skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They dumb down the mechanics so much so that Korean supremacy is overthrown
Whatever man, go make stuff up and believe whatever you want.
That is not true, it is not the 'only way' to formally deal with them. A better way to think of them is as the vector space dual of functions (/forms) under the pairing given by integration. No measures required. The measure theoretic explanation is very much "fitting delta functions into our existing machinery" rather than any sort of inherent requirement.

Actually an even better way to think of delta functions is just as a geometric object, a point (or line/plane/etc). Which is somewhat related to the measure theoretic version, but much more simple to think about.
Nice. I see the GitHub style tracker alot lately
> where'd the thing come from? And where's it going?

Today I learned cancer is basically Cotton Eyed Joe.

Seriously, though, excellent write up!
If it makes you feel any better, I've been in the healthcare IT field for 20 years. I tried to stay away from the doctors office as much as possible.

Last year I started feeling exhausted 24/7 and tried to make an appointment, but got turned away from my doctors office because my doctor retired and the new guy didn't want to let me make an appointment.

So here I am on a waiting list, in a city where 10% of the population don't have a doctor either. I've been waiting for over a year.

I wish I could change fields, "once you've seen how the sausage is made, you'll want to be a vegetarian"...
Hallucination is not an LLM "edge case." It is their normal and only state of operation. It just so happens that 'guess the next word' algorithms are capable of a reasonable frequency of success owing to the fact that a lot of our language is probably mostly redundant, making it possibly 'hallucinate' reasonable statements quite regularly.

Take what I wrote above. If you were given the context of what I have already written, then you could probably fill in most of what I wrote, to a reasonable degree of accuracy, after "It is their normal..." Because the issue is obvious and so my argument largely writes itself. To some degree even this second paragraph does.
TL;DR: Did the lab get a chance to try integrating sensors into a nice looking, non-smart wristwatch form factor?

> What we found is that seniors had essentially no desire to wear any sensors

My understanding is that much of it comes down to:

1. Fashion / utility concerns ("It looks stupid!")

2. Perceived loss of independence ("I don't want a baby monitor!")

However, even a phone accelerometer in the pocket seems to get useful if imperfect gait data[1]. If it's on the wrist, then it's enough for Apple to use it for fall detection[2].

My understanding is that you might have something fairly effective if you:

1. Made a watch look like wrist watches which seniors are used to and enjoy (no annoying screen, etc)

2. Integrated Wi-Fi sensing data like I mentioned elsewhere in this thread[3]

3. Found and added any features the sensors perceive as useful (there might not be any, however)

I know the regulatory and privacy hurdles for using Wi-fi radar data in a health-related device are formidable. However, there's a clear use case for it: detecting stroke-related movement abnormalities.

The paper on phone gait tracking I mentioned earlier[1] seemed to show the opposite side of the body had signal quality issues. Yes, using Wi-Fi data probably requires an additional device to combine it with data from the watch. However, "BE FAST" is an acronym used in patient education on stroke care because response time is critical[4].

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8622042/

[2]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108896

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40893636

[4]: https://www.beaumont.org/health-wellness/blogs/stroke-sympto...
Postmodernism didn't dispatch with the modernists, it just moved on.

You don't have to eliminate all scarcity before you can transition to a mode of economic behavior which is not predominantly scarcity driven. (And the sooner we do so the better. The scarcity driven model that we're using has no steering wheel and there are hazards on the horizon worth steering away from.)
(2012).

I understood that Myers-Briggs and other pseudo-scientific categorizations that value direction over degree and therefore produce polarization rather than distribution ("You are 51% extrovert in most situations? Come over here with all the other extroverts") are rather discredited these days.
"Tech" is a very narrow interpretation, though even then I suppose it depends on the tech (e.g. surveillance, or combat readiness).

But, in general, governments prioritising funding for research aimed at getting backing for planned policies down the line is a very real thing, yes.
ChatGPT-4o

the system of equations has infinitely many solutions given by x=t and y=1−t for any real number t.

https://chatgpt.com/share/c00f1435-a57f-49db-b8fb-9d848f7e86...

