skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find LLMs to be useful tools for brainstorming.

I have often inadvertently found myself brainstorming just by explaining something challenging I am working on to a colleague with no expertise in my area. Just explaining forces new perspectives and new ideas.

Similarly, LLMs are captive audiences for throwing out ideas and playing with them. The interaction creates something more than just talking to myself or a whiteboard.

Not all brainstorming partners need to be first order contributors to have a very positive impact. Different kinds of interactions can spark entirely different kinds of ideas.
How does this relate to interferometry? I do not think they are keeping waveforms or timing or anything (except taking the pictures at about the sames time. Are they just stacking images?
orloj.org still seems up
You are frankly out of your mind if you think Elon Musk and any of his companies are going to take you where you want to go.
kids can get cancer though
See the third page of https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5473
> Were people really using them for the same things?

Yes, I was talking to someone who was using a Raspberry Pi as a hot tub controller. Something a $1 ESP8266 could easily do.
I use CUDA, not MPS, thus my comments about HuggingFace TGI [1]. GPT2 is supported by transformers, but I would expect only a 1.5x speedup [2] in fine-tune by using its GPU instead of CPU.

[1] https://huggingface.co/docs/text-generation-inference/en/sup...

[2] https://github.com/Ankur3107/transformers-on-macbook-m1-gpu
> The Roman empire was based on slavery and had to die so that humanity could progress.

Making a statement with confidence doesn’t make it true. You might want to provide substance for this statement as the rest of your comment is based on it.
> I've personally used Pis for things much better suited to microcontrollers, many many times, purely because I understood Linux and did not understand how to program microcontrollers.

This describes my trajectory over the last 10 years with the Pi perfectly too. I think a lot of people have jammed a small SBC like the Pi into what should be a micro-controller shaped problem hole, because it's comfortable and familiar.

It's just like hacking software at a dev day job, and it runs a Linux distro everyone is super comfortable with. It has GPIO you can learn how to call from any language you like, I already know ssh/systemd/apt etc etc. It will get the job done, albeit often less efficiently and reliably than a microcontroller, and I didn't have to spend a lot of time learning things.

I also think the huge success of ESP32 in the last few years has meant you don't see SBCs being used for what should be micro-controller problems as much in general anymore. Ten years ago, you regularly saw Pi 1/2 etc in this role in a lot of projects online. Speaking for myself, I avoided Arduino in the early years because I didn't want to step out of my lane etc.
I find a vertical monitor really helpful for writing and reviewing code. I generally have the IDE split into tabs both horizontally and vertically, with vertical stacking most often unless I want something side-by-side. I tend to favor 1 argument per line/1 parameter per line for lists of 3 or more entries, this pushes me harder towards vertical monitor orientation and helps lines be narrower.

Email, Slack, other comms tools in a horizontal monitor. Web pages often are nicer to read vertically, more like a good printed page.

What do you mean "multiple contexts in large projects?" In IntelliJ, I'll have different windows/projects for different workspace dirs, each dir with a different branch or repo. Then I can code review in on branch without losing context for work I'm doing on another. Wish I had more monitors.
Thanks John, this is really helpful, I indeed need to be focused.
Ah I understand now, what a clever solution!
I agree with this, but also get so irritated with the endless praise. Like, tell me I'm wrong and tell me why. If I present a bad idea, tell me that.

Or even like "huh? explain"

Looking forward to ramping up the honesty parameter. Hoping OpenAI's new voice model trivializes this so I don't need to prompt engineer.
Or just append /embed

The disadvantage is that threads don't render.
Let's also remember the words of MK Israel Katz (now Minister for Foreign Affairs). A bit ahead of the curve, his remarks came in 2022 in a speech before the Knesset:

“Yesterday I warned the Arab students, who are flying Palestine flags at universities: Remember 48. Remember our independence war and your Nakba, don’t stretch the rope too much. Ask your elders, your grandfathers and grandmothers and they will explain to you that in the end the Jews will awaken. They know how to defend themselves and the Jewish state. Don't stretch the rope too much.”

