skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I totally don't understand what I gain with colored lights. My friend had a similar setup and I just don't get the attraction. I have a Google home and setting timers has a clear value, I forget less. Playing music has clear value, I relax. Colored lights??? I don't get it.

While the effect no doubt varies with individual, there has been a significant amount of studies suggesting that there is some link between bright light in shorter wavelengths (so blue end of spectrum) and melatonin suppression, and in turn circadian rhythms [ex: 0, 1, 2]. If you live near the equator with consistent sunrise/sunset year round artificial light management may be less of a concern to you, but the further you are and the more seasonal variation you experience the more helpful it may be (and is for me) to have lighting throughout home/work that can help maintain circadian rhythm as desired. "Sunrise" into bright white/blue in the morning and day, then slowly changing into dimmer, redder light as one approaches the desired time to go to sleep. YMMV of course but as someone in tech who had decades of difficulty in maintaining a normal 24h cycle in the northern latitudes, heavy light brightness and temperature control has been a very significant improvement in my QOL and I never want to go back.

Of course, some people just enjoy having fun with lighting as well, for parties and mood and such. "Painting with light" can be interesting by itself. But for me the practical advantages have been significant value for the cost, and without any need for any kind of drugs or other mechanisms.

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0: https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/sleep-blue-light

1: https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/blue-light-ha...

2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9424753/
This isn't totally true. Mass and volume measurements were indeed derived from the meter. A gram is a cubic centimeter of water. A liter is 1/1000 of a cubic meter. Apparently Celsius is derived from Kelvin (really just translated so 0 is the freezing point of water), which is derived using metric units in a formula that is a bit beyond me but available here:

https://www.bipm.org/en/si-base-units/kelvin

Anyway, TIL.
Your implication that conservative politicians are more likely to be sabotaging schools than democratic politicians is hilarious. I'm quite certain both sides are equally adept at throwing good money after bad so long as the present policy they pursue is fashionable and focus group tested. They're incompetent, as you say, or, perhaps, they just aren't willing to risk their own political future because the changes that might make a difference will be unpopular with voters.
NASA discovers new source of coal.
PrivateGitHubCopilot: Self-hosted GitHub Copilot guide using oobabooga webui
Am I right to understand that it would be the equivalent of visual studio's wpf designer [1], where you have the WYSIWYG editor side by side with an xml editor and you can make the change in either of them and it translates into the other?

If it is, it would have been really really cool.

[1] https://i.stack.imgur.com/8pJnn.png
Argues for a 'news.ycombinator.com/bestof' category.
Can do that here too if i wanted, but I'm not attempting to make bomb threats to institutions
Open source always wins, in the end. This is a fluff piece.
This was my experience as well and was the reason why I ultimately quit Kagi (I was on the $10/mo plan). Google is still tops at searching for "non-tech life stuff", much of which is location-dependent.

Towards I end, I found myself comparing Kagi searches against Google because I didn't believe that the results I was getting from Kagi were the best I could get.

I'll try Kagi again once they figure out location-based searching while upholding privacy.
not impressive pay, but decent, and regularly on the 1st and 15th. also adjusted for inflation, and has some other unique market facets, like having younger folks being generally fit and healthy, and older, retired military folks getting pensions.

compare that with your average career bartender or construction worker
More of a meta-comment, but somebody working with AI to upscale/enhance images/videos ought to take a crack at making that picture quality better. Would be fascinating to generate a reasonable audio track as well of what it would have sounded like, especially as cars/motors accelerate, people shout things, etc. Certainly not an easy task, but would be super cool
Hue bulbs should work with any ZigBee LightLink controller. Or if they don't, I'll be very upset about the times I flew out to the LightLink gatherings to make sure all our products worked together.
I can relate to that. I live in a different country but we have a similar site site here.

