skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another thing I've heard of is that commonly people include the password for the encrypted zip inside the email, so email filters have learned to try to decrypt the zip using every single word in the original email.
Best: Open Pit and Pipe
Very Good: ULL
Ok: Government Wholesale
Shit tier: Any Monopoly.
Sadly CP laws do not recognize that one end of that spectrum is OK. If I draw a photo realistic drawing (or even non photo realistic, ie anime) of CP I’m a felon in the eyes of our pathetic laws.
Increasing temperature just makes more uncommon tokens more likely to appear. This can include both uncommon ideas and uncommon spelling and grammatical mistakes. It also won't make ideas that the LLM isn't capable of thinking appear, unless you crank the temperature way up and get lucky (like monkeys on typewriters lucky)
Why draw the distinction? Do you have a stake in the royalty lawsuit b/t ARM and Qualcomm?
Could you say a bit more about the link between prototypal inheritance and LLMs? Not obvious to me what it is.
Show HN: I developed an app to dumbify your phone
I created an app that allows you dumbify your iPhone with a lot of cool features. You can edit your app names to customize each view, you can edit the url scheme to enter apps at specific points, or call specific people, look up your favorite websites all from your home page! You can also add emojis to the app views and change the color of the background. A very open app with a lot of power if used right. Updates are on the way too!
Capitalist societies are capitalist. I don't get what point you try to make with saying they also have slavery. As a historian you should know the difference between defining features and what is secondary.

Modern slavery is a pretty different phenomenon to antique slave holding anyway.

It is fact that the vast majority of the world is capitalist today, no?

Yes, you can argue they are not purely this or that or whatever but I don't see what purpose that would serve other than muddle the conversation.

It is also historical fact, that the first countries that went through an industrialization where feudalistic, no? England, Germany, France so on.

So how is the progression I showed you not trivially true?

Yes it is eurocentric and the development in Asia was very different and yada, yda. Fair point but the industrialization started in Europe and that was no accident.

I am not even sure what you are actually disagreeing with.
Lavalamptimeline.com
A collection of 14 pages of images and comments on a variety of "lava", glitter and optic fiber lamps that I came across while researching how to make a glitter lamp.

Incidentally, bigclive has some really good videos on the subjects of DIY glitter lamps. Here's just 3, search his channel for "glitter" for more.

Hacked LED glitter lamp May 24, 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY4qg7nIS-wv

Safe USB version of the Gillian's Diamonds lamp. (With PCB file.) Jun 11, 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCyUxlsRoRc

Custom LED flowing glitter lamp Feb 4, 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yth5wQArKH4
In modern processors, 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit x86 all use mostly the same instructions, just with different default operand sizes. In particular, with a few big exceptions (like INC/DEC r32 being replaced with the REX prefixes, and segment PUSH/POP being removed), they all have the same encodings. So the set of undocumented instructions, especially in the multibyte encoding ranges, is likely the same. Though their behavior might vary, or be absent altogether.
I mean they are. I’ve had great success brainstorming various things with them. People use LLMs for brainstorming every day.
We don't need more data, we need independent LLMs with slight randomness.
Unrelated but I see this sentiment a lot. Algorithms (and related courses) are supposed to be largely mathematical/theory based so it sort of has to be hardware agnostic.

Imo an algorithms course doesn't really need to teach you about lowering the constant factor (unless the optimizations for lowering said factor are reasonably abstracted away from physical HW), thats the purpose of Computer Architecture or Operating Systems course.

And realistically in the real world you'd be benchmarking these things anyway if a supposedly "optimal" algorithm is really the bottleneck, and you'd apply context specific optimizations to speed it up.
I do think people will have certain expectations when they hear "Mac app", though. Though at the same time, Electron is a bad word on HN. The ideal situation for marketing would be additional support for Windows/Linux so that it can be called a cross-platform app.
I don't know a case study but I was personally told by 2 different founders who had 100MM+ exits that their startup ideas were formed (at least partially) from brainstorm sessions. One guy even pointed to me the library where they had the whiteboard session which led to the idea that they exited in the end.

