skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love seeing fun projects like this, but from what I can see in photos and the GitHub profile I think this would be more appropriate as an open-source hobby project than a $240 commercial product without schematics available.

The board is a minimal implementation of the ADS1299 chip, which is a highly integrated part for EEG measurements. The chip can be purchased for $50 or less in single quantities and your average electronics hobbyist could put together a basic Arduino Shield PCB around it in a weekend. It's a great chip. However, dealing with all of the complexities of low-level measurements is challenging. Getting good, clean signals and managing interference is a complex topic.

The GitHub repo has a lot of empty 'readme.txt' files and scraps of Python scripts, but the manual and documentation are both empty.

If anyone wants to play with this EEG chip, you can buy the entire professionally-designed evaluation board with a companion USB motherboard for $240 (the price of this Arduino shield): https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments...

It can be wired to an Arduino if you like and it has every possible function of the EEG chip exposed. It also has a much more robust layout and more flexible connections. Getting good measurements of low voltage signals with a 24-bit ADC is complicated, so it's important to have a well designed, tested, and documented solution to use.
All these wonderful stories... mine is much sillier.

I didn't have any friends on ICQ - they were all on AIM or MSN. But I was very active on ProBoards (a non-phpBB forum service) and ICQ was the only social icon that I was missing from my mini-profile, so I signed up so I would have something to put there.

Given how vain and overly-focused I was on appearances in that context, I cannot imagine how bad my mental health would have been if social media was available for me.
Yeah, the random chats were definitely the highlight. I recall a level of discourse considerably higher than what you commonly find on eg. Omegle now (or 5 years ago or whenever I last used it, anyway).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415846
Even after the release of GPT4o, Perplexity Pro with Claude 3 Opus is by far my most used LLM application. For me, the writing quality of Claude 3 combined with a wider variety of information sources makes it far surpass raw ChatGPT for most non-creative/non-interactive tasks.
And that's a good thing. They have a permanent forum for discussions to prevent global thermonuclear war. Everything else about the UN pales in comparison
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it's crazy I can still remember this despite not having used it for maybe ...25 years?
I'm aware - but until the last morons get the message it will be another few decades.
Super Size Me 2 was even better than the first one and I haven’t seen it mentioned here at all. It was an interesting and eye opening look at the chicken industry and what goes into those delicious chicken sandwiches we all love.
If there is no longer anything to hide then government officials should be open and candid about what happened to begin to restore trust. In theory they work to serve us.
I butchered the "Ask HN" format by providing a link in this post.

Made an updated submission with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40469206
Even when IM started to break because it was too awesome not to try to monopolize, Trillian (back in 2000!) showed how interoperability was superconvenient to rein in the nascent feudalism and give power back to the users... until the bigger players put a stop to that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillian_(software)
Google's results are now just plain baffling.

I live in India, haven't been to the US in 17 years, don't use a VPN.

Yet when I search for "St Petersburg Airport", it directs me to the airport for the city in Florida, and now the much older, much more densely populated, and much more culturally significant city in Russia (a city where I HAVE been once - and Google would likely know).
This is great stuff, good article that covers useful information.

The temptation now is to compare their config with my own, but I'm trying to avoid Emacs Yak Shaving lately. It's all too easy to get sucked in!
I absolutely understand why someone might not understand the practical and operational differences between the development of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, and how that chain of command has nothing in common with CIA operations in Pakistan. It's a very explainable opinion, but that doesn't mean it is correct.
> You go to it, and then you go back and look at more results to get a more complete picture. See where those different sites disagree and where they agree.

Me and others I know follow this workflow when we try to find out the answer to some question we don't know the answer to.

But the vast majority of people outside of my own personal friend circle don't seem to approach it like this. Their approach looks more like:

1. Search for thing

2. Read the first info-box that pops up, if it does. That's what they think is 100% the correct information. If no info-box:

3. Read the short description for the first link that appears (sometimes an ad) and take that as the correct answer.

Ideally, people would be more careful, but I haven't seen that in practice.
I much prefer "service oriented architecture" terminology to "microservice" because services need not be the same size. Have a daemon listening to a queue to send emails? Sure, microservice! Have 10 REST endpoints that are backed by the same interconnected data? Sure you could have 10 lambdas or something but.. why?
Impressive work but I feel this approach is the hard and brittle way to write an os. The easier and more portable way is to write the os as a guest in a host language. You start with a simple shell with the print command and build from there.
I'm not sure how my dad (Mechanical Engineer) would have figured this out, but I think he ran the DOS equivalent of `strings(1)` to dump the list of strings in old Sierra games (I want to say KQIV), to find hints about what might be possible. I wonder if he remembers. It was probably much cheaper than whatever Sierra hint hotline I wanted to call at the time.
It highlights the underlying problem, which is that Google has built up trust over 20 years that they will return the best results from the web. Now they undermine that trust by shoving AI results at the top and calling it answers.