Reasons I personally like to revisit old ads sometimes:

- Seeing prices that people asked for an item at different times, and the full text of the ad and pictures so I can compare extras included and condition of item

- Something I bought and I don’t remember how much I originally paid for it

- Things that I did not buy, but I want to remember for the future and perhaps buy similar item from someone else in the future

- As a substitute for buying the thing. Instead of buying an item now I can keep a copy of the ad and over time I can think about whether I really need that thing, or if it is not as necessary as I impulsively had imagined

- etc
Read your comments later about the specifics of what you rewrote.

I've been in a similar situation and our approach was to make a business case for the rewrite.

* Original programmer who was the team lead was gone and had no interest in consulting for us

* Code was thousands of lines of completely uncommented 8051 assembly language

* Code had known bugs

* Bug fixing and documenting/understanding would likely go on for months

* We could not integrate the rest of the system functionality without a complete understanding of that undocumented code

* We were confident that one person could rewrite it in less than six weeks since we had complete knowledge of what it needed to do.

And then left it up to management as to what was the best approach. They were making a completely informed decision, but phrased the way we did, no reasonable person would have told us to continue with buggy, undocumented code that was at the heart of the system we were building.

I'm often on the receiving end of completely unrealistic estimates. It would piss me off to no end to find out that someone lied about how long they expected something to take.
AGI-pack: Dockerfile generator for ML developers
Here’s a fun project I hacked together this weekend.

https://github.com/spillai/agi-pack

TL;DR `agi-pack` is a Dockerfile generator for machine learning (ML) developers that is simple, hackable and extensible. Inspired by Replicate's cog, Baseten's truss, skaffold, and docker-compose services, I wanted a simple and standalone tool that could generate docker images given a simple YAML specification (i.e. python version, system packages, conda/pip dependencies, GPU libraries etc), without any added cruft/dependencies of vendors and services.

To get started, just run `pip install agi-pack` in your virtual env.

Check out the quickstart (https://github.com/spillai/agi-pack#quickstart-) section to see what `agi-pack` can do. If you’re interested in building multiple docker targets, the advanced section (https://github.com/spillai/agi-pack#more-complex-example-) might pique your interest.

Why the name? `agi-pack` is very much tongue-in-cheek -- we are soon going to be living in a world full of quasi-AGI agents orchestrated via ML containers. At the very least, `agi-pack` hopes to provide the building blocks for us to build a more modular, re-usable, and distribution-friendly container format for "AGI". ;)

Fun fact: More than 75% of the original implementation was generated by conversations with GPT-4 + Github Co-pilot.

Let me know what you think. Feel free to reach out / DM if you’d like to build on this work, happy to chat and hear about your use-case. DMs open on Twitter (https://twitter.com/sudeeppillai).
I've spent the last few weeks comparing Google Duet with Chat GPT 3.5, and Chat GPT seems years ahead.
Luckily in my case it was very short. The first tech question they asked me was about the how to move all a companies data from old gov systems to a data lake. We both got a quick lesson really. All polite.

The second bait and switch example though went on a lot longer. I had an off feeling about it from the first call.

One guy on call was stifling a laugh the whole time.

They made sure to emphasize they we're offering me a lot of experience, doing me favor essentially.

When they gave me the offer they also requested I send them over a professional photograph of myself. Maybe that's normal in some countries but to me it was the red flag that finally made me notice all the other red flags.
Haven't tried specifically with keycloak, but it should work. Keycloak advertises LDAP and MS Active Directory compatibility.

If I find the time, I can test and write up about this integration.
THat's not how private blockchains work at all. IF you have a private blockchain (usually called an "app chain") people don't "buy hashing power" on it. The entity running the network has 100% of the validators on the network. "Hashing power" doesn't apply because it's not bicoin so would be POS, but the equivalent is owning the validators, which if it's an app chain there isn't (ever afaik) a process by which some other org can buy the ability to run a validator. The controlling entity just decides that.
No, it was after that -- I still worked at AWS at that point. Additionally, the tests were done with provisioned capacity at DynamoDB tables.
A highly integrated bionic hand with neural control and feedback
"iamverysmart" comment.

