite of the state constitution.
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What about the soothing effect of air at room temperature in the room temperature room?
There are plenty of Flask equivalent in Go IMO. Django... not so much.
This article seems to be missing the What and Why, and is only describing the How.
People have been killed for decades by traffic jam negligence. Another freeloader making an entire jam is just pointing out how wrong it is to let dangerous private property have unlimited use of public streets for free.
> But ORMs are about moving data around, transforming it from rows and columns into meaningful objects in the project's language and data model.

I made my point about this but will repeat, I am generally writing validation for this, adding the code that converts this into known types isn't significantly more work, if I was never writing the validation this point would make sense. Also the ORM the parent comment is an author of doesn't do this, it generates a class with a ton of ancillary ORM specific functions that I don't care for and many ORMs do that.

I don't even agree with what the article states, the article is effectively creating a custom ORM, I'm saying write a function that converts the data from your database driver to the type of thing you want, write a function that validates that data, those two can be 1 function for simple data but likely will be 1 function which is a composition of other functions.

When you get to the point where that is tedious you now likely have a good idea of what you want in an ORM and are significantly better equipped to make an informed decision for your specific project, you might find you end up only wanting a query builder.

Regarding abstraction over database drivers, well how often do you need an abstraction over database drivers, are you really using two or more different databases in a single project?

My ideal workflow is:
1. Query exactly what I want
2. Make it valid data in the form I want

That valid data shouldn't have a ton of extra stuff attached to it, I want plain old data that is validated and the correct type.

Why would I add a dependency that is complex before I can make an informed decision that I would even need it?
thankyou, that actually cleared things up for me
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Interlisp for example used a spellchecker for its Lisp. See DWIM (Do What I Mean). Chapter 15: https://larrymasinter.net/86-interlisp-manual-opt.pdf

In Genera the command "Find Symbol" has com-find-symbol as a symbol name. For display it removes the com and the hyphens.
This is about incentivizing folks to switch from natural gas appliances to electric appliances.

Anyone in the thread who is saying the plan is "insane" clearly doesn't understand it. There are plenty of reasons to discuss why it's imperfect, but the folks screaming bloody murder obviously haven't looked at it or considered the second-order effects this will create.
> If you're going to go through all of that trouble why only do a half measure.

Because a "half measure" would have been easier to adopt, therefore would have been more likely. The strategic error IPv6 made was, I think, taking the point of view that as long as a breaking change is necessary, then increasing the scope of that change doesn't bring greater cost.

But it does, quite a lot of it, and that greater cost is the primary reason why IPv6 adoption has suffered.
Well, sure, there are lots of things that could happen in the world that would be even better than a $400M donation like this, but that doesn't make a $400M donation a bad or pointless thing.

Nor does it make this donation somehow responsible for stopping those other good things from happening.
English text transformation is a task it’s exceptionally good at. You just need to prompt it to only use the source material you give it for summarization.
Yep. Imagine an api scheme that matches the underlying normalized database structures. In order to render a view, you may need dozens of calls to different services to gather all of the data you need. Some places have been moving towards backend for front end (BFF) as a way of providing a better abstraction layer for UI development and some have been exploring GraphQL where the data can be combined and aggregated within call as dictated by the front end. I will say that the time I’ve spent working on front ends with a good graphql implementation were much more efficient and reduced overhead of dealing with more typical API interfaces.

This isn’t something I’d rush into though. There is real overhead in managing graphql and in my opinion is best suited for extremely large API spaces that most companies simply don’t have to deal with. Microsoft and their graphql implementation is one where I see it as a better option than hundreds if not thousands of different services with different endpoints.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer
The biggest problem has been the GOPATH → modules conversion, which broke lots of (or all?) tooling. For example, I had written a fairly nice program to analyse Go code and generate an OpenAPI document, but when modules came around quite a bit of that broke, and it's non-trivial to fix. It still works in "GOPATH mode", but few people use that these days.
it is not clear what is it that you are actually doing but consider the possibility that there is a need to replace you by a few juniors+LLM
but the former are the ones which allow amazon etc. to exploit and SaaSify software..... see ElasticSearch where Elastic was cast to be the bad guy because they wanted to stop Amazon using their product with zero contributions towards maintenance but making huge money from it.
Does this count?

https://github.com/sympy/sympy/blob/master/sympy/integrals/r...
Living in a bit of America with a mostly-decent public bus system - no reasonable adult would consider "the bus stops here twice a day, and only on school days" to constitute a viable level of service. Even 10X that number of stops, averaged over a year, would be really marginal.
Yes that's what it is and I still would agree with you that this one of the really interesting warts/quirks of JS.
Sorry if my comment sounded antagonistic, wasn't intended that's why I was editing some of it before reading your reply.
Can someone who really knows this stuff clarify my understanding?