After a protest from a Palestinian lawmaker Aida Touma-Sliman, he shot back:

Listen, listen - if you don't calm down, we'll teach you a lesson that won't be forgotten

https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1529484002595414019
It's fascinating how surgical terminology, much like programming languages, uses precise syntax to convey complex operations in a compact form.

Just as in coding, where function names like append(), open(), or close() might describe operations on data, surgical terms like -ectomy, -ostomy, and -otomy encapsulate detailed medical procedures on the human body.

This linguistic efficiency not only facilitates clear communication among professionals but also mirrors the procedural thinking found in technical fields.
I should have added an /s to my last sentence. The story is newsworthy on its own right. I emphasized how much more newsworthy it could have been had the shooter been pro-democracy, i.e. "Man bites dog."
I’ll add this here for the fake internet points but also as a general PSA. Most people are not aware that “Brainstorming” although popularized as a process since its origins in the 1960s… is actually Step 2. Most people are unaware that Step 1 is called “Questionstorming”. At the heart of the process is leveraging divergent and convergent modes of thinking which is done both to generate questions (and select the most promising ones) and answers… you’re welcome :D
A BYD buyer would not get $7500 from the US government. It is not a qualified manufacturer, which are companies from the US and allies (Germany, Japan): https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04012024/inside-clean-ene...

Is it just a "subjective point of view about an apples-to-oranges comparison" or is there a very clear way to objectively base the criticism of China?

> I think ascribing a unit price to the Chinese government's grants is what is misleading.

Could you expand on this? I do not understand it.
They have to actually commit a crime. And there are some things that a corporation can do that this happens - and SOX has criminal liability attached. But criminality requires stuff like intent and involvement. Often times the board is way too remote from the decision to be criminally liable by any sense of justice. It might feel good to say that but when discussing sending human beings to prison the bar should be high (even though it’s too low for many people not on a board).

But material consequences for companies are monetary and since a company’s life is money, that’s actually usually pretty compelling.
I'm confused about:

First, how strongly is it tied to glibc? I run emacs on FreeBSD and MacOS, and neither uses glibc. Heck, I remember building emacs on ULTRIX in the late 80s, and marveling at the clever undump thing. I don't remember having/using glibc in those days. Looking at the FreeBSD port, I don't see glibc as a build- or run-time dependency.

Second, undumping for fast startup was a thing in the late 80s with painfully slow disks and CPUs. I can't see how its still needed with today's CPUs and SSDs. I mean, electron apps are the standard these days. And, hmm, I just built emacs and temacs (the non-undumped version with "slow" loading) brings a window up in 3 seconds, about 2 seconds slower than the undumped version. (FreeBSD-current, 7 year old Ryzen, NVME)
Wastewater recycling seems unavoidable, especially for phosphorous.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...
I feel the exact same way.
Thanks bro, this is a good idea, if I've made this I'll let you know
Precisely.

I don't know any "did early detection which lead to unnecessary chemo" stories..

I know people who died due to the lack of early detection.

I also know people who survived due to accidental pre-symptomatic detection because of unrelated ER scans where they'd have been in stage 4 before having any symptoms.

So more screenings for more types of cancer are absolutely needed.
It's more treatable early, and you will have better outcomes.

Patients might worry about lab results is not a good reason not to have early detection. Patients can self select if they are so sensitive.
The model runs locally on device, you can find the mediapipe model in the repo.
> The reason [LLMs are not a good tool to do truly effective brainstorming] is LLMs are trained to follow existing patterns in the human-produced corpus, and not natively taught to “brainstorm”.

The problem with this argument is that people do the same thing, we’re not that great at brainstorming either. When we brainstorm in groups, we’re just bringing multiple points of view together. The more data LLMs are trained on, the more viewpoints it might be able to bring that you haven’t considered.