Furthermore, if I didn't understand that, I can have a conversation with the LLM as to what that actually means, ask it to graph it, ask what linear equations are, and to have it give me some more systems of equations for me to solve.
Innocent techie jailed for taking hours to fix storage
Not all flour or sugar are made equal. I wonder what happens if you try flour or sugar from places where some questionable herbicides are banned.
FV4005: The Tank That Shook Itself Apart
The FT link is paywalled, the other articles just echo the article at the top. There's a worker who apparently filed the equivalent of a wrongful termination suit in Kenya. There are many of those every day in the developed world too, and it may well be meritorious. He claims he was scarred by the content he had to look at, but Americans review objectionable social media content too (or at least used to.)

Since these workers are not indentured serfs, we should generally rely on their ability to switch jobs. To me, this looks like some reporters hounding in on anything that smacks of big-bad-wolf AI.

As for it being work that doesn't suit any living human, it seems a bit hyperbolic. Maybe you've been less exposed to reports of what life is like in the developing world than I have? Here's something that was on PBS the other day: https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/09/29/philippines-children-ris... Of course it's not a company in the developed world that commissions this, but everyone knows whose necklaces the gold is ending up in.

I think we should avoid knee-jerk reactions against AI, which arguably has more potential to help the developing world than anything since electricity, and maybe look more into who benefits if AI is held back.
That we haven't cured cancer is a problem of culture. And I'm not talking about that culture that we put in paintings and films, but about the more fundamental one that tells everybody what's the proper way to live a life. That base level of culture that tells people they should have kids and buy a car and a house (though not necessarily in that order), and go to a grill party from time to time. That part of culture that tells people is better to die of cancer than risk a leak of something dangerous from a laboratory, or letting the ayatolahs produce biological weapons.

In Vinge's novel "Rainbow's End" there is a particular fragment about how they had automated biological research, with robots at big connected research factories making all the experiments. Such factories would go a long way to shorten the "long cycles" the article mentions, and they perhaps would democratize bio-sciences research. I don't think there are any technological obstacles to building those factories; robots have been employed at factories for a long time and there many robots already used in expensive biological labs. But note the word "expensive". In cultural terms, "expensive" means "big commitment that has to be more important than anything else that can be bought with that money.". This is the cultural part I refer to. As a society, we discuss many things, but biological research is very, very low in that awareness list. In Europe, for example, putting spyware on people's phones is way higher in the agenda. And thus, the public would never approve a 20% (or any other number) of the government budget going towards biological research, unless they had material evidence that that money would indeed cure cancer. For the same reason, they wouldn't use use 20% of their savings to invest on biotech. But if, by the right means, those perceptions could be changed, we would see a revolution in biology and really substantial breakthroughs in life-expectancy.
Can climate survive the thirst for war shown by our glorious leaders ?

One would expect recovering from the inevitable natural disasters would require huge amounts of money. So does war. The choice has already been made.
GaiaGPS: https://www.gaiagps.com/

Like with most apps the layers are only available under paid plans but I'm grandfathered in on an old plan.
I saw a relatively new AI company already valued at over $1 bn publish a "new technique" recently, complete with whitepaper and all. I looked at the implementation and... it was just querying four different models, concatenating the results and asking a fifth model to merge the responses together.

Makes me wish I had spent some time in college learning how to sell rather than going so hard on the engineering side.
The LLM is not doing anything other than arithmetic calculations. Every operation an LLM is doing can be done with a calculator.
Ozone Layer and AIDS are fixed
But will you have the last laugh?
Based on the number of companies who are trying to hire c++ developers the marked is shrinking (c++ devs are getting old).

I like the simplicity of C and not having for wait several minutes to rebuild a project. Have you thought if Python and Cython would be adequate for the task you want to solve?
OP here: I guess I shouldn't have included the dang thing because it's all people are focused about now. Indeed it is very possible for dang NOT to contact one on anyone's behalf, it was just a silly assumption on my part for sake of argument, I didn't expect people to clutch their pearls. This post is not prescriptive.

The idea is if you want people to contact you, add an email, you maybe forgot to. If you don't want to, move along, nothing to see here.
To watch a show or movie on a gigantic and sharp screen is just a qualitatively better, and often jaw-dropping experience. Pause the screen and you truly appreciate the art of cinematography.