I've been given to understand that black holes remain a physics theory that has not been directly observed or proven.

I thought that we had a fair amount of observational evidence that suggests their existence, but no "smoking gun" proof of it, and that these types of "observed a black hole" articles are a little misleading - that in reality, what was observed was much indirect, interpreted data that is consistent with black hole theory, but could also be something else.

Am I off base here?
It's not sound :(. Type systems should be bomb proof or get out of the way.
It can be used with any open source model (if you can get the logits), and to some extent with OpenAI's API. Here is an example with `transformers`: https://github.com/normal-computing/outlines#efficient-json-...

We plan on adding more model integrations, but it is completely decoupled from the method implementation.
This seems like a pretty good take - you found that you could 'get rid of juniors' by working in an unsustainable way. Why not work with now-super-productive junior employees that can spread the cognitive load?

It would seem odd if this were the one time in the history of computing where a big productivity boost didn't just lead to increasingly big/complex software.
Because it’s extremely, EXTREMELY difficult to map Montana’s carbon emissions (mind you, one of the least populated states in the country) to actual real impact on climate change in the future.

Environmentalism used to be about direct impact - contaminating waterways and the like. Moving to these more esoteric issues makes measuring and showing impact near impossible, and also makes people care less.
The Soul of the Commuter (2007)
Readability is hit and miss. Very nice to have everything written to the same standard, it makes it much easier to navigate through any project. Downside is it's pretty rough for more peripheral teams or teams working in a language that's a small component of their product. I remember for one of DeepMind's big launches the interface was all in files ending in .notjs, presumably since they didn't have anyone on the team with Javascript readability. This was 5+ years ago, though, so some of the downsides may have been mitigated.
Because it's not a connection fee, it's essentially a (somewhat progressive) tax but will go directly to PG&E.

I think it's an abominable proposal and PG&E should simply be shuttered or nationalized by the CA govt.
Rescript, 100%
It moves part of the rate to a fixed payment, and its still subject to the usual periodic CPUC rate process, which includes cost analysis, so if their costs really were going down, they’d see the rates cut.

The point is to deal better with the economics of established widespread distributed generation and to avoid disencentives to displacing existing residential gas use with electricity, and to similarly improve the incentive structure of home-charged BEVs vs. gasoline vehicles. Doing that takes splitting payment for generation (per kW) from connectivity (fixed) rather than inflating per kW costs to capture the average costs of connectivity.
Understanding LLaMA-2 from the Ground Up
> You have to personally [..]. People often replace one set of superstition with another.

indeed you're right to be suspicious of others, when there are incentives that drive their behaviour in ways that are not necessarily aligned with your best interest (consciously or unconsciously).

but, the sad truth is that you yourself can be victim by all sorts of biases and not even personally investigating stuff will necessarily bring you closer to an objective assessment.

The best you can do is to be critical of your own biases, inasmuch as possible.

It cuts both way: the superstition of the conspiracy is also a thing that clouds the mind.
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Western Europe is very different from the Europe that Zamenhof grew up in.

You get so many internationalist movements out of Russia because it already was in many ways international internally. Lots of languages and land, but both travel and speech were restricted by authorities, secret police seemed to hover invisibly everywhere. The language of everything important, the language of rulers, was Russian. Vacations were in-country, if they happened at all.

Looking to the UK, France, and the US is in this case misleading.
Maybe bs4 + newspaper3k rolled into one? But still, what's the gap?
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(a) People walking around near your house with Android phones are constantly Wi-Fi scanning their environment, correlate Wi-Fi SSIDs and MAC addresses with GPS locations, and sending this info to Google

(b) When you or anyone else don't have a GPS signal because you're indoors, Google can run a Wi-Fi scan and geolocate you indoors from (a)

Also, s/Google/Apple/, s/Google/Mozilla/, they all do the same thing.

You can even run a Wi-Fi scan yourself with "sudo iwlist scanning", put the data in the appropriate format, and send it to Google's API [1] or Mozilla's API [2] for geolocation.

[1] https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation...

[2] https://ichnaea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/geolocate.html#...
An app with 3 endpoints that makes 12 SQL queries won't need it.

An app with 30 endpoints that makes 100s of queries might need it.

In this case, it's a matter of not knowing whether you need it or even what iteration of it you need. Different ORMs have different tradeoffs, you don't even know which tradeoffs you want to make.
I am shocked. He was s really nice guy.