skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wish we'd get more articles from actual practitioners using generative AI to do things. Nearly all the articles you see on the subject are on the level of existential threats or press releases, or dunking on mistakes made by LLMs. I'd really rather hear a detailed writeup from professional people who used generative AI to accomplish something. The only such article I've run across in the wild is this one [0] from jetbrains. Anyway, if anyone has any article suggestions like this please share!

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2023/10/16/ai-graphics-at-je...
https://archive.ph/a90Rd

>FDA Approves First Test to Help Identify Elevated Risk of Developing Opioid Use Disorder

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/medical-devices-news-and...
See the third link, but the short answer is that businesses that keep digital tax records make fewer errors on their returns and pay more in tax. HMRC's analysis suggests that the transition to mandatory digital accounting will reduce underpayments by nearly £400m per year, without imposing disproportionate costs on businesses. The API functionally mandates some level of digitisation, but it's extremely flexible - small businesses can use bridging software to maintain their existing spreadsheet-based workflow, while larger businesses can integrate the API into a bespoke system. What HMRC are really trying to rule out is pen-and-paper bookkeeping.
Notably, Wez's flight was done with 2.4GHz LoRa (this was one of his main points, to address naysayers who claimed a 2.4GHz link could never achieve >100km) while Charles is using 900MHz - the same setup that achieved 100km (100mW with a lightly directional antenna on one end, ExpressLRS 50Hz RF mode) would have a theoretical range of >500km on 900MHz. LoRa at longer wavelengths can achieve some incredible feats - like microwatts or nanowatts of power to >1 mile as we saw here. :)
I still have no clue what Gelman is saying about anything ever, and this post is no exeception. He seems like a great guy in interviews and presentations but anything he writes or talks about is highly non-specific.
I get an MRI Brain every three months. I usually opt out of the piped music - mostly because it's either a bad choice by the radiology techs or tuned to a generically awful radio station - but the headphones lock into the head cradle so I use them with earplugs underneath. I close my eyes and tune out and try to not sleep (and twitch so they have to restart the capture).

Some of the pulse sequences are rhythmic and I find the entire thing somewhat meditative, but there are many other places I'd rather be.
In the last year I have seen (on facebook no less):

various levels of war crime

the killing of people at close quarters (with the last sound that they made, which still haunts me)

A sniper killing someone taking a poo.

These were nestled in amongst memes, which were fun and engaging. None of them had content warnings.

goatse wasn't all that shocking to me, because he is very much alive. 2 girls one cup is at least a ramp into skat, rather than straight in.

Now, if a 16 year old saw that, I'd probably not worry too much, I wouldn't be happy. But if my 10 year old, or 6 year old saw that, I'd have a whole load of emotional clean up to do.
Fun trivia for readers, it isn't even normal 4-tap bilinear filtering, it's 3-tap, resulting in a characteristic triangular blurring that some N64 emulators recreate and some don't. (A PC GPU won't do this without special shaders)

https://filthypants.blogspot.com/2014/12/n64-3-point-texture...
Ive never had a twitter account. And I was definitely not able to view most content during the pandemic.

from 2021: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/pa6dra/twitter...
and from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30615371
If you include all the externalities, fossils fuels are the most expensive, not the least expensive, of the alternatives we have today.

> Drastic action on the climate will almost certainly make most people's lives harder

The human body cools itself by evaporation of sweat. This mechanism stops working at 95 degrees F at 100% humidity, or at 115 degrees with 50% humidity. Last summer in southern Indiana, where I live, we have a week of over 100 degrees/50% humidity.

Recall, if you have a temperature of 103 degrees, they recommend you see a doctor immediately. Over 108 degrees and you risk brain damage.

And currently the world is warming at the rate of just over 1/3 of a degree per decade. Drastic action? The most drastic thing we could be doing is nothing.

Solar is already cheaper than coal, and the price of solar panels is following a Moore's law like curve. Wind farms aren't far behind, and they've already saved Texas's bacon a couple of times.

It doesn't matter how many social media sites they shut down, kids are going to be depressed because nobody seems to take the problems their generation are going to face seriously.
Goldman Sachs is such a wonderful model of what is possible via Capitalism. I think they are holding on what they really could achieve with a little will.
An average pre-WW2 house in a German village may be prettier than an average house from the 1950s, but certainly not than an average house being built today. Your perception is presumably clouded by the touristy "villages", which in fact have been at least locally important towns at some point in the past.
It hit the support completely dead on and stopped. All of that momentum and force went directly into the bridge. The pulse from that impact would have been enormous.

