skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless it’s diesel, because there the accelerator causes more fuel to squirt in rather than opening the throttle body.

But can do you call diesel gas?
Imagine if the code had barely changed from 95 to now but we took all of the hardware improvements.
Show HN: How I made monitoring and debugging self-hosted LLMs way easier
Hello everyone,

I’m the maintainer of OpenLIT, and like many of you, I’ve always struggled with debugging LLM responses on Ollama and GPT4All—it's possible but with significant effort tbh. So, taking advantage of my role as maintainer, I tackled the problem head-on to make it simpler.

I've developed an OpenTelemetry-native integration within OpenLIT aimed at boosting performance tracking for any LLM hosted on Ollama or GPT4All. Integration takes just one line of code. This integration has notably streamlined my own workflow, allowing monitoring of prompts and responses, including the parameters used, like temperature settings, and how these affect responses, plus tracking token counts.

If you’re encountering similar issues, this could be a really useful: https://docs.openlit.io/latest/integrations/ollama

I'd love to hear how it works for you or discuss any other strategies you've found effective in managing LLMs!
Nationwide actually publish data about the monthly mortgage payment to take home pay ratios of first time buyers[0]. Compared to Q1 2014, repayments accounted for a lower proportion from when their data begins, in Q1 1983, until Q3 1988. Repayments remained higher until Q4 1990.

In 1989 interest rates were at record highs and mortgage interest relief was still a thing. Despite interest rates hovering between 8-12% for the rest of the 1980s, mortgage repayments were consistently a much lower proportion of income.

In 2024 there's no interest relief and we're exiting a period of record low rates. The rise to 5.25% already puts us in a worse position than when rates were at 10%, 14.5% would disastrous.

[0] https://www.nationwidehousepriceindex.co.uk/charts
Anytime I see it, they are ranked in the bottom of any post so people doing it are losing karma. That's enough.
There is no need to label him selfish. You don’t know him.

He isn’t any more selfish than you are, traveling to a crowded conference while living with an immuno-compromised person, and on top of that expecting people to bend over to your requirements.
I don't really buy it.

CEO is all about softskills, uncertainty, weighing risks, intuition, vision etc. All the things LLMs are terrible at.

If you just want some generic MBA like wall of text spouting robot that you can call "CEO" for 15 mins of limelight then yeah got for it, but that's not really what makes a really great CEO, is it?
Surely you'd do the Star Trek computer if you were real nerds rather than a single 2013 film. I can't even visualise (audiolise?) Johansson's voice, it's not particularly special to me. Yet I'd recognise Majel Barrett before end of the first word.

Though it would probably be more accurate if they used the autopilot voice from Wall-E but Apple would really stomp them for that.
A few million fake "content id" hashes still gives them a 1/100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 chance that any one of those hashes will match. 256 bits are a lot, besides, what are they going to do? Sift through random vacation photos that happened to match this "ten jackpots in a row" chance?
What's selfish is actually demanding that society changes for you (or a minority of immuno-compromised individuals). COVID was one thing, but we're way past it now and society had to go back to the normal way of things.
I feel the same when they talk about renovations. "thank god the kitchen only came to $45k", "the bathroom remodel was only $30k", "the new fence was $20k, not too bad". I know the have bigger spaces but... damn.
AI is an abundance-generating technology. The proper way to understand it is that it makes everyone more productive, letting each person consume more goods/services with less work.
That’s kind of a straw man argument because the original argument isn’t “it induces demand therefore it’s bad.” Induced demand is the explanation for why building more lanes (which costs money, especially if you include future replacement costs) doesn’t actually fix traffic, except temporarily. It also increases VMT (vehicle miles travelled) which has its own externalities (pollution, deaths, etc.) but that’s almost a separate matter, but helps explain why encouraging more driving and car based urban design (everything spread far apart, unproductive land use in the form of parking lots) isn’t a great idea either.
My wife uses chatgpt for this. The only problem is the output might be better English and less grammar mistakes but it reads downright cringy to a native English speaker. I think it’s easily identifiable as being passed through an LLM too by anyone familiar with the usage.
I think anyone would after that experience! Yikes!
Show HN: I'm a doctor and built a responsive breathing app for anxiety and sleep
Hey HN!

I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pia (https://www.piahealth.co) which developed Lungy (https://www.lungy.app). Lungy is an iOS app that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It’s been just over a year since Lungy launched (here’s the original ShowHN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34534615) and it's had a huge update and complete redesign. We rebuilt the whole app, and added a real-time 3D soft body solver which gives some really cool interactions like blobs / objects that inflate as you breathe. We also made a version for Vision Pro, called 'Lungy Spaces'.

