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I don't use it constantly but regularly.

LLMs english skills are much better than mine.

And when i do a little bit of go coding once a week (i'm a java developer by trade), i don't have the time to learn go well enough to just type stuff down without looking things up. Instead of googling, i tell it "I need a struct with the following attributes..." and it doesn't just ell me how i do structs in go, it also creates them for me.

Also: There are a TON of issues were i would write a short script to do something (formatting text into a table, searching for specific lines etc.) were a normal person doesn't even have those tools at hand.

For companies overall: Its not just what an LLM can do, LLM can do things for you but its also a very very good interface to your application. The demos i saw in my company are really good and totally make sense and do reduce the entry barrier for people.

I know a friend whos job is to create reports with sql. She doesn't do anything else just reports across the whole datawarehouse. Why? Because every normal non dev person can't just write SQL or automate things.

The gap between tech people and management is huge.
How about when they are within 5 feet of a pedestrian about to step into the crosswalk? That one happens to me regularly.

The cyclists have eyes only for cars. We pedestrians are treated like NPCs in a game. I kind of understand it —as you describe, it’s a survival strategy. But it’s incredibly antisocial behavior.
That just means you are ignorant of how wrong it guides you. You need to first build trust before taking it new places. You do that with topics and concepts you are familiar with.
I was wrong about dogs, unlike cats they do not require meat.

So your dog analogy also does not track [0].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/apr/13/vegan-d...
You're right, they should be more transparent in their advertising, so should airlines telling you that you only have a x% chance of getting there on time because of seats being oversold.

Though I'm guessing that if they didn't overcommit the bandwidth, your Internet costs would be much higher and the network utilization abysmally low. Network usage tends to be lumpy.
I firmly believe the American healthcare system takes a lot of blamed for problems caused elsewhere. American healthcare is inefficient but Americans have lots of money to throw at this inefficient system. The figure that most convinced me of this was healthcare spending ballooning from ~5% of GDP to a sixth and lifespans dropping.

You could fix every problem with healthcare and Americans would still die early. Eat crap from childhood and there’s nothing doctors can do. Preventative care starts in the cafeteria.
Pretty much everyone is a fan of music in general or some kind of music in particular. But I would counter that being able to name and differentiate a genre is a valid minimum standard to be a "real" fan of that genre.

I also reckon that being a fan connotes something different from merely enjoying the sound when you happen to come across it. But I guess there's room for disagreement there.
Yeah but glasses are probably fine for the display replacement market
The iphone was heavier than almost any phone on the market when it was released.
Things like `touch-action: manipulation` and `user-select: none` should be the default STANDARD on buttons. No one should be required to specify such basic behavioral attributes of a button explicitly.

Jeez, it has been 30+ years and we still don't have a standardized UI component library implemented by browsers on the web.
I want to second this:

> Use if for things where you think "this is probably easy but I have no idea how to do it"

I had exactly the same reaction as OP (LLM's suck what's with the all the hype). These people are using it differently. For me it's often something like, asking it to put together a specific sequence of matrix transformations in ThreeJS or some other library.

This is not a difficult task but it's often one I waste a lot of time getting right. It's sort of about finding the right level of abstraction you need to ask it.
> you'd somehow figure it out without much trouble

No it would still be a tremendous hassle. I have a much larger life than my phone, computer and boss. Like, kids - explaining to them the new time change and teaching a whole new schedule ("start bedtime routine at 4:30 instead of 8:30pm") alone would make me vote against this change.

> Why does it matter if you sleep from 1-9 or 13-21?

Because you haven't told me what's the benefit if I do that.
Why normalize a weird friendly term for spying?
>Berlin’s scene is actually not so underground and not so cool anymore as a result of tourism and immigration.

In my experience, people who like things because they are hidden and exclusive tend to be shitty, shallow, superficial people. Many, many, varied decades of life lived all over the world, and I've never witnessed a counterexample so I hesitate to make it an absolute.