This was totally unexpected. I figured I’d use it for a few VR games and then put it down. But I wind up not playing any games at all.
I'm a web developer so I try to fix all my problems with javascript, one of them is maintaining my Plex library across multiple server migrations.
I made this little helper I use as a bookmarklet to get a movie's name from an IMDB page in the correct format that Plex will identify without issue:
https://gist.github.com/carmona/09cd03fddeb7db25ace42a21cf3d...
I’m reminded of when an old AT&T building went on sale as a house, and one of its selling points was that you could get power from two different power companies if you wanted. This highlighted to me the level of redundancy required to take such things seriously. It probably cost the company a lot to hook up the wires, and I doubt the second power company paid anything for the hookup. Big Bell did it there, and I’m sure they did it everywhere else too.

Edit: I bet it had diesel generators when it was in service with AT&T to boot.
Fabric is not a rare name

https://lightning.ai/docs/fabric/stable/

https://github.com/FabricMC

https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric
> hardened in-band management

What would this look like in practice? Management interfaces like BSPs don't have a great security track record.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia page about Rajneesh (later called Osho):

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

[

In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. The movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success. In 1985, Rajneesh publicly asked local authorities to investigate his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters for a number of crimes, including a 1984 mass food-poisoning attack intended to influence county elections, an aborted assassination plot on U.S. attorney Charles H. Turner, the attempted murder of Rajneesh's personal physician, and the bugging of his own living quarters; authorities later convicted several members of the ashram, including Sheela.[18] That year, Rajneesh was deported from the United States on separate immigration-related charges in accordance with an Alford plea.[19][20][21] After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry.[22]

]
As in, once they ran out of milk to sell they would buy milk from the store and sell that at a markup? Or just that they would buy milk from the store for their personal use rather than dip into their own supply?
I started suggesting this a few years ago, but to exploit their agreeableness, pre-write or have an LLM generate a paper for the students to correct. Additional points are awarded for expanding details and content or contributing improvements to formatting and style.

This allows students to express their individual strengths while ensuring they also know how to properly proofread.

Also, dock points for incorrect / non-existent citations. Alternatively, pre-select and provide sources without a topic, and let the students assemble a paper from them with no length requirement, but a citation minimum. While this may eventually be overcome with RAG and summarization, it's a weakness of current models.
Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of Singapore - a tropical nation - famously claimed that air conditioning was one of the most important inventions, as it "changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics". And I am inclined to agree.

As a person who grew up in a hot tropical country and is now living in a cool temperate one, I found it much easier to do things in a cooler climate than in a warmer one.

This is anecdotal of course. Take it for what it is, just my personal experience.
Egyptian civilization is long gone
Event Loop Mechanism in JavaScript
I agree with this, but find it a poor mode of debate. Because it results in a hole-plugging which is then called goal shifting, even though it's not - but rather a lack of precision in the goal to begin with. For example imagine it goes viral that 'wow look LLMs can't even play a half decent game of chess.' So OpenAI or whoever decides to dedicate an immense amount of post-training, hard-coding, and other fun stuff to enabling LLMs to play a decent game of chess.

But has anything changed? Well no, because it's obviously trivially possible for them to play a decent game of chess (or correctly assess the date), but it's an example of a more general issue of LLMs being generally incapable of consistently engaging in simple tasks across arbitrary domains. So you have software that can score some high thing on the LSAT or whatever, but can't competently engage in a game children can play.

The over-specialization for the sake of generating headlines and over-fitting benchmarks is, IMO, not productive. At least not in terms of creating optimal systems. If the goal is to generate money, which I guess it is, then it must be considered productive.
> Oh my god no. I intentionally am uncontactable on here and I’m sure that’s true for many others.

Then don't add an email to your profile.

I have been on this site 10 years more than you, and I have yet to be contacted by a scammer, con artist or whatever else you are afraid of, FWIW. Not everyone is out to scam their fellow neighbour.

Again, no one is forcing you to become contactable.
> What I’ve found is that pure “DevOps” roles have become a way for recruiters to sell people on being the ops person without them realizing it.

Way waaaay back when I first heard of DevOps, it was described along the lines of "bringing developer best practices like automation and testing to ops". What you're seeing could be a remnant of that.
JavaScript runtimes are full of optimizations that execute conditionally on specific scenarios. If you don't follow the rewarding path of optimization you then go to the deeply unhappy path of deoptimization.

