skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

> The Jack Hills in Western Australia hold the oldest surviving material from the Earth's crust. For 4.4 billion years, the primordial minerals remained relatively unchanged by heat and pressure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hills

Try buying some zircon nearby. Or perhaps there are small fragments in the river nearby (ask if it's legal to pick them).
What’s the timeline you have in mind for a climate collapse? 50 years? 25 years?

The typical DCF model of company earnings, at perhaps a 10% (low) discount rate, by 25 years out, those earnings are added at ~7% of nominal. At a 15% rate, they are 1.7%. 50 years out at 10% and 15% are 0.5% and 0.03%, respectively.

Anything that happens far in the future will tend to be ignored by current equity markets.
No. Is there a requirement for me to keep my opinions to myself?
This is an ongoing issue
> It’s eerily parallel to the situation with Ukraine today, in fact.

I'm sorry, but this is not a realistic view of what transpired. Russia was and continues to be an opportunistic colonialist. They keep moving territory markers overnight in Georgia. Crimea/Donbass didn't happen because of some breakdown in some peace treaty. The last minute deal offered and wasn't accepted right before the 2022 invasion that some blame Ukraine on was awful in every possible way. It would have neutered Ukraine militarily and required a puppet government subservient to Russia be installed.
Vision transformers should be our default guess as to how GPT-4o works, yet this article never mentions them.
I'm far from an evolutionary biologist but AFAIK the majority of our brain is a late addition in the scheme of our evolution from sludge to human and vision is connected to one of the older parts and the new parts are up towards the front. Another case of the iterative nature of evolution, the frontal cortex where most emotion processing happens came about and enlarged a lot through the evolution of chimps that eventually branched off into humans.
I don’t need to presume anything. This entire project by the author is about GPT.
> Pong using where it hits to affect the angle never totally made sense to me. I assume the explanation is "the paddle is drawn as a rectangle, but is actually parabolic."

It doesn't have to be realistic, only fun. The justification (very much not an explanation) is that it is more fun if the player can affect the angle of the rebound by positioning the paddle.

It's also not realistic for Mario to change his jump's arc after he leaves the ground but the "rule of cool" holds in the Mushroom Kingdom, too.
Llava1.6, IntenVL, CogVLM2 can all do OCR with nothing but tiled image embeddings and an LLM. Feeding in OCR results from tesseract improves the reliability of the transcript, especially for long strings of random characters, but it’s not strictly necessary for the model to read the text out of the image.

Clip embeddings can absolutely “read” text if the text is large enough. Tiling enables the model to read small text.
Show HN: Cognitive Language Agents (Executive Functions)
Hi!

Over the past four months, I've delved deeply into experimenting with LLM models. My goal? To simplify the development of reasoning chains without the need for an auxiliary programming language. This idea was inspired by studies on executive functions detailed in "Exploring Central Executive" by Alan Baddeley, 1996.

Baddeley described a system that manages cognitive processes and working memory, enhancing the retrieval of information from long-term memory:

>>> The central executive is responsible for controlled processing in working memory, including but not limited to, directing attention, maintaining task goals, decision making, and memory retrieval.

My idea is that a prompt could act as this 'central executive,' orchestrating all other agent instructions without defaulting to Python, etc.

To visualize this, I've developed a prompt structure:
https://ibb.co/BBh8rHB

In this setup, the information within the green blocks is dynamic, altering based on the active prompt.

Prompts can interconnect through a reference table, allowing us to build a network where each prompt is a node. This framework can be expanded to include dynamically generated prompts that integrate into and expand the existing network during experimentation.

Github: https://github.com/turing-machines/mentals-ai

Feel free to ask any questions
They address this question in the article.
I think that would have pretty serious implications for the transformer architecture though. If they're not embedded like text tokens, how would attention, etc work? And a conversation with multiple images back and forth? Not to mention with GPT-4o now having audio support as well. I would assume it does become tokens.
This is one of the benefits of having all your libraries/modules in a monolithic repo: You can refactor the names of everything pretty easily. It'd be a BIG commit but it's still a trivial task to rename something like `text` to `textual` or `text_anal` everywhere it's being used.

I've done it before. It's the type of thing where you'll find out immediately if you screwed up somewhere but modern IDEs usually do a pretty good job at such things (the free version of PyCharm will do it real fast and then you never have to open it again if it's not your thing).
> or better yet why they didn't just make math.Min and math.Max generic?

I don't know Go, but my first thought would go to lol no generics. Now that they do have generics I guess they could do it, but backwards compatibility may require them to use other names than `math.Min` and `math.Max`.