Failing to embrace it will leave you behind. Consultants that use OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model are “significantly more productive and produced significantly higher quality results” than those who do not, according to a new study from the Harvard Business School: https://aibusiness.com/nlp/harvard-study-gpt-4-boosts-work-q...
Soviet

> A communist.

Yugoslav

> An unfaithful communist.

These good relations with USA did real good when their country was obliterated to shreds when it was no longer needed. Sigh.
I am happy to allow for any state transition that allows for a peaceful reversal of the event (i.e. an undo button). If it's a monarchy, it should be a monarchy with guardrails (i.e. could be deposed by a snap popular vote with 2/3 majority or something)

If the plan of the people, once in power, is to prevent any challenges to their power, we should not run such experiments, and those people do not deserve free speech rights.

Free speech has that paradox unfortunately built into it (see Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance). Universal free speech is a pipe dream you wouldn't enjoy living under.
The 18th-century revolutions that were centered around fundamental rights of man, were pretty hostile to monarchy. France famously guillotined supporters of the monarchy. Even the USA tarred and feathered loyalists or drove them into exile in Canada or the Caribbean. It was only years later, once monarchy wasn’t a realistic possibility any more (or, in France, the public mood had come around to monarchy again) that such advocacy was permitted again. And then later movements for instituting a non-democratic regime, namely fascism or communism, got various degrees of prohibition. So, I’d say it’s pretty normal even for successful democracies to interpret fundamental rights in that light.
Spends 29k on what? School infrastructure is crumbling around the country. Teachers are paid so little most of them could get a raise working at Costco. This country has engendered in every sector that matters a fleet of middle managers and administrators whose purpose is to extract value and provide little. Maybe we can start by trimming that away, something teachers have been saying for years.

And as for the overwhelmingly blue thing, that’s another simplistic narrative. Substantive politics in the US has very little to do with the party that you vote for, as the parties agree on 99% of the particulars, if not the rhetoric. Illinois is one of the bluest states in America and Chicago one of the bluest cities, and yet Rahm Emmanuel ran under a dem regime one of the most infamous regimes of city-wide austerity in recent memory. The Daleys were out and out corrupt racists. I could go on.
I pretty strongly disagree, primarily because I think it's impossible. Literally every new complicated product, especially from a new car company, has glitches. And most "early adopters" I think understand that fact, even for very expensive purchases. The important thing is that those glitches are quickly addressed, and customer service has to be top notch. For Lucid I think both those things apply.
Not OP,

In my experience apple's ML on iphones is seamless. Tap and hold on your dog in a picture and it'll cut out the background, your photos are all sorted automatically including by person (and I think by pet).

OCR is seamless - you just select text in images as if it was real text.

I totally understand these aren't comparable to LLMs - rumor has it apple is working on an llm - if their execution is anything like their current ML execution it'll be glorious.

(Siri objectively sucks although I'm not sure it's fair to compare siri to an LLM as AFAIK siri does not do text prediction but is instead a traditional "manually crafted workflow" type of thing that just uses S2T to navigate)
Look at the amount of road space, infrastructure, resources devoted to cars vs. pedestrians. The typical way for pedestrians to cross a busy highway for example is via a bridge - the pedestrian has to put up with going up and down the stairs. Pedestrians typically have to go out of their way to cross streets even at level. Traffic lights have “beg buttons” for pedestrians to use, god forbid they interrupt the flow of first-class car drivers for a minute more than necessary.

Pedestrians are totally treated as second-class almost everywhere.
It would be great if you wrote some more on that 3 step process and how it worked - sounds really interesting.
Not sure your explanation makes sense to me.

I'm also a part of a few expert netowrks and I probably get to take phone calls a dozen times a year to help people who need information on my area of expertice.