The SPC also have a blog that proposes brainstorming from -1 to 1: https://blog.southparkcommons.com/how-to-go-from-minus-1-to-...
If the closest grocery store (essential need) is 10-15 minutes by car, why would anyone walk? That's a long distance to drive for a grocery store and you are no doubt located in quite a low density place to begin with. Infrastructure to walk makes no sense when cars are that much better. In places where your local grocery store is 15 minutes away, congestion (the main drawback of cars) doesn't exist.
I thought this was going to describe cloud seeding, artificially stimulating cloud formation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

It's been used in Dubai, the middle of the desert, to create fake rain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding#cite_ref-8). It's been used in some US states (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eight-states-are-...).

Though it's effectiveness is debated and it cannot guarantee precipitation. It also has environmental impacts, possibly decreasing precipitation in other areas as well as causing health issues (it basically involves spreading salt or dry ice into the air).
Hi HN,
I was spending too much time on my phone and wanted a way to reduce my screen time without getting rid of my iPhone. So, I developed Limpio, a lite phone mimic for the iPhone in an attempt to bring control back to the apps that are actually important.

Let me know what you think!

Kenny
Ask HN: Can Art Explain an LLM?
Memento is a movie about a guy with a constrained context length. He maintained context through, well we don’t know. It can’t be RAG because it’s a tattoo. He’s a model that’s fine tuning with tattoos.

The movie is about a robot that hard coded a lot of data, and then augmented it physically (tattoos, tape hard drives - the analog) to fulfill the world model.

If the fight is between space and time, space might finally be the sexy solution. What if I just tattoo all truths on to me?

I may not have enough space

Well we definitely don’t have enough time lol
That's not brainstorming, that's rubber ducking.
I don't think it's just the brine that's concerning. Remember all of those toxic pesticides and heavy metals the author mentions? The ones causing health problems for residents of the Salton Sea area?

Those have to go someplace as well, and they would be mixed into that brine. Dumping a more concentrated version of that sludge into the gulf sounds like a bad time for people who live in the gulf region.

Don't get me wrong, I love this idea. I just know that there are hidden externalities here which need to be examined and dealt with properly.
If they weren’t gravitationally bound, they would have left the Milky Way billions of years ago.

Also, “in the halo” doesn’t necessarily mean “far from the center of the galaxy”; it means “not orbiting in the disk”.[1] Some of these stars are closer to the galactic center than the Sun.

[1] And further away from the center of the galaxy than the bulge — but the bulge is much smaller than the orbit of the Sun.
> Last year, the world installed about 437 GW of solar electricity, or roughly one acre of panels every 10 seconds

How can that be true.

That's over three million acres.

Really?
And a historical dig site is an archaeotomy. :D
Indices are essentially managed denormalization.
> I mean, what is the difference between creativity and hallucination (honest question)?

Well, creative problem solving involves getting new ideas and perspectives by creating novel associations between things we know. Hallucinations are creating things we "know" because they sound like they could be right and basing "ideas" on them. In short, hallucinations are bullshit. Totally open creative problem solving isn't always perfect, but even the ideas that don't really work can reveal something about the concepts involved. And bullshit often takes creativity to create, but that doesn't make it useful as actual creative output. It's not like the second you move beyond empirically provable statements, everything has equal merit. If you're trying to creatively work to a useful end, whether or not the knowledge you're working with is fabricated is pretty consequential. Doing otherwise would be like trying to optimize your code based on utterly fake but plausible algorithms-- sounding right isn't right enough to be useful. IMO, being able to create lies that pass the smell test is LLMs' most dangerous proclivity, especially when they're presented as expertise-in-a-box.
You are correct. Back to middle age, Stone Age maybe. I didn’t mean humanity will entirely be extinct, I meant human population will diminish a lot.
He more recently espoused what he calls "class-free object oriented programming," where you use closures for everything instead of prototypes. This uses more memory, but he says that it doesn't matter.