Why would you anticipate that a container ship would have to hit the bridge? What about the flip side to that... How many bridges have never been hit by a container ship or alternatively how many times have an almost fully loaded container ship come to a dead stop after hitting a bridge?
Someone hasn't played enough polybridge
It can easily go too far though, especial when somebody doesn't want to accept criticism. Then you're not a team player if you check the arithmetic.
You should look at the deisgn of old stone bridges. Their side facing up ( so towards the floods and ice) is like a wedge pointed upwards. So it's not like he bridge needs a buffer to fully stop all the forward energy. It can lift the object out of the water and maroon it there.

e.g. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/uploads/imported_images/uploads...
Jeasus - seriously - if that was an inbound shipment then it would be worse - this appears to have been leaving - which would infer that the TEUs were more empty than full.
Kids-only internet (moderated by child development phds, idk) you need specific, cheap hardware to access. Less walled garden, more sandbox. It wouldn't be a place for entrepreneurs.

Registration and access maintained at the county level or smaller so that community standards and relationships shape adoption and use.

Low age cutoff with actual adults trying to connect put in jail and on a list.
True, but since everyone in the study -- both those with and without diagnosed COVID-19 infections -- had been subject to this, it shouldn't affect the results. Essentially, they're comparing people who were just trapped indoors vs those who were trapped indoors and also had diagnosed COVID-19 infections (and they also broke the infected group down by severity of infection, what variant was prevalent when they were infected, etc).
This is why I come to HN, for Ship of Theseus references.
I'm working https://annotate.dev, a tool inspired by the Stripe documentation, to let anyone create step by step code walkthroughs. Here's a sample of a walkthrough you can create: https://annotate.dev/p/hello-world/learn-oauth-2-0-by-buildi...

Would love to hear any feedback thoughts!
What's the definition of social media in this case?
A bookmarklet store https://getbookmarklets.com/

Though I am having trouble figuring out a simple way to solve discovering and make it work autonomously without leaving it open to spam

Any ideas or feedback appreciated
That's not too bad... although maybe the general downfall of a social media platform is seldom a cataclysmic event, instead is more of a Bene Gesserit construct deployed over the centuries... so to speak.
Fair! I actually kind of like Go but it's not a language I reach for very often.

Still, the point I was making is that it's possible to have garbage collectors that get very low pause times (sub millisecond in Go's case [1]). It might still be an issue for a kernel or microcontroller, I'm not suggesting we always use a GC for every project, I don't think most people would, but I am suggesting that there are a lot of projects (most projects?) that would be better off using a low-latency GC instead of trying to handle memory directly.

Even the JVM is getting better about this; there's already experimental support for a low-latency GC in some distributions of OpenJDK [2], which reportedly gets sub-millisecond pauses as well. If you have JVM support then you have access to good languages like Clojure.

Personally, I actually think I'm reasonably-ok with manually managing memory, I've cut my teeth on enough C to write code that doesn't generally crash, but I still reach for a garbage collector whenever possible. Just because I think I'm capable of doing manual memory management doesn't mean that I think it's worth it for most things; nearly everything I do touches a network at some point, which means that avoiding latency is not really possible a lot of the time.

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/Ab1sFeoZg_8
[2] https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/shenandoah/Main
Paying mortgage interest is even worse slavery in my limited experience. A mortgage really ties you down.

> building enough wealth

Our current environment looks like that if you are older. Thinking of your house as savings is weird: personally I think you need a house and retirement savings - and safe retirement savings is an oxymoron because it depends on the demographics and economy.

I'm not sure that younger people can rely on the idea that their house will be worth enough because it depends on population demographics - housing is a Ponzi scheme where the older population sells there home to younger people until at some point the youngest person risks being left with something worthless: Japan and Italy have houses for ¥0 or €1 due to aging population.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/patrica-italy-town-one-euro-h...
That's a great solution to a different problem. Unless caldav has a process for extracting dates and actions from unstructured emails? But that doesn't seem related to caldav.
As long as it's slowly maybe you can catch it.

It it was at the speed of light we might have a problem.
It is related. One poster suggested that the online platforms (which are, for a number of reasons previously noted, not town squares) are actually more like shopping malls. Another post noted that shopping malls (in California) can be subject to requirements to allow someone else’s speech in their area of commerce.