What specific person would someone contact to findout that Microsoft has unannounced tax liabilities that wouldn't' in anyway break insider trading rules?

Who possibly could attest to this type of information and would freely offer it up? No serious expert network member would ever do this as it would be the end of their career and expose them to serious jail time.

Perhpas you could fleshout your explanation some more here.
Well, my uncle had a heart attack during the covid pandemic but couldn't get a bed in the ICU as it was full of covid patients. Was he a covid death? I'd say yes (he lived in an region of low vaccination).
More discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37850556
I've not read the patent, but it's definitely inaccurate to say "Microsoft removed custom XML from Word." It's still possible to create custom XML parts programmatically, and I suspect it's quite commonly done. Also, I just checked, and Microsoft 365 has a custom XML mapping tool on the developer tab. So it would be interesting to know how Microsoft complied with the judgment and the subsequent history of the feature.
"Infectious disease based risks are largely indiscriminate between front-line and managerial staff."

Not at all. When you are a worker in the jungle, you will get biten by way more mosquitos, than when you are sitting in a office protected by mosquito nets.
"I want these people to go mask-off."

This is something that I want too, and I am surprised by the fact that many people would rather prefer not to know.

As if pushing Hamas sympathizers underground would "disappear" them.

Western Europe has a huge problem with Islamic radicalism and it should face this problem without any self-delusions.
Thanks for taking a look!

So one of my goals with Diceright was to make it as welcoming as possible to new players (not really an easy task given how complex DnD is). To that end, I wanted to make it easy to sign on and get started, right away. And I wanted to make it easy to use on your phone. Foundry has a ton going for it, but it does require initial work to get set up and it can be a bit clunky for someone who's never used it.

Similarly, I wanted to make character creation as seamless as possible. On Diceright you just pick your classes and all the features get added automatically and rolled up to your overall character sheet (and of course you can modify anything you'd like). It's easy to make characters quickly and at the same time, you never lose track of where features or stat bonuses come from.

All that being said, Foundry as a ton of stuff that Diceright doesn't have yet, so I'm not trying to say it can go toe to toe on features. More just giving how I think my overall approach differed.
The value I get for that $20/month is astonishing. It's by far the best discretionary subscription I've ever had.

That scares me. I hate moats and actively want out. Running the uncensored 70B parameter Llama 2 model on my MacBook is great, but it's just not a competitive enough general intelligence to entirely substitute for GPT-4 yet. I think our community will get there, but the surrounding water is deepening, and I'm nervous...
If that's true then the converse is also true: bad students become bad by surrounding them with other bad students.

And the charter school gets to take credit for the "good" outcome while the public school gets blamed for the bad outcome that is a direct result of the good outcome.

Which, if we accept your premise, suggests that the charter schools aren't providing any net benefit, they're just taking credit. If this is really the way we want to operate things we could just do it in public schools.
In 2006, Toshiba bought Westinghouse Electric Company in one of the worst deals in history.

Westinghouse negotiated fixed price contracts to construct nuclear reactors and Toshiba provided financial guarantees, so they ended up on the hook for massive cost over-runs. In 2017 alone, Westinghouse reported an annual loss of $9bn. and declared themselves bankrupt.

Toshiba had to sell a load of businesses over the years to escape the Westinghouse black hole and repair their balance sheet.
maybe on the officer level, but you don't need a particularly high ASVAB score to drive a truck or be a cook.
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, it's called the metric system because the values were derived from the meter. Decimal time has nothing to do with the meter, and "decimal" refers to it being base 10.
Oh, yes you were replying to GP who seemed to imply they do use it as a design tool.
"It’s like we got stuck on the “no fun” setting"

Thats gold my friend. LOL
Lower scores ironically means the test is more effective for identifying skill, talent, especially for those who are above average. Easier tests means they cease being as useful for admissions.
SpacetimeDB v0.7 Released: WebAssembly stored procedure database written in Rust
We just released v0.7.0-beta of SpacetimeDB. SpacetimeDB combines your application server and database into a single service. You can write your application logic as WebAssembly stored procedures which are uploaded into your database, allowing clients to connect directly to your database.