My background is as a junior surgical trainee and I started building Lungy in 2020 during the first COVID lockdown in London. During COVID, there were huge numbers of patients coming off ventilators and patients are often given breathing exercises on a worksheet and disposable plastic devices called incentive spirometers to encourage deep breathing. This is intended to prevent chest infections and strengthen breathing muscles that have weakened. I noticed often the incentive spirometer would sit by the bedside, whilst the patient would be on their phone – this was the spark that lead to Lungy!

Since making the first version we’ve made exercises fully customisable (you can dial in exact timings for each breath phase), added new breathing indicators, learning modules, e.g. self-care for anxiety symptoms, and lots of new visuals. The free version gives you access to a new breathing exercise each day, whilst premium ($14.99 per year, $39.99 unlimited) unlocks the full library of exercises, exercise data and visuals..

The visuals are mostly built using Metal (a couple use SpriteKit) and there are lots to choose from - boids, cloth sims, fluid sims, a hacky DLA implementation, rigid body + soft body sims - each one reacts to breath and touch. The audio uses AudioKit with a polyphonic synth and a sequencer plays generated notes from a chosen scale (you can mess around with the sequencer and synth in Settings/Create Music). The nice thing about the visuals + audio being generative is that the download size is relatively small with no other downloads. We’re still working on improving the breath detection, using ML - currently, it uses microphone input, with optional camera input to guide positioning.

We’re also close to finishing the medical device version - http://lungy.health - designed as a pulmonary rehab platform for patients with asthma and COPD, it should hopefully be released in the UK early 2025.

Thanks for reading - would love to hear any feedback!

Lungy Version 2 here: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1545223887
But if in a group only one person uses a compromised client, all communication is compromised, isn't it?
Damn. I wouldn't expect that pressure give your rep. Is this from people in the industry, or people outside that don't get it?

In all honestly, to me you are one of the few people that come to my mind when I think of someone working on a project that's tangible and with "real impact". Precursor is so out of the box and cyberpunk and outside the confines of what institutions are working on

Hope in the future you get the support and validation that you should be getting
Yeah but sounds like this guy has owned a house in Canada for the past 25 years
Get out of there unless you want to be the next Erin Brokovich. You're going to end up with various diseases that aren't caught until too late. Groundwater contamination is no joke. You'll be poisoning yourself every day you live in the area. The fracking company has a very strong incentive to downplay health effects and if you want anything to be done you'll have to organize a class action lawsuit, with the entire oil and gas industry fighting you. It's a no win situation.
Prompting an ML tool created from someone’s original works sourced without appropriate licensing or permission to “make sure the output doesn’t violate copyright” is the sad irony of today.
What did you get out of it, if anything?
Well what I’m saying is you should make the pawns themselves have an appearance that denotes the direction they are facing (e.g. a bit pointy or just slap an arrow on them). That way you do not need to know their starting position in order to understand their current state. This way you can also remove the arrows indicating tile direction.

I think pawns changing from being relatively worthless because they’re not on a promotion track to very dangerous because capturing a piece has allowed them to shift into one is pretty fun actually. Diagonally capturing a piece would also occasionally cause the pawn to “turn” which would be a really Tricky change in its zone of attack
This seems like a good example of Gell-Mann amnesia as it applies to LLMs instead of journalism.

People are falling into the same trap of accepting authoritative sounding advice as true in an area they are not experts in.
The point is that I don't want to wear a mask. I tolerated it during the pandemic because it was an extreme situation. The pandemic is now over, so I no longer wear a mask. If that makes me selfish, then I'm OK with that. It is arguably no less selfish to force everyone else to wear a mask. I am not going to argue that point though because I don't even particularly care, I just don't want to wear a mask, that's all.
> do not seem to be real world business cases

The first one is a real world product that lives in production that is user facing for a paid product.

The second video goes in depth about how a AI assistant was built for a real estate CRM company, also a paid product.

I don’t understand the assertion that it’s not “real world” or not “business”

Here are additional articles about these

https://help.rechat.com/guides/lucy

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/honeycomb-launches-...
I suppose you're yet to realise that violence pretty much underlines everything we do, the whole structure of our society.

Its really unfortunate but it's true, peer through the thin veneer of society and it's just violence.

"It's all violence?" "Always has been"
> Trivially done by an AI; "Mr. Bossman do you want to validate this sample, or have me hire someone to do it?"

I honestly don't understant this sentence. If you hire someone to do it then it's not "trivially done by an AI", no?
So let me see if I'm understanding; currently there are two scenarios on HN:

- People declare that they used ChatGPT/et al for commenting.

- People who hide that they used ChatGPT/et al for commenting.

You expressly want to go after the former group with new rules that would punish them for those declarations, essentially forcing them into the second group? And you think this will somehow improve the site?