That said, LLMs and all NNs so far are built to interpolate, and they are bad and have unbounded error when extrapolating outside their training examples. That is a good reason to not expect today’s AI to come up with new ideas.
I just didn't want to download it, just view it, like a PDF that opens in the web vs. auto downloads
This seems like the type of thing that a sophisticated query planner in 2024 would be able to figure out on its own? Maybe as a non database expert I'm expecting too much?
Very stupid. They "exploited" MEV sandwich bots by replacing the trader transaction with their own "malicious" one. If that is illegal, so should sandwich MEV in the first place
12 yrs old wow. I'm surprised everything is in the root folder... no subfolder/groupings, probably uploader choice not actually how it was written?
Kill it? It's a local app, with the model included, and Apache 2.0 license. It might bit-rot, but you could fork and maintain it if you want to.
This is utterly wrong. The strength of LLMs is that they have very wide knowledge, so while your specialist knowledge might surpass them in a particular area it will know more than you across other topics.

When brainstorming this wide knowledge is what you want. The trick is (as always) better prompting to push it hard - so things like "consider parallels in similar situations in other fields" are useful.
Zigbee support is a relatively new feature. I believe the C6 and H2 variants of the ESP32 are the only ones to support it.
Its not something that they teach at asymptotic analysis lectures, right? which reminds me of professor who famously said - that constant that everyone's just overlooking can in engineering terms very much eat your head.
Having worked in both sides I’ve always liked monthly.
Early Photoshop was junk compared to Deluxe Paint on the Amiga. History only remembers the winners so it’s unfortunate DPaint gets lost the midst time.
Pump it into the Salton Sea.
And the data center use will be constant while the solar farm output will not be
Russian Disinformation Videos Smear Biden Ahead of U.S. Election
Imagine an eye-tracking loupe function on mobile: fit the same amount of text but bubble up the part under foveolar gaze. Save on readers* everywhere.

* readers are those glasses you can pick up at the drug store for $17.99.
I left my phone (iPhone) in an Uber in Mexico and the driver called me immediately on my friend's phone after I put it into lost mode (with the annoying sound).

Upon pick-up, I gave him a hefty reward and we both went our merry ways.
Bipartisan Senate group releases sweeping AI report
Report: https://www.young.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Roadmap_Elec...
FYI, this is just as useless as the original article for those without a Twitter account.
WTF happened to Yuzu, and what comes next?
Does that price include wastewater treatment? In our old home waste water was billed separately but the usage was based on your water meter. So if you poured 1000 gallons into the storm drain you were charged 1000gals of fresh water + 1000gals of sewage. The freshwater cost almost nothing but treatment is where the real costs came in.
Yes it does work headless and we do grab a fullpage screenshot including scrolling (by resizing viewport to content height). We haven’t had to deal with infinite scrolling much but that’s an interesting feature we’d appreciate a PR for.

We haven’t tried Apple’s OCR but hopefully will integrate Azure OCR soon based on others’ advice.
Case in point, about 40s in: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpt0qf5qowg
I think you might be transposing the cause and effect. Mechanical rim brakes had been limiting the wheel width because of physics of leverage, disc brakes opened demand for wheels of any width and users naturally migrated to the wider wheels.
Curious what happens if you set custom instructions to correct that. Does it work?
Great question! See this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40369713
It's no longer 2012. Windows has progressed much since RT. I have a Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 device running Windows 11, and I'm really impressed with how well it operates, how long the battery lasts, and how well it emulates practically any 64-bit software I've tested. This is coming from someone who hates Windows 11. The majority of the software I use has been or will be complied for ARM eventually.
I recently spoke with a cousin about their current project decommissioning an oil and gas platform over the next four years (ie. real engineering (in reverse?)).

Their comment was that ChatGPT can't write final reports but it's extremely useful for seeding brainstorming sessions with real human engineers.

It can generate a list of health, safety, and environmental concerns related to the project that can be distributed and act as a "starter dot point list" that engineers can agree to, expand on, reject as being just silly, and add to as tengential thoughts arise.