I do like writing Javascript that way, though:

function Thing(otherThing) {
const self = otherThing || {};
self.method1 = function () { /* ... */ };
// self. [...]
return self;
}

function main() {
// no `new`, no `this`
const thing = Thing();
// ...
}
20% seems far too generous
Don’t forget about American prison labour!
This video goes into some details about one proposed design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX1bcNqhhi8. The intensity of the beam would not be a concern. There is no "aiming" motor in this design, its using a phased array.

Ground solar panels need relatively frequent cleaning due to dust, weather, and plants/animals in some areas. In space the biggest maintenance costs are gone. With the $10-$100/kg launch costs refueling would not be that expensive. Micrometeorites may be an issue, but if the rate of micrometeorite impact is low enough it may not be a concern. The 60-year costs of ground solar panels are actually worse than a large nuclear power plant due to the maintenance, so it is a significant part.

Space solar may not be effective initially, but I think it could have its place similar to SMRs. Power could be generated 24/7. The ability to allocate power as needed across a whole hemisphere would allow us to optimize power grids without megatons of power cables. These could also beam power to moon bases or even mars bases eventually.

Also bringing up Musk was unnecessary. The space industry is bigger than one person and many of "his" ideas predate his involvement with the industry and have teams of many scientists and engineers doing the actual work. It would be a shame to throw out ideas that could facilitate human progress simply because we didn't like one personality.
I just used your prompt on GPT 4o appended with "Be brutally honest, if the idea is bad, feel free to let me know without any sugarcoating" as sibling comments have suggested, and it works pretty well and doesn't give false platitudes.
Also when doing their regular jobs they’re not under investigation. For all their families know they may be sitting in a prison right now.

Further, it’s very likely that the crew are experiencing significant trauma themselves. Both the experience of being through what must have been a frightening experience as well as feelings of guilt because of what happened.
I always found 1:1s enormously useful, coming from an academic background where that not normally happens. They're the only place where you can regularly:

- check in on your people, and vent to your manager

- celebrate small wins that in other cases just get dropped under the table

- get a feel for the 'whisper'/'hidden' culture in your office, not the stuff that's the official face of the organisation

- raise issues that usually fall under 'etc.' and don't have their own space in other kinds of meetings

- in stressful times, just a place to decompress a bit before you go back into the thick of it

- lets you check in on people's career planning, and prod them a bit

and so much more.
> They can just claim a tiny scratch is why the robot is broken and void the warranty that way. Standard practice these days.

What is this, an ASUS product? lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY
I'm interpreting "brainstorming" to be any kind of general noodling on an issue to try to find new/novel/interesting solutions. In that case, I think every significant moment of true inspiration I had (of which there have been like, maybe 3 ever), they were always the result of seemingly random, completely unrelated things popping into my mind that, for whatever reason, clicked perfectly into the problem I was mulling over. To me, this means that manufacturing "true" inspiration doesn't require a tool that can deviate from "standard" human thinking patterns. I think it just means that you would want a tool that helps expose you to as many new and unknown fields/concepts/ideas in as little time as possible. So I think in that way LLMs are an amazing tool for helping one to brainstorm.
Not just “uncommon tokens”. In the case when generation does weighted random sampling, it autoregressively takes its own past tokens into account. It generates whole different sequences. So if it’s diversity of output you want, you will get it.
I said you have to be lucky

Read carefully :)
Contactless skips the need for chip & pin. Combined with dynamic card numbers, this is a secure solution. Unauthorized transactions will be reversed, with escalation to government regulators if not (Regulation E).

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/rules-policy/regulations/100...

(work adjacent to payment rails)
There goes 50+% of my use.

