skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I struggle to reliably remember and then recall more than about 6 digits without quite a lot of mental effort. The frequency I forget an SMS-OTP between opening it on my phone and going to type it in is honestly pretty embarrassing.

Hopefully I still count as generally intelligent despite those limitations.
A request: when commenting, please try to share as much context as you feel comfortable.

1. Organizational context: Are you sharing observations based on an enterprise environment? A Silicon Valley big tech setting? A startup? Something else?

2. Role context: What you see depends on where you sit.

3. Experience and trust level: Contributors in high-trust environments tend to have more leeway. Tech people from known companies might get a lot of credibility for free. A lot depends on the technological version of the Overton Window, by which I mean "the range of ideas politically / organizationally acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time / the window of discourse."

4. Whatever captures the context best: whether it be risk, personalities, regulatory constraints, funding pressures, legal issues, whatever.

Such context is very beneficial for situating and synthesizing. Thanks.

Personally, I've seen a range. Sometimes I push too quickly or lack political capital, leading to conflict with existing priorities and plans. Sometimes I recommend more discipline and mindfulness about process, which some interpret as being constraining. It is very situational.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass to save some time for those of us unacquainted with this thought experiment.

> It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein an ass (donkey) that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water. Since the paradox assumes the donkey will always go to whichever is closer, it dies of both hunger and thirst since it cannot make any rational decision between the hay and water.
That issue should have been closed. This was resolved in Hugo 112. https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.112.0
Also donning the AVP headset might not be possible for someone with advanced ALS. A fixed outside-in apparatus (probably attached to the patient’s wheelchair) would make more sense.
Aw, that's nice of pg to want something better for his friend. As cynical as we are about technology, new developments can be so fantastic for accessibility and better quality of life.
> The distinction between macroevolution and microevolution sounds like nonsense.

It is nonsense through the lens of biology, but it's nonsense that's very ideologically convenient to certain demographics, which (perhaps paradoxically) means that terms to talk about the distinction become useful in some sociopolitical or anthropological contexts. For what it's worth, the very particular term for the religiously-motivated typology that accepts microevolution while rejecting macroevolution is baraminology.
Tycho Bruh
> I think that makes sense but a startup is going to have a hard time delivering something better between now and January if they start from scratch.

I agree entirely!
The point is that there’s no reasonable - folks doing this have deeply expressed beliefs and if you disagree you’re evil. They only sound reasonable when speaking in general terms.

I was a school board president of a catholic school that for the most part aligns with state and professional standards and added faith and cultural material not appropriate in a secular school. The kids get a solid education -

We got “invaded” by some extremely conservative folks, funded by some organization who sought to move to a curriculum derived from a homeschool program where books centered (exclusively) around classic western texts. In the K-12 curriculum kids weren’t taught about Asia until WW2. Africa and India do not exist. They were also concerned with “woke” issues, like girls being allowed to wear pants.

We were able to “beat” them, but it damaged the institution.
People use stuff like this in VRChat

VR Eye-Tracking Add-on Droolon F1 for Cosmos（Basic Version） https://a.co/d/asAAZwT

You can use it with any headset cause the data it provides is independent of the headset. Not sure how accurate that one is in particular.

Eye tracking data is not particularly complex nor super sensitive in nature. Once the sensor is calibrated it just sends over two vectors.
The basic pseudocode of an interactive LLM processor is

while (true)
context = readLine()

while (true)
nextToken = llm.generateNextToken(context)
context = rtrim(context + nextToken, MAX_CONTEXT_LENGTH)
if (nextToken == END_OF_LINE_TOKEN) break
print (nextToken)

That's a program that doesn't, in general, guarantee that its inner loop halts. It may never come back and prompt for more input.

The decision to stop asking the GPT engine to keep predicting tokens after it reaches the end of an initial answer is entirely an implementation choice, based on looking at the token output and concluding that the LLM just started generating the start of something we'd rather have the user provide.

You can just keep asking for more predictions. Forever if you so choose.

There's no architectural reason why the sequence of tokens produced can't constitute an ongoing train of thought reasoning towards an answer... or towards a conclusion that it can't reason its way to an answer.
We’re all just playing an extremely complex language game and assigning labels to phenomena with increasing granularity as our knowledge and ability to measure things and create accurate world models increases.

But at the bottom of it all, we have no idea what any of it is. The map is not the territory, and primordial existence has no current explanation.

This isn’t synonymous with endorsing untenable metaphysical beliefs, but points to the fact that we still have enormous gaps in our understanding.
Yeah, the anime models seem to produce more coherent outputs without amputee in the negative prompt, but I just always put it in there anyways.
> "We thought that putting cones on these [driverless cars] was a funny image that could captivate people," says one organizer. "One of these self-driving cars with billions of dollars of venture capital investment money and R&D, just being disabled by a common traffic cone."