I don't understand this at all. You're suggesting punishing honesty and rewarding people who misattribute their contributions. Talk about a perverse incentive.
Never made a game (want to!) but I would think that scripting language support would be downright fantastic for E2E testing.
Sure. But this still has to be decided by a court of law - did the defendant follow all the regulations? That is what most of these cases come down to anyway - did the defendant do a reasonable job of following established norms (and regulations) to prevent harm? Are we saying that the courts should not decide this and it should be left to the government to just certify and that should be sufficient to throw the plaintiff’s cases out in all scenarios?
Apparently I should have specified: prominent in the West. We've already established decay in the Chinese internet, I want you to back up your assertion that the West is "in on it".

Also, even Jay Chou, who I assume is the Taiwanese celebrity you're referring to, has a bunch of sources that are clearly from those dates:

http://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/81463.htm

https://westeastmag.wordpress.com/2002/09/08/made-in-taiwan-...

https://time.com/archive/6893975/cool-jay/
I've just made a ShowHN for Lungy here, it has some more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40553986
Sounds like a recommendation, not a mask mandate. Plenty of people in those photos without masks.
What I mean that it gravitates toward menial tasks. They will have an edge.

"Deliver product X" most of the time depends on so much more than my or the teams performance. Maybe it is not even a priority anymore?
No, spec authors simply added a rule to ignore the slash because Internet was full of garbage code and they realized that it is hopeless to expect low-quality frontend developers to fix their code. There is no such thing as "self-closing element" in HTML spec (only SVG and MathML have them because they are based on XML).

Quoting the spec [1]:

> Then, if the element is one of the void elements, or if the element is a foreign element, then there may be a single U+002F SOLIDUS character (/), which on foreign elements marks the start tag as self-closing. On void elements, it does not mark the start tag as self-closing but instead is unnecessary and has no effect of any kind. For such void elements, it should be used only with caution — especially since, if directly preceded by an unquoted attribute value, it becomes part of the attribute value rather than being discarded by the parser.

[1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#start-tags
This seems very naive.

1) even if so, can I check my vote recorded at the district vote collection center is the same as the vote I meant to send?

More importantly, can I check the resulting numbers announced on TV/radio/online are the same as the sum of all legitimate votes, and not influenced by illegitimate votes, and not doctored?

This is all impossible, in any system of voting.
No, they are optimized for status signalling.
This may be true, but its even easier with the SSN where you just give them the number and that's it. Because the fingerprint scan isn't perfect doesn't mean it isn't better (much better).
The only thing you can lose is what you've invested in snowflake.

It's not like we're turning up to the house of the CEO to burn it down.
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The Ikea sofa makes a lot of sense if you don't think you'll stay in the same place for very long.
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I would love to understand this better.

Why do you think it is anti-curiosity to use LLMs?

The original commenter did not say they used it for producing content, so and auto complete is not really precise, is it?

You could say that it is an advanced, stochastic knowledge-retrieval system. Does the workings of such merit your curiosity? Does the workings of compression algorithms merit your curiosity?

Or are you merely and ignorant person already left behind due to your own inability to be curious?
Deal with it like Wolfram, implement those functions! It's picking up on something. :D
Given what we've seen here 95 of those 100 analysts aren't employed in the original company.
> Currently anyone who would produce that needs to compete with IKEA, and somehow needs to convince customers that their furniture will last longer.

To be honest, IKEA isn’t the problem here. Their stuff is above average quality / longevity until you’re at least a couple levels up in the market. The last time we were looking for furniture, it was eye-opening to see how many companies are trying to charge 2-4 times more for IKEA or lower quality furniture, where something looked nice from across the showroom but if you looked closer it was all sawdust and cheap plastic components.
It's especially bad in Unity because it's using the Boehm garbage collector. C# everywhere else has a performant generational GC. Unity have been working on this problem for years now trying to get the engine to work with .NET (Core) and it's better GC.
Prison aka confinement is a form of violence. A lot of people consider "when the good guy hits the bad guy it's not violence" no no, it's still violence.

Restraining someone against their will is a violent act, it's just an acceptable form of violence (that of course I agree with) used by the "Good" to deal with the "bad" (relative terms ofc)
Amiga keyboard uses pretty much same architecture as PC PS/2. Microcontroller in the keyboard talking over serial (~10Kbit/s), pushing keys as soon as they are pressed, another microcontroller on motherboard generating interrupts per key. USB is pooled at 125 Hz. While yes, PS/2 and Amiga keyboard will have lower latency, does ~7ms make that big of a difference?
Not to mention that when you pay $5000 for a sofa today, you don't really know if you're actually getting a sofa that will last 25 years or not, because you're not an expert in sofa construction techniques and frankly don't want to become one. So you might get totally ripped off.