"LLMs are no good for [use case X]" often means "I aren't very good at using LLMs for [use case X]".

With many powerful tools - violins, say, or carpentry tools - we know that it takes a long time and a lot of learning to achieve competent performance, much less virtuoso performance. Someone who spent ten hours learning the violin and concluded "Violins sound terrible" wouldn't have diagnosed a problem with violins, but with their own mastery. I certainly think current LLMs have some big intrinsic weaknesses, but also that what they are is quite subtle.
Fair enough, but I do not understand why people seem to put so much trust in Amazon. Ali et. al. is of course a crapshoot every time, based on the threads that pop up here every few weeks Amazon seems to be an endless supply of poor quality goods, counterfeits and whatnot as well.
I have engineering VPs that report to me. In our weekly 1 on 1s we catch up on how we’re both doing and I ask them if there’s anything I can do to make their work lives better/easier or unblock them in some way. If so we talk about it and I make a plan to get them what they need. If not we wrap early. Seems to work pretty well without causing stress or wasting time.
Comcast lobbied so hard to get our local mileage for fiber expansion voted down. When it passed, they suddenly decided they’re going to spend 6 figures worth of money to expand their own fiber backdown (they’re not even to the house). Its amazing when corporations will spend more money fighting something than actually implementing said thing.
Are you the IC or the manager?
It is a zero sum game (if it works). Taking moisture from the atmosphere in one place prevents it from precipitating someplace else.

I can envision a world in which wars are fought over this kind of behavior.
Hi, editor here:

1.) We missed a digit when adding in the number for inflation. It was a mispaste. (We had $112, the actual number was $1127.) We will correct this. Our apologies.

2.) Matt pulled from a similar source (the oral history of the Z80), which may reflect some of the similarity in ordering. That said, you are correct, and is a bit too similar for my liking. We are going to make some changes on this section and will make a note on this front. I should note though that this article has many more elements to it than this one passage, and discusses a wide array of topics.

3.) There are three ads on the entire page for a 2,000+-word article. It’s a newsletter, so one is embedded in the article as a sponsorship. The other two are from BuySellAds, and are otherwise minimal. I encourage you to compare that to the number currently on this random article I just pulled from Gizmodo. https://gizmodo.com/extreme-heat-solar-energy-clean-energy-s...

As far as your “AI generated” claim: That is incredibly rude. Please, read the rest of our articles and tell me where we generate AI. I appreciate your criticism up to the point about the AI generation. That is not fair to Matt, it is not fair to myself as his editor, and it is not the way I want this website perceived.

Please, do not bandy around such claims like that offhand. It harms independent publishers that are actually doing the work.

Don’t blame on bots what can be better blamed on humans trying their best to get it right and stumbling a little.
If they feel extremely structured, what is the structure that is in place for your 1:1s?

I do my 1:1s fortnightly and don't have a rigid structure to them but try to make sure to remember at least once a quarter touch on career dev and learning opportunities. And at least a little bit of normal bullshitting you don't get when everyone is remote.

Occasionally, but rarely they end up going "How you doing?" "Good." "Need anything?" "Nope." but I still like them because they represent I'm always setting aside time to talk, its a priority, and the lines are open. And I'm typically very close to the "this meeting could have been an email" end of the spectrum.
I'm 100% on board with the idea that the wealth divide is an enormous problem.

I don't think it's Bill's fault, or even that he benefits from it in any meaningful way. And I don't think that you and I are the victims.

I think we need to be more clear about this. It's not that Bill's (marginal) tax rate is lower than ours. It's that Bill has more and different types of income than we do.

Bill has the types of income that are net beneficial to encourage -- which we do by reducing tax liability on it.

But I think it's more correct to say that Bill contributes more to our lifestyles than we do to his. And that we want Bill to contribute more still.

Not because we need more tax revenue (we don't really), or because of a lifeless theory about non-progressive taxation being more proper (it's so much more complicated than that).