Same goes for people who think they like things more than others because they liked them first.
If you close the demat account with Zerodha, you can instruct them to transfer all the stocks to another demat account (open it first with another company). This will be free of cost - I have done it.
Well... no. Engineers are more efficient in their own styles. Realistically, I've wasted hours setting up my editor at each new job / each project to get on board with the style. This really doesn't matter. Maybe it's just me, but I feel that a good engineer ought to be able to read code regardless of the indentation or particular language dialect (within reason).

When I've led teams, I've never enforced things like indentation or bracketing styles. Things I do enforce are (1) explain complicated code with comments, (2) make it readable (for whatever definition of readable), and (3) reasonable naming conventions (i.e., don't name every variable i, j, k). These guidelines are useless for automated tooling. Perhaps in the age of LLMs this will change (who knows).

I've found the strict requirements and automated tooling absolutely terrible. I often align things to keep parallel structure to show how different lines are the same or to create 'tables', etc. Formatting tools destroy this. For me, using my emacs rectangular editing, the alignment greatly increases productivity. This is one example. I'm much faster at editing personal projects / projects I've led than ones with strict style guidelines.

For me, I always tell my guys: edit in the style in which you are fastest and most efficient. I believe this greatly increases productivity rather than having a team 'nosy neighbor' that cares whether you use two or four spaces for indentation.

My two cents.
It seems like dishonesty in academia is not punished severely enough. Someone who is caught may face professional embarrassment, and lose some privileges, but I think there should be tougher consequences. Hell, Ranga Dias still seems to be employed. These people are wasting government (our) money which could have been used by honest scientists to further our scientific knowledge of the world. It also further wastes the time of other scientists who may try to build off of the fraudulent research. To me, they are essentially committing fraud in a field where truth-seeking is paramount. I think a trial and prison time needs to be a part of the consequence for flagrant fraud.
If you're interested in the mathematical theory behind sub-cubic algorithms for matrix multiplications, you can start from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication_algorith...

I conjecture that for every j > 0 in R, a number n exists so that any two n x n matrices can be multiplied together in O(n^(2+j)) steps.

(Now proven for for 2+j = w = 2.3728596, or j > 0.3728596)
You could make third parties viable with an alternative electoral system such as Ranked Choice voting.

Replacing First Past The Post voting with an alternative voting system will eliminate any chance of a spoiler effect. People could feel safe in the fact that if the party that best represents them doesn't make it, their vote will continue to be counted throughout the election.

More political parties means more representation, and a bigger portion of the population being involved in the electoral process.

More competition means higher quality representation, even from established parties.
He has a separate lawsuit suing over that... :-/

He's suing a dozen current and former Bitcoin developers (including myself) alleging that we had a fiduciary duty to introduce a backdoor into bitcoin (which he claims we could do unilaterally) to help him recover coins he claims lost (but which were pretty obviously never his at all).

He carefully constructed that case to operate against coins that no one associated with Satoshi and which Wright says he purchased separately after Bitcoin's launch. Because of this he expects this case to not be struck out by virtue of his loss on the identity case. :(

We knocked out this claim on a summary basis only to have it reinstated by the court of appeals.

> (and why is anyone else even giving him so much as 5 minutes?)

Because the courts don't have enough mechanisms to cheaply and quickly knock out well funded bullshit claims.

Most people were doing pretty well at ignoring Wright until he started filing lawsuits -- which can't so easily be ignored. The downside of all that ignoring is that in darkness he was able to amass more victims, significant resources, and support. Casting a wide net, but not one wide enough to include his legal representatives, there are well over 300 people employed in support of Wright's activities.
Also, as with the iPhone, etc., they appear to have solved the fundamental problems: in this case, screen quality, UI, and hopefully presence in the surrounding environment.

From here they hardware will get cheaper, the bugs can be worked out, and everything will become more refined.
There's nothing that says that a pair of glasses can't have panels on the sides and top to provide full coverage [0]. The main obstacle is miniaturizing the necessary compute and display technology.