I'd argue that makes it useful in the context of real engineering brainstorming .. and that it's being used that way on multi million dollar projects in a billion dollar domain.
LinkedIn jumped the shark for me when everyone I met randomly was 2nd-3rd degree while the rare exception was someone who wasn't in those circles.

0. Never, ever add a recruiter as a LI connection.

1. Creating a list of people you used to know or places that no longer exist makes no sense at all. Even reggae gets it: https://genius.com/Desmond-dekker-fu-man-chu-lyrics
The fact that you have to do that just to keep compatibility with newer hardware that your purchase from them is just bonkers.
Then you realize that you probably shouldn't use their service if you can keep up with the discretionary spending on their hardware, they would like you to do (as far as they are concerned, Apple users only have one thing to buy: more Apple hardware).
But then you realize that if you need to use other services/apps they don't work that well on their platform and simply would work just as good or better on any other hardware.

Then you install Windows and figure out an Android phone will offer you the same type of integration, just in a less polished way. And you figure out you will save over 2K euros in a 10-years period and it will be much cooler to take some holidays (or whatever) instead of engrossing Apple shareholders.

Congrats, you found the get out of jail free card...
You can take the videos off the net (sometimes) but you can't stop people wanting to believe them, and believe IN them, no matter what. In fact, removing them will for some cohort, simply re-inforce the core belief which underpins the fakery: 'If it wasn't "true" nobody would remove it' (il)logic.

Since elections existed, partisans have been using mis-information. Perhaps its an anachronistic back-projection but I would believe rumour mills were run in the roman republic to influence the vote.
There's a lot of this with current AI - someone will write a piece titled something like "LLMs are not suitable for brainstorming" or "GPT4 is useless for programmers" or "AI image generation has no use cases" - and what they say in the body is that they're not perfect for brainstorming, GPT4 can't write an entire app perfectly from one prompt, and Midjourney doesn't let you take a picture from your mind's eye and put it on paper.
I admit that I don't understand the full details of what they did (the article doesn't get too in-depth with it), but here's what the DOJ press release [0] says:

>Anton Peraire-Bueno and James Pepaire-Bueno manipulated and tampered with the process and protocols by which transactions are validated and added to the Ethereum blockchain. In doing so, they fraudulently gained access to pending private transactions and used that access to alter certain transactions and obtain their victims’ cryptocurrency. Once the defendants stole their victims’ cryptocurrency, they rejected requests to return the stolen cryptocurrency and took numerous steps to hide their ill-gotten gains.

>Anton Peraire-Bueno and James Pepaire-Bueno meticulously planned the Exploit over the course of several months. Among other things, they learned the trading behaviors of the victim traders whose cryptocurrency they ultimately stole. As they planned the Exploit, they also took numerous steps to conceal their identities and lay the groundwork to conceal the stolen proceeds, including by setting up shell companies and using multiple private cryptocurrency addresses and foreign cryptocurrency exchanges. After the Exploit, the defendants transferred the stolen cryptocurrency through a series of transactions designed to conceal the source and ownership of the stolen funds.

Seems like fraud on the surface to me?

0. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-brothers-arrested-attacki...
That is possible, although I would say there are other potential challenges there in this case, and arguably there should be a specific index for that case, and a lot would depend on what exactly is being sorted, how frequently new rows are being inserted, etc.

But here the case should be batch indexing, processing, so it seems like auto incr with a timeout of assignment if those auto incr ranges are cached would still be suitable.

Like as I understand the problem, there is one service (ElasticSearch) that is working on indexing, and it's getting batched rows from postgres, to then index, but make sure at the same time to not miss any in those batches. And it's fine that it doesn't immediately at this second or minute do the indexing, so it should be fine to wait for the IDs to have been allocated.
Yes, but that’s not what they’re trying to do.
Well, yes, and no. :)
So is this a more streamlined version of languages where classes are objects (a la Python/Ruby) but where any ole object can act as a class?