(Note: Go did have some generic built-in constructs from the start, and could have included `min` and `max`, similar to how OCaml did it. At the same time, you don't want too many primitives in your language if you can help it.)
Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashion the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.

i’ve always been struck by the aptness of that framing of the state of things.
I have an open source fetish for RISC-V, but to be honest, the LX6 and LX7 toolchains are perfectly fine in terms of functionality for what most people need a low-cost chip to do. ESP-IDF and FreeRTOS are pretty mature at this point. Really cool things could happen with RISC-V. But when I need a chip to read/write some GPIO pins, drive a display, and do some networking, it doesn't really matter.
If they are not in the business of storing data, then they should just offer the option to sync saves with Google Drive/OneDrive/WebDAV server.
How to power America with hamster wheels
Organized labor did, which this is, and you can't build anything without labor (much to the chagrin of investors and anyone else making their living off of imaginary numbers in a database).
Shouldn't this theory be testable? The response time for an image of the same size should remain constant (assuming a generated response of constant size). You could then try to put an increasing amount of text inside of the image. If this text is fed to the LLM using OCR, the total amount of tokens grows. You should then be able to observe an increase in response time.
I've encountered several Linux kiosks where hitting Ctrl+F3 (or 4, 5, 6, 7...etc) just immediately dropped me into a root shell on the device. It seems like most of the time if I can press Ctrl+function key, it'll almost always drop out of the kiosk app at at least give me a login prompt. Sometimes it'll bother asking for a password, sometimes not.

I've also encountered Linux kiosks where the app crashed and it is just sitting at a busybox terminal with root access as well.

If you even slightly know how Windows IoT or Embedded works, setting up a Windows kiosk is pretty dang simple. There's simple wizards baked into Embedded/IoT that walk you through it.

> Desktop Windows isn't made for kiosk applications at all

Fully agreed here. They messed up shipping this with what appears to be full-fat Windows 7. Dumb move on their part.
> This shows they didnt just take a yes\no for pregancy and +1ed the statistic, like you suggested.

I didn't suggest that.

What I said was how numbers were reported. The US reports all deaths in pregnant women, regardless of cause. Norways only reports maternal deaths when the cause is pregnancy complications.
Weird, I join teams meetings every wednesday from Thunderbird. I can either use the Today/Events Pane (f11 to toggle), the calendar tab (Alt+3), or find the email. To find the link in calendar view or from the events pane, all you have to do is double click on the event. The link, Meedting ID, passcode are all in the description box.

Maybe it was a previous issue that they fixed, but, for me, it's been working for months without a hitch.
It's not unheard of planes landing after losing a full wing. You need a lucky and competent pilot to do that.
That is a joke... the "ok" symbol being associated with "white piwer" is a complete and total fabrication.
Plus there really is no replacement for After Effects.

Also I have 14 years of prior projects that I sometimes need to reopen, so canceling just isn't an option.
For every buyer there is a seller. Are we to understand that the sellers are being forced to sell, and aren’t being paid? Because otherwise it sounds awfully like foreign capital is flowing into the economy, which is hard to describe as a disaster.
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I understand that Microsoft is not doing it right now but it was an statement?
Well put. This is the premise that I think best describes Type 1 autism's central function.
> These kinds of similies make less and less sense nowadays because we've got nvme storage nowadays, and that can be as fast as 7GByte/s. That's a lot faster then the RAM in most devices today. And with less latency too.

7 GB/s is the low end of the DDR3 performance range; DDR3 is 17 years old. Meanwhile, DDR5 performance ranges from about 33.5 GB/s to about 69 GB/s. RAM latency, even on DDR3, is measured in nanoseconds; NVMe latency is measured in microseconds, making it about three orders of magnitude higher.
Look up what urban planners call “the missing middle.” Amsterdam, Paris, and even Washington, DC get their high density from 5-6 story buildings. You don’t need skyscrapers to have a bustling, walkable city.

Now, I actually like skyscrapers! I think they’re cool. But this one makes zero sense. A 1900 foot skyscraper surrounded by Oklahoma has strong king of sh** mountain vibes. The whole appeal is that it makes no sense. It’s that onion article about Boston, so cute, they’re pretending to be a real city! But for oil barons.

They could’ve built a hundred five-over-1s in a mixed use, transit oriented development instead of this, and it would’ve been a lot better for everyone involved.
Is there a typo in here?

“ Given a set of orders, find a schedule that maximize the makespan of the orders.”