But online platforms are not like shopping malls, because online platforms sell advertiser access to a coherent speech product, which is distinct from the sale of goods in ways that profoundly affect first amendment protection of their business.
That's the "before" picture. Let's see what these scientists can get to with the "after" picture. If they can get it up to 50g/100g, I know what I'm eating.
Plenty of other goods and services are used by children, even targeted at them, without them needing to enter a contract.
Unlike images, audio signals are time-dependent and have complex temporal dynamics, making it more challenging to generate realistic synthetic data that captures the nuances of real-world audio. Meanwhile, the complex nature of audio signals, the scarcity of high-quality training data, and the subjective evaluation of audio quality collectively contribute to the ongoing challenges in building near-flawless audio separation models.
I suspected it might be but I couldn't tell from the post. There is a lot of self deprecating humor amongst engineers / engineering programs.
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To me this has the flavor of adding ratings for a video game or movie, or having porn sites ask if you're over 18 before letting you in. I guess possibly it will do some good (assuming that the implementation isn't crap, which is a stretch), but overall seems like a probable nothingburger in terms of actually being good for young adults' mental well-being. Evidence for the negative impacts of social media on young adults is thin AFAIK, so ultimately seems more like an attempt to cash in on the social-media/trans rights moral panic that DeSantis has built his political brand around.

I do wonder why the bill seeks to restrict users' freedoms, rather than making it illegal to advertise to children in general or something (as many other countries besides the US did decades ago to target children's television). I don't want to impute too much into DeSantis' motivations without evidence, but from where I'm standing it certainly seems like the difference is the model of harm. If your model is: "advertising to children is profitable, so social media will do shady things to keep them engaged to shill them crap" then banning ads makes sense, whereas if it's: "children go on social media/the internet[0], meet new people, and learn that they may be gender non-conforming in some way" then dramatically curtailing their access to the internet seems more effective.

[0] Given the dominance of social media platforms these terms seems basically interchangeable in this context, IMO.
AutoPTT lets you customize how push-to-talk works in apps like Discord or online games. It can even press the button for you based on voice activity, in case the program does not support voice activation natively.

https://autoptt.com/
Whew! As a long-time lover of The Green Pill, it was great getting to sit down and talk about a few of my favorite topics with Kevin.

Studying and telling the weird and wonderful origin story of cypherpunk, and its roots in Grateful Dead taper culture (and deeper than that, in bluegrass and traditional music) has become a big part of what my life is about.

I wonder: have y'all started to get the sense that, within the music industry, there's a recent / sudden desire to paint bluegrass (and other old-time) as a rural, uneducated, overalls-wearin', simpleton sort of music?
And I sometimes wonder if there are industry propaganda machines (including social media bots, etc) at work in these areas, trying to pigeonhole certain genres in the ways that they view as easiest to sell/control.

Cuz like... (and I mean, I know you already know this very well), go look at Maybelle Carter or Ralph Stanley or Tony Rice... they wore sharp suits and played complex music. This whole weird trend of trying to turn bluegrass into an early 90s country aesthetic is so bizarre to anybody who is actually in the bluegrass scene.

Obviously bluegrass has always been about bringing a musical tradition down from the mountains in a form factor that's fit for the technological innovation of the day (at first, AM radio distribution in major cities). And in that sense, it has always been an urban phenomenon. So it's weird to watch this spin.

And sometimes it feels like, before I can even tell the stories of Jerry Garcia taping Bill Monroe shows with a reel-to-reel, I first have to clear the air about what bluegrass is and the evolutionary musical environment in which it has emerged, etc.

Anyhow, I hope y'all enjoy. It was really fun to record this.
"Setting up LLMs to output structured data is incredibly hard." resonated strongly with my experience working in similar one-off projects. I've almost always implemented some level of fuzzy-matching to validate and convert the LLM output back into my expected structured format.

I've also noticed that the LLMs are much better at writing code than structured JSON (no real surprise given the popularity of code assistants). If it makes sense in the specific situation, I now have the LLM generate code and parse it into the right structure rather than requesting structured data directly:

`generate_event("I need to do X", new Date("1-1-2025"))`
seems to be more reliable to generate than
`{ "description": "I need to do X", "when": "1-1-2025" }`
So Kaze is hitting 240k tris/second right?
> I find it funny how enthused programmers are about creating localised surveillance states

Not necessarily enthused, but compliant to their managerial forces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAiNdU1go1A
Social media isn't controlled by the government though.
It sounds like you download software blindly from the Internet with the extra preliminary steps that make your customers happy.
> In what ways?