It doesn't take much imagination the think of non-meme questions that will propogate wrong information.

"Fake info from trusted sources" isn't a hypothetical issue. When they changed the law that required TV news to be factual we quickly headed down the path of Fox News and MSNBC. They are so effective precisely because Boomers grew up fully trusting news sources.

You can argue that it is not a problem and that people know the difference, but we have plenty of real-life proof to the contrary.
OpenBSD and Llamafile go hand in hand.

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile
Kagi is just too expensive for non US folks. The family plan costs more than my family's monthly wifi, netflix, and phone bills combined.
It's weird that I can't remember my phone number from that time

But the ICQ number has stuck with me
Media Monkey is great also if you have a large collection. I use the ratings and occasion tags to organize my collection. I like how the meta data is part of the mp3 so you take it wherever your mp3 goes. I guess it’s not economically viable to have a streaming service to allow such flexible customization.
mp3gain from 2005 is another indispensable part of a large mp3 collection.
That seems pretty par for the course with Google these days. “Hmm, you want to know something about a specific watch? Well, I know something else about watches!”
iTerm is a "kitchen sink" type of app in general. That is, it is definitely a terminal emulator, but it has lots of features, and I doubt that most users use even half of that. So in that sense, if you're using it, you're already at least tacitly accepting that philosophy as valid. So optional LLM integration is not really out of place there in the sense that it would be in a truly minimalist terminal emulator, IMO.

With regard to LLMs, for what it's worth, I'm not suggesting that people use them to routinely drive their shell. This is the kind of stuff that you use very occasionally, when it is time to use that one command that is immensely useful for very specialized things, and which you can never in your life remember the syntax for precisely because it's not something you do every day. The canonical examples there are ffmpeg, ImageMagick, and similar tools.

Remember https://linux.die.net/man/1/cdecl? This is basically like that, just based on tech that allows it to be better generalized.
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I think the problem with the mask discussion is both sides over represent what the other side is saying. Proponents likely don't view it as a panacea, just as opponents probably could be convinced it is a good idea to try.

To be clear, there were and are people that are in the extremes. People having meltdowns over being asked to wear a mask did happen. And that doesn't make sense.

However, it also takes rather high confidence to think that masks were meaningful impacts on school transmission. And getting either side that is invested in a position here to discuss with the others is difficult. I'm not clear why.

So, people will talk over each other and not actually engage with the discussion, but the weakest form of the discussion that they can dominate.

For myself, I don't understand it, either. Agreed that masking was not a big deal. But, literally everyone I knew that made a big deal of masking all of the time were the most likely people I knew to have covid. Usually several times in the year. It made literally no sense. (My guess is they were the most likely to test all of the time, and odds are high they had a few false positives?)

Now, as indicated by my comment on schools, I also think it was pointless to try and get preschools and such with masking policies. Happy to be shown I'm wrong on that, but the messaging around kids and covid was abysmal.
This was a long time ago.
In this particular case, he does not say anything other than "I won't actively work on supporting proprietary platforms because I don't care about them".

Can't we just be grateful when people open source their code without asking anything in return and stop criticizing them because they did not release it under our preferred conditions?

Do you personally maintain useful open source projects? Can I go there and complain about how you proceed even though I didn't contribute anything at all?
In smaller/earlier projects, there may not be such a thing as partially up or partially down. Every module/service can be on the critical path. And if that's the case, it's easier to not be dealing with a distributed system (or to have a minimally distributed one).
Analog computers have a lot of history. You can Google analog with neural network or differential equations to get many results. They are fast with low power, can have precision issues, and require custom, chip design.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer

Mixed signal ASIC’s often use a mix of digital and analog blocks to get the benefits of analog. It’s especially helpful for anything that eats lots of power or to prevent that (eg mobile).
It's not dead, so there's nothing to vouch. It's best to just proceed without reference to things like votes; they work themselves out over time.
He has also:

* Been denied entry to the IDF/excused from mandatory conscription due to his extremist views

* Been convicted (in an Israeli court) of supporting a terrorist organization.

* Made a legal career out of defending alledged Jewish terrorists in Israeli courts.