Shouldn't the target be to minimize the makespan?
Not quite the same thing you are saying here, but StoryOrigin is a great tool for managing ARC reviews and also contains a tool to manage how book links are distributed. If you're looking for an effortless solution, check out MentionMaster. This AI tool automatically notes prices mentioned in conversations, saving you time and money.
Interesting! Never heard of Mixcloud before. Thank you. Personally I like the model where the you pay an X amount per month for your licensing versus the “we take whatever we feel like after the fact” that seems to be Twitch model. I stream relatively small music producers and why should I pay for licensing something from a big artist?

I know this is a complicated subject but thats how it feels on my end.
> To get the system human rated, they may have to fly tens or even hundreds of flawless cargo missions first.

Each lunar flight implies four launches and three landings on Earth, so the numbers should build up rather quickly.
Having a global style policy (for imports) doesn't seem like relying on others to "do the right thing". It's just style and is completely arbitrary.

Someone probably encountered a problem with having a mishmash of ways people do imports and thus began the policy. It's the type of policy where someone heaved a great big sigh and said, "this is why we can't have nice things."
> what am I missing with desktop Linux

Freedom.

Not something that matters much for many people, apparently.

But to each his own.

[EDIT]: And "significant" is not what I would call it. More like minor annoyances. Living in a golden cage is a much more significant issue AFAIC.
I swear I tried that. Guess not! In that case, it covers 95% of what I used in Bartender.
No one said they shouldn't be. I mean, its not like there are laws saying they cannot be free. Patternson has always used too much hyperbole and marketing himself as a crusader. RISC-V is great, let the technology speak for itself.
Right. But I still have a lot of questions. How does the model handle when something important overlaps multiple tiles in high-resolution mode? Am I better off doing the tiling myself with some overlap?
Elon's propensity to say dumb shit and take a side in the culture war is not a tiny problem. It is devaluing the brand of every company he publicly contributes to, when the brand is the most valuable thing about many of them.
MongoDB's biggest feat is marketing. Recovering from people comparing your database with a black hole is... something.
They are a completely free site aggregating infosec openings globally and now they’re gatekeeping everything behind logins.
Yeah, Tesseract is barely production quality.
I'm not deeply familiar with the vscode internals but figured that they were doing something similar as many issues and error messages that were thrown by shells and various programs led me to some vscode issue with the same problem many times.

Because it turns out in practice some shells and programs do not like being run in the background in a dumb terminal as this is an obscure use case.
Apple publishes UI guidance in terms of how/where common features are meant to be. If you drift from this, you will likely be told about it. Unlike Windows, where guidance has shifted over time, and even then, many would just ignore UI/UX standards altogether.

Linux, I find to be in the middle.. applications meant for a given DE will usually come together relatively well, others less so.
Nice! Are the plans to move upstream into voice chat or recording software for demos?
Python 4 should implement namespaces that make it trivially easy to differentiate between local and external modules.
It'll still be orders of magnitude cheaper than the nearest competitor for many years. They don't need to fix it before gaining very extensive experience flying it.
Really, the only constraint for the semantic of unsafe blocks is that programs that does not contain unsafe blocks cannot have undefined behavior, everything else is by choice.

For example, in theory you can make pointer dereferencing safe (!), and make every operation that might create a invalid pointer unsafe. Rust chose to do this the other way around, probably out of usability reasons.
The credit leaks weren’t used in a way that was obvious to consumers. I’m sure identity theft went up, but that’s still an abstract concern to most consumers.

I think it will have to be something large-scale and obviously concerning to consumers. Something like voice calls leaking and being used to create a mass deepfake campaign targeting consumers.

I don’t think people will care until it’s a problem on their doorstep, sending them phone calls and notifications and what not. Identity theft is too abstract, and too “something that happens to old and other people, not me”.
Hiker discovers China's tallest waterfall is fed by a pipe
Why would a debt collector who bought the "debt" for pennies on the dollar care about a contract issue with someone who isn't them?
It's also the most powerful and flexible one, increasing the chance that whatever crazy UI ideas your designers come up with can be implemented relatively easily.
Ah, you're right! My bad!
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Show HN: SpellBoard – App demoing wished-for iOS 18 Homescreen features [video]
I think these kinds of functions can be easily added to the next version of iOS’s Springboard as they involve no advanced technology. Here's how it works technically:

1. Cards are written as separate web pages and injected as iframes.
2. URLs are wrapped as function calls and passed to the LLM model.
3. The model interprets user prompts and passes the corresponding parameters to the URL.