[0] A random example: https://www.amazon.com/Vision-Driving-Around-Sunglasses-Pola...
The optical pathway is pretty much locked in. LEEP was invented in the 80s, and that's still the optical system used today. Compare the size to NASA's VR system from the early 90s. https://images.nasa.gov/details/ARC-1992-AC89-0437-6

It's been 30 years of massive improvements to all of the rest of computers, and VR has only shrunk a couple inches. There's not much else we can do to make it smaller.
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Fictional Mensans
For one, Macron cannot speak for the entire NATO block, and secondly, NATO rules say one member must be attacked to justify a military response.

As long as Russia doesn't engage any NATO members how can he justify direct NATO deployment?

And even ignoring all that, how will his voters react knowing he'll be sending their sons in a war their country is not directly involved in? Not well I imagine.
Cool!

tlog = transparency log, but not neccessarily for X509 certificates?
Blancolirio, a YouTube airline pilot, talked about this on his channel.

If you're the pilot trying to get into the seat, you'd normally have to reach for the regular seat controls which are farther forward and kind of awkward to reach from behind. But with this switch you can draw the seat all the way back so that you can climb into it easily.
Perception, right?
My main concern with the vision pro is that all use cases I know of (other than gaming) work better with some sort of pass through HUD display like the HoloLens.

They spent a ton of company resources, weight and power making the wrong form factor emulate the right form factor, and are shipping with zero killer apps.

You can’t even let your friends play with it without getting it re-fit to their head at the Apple Store, which basically kills social/word of mouth marketing. It certainly isn’t a fashion item / status symbol to be seen in public like all their other stuff.

Maybe the “real” product is sitting in the wings and will be ready to ship in a few years, but the current form factor seems like a non-starter to me.
Show HN: C++23 constexpr n-dimensional Euclidean vector
My response was to a user listing changes they wanted from Apple to "regain geek cred", not to the article itself.
Reversing for dummies – x86 assembly and C code (Beginner/ADHD friendly)
>The idea is that TV is just a medium. You can post any commercial or information you want on there and it should be up to the viewer to discern what they want to watch and believe.

That isn't the way TV has ever worked, at least in the US, it's highly regulated by the FCC and commercial claims by the FDA. Arguably, the government is far more hands off WRT social media than it is broadcast media.
I find the nomenclature discussion very interesting. I wonder why "modern" music has so many genres?

I listen to a lot of "classical". People will generally dump centuries of music into that label, or into the slightly better "baroque/classical/romantic/etc" bins.

But composers often have phases where their music can change considerably. Even with in a work (say, Dvorak's 9th symphony) individual movements can be very different. Yet I don't see classical music enthusiasts trying to place every single work into tiny bins (or maybe they do?). They just enjoy them.
Mercedes begins piloting Apptronik humanoid robots
Once you start to look at hedge funds with very large option positions, the losses can be many thousands of times larger than just “stock lost 5%, means I lost 5%”

It’s usually something like “if stock drops 2.5% at this number, we’re forced to buy the inverse option to hedge our bets and we loose X amount” (over simplification)

Just look at the GME stuff and how much money was lost due to retail trading meme behavior
Depends on the culture. In India, yes. In the US, no.
I recently saw Dune 2 on IMAX.

If the Vision Pro can soon replicate that experience they will print (even more) money and could lock the big film studios down forever pretty much.

That is the killer use case. Everything else seems like fluff.
This generation seems to love rules and forcing others to bend the knee. I don't get why, but it's highly offputting.
> If using getOrElse in one function and using an if in another is confusing, I am very sorry: things differ, things change, and its best to just learn to read code.

When engineers tell me these sorts of style changes confuse them, I think lesser of them. It's probably not socially acceptable to say, but there it is.
i am going to reply earnestly here:

shareplay over facetime is wonderful. i have watched a few big movies with my buddies in this way
> I found tesseract did poorly quite often

The script calls Tesseract in default page segmentation mode (PSM 3). [1]

Depending on the input text, PSM mode 11 for disconnected text would probably work much better. That uses the flag "--psm 11".