* Arguably contributed to the assassination Yitzhak Rabin and the collapse of the Oslo accords.
This might be the first time I get a joke's punchline but not the setup
They rely heavily on what we call residual or skip connexions. This means each layer does something like x = x + f(x). This helps the training a lot, ensuring the gradient can flow nicely in the whole network.

This is heavily used in ResNets (residual networks) for computer vision, and is what allows training much deeper convolutional networks. And transformers use the same trick.
Your description is so absurd that I can't tell if it's real or a satire.

Please tell me this is a satire piece...
Right, the domain itself is a huge signal. Information can have a very different meaning and trustworthiness if appears on the blog of a known expert vs the NYT vs some spam site like Quora. Google wants the only context to be Google. Even if the AI results are as good as organic ones, which is not a terribly high bar these days, it will be much less useful and trustworthy because nobody knows the provenance of the information.

It's really unfortunate that Google is going to torch so much of the open internet in order to shovel this nonsense onto people. Of course as organic search traffic dries up and reduces new high quality content, and AI slop floods the internet, the GenAI results will get even worse.
But how is that different from a UI which is the equivalent of a “enable openai integration” checkbox??

You needed the word “Disable” in there?
$239: The entire TI evaluation kit for the ADS1299 chip used in these projects: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments...

The above kit can be connected to an Arduino, of course. Or a Raspberry Pi, or your computer via the included USB board, or any other device you have in mind. You don't need to buy a specific board for your target device as long as you can connect the interface pins together.

I strongly recommend that anyone looking to use an ADS1299 EEG simply purchase the EVM from TI and use that instead. It's professionally designed and tested by the company that made the chip, and it's the same price or cheaper as these alternate boards.
I actually went to the DC yesterday. It had been 6 months since I had been there and everything was running fine (and has been for 2 years now). I just had a small addition. I don't love the drive, but it's really not much of my time to manage it.
I didn't either until I heard about the lawsuit!
"History did not start on Oct 7, 2023"

Where should we start?

When the arabs colonized the levant? or the many massacres of native jews? The wars of aggression by arabs? This conflict is awfully messy and each side has a laundry list of legitimate grievances.
HFT guys won't touch GPT. The stakes are too high. If LLMs could give those guys an edge they'd be all over this tech.
> What’s the real strategy here by OpenAI?

PaaS: Propaganda as a service. You give us the story, we give you propaganda.
I remember playing SQ2 on a "laptop" my dad brought home from work. It had 4 shades of dark blue and shimmered like crazy when anything moved. What a cool experience.
I’m not blind or color blind, but I prefer links to be underlined as a visual cue that it’s going to take me to a different page instead of doing something javascripty.
Imagine a 3D version of Noita with this aesthetic, and perhaps using smoothed particle hydrodynamics to make the falling sand engine scale to 3D.
What jailbreak prompts are you using to extract this?
I really feel bad for the guy but I sincerely doubt it’s the first time he’s learned that “no good deed goes unpunished”.
seems like an improvement on the aloha approach? You still need to finetune it on roughly the same amount of OOD examples. Contrast this with google's approach over 2023, which was training large vision-language models with the goal of generalizing on OOD.
Hamas is a complex entity, the ruling party of Gaza as well as a militant terrorist arm. The population of Gaza is around two million people, all of Hamas is maybe 50,000 people, terrorist arm is some subset of that, and the people who actually participated in the Oct 7 atrocities are maybe a few thousand counting all support personnel. I think that easily qualifies as a few people compared to two million.
Am I understanding this correctly? The podcaster is asking why the Google search doesn't give a chatbot answer to "best Chromebook"? Don't get me wrong, I have no shortage of criticisms for Google search. I just don't understand what would be controversial about not providing a chatbot response by default for this question. A hypothetical answer would require comparative and evaluative language, which I can't blame them for the wanting to steer clear.
Woah, ICQ had peer-to-peer? I thought it was quite centralized! Was that before the OSCAR migration?

I only remember Skype being "true" peer-to-peer, with your PC randomly becoming a presence/call relaying "supernode" if you had a publicly reachable IP and good connectivity. Different times!
I hope it's not too easy then... imagine what he could do in 27 days if this was the "hard and brittle way" :-).
That's amazing you guys got through that game so quick with no outside help. They did sell hint books that started off blank with a marker to uncover the hint. I got one for most games I played. As a rule I'd get stuck on some part for more than an hour, come back a day later, and still be stuck, then I'd uncover a hint. Generally using it a half dozen times to get through a game.

https://www.sierragamers.com/hint-books/

Fun fact - Sierra made more $$ on hint books for the first LSL than the game itself due to piracy issues.
Sony's is a fuckfest, and so is pretty much everyone because Android sucks as well.