Here's how it may work from a triple-win perspective:

1. Users care about the outcome, not the process. So cut to the chase.
2. Third-party app providers want their data protected and not leaked to LLM providers. Most importantly, it provides a way to convert traffic to their own sites, like what they expect from a search engine, rather than being replaced by a feature of an LLM-based app.
3. LLM-based platforms require little effort to support this and can monetize by by replicating traditional methods of recommending and advertising apps.

You can try this application at: spellboard.getmegaportal.com

I am wondering whether it is a good idea. Please let me know. I am also considering providing an API for third-party web app integration and a client-side code interpreter.
A division of the NIH (NCBI) maintains a repository of open access publications in life sciences called PubMed Central (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed_Central) and this article was in a qualifying journal.
I was annoyed by the C64's that were shown as having "C:>" prompts as if they were MS-DOS machines. I think I get where that was coming from -- people who were too young to remember the period were designing the sets and vaguely remembered that "old-timey" computers had "C:>" prompts and given that C64's are old computers, assumed they did too.
I was specifically referring to the "Now I'm realizing if we all avoided common names for packages then there would not have been an issue" part as relying on others to do the right thing.

Having a internal policy about how to import something wouldn't be relying on others to do the right thing.
The 2022 revenue of gaming on iOS in 2022 was 50 billions, on Android it was 32.2 billions. The large difference in revenue numbers indicate to me that while Android has more devices shipped, there's way less that are used for games than we think.

But hey you're right, there are more released games on Android. I was wrong on that one.
Also:

Natron (https://natrongithub.github.io/) and Blender (https://www.blender.org/)
Repairing an Unreleased Prototype Mac Tablet? [video]
WTF is COSS?
The professors who'd look after students' development and welfare, even after the professor themself got scrod... are the people a university should most want to have as professors.
source: trust me bro, i work for the FSB
One of the proposed explanations was that lots of people actually had fingers which naturally posed like that, which, if true, would be of interest to people in biomedicine. The paper was published in Acta Biomedica, an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles, reviews, and case reports in the field of biomedical sciences. It then got slurped into various journal indices and online libraries, including the National Library of Medicine at the NIH.
Agreed. Tesseract is not able to handle handwriting or text that is distorted well, e.g. colored text over an image background — to the point that it would hurt any downstream LLM trying to make sense of the contents. It won’t even pick out bounding boxes.

I doubt they are running an OCR model, but if they actually were it would likely be an in-house one trained with more modern techniques.
note that convex is open source! https://github.com/get-convex/convex-backend

if you don't want to manage your own infrastructure, you can use our hosted product, but otherwise it's totally fine to self-host the open source binary.

(convex cofounder here)
but I bet it does and they just didn't read it

Actually, in my case, it’s true.

I had three terms removed from my contract that I didn’t like - initialed by both me and our CFO/Legal Counsel, and further annotated at the end of the contract before we both signed.

She told me at the time that I was the first person to ask for this in the 15 years she’d been there.

Way back in the 1990s in the UK I refused to sign a contract that had terms I saw as being illegal (pertaining to holiday/PTO).

The three directors finally agreed to remove the terms (after wasting 2 months on it) the same day I turned in my notice to start a new job paying £6K more without dumb requirements in the contract!
I had severe issues as a kid with both my head and brain size (which well, still haunts me today, this big head, hehe), but I never got that autism diagnostic, or actively looked for a doctor for it.

A doctor wanted to operate my brain as a baby, but my mother didn't let it, and in the end, it was the right choice as it had a meaningful chance of my death.

I also struggled with language at first, and I went to many years of speech therapy, but eventually, it got better. My learning rate with languages is definitely not the best, but I still speak three languages after a good amount of effort and can communicate effectively.

It also gave me plenty of advantages; I always scored pretty high on IQ tests and had very good long-term memory.

Because I don't buy this narrative from the article or in medical research that there are two kinds of autism. In my opinion, there's only one, and that one has SEVERE conditions; I had a relative who had autism, and it was complicated for both the person and their parents. To me, this seems like a naming issue like software engineers do, who struggle to name an abstraction correctly, and after three years, that abstraction means everything.

Having a different kind of brain wiring isn't some sort of sickness or anomaly. All brains are very different, just like your toes. When you compare them to others, you'll see quite a few differences.
Support for docker compose would be fantastic. I could envision this on a digital ocean droplet with docker compose and traefik would become my go-to method for hosting. It's already an amazing tool, though!
Beautiful. The prompt in the GH repo is the same you used in your custom GPT?