Because prototype chains feel a lot like MRO but without the facilities to support multiple inheritance (which can be good or bad depending on the programmer).
That has nothing to do with whether the DB is relational or not.
Yes because only military vets experience trauma or some shit.
Do Enormous LLM Context Windows Spell the End of RAG
Don't forget "career coach". Where can I subscribe to your newsletter?
In practical terms, if you are a database and Jepsen doesn't find any bugs, that's as much assurance as you are going to get in 2024 short of formal verification.
not suitable = better-than-average?
The thing is, the death penalties in Singapore are in the single digits per year (out of a population of 6 million, effectively higher as this excludes non-citizens). People are not killed without thought, there is careful and lengthy investigations in each and every case.

The deterrence does work and saves countless lives that would have been taken from ODs and cartel-ish activities
The Romans managed to accomplish very little in 1,000 years considering the extent of their empire. The Greeks contributed much more than the Romans in a shorter time frame and with much less land, power etc. The reason Romans are romanticized is they are the ones who brought civilization to Norther Europe. (more or less. Or, at least, these is what Europeans themselves thought.). These Europeans then created the scientific and industrial revolutions (almost 1,000 years after the fall of Rome, I should note.) Rome also spread Christianity to Europe and maintained control over the Christian religion in Europe via the Pope. So it makes sense that people romanticize Rome because they see it as the predecessor of Europe. Even though Rome itslef is actually not that great, even if we accept that it spread civilization to Europe.
This is why I still use Bridge over Lightroom for a lot of my daily interacting with files. I don't always create an LR project. I just want to edit one or two files. So I love this feature as well.
ij ust used it, did you learn a new word?
Before I built this, I spent a couple of weeks reading the react source code. Of course, it's huge, and I didn't touch most lines. Probably never saw most of them. But it was enough to understand dispatchers, work scheduling, and fibers.

But you're right though. I still understand my own library better. However, I've really made an honest try to understand react (at least the client&DOM parts) as much as I practically could.

I think I'm on-board with your anti-abstraction POV too.
Hilarious! I just spitted my coffee, because i couldn't resist to laugh out loud.
my guess is that you don't graze enough to put your Stephan curve negative for long periods of time... https://jamiethedentist.com/dental-caries-decay/stephan-curv...
Let's say you're a developer at a big software company (not necessarily Apple, this happens everywhere) and you want to add a new optional setting.

The bar is pretty high. There are already hundreds of settings. Each one adds cost and complexity. So even if it's a good idea, the leadership might say "no".

Now let's say this same setting makes a big difference in usability for some people with disabilities. You just want to put it in accessibility settings. It won't clutter the rest of the UI.

You just turned your "no" into a "yes".
And for consoles like PS2 or OG Xbox or newer, so so many games have newer versions on other platforms
In Finder, there is the search box in upper right. Type something like "Blue shirt", and one of the options that pops below the box will be:
"Content: Contains 'Blue shirt'"

It should do a visual search for some common things, as well as OCR in image text.
-osis isn't a suffix at all; compare crisis, stasis, or paralysis.

-sis is just a noun-forming suffix.
A simple "Be brutally honest" at the end works surprisingly well.
Absolutely.

An awkward forced conversation once a week, erp.
Looks like he was Director and then CTO at these companies. In other words his reports were very senior and had a wide array of organizational information sources. Similar to the Nvidia CEO who doesn't do 1-on-1s with his very senior VP level reports.

Which says very little for the 99% of managers who aren't at that level.

He also seems to focus a lot on 1-on-1s being for career advice or feedback to the report versus being a way to build rapport/trust, share information, get a pulse on the organization and get feedback yourself. Again, these things matter less when you're a manager of managers but matters more when you're managing ICs who view things from a non-manager lens.
This will have just enough capability limits and annoyances for you to be convinced to purchase a Vision Pro. It also makes eye tracking more widely accepted by making it available to everyone by using their existing devices.
Lockdown mode is used to protect journalists or other people against malware like Pegasus. It doesn't get activated by being in an unusual location, it has to be manually activated in settings.