The main problem is Bluetooth is dog slow, so they use temporary Wifi networks which have to be manually confirmed twice (once in the app, once in the Android UI)... and the wifi obviously doesn't have internet, so after a short time Android nags you to disconnect because the wifi it's connected to doesn't have internet.
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Something similar was experimented with where I live (western Sweden) to see if the technology is usable to determine the stability of soil layers against land slides. The area around the local river - Göta Älv - is known to be prone to landslides so it was deemed to be a good test subject. A helicopter carrying something which was best described as an enormous chicken run on a long line criss-crossed the area mapping it with what I assume was ground-penetrating radar. The results [1] show our farm to lie on an extremely landslide-prone part of the river valley and I know there have been landslides here in the 60's so there is something to this method. The subsoil consists of silt (the fraction over clay) on top of bedrock, as long as the water content stays below a certain percentage it has quite a high bearing capacity but once it gets over that it easily liquifies.

[1] https://ext-geodatakatalog-forv.lansstyrelsen.se/PlaneringsK...
As another commenter pointed out, the expression of these genes doesn't cause inflammation. So, maybe the antivaxxers will ignore it, as it doesn't fit well enough into their existing framework.
Yes, they would tolerate it. Both because of the Government's monopoly on violence, and because citizens always rally to support a war when under direct attack. The latter effect was popularized by Randolph Bourne in an essay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_Bourne

> the phrase "war is the health of the state" that laments the success of governments in arrogating authority and resources during conflicts.

The problem the US might have in full war mobilization today would be due to cronyism. Remember all of the exceptions to Covid lockdowns for "essential" employees? Some of that is of course necessary but I suspect it would be very widespread if it happened today. This would stoke resentment from people/companies not so privileged.
If I'm understanding this then the WSC API calls are being used by the included Avast EXE and DLL (which, presumably, are Avast "IP" and protected by copyright).

Has anybody done reverse engineering work on the WSC API itself?
I wasn't seeing a great deal of tactical empathy in some of your own carefully chosen phrasing (e.g. "that bullshit").

So that, plus my sense that you were deeply mistaken about certain things, brought me to the view that the discussion had run its course.
Russian here — we used it until around 2011, which is when VKontakte introduced instant messages and soon after group chats, so everyone switched to that.

Here's the announcement: https://vk.com/blog/blog131, the title "VKontakte in ICQ mode" is telling. Oh and the contest Pavel announced at the end of that post? I won that with my shoddy MFC app :P
Yawn. You started off calling the use of greyscale "snobbery". Just because people use something you don't, doesn't make them snobs. Maybe if you were more open and honestly questioning, you wouldn't perceive "veiled insults", which I haven't noticed so far. Nice projection, buddy.

But, like I said, if you don't think it works, fine don't do. But when people explain why it works for them, don't diss them for using something that works.

Don't act like you're some perfect moral compass of everybody's experience. You started this thread with insults. And every comment you've made since includes them. Maybe grow up and accept that people like something _you've never tried before_.
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This is more like supporting AVX512 than a whole separate architecture. If you have to target both old and new devices from one binary, you do a runtime feature check and call the corresponding code.

That is certainly more code, but not double. You only need it for the parts of the code that are both (a) bottlenecks worth optimizing and (b) actually benefit by using the new instructions.
Common sense? Restricting exhalation to reduce transmission of airborne disease? Have you never been taught to cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough?

Like it would be remarkable if it did nothing. THAT would be a blockbuster result.

The thing worth studying is if the effect is worth the trouble or not. It could be worth doing or it could effectively be a waste of time due to whatever other factor.
One thing about these sorts of gov run industry things is that when it works it almost always coincides with great national urgency where you get total civilian/private industry buy in.

Everyone points to NASA in the 60s as a perfect example of gov production but like all newly formed bureaucracies they are largely the sum of the people they recently absorbed into it. NASA mined all the universities and nerds from private industry who brought their work patterns, leadership, and attitudes to the organization.

But as these orgs age it’s the classic Iron Rule story of managers taking over and accountants ruining things etc etc.

Maybe we need to move away from monolithic mega gov orgs and create new ones to solve new problems each generation instead of being catch alls that do nothing well and never face any risk of being replaced. There needs to be ways to breed new life and kill off the natural development of bad management and crippling rulemaking.
You have to enable Siri for carplay, which is really obnoxious.