But simply because we're all of a society, and that society is unhealthy when wealth is concentrated too densely.

It's not about fair share. It's about limiting inequality. That's the end goal, so let's address it directly. A flat tax does not do that.

People like Bill Gates should be heroes, for contributing progressively more to society with every success they achieve. (Aside: That was painful to write. Bill himself will always be an evil monopolist who held computing back by 20 years and taught people to believe that computers are scary and unreliable)

But where does that new tax revenue go? Into the maw of the US government, where it is used for important things, often very inefficiently.

Bill & Warren & Charlie (RIP) think they can do it better. And they might be right, honestly. They're creating an super-national voluntary self-taxation regime, and a corresponding appropriations framework to go along with it, out of the gross excess of their inadequately-taxed earnings.

I think that's more than either of us are doing. Even if their projects fail, they will not be obviously less-effective than the same funds as additional tax revenue. :)
The last NIMBY lawsuit on electic caltrain was settled back in like 2017. Hate to break it but that’s just your standard Cali corruption
See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqu5DjzOBF8

And note that if you think "Maybe we shouldn't be worried until we understand this"

In the past ~14 months things have taken off in ways that nobody who studies this stuff can fully explain yet (leading theory: cleaner fuel -> less sulfur dioxide forcing). We're 4 to 5 standard deviations from the 30-year mean in sea surface temperature right now.

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

The half of the human population that lives in South, East, and Southeast Asia have been under oppressive heatwaves in the past few days that have taken a sizable death toll.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1cj2j...

The USDA just adjusted its planting map using 2022 data and indicated that average winter low temperatures in the US have risen 2.5 degrees over the past 10 years, and continue to rise.

It's looking like extreme wet bulb events and the peripheral consequences of extreme wet bulb events are going to be perhaps the biggest consequence of failing to control CO2 emissions, as the estimate of survivable wet bulb temperatures have been revised down, their importance has been revised up, and the number of outlier heatwaves have ticked up (Vancouver? Really?!). Less sea level rise, less crop failures from weather pattern changes, less hurricanes. Billions of people who come to recognize that an unluckily sunny August week without a breeze can kill a majority of the local population, are going to want to mitigate that risk. Heat pump air conditioning & insulated housing for every single temperate & tropical human residence would work as an alternative... good luck with that. Fail to provide that and you get multifocal crises involving refugees, nativist/nationalist sentiments, infrastructure deficits, and wars of conquest.
Came here to say this. The article assumes that you're already an expert on what you're asking the LLM to help you brainstorm for. A better title would be "LLMs are not suitable for brainstorming in topics you know deeply"

I'll also add that there's a big difference between "give me 10 startup ideas" and having a conversation with it to explore different startup ideas (for example). Through conversation you can build off what each other say and explore the space.
Neither of those ways reverses course, they only reduce emissions. But we have to go net negative on emissions to reverse global warming.

Electric devices are not a major issue, since they can be powered by green energy easily. There's no reasonable path forward that involves picking and choosing what software has acceptable "value" to budget energy for (besides just market forces). We just have to build the power infrastructure and try to make computing energy efficient.
I spent a good long while trying to come up with novel video-game game play ideas, exactly what one would call "brainstorming" for ideas, and quite frankly it was pretty awful.

ChatGPT more or less it converged on simply taking the current subject, adding a generic gameplay element to it and outputting it. It took half the ideas being thrown at it and included a rhythm mechanic... That's not that interesting, and I just couldn't get it to really think outside the box.
Nothing is really original. That's why you can make finite lists of the possible plots of books and movies. It's why TVtropes is a thing. Everything is just a mashup of things before.
Free shipping after some amount (varies with where you are in the world apparently) and I get my parcels from Mouser in 2-3 days shipped over the Atlantic. RS is even faster.
The Benchmark Paradox (2014)
Blue giants live only a few million years to a few tens of millions of years.