Off the top of my head...

Look and feel is a big one. It feels more responsive, and far less bloated.

The Export Persona smokes Illustrator's slices or whatever.

It handles symbols far more smoothly, and I like the way masks work better.

It's better integrated into Publisher, compared to Illustrator/InDesign. Publisher is awesome, and basically has Designer built in.

Working with non-square grids is sooooo much easier.

There's no Creative Cloud malware fouling up my computer, soaking up CPU and memory and storage and spitting pop-ups in my face for no damn reason.

... There are things I miss - vector brushes, and the Transformation tools. But they can usually be worked around. The feeling of being respected by the company more than makes up for those deficits though.

...Which is probably about to change :(
Let the experiment take place, I say. Just like Oregon’s now-repealed drug use decriminalization bill. It didn’t achieve its intended goals, but there is now a mass of data about what assumptions were wrong, implementation issues, etc. IMO there is real value in letting states put such changes into play to get beyond the debate and actually test the hypotheses.
There is already something like this in use: harbor pilots, who have specialized knowledge of specific ports and board vessels to navigate them through critical transit zones. It is reported that there were pilots on board navigating at the time of the collision.

Tugs are used in tight locations, but they can only change a ship's speed at a very slow rate compared to that ship's engines. By analogy, you can pull a train car and get it moving by yourself, but if that thing is moving at 5mph you aren't stopping it by yourself in any reasonable distance.
Yes, I do not want to eat genetically engineered fungus or crickets. I prefer a steak.
Some helpful soul made the same suggestion the last time this came up. And same as last time, I got a "Error 404: Email not found" when I attempted to reset. Which makes sense, since they never confirmed I had a login in the first place.

(the 404 part is funny, though, I think)
> Oh also if you ever think "classical music doesn't have a cultural force anymore" please pay attention to contemporary film music that's not neo-romanticist. You'll see that there is tons of minimalist influence from Glass, Reich, Andriessen, Richter etc...

And music from horror movies and battle scenes if you want to hear the contemporary influence of serialism and new complexity.
Shanahan's main strength is deep pockets. I think this gets it right:

> If you’re flummoxed by why RFK Jr has picked Nicole Shanahan, a person no one has ever heard of, to be his VP, understand this: This is purely because she’s the only person capable of self-funding to pay for ballot access that was willing to say yes to him.

https://twitter.com/lucymcaldwell/status/1772709585083617743

Her Google ties are not making right-leaning Kennedy fans happy.
> What do y'all make of Netflix's 3 Body problem?

I find it a brave project, given well-established U.S. tastes in video and movies. It can be said to courageously appeal to an audience not proven to exist.

> I never thought the books could be replicated for television, but I have to admit — this is pretty good work all things considered.

I agree it's pretty good work, but I don't think the original books are represented, much less replicated. This is commonly said about adaptations, certainly true here. I avoided disappointment by not expecting the book narrative to appear on the screen.

Personally I hope this project succeeds in finding a sustainable audience. I say this because rather than pandering to low taste (insert obligatory H. L. Mencken quote here: "Nobody ever went broke ..."), it instead { aspires to / imagines } a higher taste and intelligence than most Netflix fare.

But a few notes. The scene in which people are sucked away from the ground by an unexpected gravitational change (i.e. a tidal force) isn't physical. I understand sci-fi grants some license, but not for things as quotidian as the relationship between pedestrian and sidewalk, both of which would be sucked into the sky together in a realistic portrayal.

As to the commonly misunderstood property of entangled particles that they grant instantaneous communication over any distance: It's not so. Entangled particles don't violate causality. Again, it's sci-fi, but when you employ as a plot device a named property of real physics, there's a certain obligation to portray it accurately.

But the Netflix creators aren't solely responsible -- one of these errors (magic entanglement) is in the original books as well.

On the other hand, the nanofiber slicing / Panama Canal ship sequence is a must-see. Even if you plan to complain that Three Body Problem can't really be made into a video, watch the ship-slicing sequence first, then lodge your protest. Although it depicts massive loss of life, the care the producers took to get it right deserves praise for realism (about something unreal).

When I read the ship episode in the original books, I could picture it but naively thought there was no way it would ever be attempted by video producers, much less done well. Wrong.