[1] From the original repo: string tess_command = "tesseract " + file_path + " " + out_path + @" -l $lang" ;
On the other hand, normies do ruin everything.
'If anything happens to me, it's not suicide,' said Boeing whistleblower
I think the official hosts avoid it because they don't want to have potential speculation be treated as a fact. Mainstream media reporting around these launches is already mostly garbage in quality, having the hosts speculating might make it worse.

Like, Starship was tumbling, but until we saw that it didn't manage to maintain the orientation for reentry, it was possible that the tumbling and venting was expected.
Blancolirio, a YouTube Boeing pilot, said that yes, they ate with their food tray on their lap. He added, somewhat enviously it seemed to me, that Airbus pilots get a tray table due to their controls being off to the side.
I think you're emphasising my point?

If higher bitrates lead to higher latency, most tooling will try to keep latency low enough even if that means sacrificing quality. I've got 1/10 of your total bandwidth, but still seem to maybe get better video quality? I'd attribute that to better active traffic management.
thinking step-by-step requires 100% accuracy in each step. If you are 95% accurate in each step, after the 10th step, the accuracy of the reasoning chain drops to 59%. this is the fundamental problem with llm for reasoning.

reasoning requires deterministic symbolic manipulation for accuracy. only then it can be composed into long chains.
Fair enough. Time to hand out "CEO of the month" trophies to the best CEO in the company.
Cloud goes up, cloud goes down. Same story, different day. At least it's not aws-east-1 today.
We already produce insulin in yeast. Is it really easier to raise an entire cow, milk it, and then filter the insulin out of the milk?
I can only see getting into VR for very specific, limited duration tasks.

Call me a Luddite, but I am increasingly disdainful of all the New Shiny stuff, and see society trending toward lower-tech, traditional pursuits.
And how often will those "plausible looking commands" create obvious or subtle problems that cost far more than 30 minutes?
This has always been true of anything anyone has ever googled or looked up on stackoverflow

I copy paste code from stackoverflow all the time. I used to agonize over making sure I fully understand every line it's copying. Now I have the discretion of making that decision: sometimes it does really matter, sometimes all you need to know is that it produces the right result for your limited use & test case of it. (it's no different than relying on a 3rd party library in that way)

I think we need to apply the same discretion to LLM output. The answer "it depends". Sometimes using its output blindly leads to disaster. Sometimes using it without fully understanding all the details is a great way to make progress.
> single binary

> cross compilation ( that work from any platform, like compiling a windows .exe from your raspberry pi for example )

This, I think is one of Go's best selling point.
That's fair, it might not be for you. In 'old school ML', for a binary classifier, there's the concept of Precision (% of Predicted Positive that's ACTUALLY Positive) and Recall (% of ACTUALLY Positive that's Predicted to be Positive).

It sounds like you want perfect Precision (no errors on specific Qs) and perfect Recall (comprehensive on general Qs). You're right that no model of any type has ever achieved that on any large real-world data, so if that's truly the threshold for useful in your use cases, they won't make sense.
isn't it 10 grams heavier than an oculus?
I agree. I have been toying with the idea of a system where you have a set of participants who each have responsibilities for maintaining some state that users and other participants rely on. For example, a network of banks including a central bank, but the network could also include merchants who rely on the banks for payments and trusted third parties who keep track of agreements such as loan contracts. Instead of putting everything on a blockchain, make each participant be the sole writer for one or more ledgers (e.g. one ledger per account they maintain) and use a non-repudiable two-phase commit protocol to coordinate multiple transactions performed atomically across ledgers.