Whereas if you pay $800 for the IKEA sofa every 5 years, you know you're actually getting what you're paying for.

Plus people move apartments, move houses, move cities. Sometimes every 5 years or even more often. The sofa that fit in the old apartment is too wide for the new one. Or the style that made sense in your prewar apartment looks silly in your modernist one. Or now you have kids and you need it to be stain-resistant. Or what felt like a cool trendy leather couch when you were 25 now looks tacky and vulgar to you when you're 34.

For a lot of people, a sofa that's a fifth the price, that lasts a fifth as long, isn't a bug -- it's a feature. Quite simply, your sofa needs change.
We might just be at peak webdev. Everything will seem new to someone and old to someone else.

There were so many bad talks at All Things Open in 2022 I didnt go last year. I will try it again this year, though.

The worst offenders are always 25 min talks with 10-15 min "why I am great" self-intros. I am in the minority, perhaps, but I dont really care what you have done / where you work if you have something interesting to say. But we all default to appeals to authority.
What are you talking about. You can commission making the furniture you want, heck you can even get an Amish craftsman to use non mechanical tools to build it. The reality is the folks in non capitalist countries often sit on the ground on pillows and sometimes don’t have couches because of the cost. Thanks to capitalism people can decide whether they want to spend mid 5 figures for a high quality couch or go with an affordable $1500-$800 couch. In raw time, the couch doesn’t cost mid five figures, if you want that, you need to know a family member willing to sacrifice opportunity cost to make you that couch. Otherwise you pay a luxury premium because they can make more, making the cheap stuff.
Are they using temple OS to host their site?
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We do in Spain (“voy a echar gasolina” is both used for diesel and gasoline)…
Parents need their child to be safe. Parents want their child to be better educated than local peers.

Childcare is a legal necessity. Private school education is not.
I simply would have refrained from writing multiple paragraphs about how good induced demand is until I understood the answer to this question.
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not saying either way, just that Australia has a habit of turning innocuous laws into clubs to beat people with.
Shoshana Lew is the daughter of Jack Lew, President Obama’s Chief of Staff.
> managing the rainwater run off into ocean.

Right. But how does that get water from high rainfall watersheds to the various drying out watersheds Americans love to live in and farm in?
> Every time I read takes like this I think people forget why big brands exist?

I think the article made a great point why big brands exist -- to deliver on the promise of unbridled growth, often leading to enshittification.

> But big brands could offer customer service just fine if people wanted it.

The experience suggests that they usually offload that to a third-party vendor to cut costs and we all know that does not track as good as small, family owned, locally sourced, your trustworthy shop.

> But, surprise, this second option doesn't scale.

True. Probably does not have to. A sufficiently wide distribution of such businesses is just as good.
I would start at https://lua.org/

I'm creating a set of libraries to make Lua into a (still lightweight) application language

https://github.com/civboot/civlua
I've got plenty of relatively cheap things in my house, including a few from Ikea, that are perfectly good for what I use them for. And I've also bought things like relatively high-end small appliances that crapped out in short order.

And it's often very hard to tell which is which in advance--and it may very well be the luck of the draw in any case.

Even an obviously cheaper Ikea dresser I have in my bedroom. Yeah, it's cheaply made and was sort of a pain to assemble. But it looks and works fine and I'm not sure I could have even gotten a hardwood dresser that cost 5x as much into the space.
You shouldn't feel that way at all. I don't think I've ever had a bad experience meeting people at a conference. It has actually been the opposite. Many people are there to make connections (and have their own doubts as well). You might be surprised at how receptive they will be. Also, many conferences actively promote inclusion. See the "Pac Man Rule" attributed to Eric Holscher which was referenced at PyCon US. https://www.ericholscher.com/blog/2017/aug/2/pacman-rule-con...
The study however found no such association between regular ibuprofen use and dementia. Not sure what compels people to go all "I have no idea what the supposed results of the study are but my amateur intuition about it tells me it's wrong".
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I find ChatGPT incredibly useful to learn the vocabulary of an unfamiliar area. Often basic information in the area I know very little about can be found easily once you know the right keywords. Even if ChatGPT gets something wrong, it does pattern matching well enough to tell me something like "yes, there is a well-known concept that matches your vague noob description, it is called X". It works well in CS where I have an intuition there must be a mathematical abstraction/algorithm that solves my problem, but I don't know the name. Once I learn the keywords, I sometimes find an open-source library for that or at least a high-level description of the algorithm.

It is also great at answering stupid questions. Sometimes I read a wikipedia article and don't understand enough to make sense of it. If I was in uni, I would have asked a prof: "Sorry, it is probably a very stupid question, but why X? and what is Y actually?" ChatGPT can give me ELI5 at pretty much anything and is faster than googling.