So basically they're just idiots. Yes, deliberate sabotage does have a way of messing things up, no matter how much money something is worth / has been spent. If you stab a billionaire they bleed, just like the common folk!
> By a few thousand years, the most dangerous isotopes will be decayed.

I wondered about this claim because it could easily be (dis-)proven by a curve. And no, it seems that the waste remains dangerous for quite a while due to actinides. See this curve:

https://whatisnuclear.com/img/ingestion-radiotoxicity-nuclea...

Now, people say that these actinides can be turned into non-dangerous things, which is great, but the P&T process has not been developed yet. It might turn out to be vaporware. See also:

https://www.base.bund.de/EN/ns/ni-germany/transmutation/tran...
Look at the average “Ask HN” on the subject. Or look at the kind of speculations that followers of Eliezer Yudkowsky make in the name of big-R Reason. (thank God we hear about him about as often as we hear about Threads these days)

To be fair a lot of people speculating about AI aren’t aware of the foundations of computer science, but some of them are vaguely aware and just forgot.

Actually LLMs do have a way to break some of those constraints, in their own way, in that those constraints don’t apply to systems that don‘t always get the right answer. You can sort a list in O(1) some of the time but not all of the time.
10:15 on a Saturday night from the cure. And the tap drips drips drips
Why shouldn’t the government have a say in what is taught to children? Children are not their parent’s property. These are future citizens and I would prefer that society has a say in what is taught to them. In a democratic system the government represents the will of the society.
I went to American public schools in the 1990s, in a very moderate county. Several teachers joined with the students to protest the county’s attempt to impose a dress code.

And what does Fox News have to do with anything?
Loved that game!

We didn’t have an Amiga, so I used to go to my neighbours house to play it!

It was so good and so much fun!

Great sounds as I recall. For the time.
Exploring Simon’s Algorithm with Daniel Simon
And if that were where the story ended we'd have an honest feel-good going. New developments -could- be fantastic for accessibility and QoL, but without exception they just end up getting sucked into a marketing surveillance suite.
I'd imagine most info hazards come from the other kids and not the curriculum itself. Plenty of crude, incorrect, or even dangerous info coming from the other kids. Not that much different from how Hollywood portrays many topics (drugs, alcohol, sex, legal consequences, etc). So it's likely those ideas would be encountered even when homeschooling, possibly at a lower rate though.
The doses in some melatonin pills are ridiculous. While each person is different, I found that cutting a 3 mg pill into quarters lessens the weird dreams and next day grogginess but has about the same power inducing sleep as higher doses.
Someone should do this, but for the love of god, DO NOT take any venture capital to do it. No matter how well-intentioned the VCs are at the start, eventually your eye tracking startup will 100% be used for advertising as investors in your Series D need to make an exit or take you public.
uBlock origin also blocks the adblock detection, so I couldn't see neither the ads nor the paragraph that talks about disabling the blocker.
I think it all comes down to what your definition of authenticity is and acknowledging that the vast majority of social media behavior is learned to elicit some sort of reaction and not to necessarily replicate your real-life behavior and mannerisms.

As far as HN goes, I find myself posting for upvotes sometimes instead of having the more nuanced conversation. It’s why I typically abandon my account around 2-3k upvotes. Even these systems reinforce our beliefs that we are always correct or more correct than someone else because we have more upvotes/karma/whatever.

I don’t think everyone has ulterior motives in the sense that there’s a hidden agenda to adhere to. But I also think it’s impossible not behave in a way that reinforces the clout mechanisms that exist on all of these platforms, which ultimately does detract from authentic behavior.
Company Created a Return-to-Office Plan That Employees Like
Not really a huge PG fan, but this is what billionaires should be doing: see where a need is exists and put some of your insane wealth towards making an improvement. This why I respect Elon even though I don’t really like him; he puts his money to use, in a very public manner.
Influence? Sure.

I remember my dad organized a group of parents to push for improvements to math and science teaching at our rural school district. Eventually that included lobbying state legislators to support distance learning, so that a group of a dozen schools could use shared services to teach or access advanced courses. My brother got to realize that - he took Calc 1 & 2, as well and intro to computer science at a state university about 100 miles away, in high school.