Using the techniques from certificate transparency, as soon as a participant has published that they have performed a transaction on their ledger, then they cannot take that back again without an auditor finding out. They also cannot branch their ledgers (i.e. double spend) as long as all participants periodically gossip received transactions to the auditors. Or rather, they CAN, but the auditor will detect it eventually and have proof of it. What you get is a sort of multi-party SWIFT-like messaging system which doesn't require banks to change their basic accounting infrastructure and tokenize everything.
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> How far away in light years does a mirror in space need to be in order to see dinosaurs that existed say 100 million years ago?

A mirror in a vacuum 1ly away will return the photonic signal from t=0 at t=2 light years, with diffraction (due to matter in [solid, liquid, gas, plasma, and superfluid/superconductor] phases describable with superfluid quantum gravity (e.g. Fedi's with Bernoulli pressure))

# m = meters
# s = f(decay_rate_of_cesium_atom)
# c = const x: meters/second
Time = TimeInLightYears

t_tx = t_transmitted: Time = 0
t_rx = t_received: Time
d = distance: Time
# d == d_ab == d_ba

# t_tx, d, t_rx,
test_data = [
[0, 0, 0.0],
[0, 2, 1],
[0, 1, 0.5],
[-1, 0, None],
[-100e6, 0, None], # dinosaurs
]

@pytest.mark.parametrized('t_tx, d, t_rx', test_data)
def test_test_data(ttx, d, trx'):
assert trx == ttx + (2*d)

m = scattering_matrix: # FluidDiffractionTensorMatrix

assert is_YangBaxterMatrix(m)

A water droplet [in space] reflects enough [photonic,] information to recover a modulated signal and also a curvilinear transformation of Escher looking into a crystal ball, with c the speed of light as a consideration only at cosmological distances.

How large of water droplet, a regular or irregular spheroid or reflective and/or lensing matter configuration is necessary to reflect a sufficient amount of photonic information to recover information from cosmological information medium, in terms of constructor theory?

Inverse scattering transform:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_scattering_transform

R-matrix >
R-matrix method in quantum mechanics:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-matrix :

> [now generalized for photonic diffraction]

Quantum inverse scattering method > Procedure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_inverse_scattering_met... :

> 1. Take an R-matrix which solves the Yang–Baxter equation.

> 2. Take a representation of an algebra T_R satisfying the RTT relations. [[clarification needed]]

> 3. Find the spectrum of the generating function t(u) of the centre of T_R

> 4. Find correlators
>and nothing happens when I submit the request. :(

The site is likely overloaded by interest from HN readers. Trying again in 48 hours will likely give more performant responses.
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3% is 3465 Boeing employees. That doesn't seem so minor.

150,000 * (1-23%) * 3% = 3465
No-code isn't a new concept, and there's a reason why all past attempts have failed, or why people still pay web developers despite the existence of tools like square space. Nothing about the LLMs of today suggests they have solved the no-code problems or will radically displace coding. They generate bad, oftentimes incorrect code for well trodden paths, while struggling to solve novel problems or work in private or unique code bases. They do not easily keep up with new trends or tools. They do not offer the type of semantic understanding that is necessary to work in a logic based field.

LLMs are nothing more than an alternative take on auto-complete, a feature that has been around forever and doesn't radically change programming. It will speed up good programmers to some degree and probably lead to bugs and more bad code from everyone else.

This is yet another hype cycle overselling a modest advancement in technology.
Oh, lots of people have been rigorous about their corruption. Maybe they only got caught because they’re not rigorous enough. :P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_misconduct_...
I don't know. I have roughly 0 interest in watching movies with a VR headset. And I have a VR headset, such that I have tried it a bit.

You are also kind of... ignoring the fact that the walkman was very successful. Ridiculously so, in fact. Such that, people did predict ipod like things would be a success because of it. There was a whole line of successful portable music devices leading up to the ipod.
As a montrealer, I was super curious about what the author would do of that analogy but turns out it was very, very bad.
Coming up with and agreeing on a standard takes work, but in most cases unofficial standards already exist - one merely needs to be blessed. (And if some project wants to not use it, that's also free)