The main benefit is you eliminate all the DevOps overhead of deploying servers and don't have to deal with the state synchronization with clients.

SpacetimeDB is used as the sole backend for https://bitcraftonline.com, a real-time MMORPG

v0.7.0 Highlights
- Multi-column indexes
- Multiple CLI server configs
- Subscribe to all tables functionality
`SELECT * FROM *`
- Positional CLI arguments:
`$ spacetime call my_database my_reducer "Foo" "Bar" 27`
- Significant bug fixes and perf improvements
I think this is under appreciated. I run a "talk-to-your-files" website with 5ish K MRR and a pretty generous free tier. My OpenAI costs have not exceeded $200 / mo. People talk about using smaller, cheaper models but unless you have strong data security requirements you're burdening yourself with serious maintenance work and using objectively worse models to save pennies. This doesn't even consider OpenAI continuously lowering their prices.

I've talked to a good amount of businesses and 90% of custom use cases would also have negligible AI costs. In my opinion, unless you're in a super regulated industry or doing genuinely cutting edge stuff, you should probably just be using the best that's available (OpenAI).
Just yesterday, while driving: "Read last message."

Siri: "Sorry. Dictation service is unavailable at the moment."

It's past time for excuses. High-level people at Apple need to be fired over this. Hello? Tim? Do your job. Hello? Anybody home...?
Why isn't it an answer?

At least from a purely utilitarian point of view, cost of educating and raising a child is exorbitant (teachers, food, clothing, shelter, etc) compared to euthanizing them (1 to 5 bullets, executioner pay, and burial costs). Benefits are going to be somewhat iffy; yes they could turn out okay but it's just as likely they could turn into criminal offenders that will chew up resources of the criminal justice system which is quite a lot more expensive.

I will emphasize that this is strictly from a utilitarian point of view. I make no comments on the moral, ethical, and legal issues.
I'm not saying they will on the high-end, but maybe on the low end. Apple's strategy is to embed local AI in all their devices. Local AI will never be as capable as AI running in massive GPU datacenters, but if it can get to a point that it's "good enough" for most average users, that may be enough for Apple to undercut the low end of the market.
Opt-out instructions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/174uelk/megathread...

Edit:

I called T-Mobile and they said they can't use the code until the 17th, and they'd send out a text message informing of the upcoming changes with the ability to opt out. Sounds really shady.
A friend of mine was a victim of a false Craigslist listing inviting people to come by his home and take "free" items from his property. The listing was removed before he got home from work and realized what happened. It would have been useful to have an archived copy of the listing.
But there's a risk like: "look eu is allowing terrorist cheering events!" But imo eu failed in this direction too bc most countries lack a proper integration program so that ppl either adapt to live in a democracy or gtfo of the eu if they don't like it
I love this! Sometimes I daydream about a device that works kind of like an old printing press. You can arrange letter tiles to create a message. Then, you power the thing by pumping a lever or something, and it constructs a digital signal from the letters and sends it over something like LoRaWAN.
> I don't care

I got that.
so is it because military folks are better, or that society is skewing to unemployed single parents?
SerenityOS celebrates its 5th birthday
>it's a key part of maintaining a remote culture.

is it? We don't do this at my company and I feel we have a good culture
The swipe ads for digitalocean on this are tremendously obnoxious as they break back and forward swiping on Safari on iPhone.

That’s not okay, don’t do this.

But hey, it’s a way to guarantee that you’ll annoy people enough to not use it.
France refused to go to war in Iraq which pissed the US so much they renamed french fries to freedom fries.
Teachers work (on and off the clock) >40 hours a week during those 8.5 months though, worth taking into account.