Passionate people with good ideas can always drive change.
Usually it goes the other way: being on the board and then being given a position at Cruise. Having worked for a company in the past doesn't mean you like the company or will be soft on them. In fact, many people hate their former employers. So without anything further than "they used to work at a big company in San Francisco", it doesn't seem like a conflict of interest to me.
Is this true of AWS? I haven’t read that Wikileaks location document in a while, but I seem to recall in official docs the AZs being placed far enough away from each other to make sure a natural disaster won’t kill a whole region (different flood planes, etc). Of course, you go to Asburn and all the buildings are really close to each other.
In a democratic system, people can change the government.
Being inconvenienced by a protest is your responsibility as a citizen of a democratic republic. If you don’t engage with democracy, democracy engages with you.
It's stylized to the point where it's not really recognizable without prior context, though. A bit like the I / O markings on power switches which are apparently literally meant to be a 1 (on) or 0 (off), which makes perfect sense except they're usually not rendered as numerals and there are too many possible interpretations for it (open vs. closed circuit? "in" / "out"? "inactive" / "on"?) to be easy to figure out just from the markings. This is even more irritating since we're printing things on the switch in the first place, so why not just write "on" / "off" and be done with it?
Why not spend all those hours and money to improving public schools?
Thanks for the insight.

I do have interest in local models (say running on a fixed list of document structures)
It’s not necessarily harmless. If that traffic jam blocks an emergency vehicle, people can die.
it sounds like it square bought food truck businesses that weren't using square pos and basically installed square pos and resold the business with contract stating they couldn't switch pos providers....I mean it's a way to guarantee vendor lockin but it's also risky. I do hope they follow through with the 80 percent ESO plan later on, as I'd love to see that the norm not the exception in the next generation.
I learned COBOL only to find the real reason the engineers get paid so much to maintain systems is not really due to their rarity but rather their extensive decades of experience which I will never really have.

A lot of new COBOL work just gets shipped off to India to be done cheaply.
Homeschooled students are required to take standardized tests and meet certain scores.
> Not really a huge PG fan

can you elaborate?
YES! Thank you!! :)

This kind of shared communal knowledge is one of many reasons I'm very grateful for the HN community.
eyetracking is already used by the advertisers in research for many many years, e.g: https://www.tobii.com/
Hollywood unions you generally need to work on 1 or more productions (or for 10 or more days, depending on the union) covered by a union contract (meaning, generally, a major studio production). Some unions include work on non-union productions toward the threshold for union membership.

No connections required.

Indeed, I accidentally qualified for SAG membership purely on the basis being a background extra for fun, and I can qualify for IATSE Local 695 sometime in the next year if I work on another camera crew as a camera assistant when filming resumes. I got my start on the camera stuff by walking up to the camera guys when I was an extra and asking about their cameras. (There was a lot of filming activity pre-strike; they literally didn't have enough bodies and were hiring people with any sort of relevant experience.) If I didn't have a non-film day job I would already have done enough work to join the union.
Another route might also be sub-vocalization[1], like TTS for your thoughts. I recently picked up some cheap toys to get started trying to emulate the results[2].

1. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2004/subvoca...

2. https://github.com/kitschpatrol/Brain
Even that’s a false assumption, the weighs may depend both on the vehicle’s starting position and the path it took.

Suppose you’re starting at 1 mile of altitude and your destination is at sea level. You might gain change over the trip, except if the vehicles battery ever hits full charge you can’t store the excess charge you should be gaining.

Net result you there are multiple paths to finish the trip with higher charge than you started with and the goal is pick the optimal one of those. The most efficient trip could therefore involve minimizing drops in altitude until you’ve freed up enough battery to contain that excess energy.
Sell all your stock in any company that is trying to force in-office. I guarantee you they are rapidly losing anyone vaguely competent, let alone top talent.
It’s arguable whether public schools provide positive socialization in the first place. I imagine it largely depends on the school, the teachers, the other students, and the individual, but plenty of people come out of public school with poor social skills or (in worse circumstances) anti-social behaviors. It’s not like public school inherently does better at this.
This was designed for a graffiti artist with ALS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeWriter

https://github.com/eyewriter/eyewriter

https://www.instructables.com/The-EyeWriter-20/

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/145518
I don't understand why this part isn't talked about more. Seems like an elephant in the room to me.

Have most people just not encountered confusing road conditions?

A couple weeks ago, I was in West Virginia bobbing up and down hills around hairpin turns on loose gravel. The whole time, I was thinking to myself "The first autonomous vehicle that attempts this route is going straight into the ravine."

One time evacuating from a hurricane, the route I found required me to drive through an open field. How well does LIDAR cope with tall grass?

Another time, I'm headed north on I-95 and there's a several car pileup. Police divert all traffic off the nearest exit and close the highway with a few road flares. I'd wager anything an AV would blow right past the flares and wreak havoc on the scene of the accident.

Until AI can cope with completely novel scenarios it was never trained for, it's going to be prone to catastrophic failure.

Personally, I don't expect to see it in our lifetimes.
What are your favorite parts of gtk+? I'm working on my own UI framework and trying to borrow myfavorite parts of the lot of them. Gtk+4 seems to have some decent stuff, but I've only dabbled with it and worked more with old school QT. I always liked the signals a / slots myself.
I'm not arguing that Elon doesn't put his money to use publicly, but I'm interested how you think he does. Do you mean he uses his wealth privately in a way that benefits the public, and/or he does it in public view?
EEG recording is an alternative that would outlast the potential disease-related degradation of eye movements. Manny Donchin gave a brown bag at UIUC about the possibilities of using this approach to support communication by ALS patients many years ago. It's clever: they use the P300 marker to index attention/intention. I do not recall whether he and his colleagues ever commercialized the tech. I believe that this publication is representative: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2005.06.027
wasm is also a binary format, and I wouldn't like it to be included into the .crate file either. The .crate files should ideally only include source code, to preserve the source first nature of crates.io (even if it's never been officially confirmed).

Rustdoc is also automatically built by docs.rs and nobody distributes it in their .crate file. I think the same should be done for wasm proc macros, too: they should be built by public infrastructure, and then people can opt into using binaries provided by that infrastructure to do their development, and if they want also opt towards using native binaries instead of wasm. But the binaries, including wasm, should only be a cache.
Out of interest why do you do this? Because your computer struggles to play them in browser? I was doing something similar with vlc in the Flash era because I couldn’t run Flash on my PowerPC Mac running Linux
I personally use fish, but mostly for the out of the box auto completions and highlighting, I don't use it for actual scripting, nor have it set as the login shell due to the 2nd reason you mentioned.

I mostly use python as well, and for some short commands I made pyxargs [1] which lets you run python code on stdin, or a walk of your current directory.

[1] https://github.com/elesiuta/pyxargs
I responded to the thread but Senseye has been working on this for a while now. Originally they were working with the US Air Force to help with improving pilot training - fatigue etc.. inference with retinal reading

https://senseye.co/

They have generally struggled to find funding for their eye tracking focused work, and have recently had to pivot away from the really exciting but hard to fund stuff into PTSD screening (which is important too).

I can connect you with the founder if desired via the email in my bio
People are so soft now. Back in the day, we'd line up to see Harrison Ford do it; sometimes multiple times!

Snowflakes, man
So long as we're discussing nonhuman animal behaviour, polyamory seems far more the norm than monogomy, so far as I'm aware.

(Definitely outside my wheelhouse.)
Because going the speed limit is unsafe in certain scenarios, because other human drivers are expecting people to exceed the limit like they do.

It's the same with Tesla wanting to allow rolling stops at stop signs – not the letter of the law, but it's what humans expect. In many instances you are more likely to cause a minor accident (being rear-ended) by coming to a complete stop at a stop sign than the risk of causing and accident by rolling through an intersection that clearly has nobody else in it.

Won't be a problem once most cars on the road are driverless.
I have previously worked at a place where some of the engineering teams would build incredibly poor products and features, which would be on fire all the time (because it would fall over if you looked at it wrong), and they got constant praise from management because they “put in the extra mile to fix an issue in prod”.

An issues they caused.

It’s not like they were operating at a velocity greater than other teams-they spent so much time and headcount putting out fires, that they instead spent 10 minutes thinking about how to build it better, they probably would have 1. Finished it sooner and 2. Ended up delivering more features and value as a result.
How is it going? It's not obvious to me at a glance.
Not 100%, it depends on distance and size. I've dressed game and found shotgun pellets plenty of times.
I went with my wife several years ago and it is just the absolute coziest place to rent a tandem bike and ride around the island. A memory that will stay with me for a long time
This is a fair point, but Apple addled the iPad with those limitations from its inception. The stated reason back then was that it wasn't powerful enough - which I disagreed with even then. If it had been able to boot Linux or OS X, I would have snapped one up. Now the only real difference is form factor, pricing discrimination, and touch screen (although I still believe that on some level it's a point of embarrassment for Apple that their desktop OS is completely unusable by touch, hence their endless reluctance to bring a touch-enabled Mac laptop to market. However that may be the factor that saves Mac OS from going completely down the consumer road of iOS).

So you're right that these categories of devices and capabilities are completely artificially imposed at this point, but the question is, why have an iPad at all?
Yeah and the opposite politics are bad, actually.
far from the first time people argued to death over what is ultimately a slight convenience.

But for the sake of devil's advocate: putting your lips directly against a piece of plastic or glass is one of the easiest ways to expose oneself to a myriad of germs and bacteria. a wrapped straws solves many problems about cups in public outings that you cant fully control. and it leaves non-disposable cups just a bit cleaner.

It's also a big factor for the elderly or disabled to prevent spills or worse.
It’s “generally accepted” that intelligence is a thing, but that’s also commonly understood to be vastly insufficient.

People can be observant, quick learners, have expansive knowledge, have excellent recall, be systematic, be creative (synthesize), etc., etc., etc. — intelligence, if it can be quantified, is a vector. Maybe.