It's easy to get started with JavaScript, but to squeeze every bit of performance in JavaScript will quickly get you into a very complex topics that are not documented and change may change from version to version as they are often not "contracts".

The only way to learn those obscure topics is by reading the source code for your JavaScript implementation, their bug tracker, etc. This means if you have not been reading C++ or executed a non-JS profiler to make your JS faster then you probably have not gone far enough.

There are unexpected things that you would never have suspected if you had not read the implementation.
Does it matter that much? Either way, people are adding an S where it doesn't belong. Kroger commercials are careful to call it Kroger. People call it Kroger's.

Whether it's Legos or Lego's is just a matter of spelling. The problem is identical.
Apart from Rogers et alike, the main OOB/LOM issue is that's mostly only very old iron very few know, finding people who knows and finding non-hacky homegrown and not much tested solutions it's damn hard.
With launch costs dropping, I wonder if there’s a market for a low bandwidth “ssh via satellite” service. Could use AWS Ground Station to connect to your VPC.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/13229-Sout...

Listing removed a couple weeks ago.
What did Creo do when team could not reach "full team agreement"? (And isn't that the other side of "Disagree & Commit"?)
I already automated the uninteresting problems, so the ones that I work on are the interesting ones that remain. Once an AI can do what I currently do better than I can, the next-most-valuable thing I can be hired for is repetitive manual labour, where I'll be competing on a cost and speed basis with servo motors.
For some reason everyone forgets that the Spanish monarchs who funded Columbus had just reconquered their own land which had been colonized for centuries by foreign invaders.

Not mentioning the reconquista is historical laziness.

The conquering of the Americas and the mass evangelization of Christianity into the new world is directly due to Muhammed and his conquests and their descendants.
I think most bundlers can handle TS nowadays so you don't actually need tsc.
It seems I'm wrong, but I always thought it was a given that a company's main goal is to make money, so the mission statement is used to define how that's going to be done. (Whether they follow it or not is a different can of worms.)
"Netflix of anime" piracy site abruptly shuts down users
Should it be replicated abstractly or concretely? And will one be a failed replication or just the replicator’s respective?
That's when you need an advocate in upper management. You aren't going to get shit for funding even if your PM is well liked and your product idea is well thought out and solid. Someone in the circle of the one who signs the checks needs to be able to talk about your product like it's the next best thing. They also need to have the connections with their counterpart at the customer's offices to be able to sell the idea to their boss, "I've heard that company X is working on some new development for Y. If we invest, we could get first dibs on using it in our flagship product." Good ideas need to flow up to be given money. Likewise, Ideas that flow down almost always end up being a boondoggle, "Let's make a box that does X, Y, and Z, get the engineers on that right now!". If your good idea doesn't have an advocate, it will die on the vine and someone else will do it instead. What's the point of spending a bunch of money investing in an idea when a competitor got customers to invest in R&D for the same idea for free? Unfortunately, your advocate is probably not going to be a technical person. They won't understand the bits and bytes that make it novel, they need a soundbite that they can easily regurgitate ("We can shrink the current production design to draw X% less resources for the same or less money.")

You could be the smartest guy at the company, have the most well rounded team, have a PM that orchestrates people like a symphony conductor, and have a huge idea that would make absolute bank for the company but your idea won't matter for shit if you can't sell it.
So for a one-off query DuckDB is tons faster, and easier.
The problem with this is that it incentives short-term thinking, allowing you to juice the numbers temporarily, and at cost to the metrics that are not currently prioritized. But there's something to the idea.
Is there a full site search?
ISA = Income Sharing Agreement.

The way Lambda School worked was, you didn't pay for the instruction up front. Rather, when you got a job, Lambda School was entitled to take a chunk of your income.

It had the whiff of scam to me, as it reminded me of the payment arrangements for another outfit, variously called Unbounded Solutions, BrighterBrain, and EnhanceIT: you go to Atlanta for two months of "free" training, after which you were bound to indentured servitude to them for a period of two years. Attempt to break the contract and you would be billed a minimum of $20,000 for the "free" training they offered you.
Didn't the Chromium team repeatedly close the JPEG XL feature request without comment, and the beta support was removed by devs who work for WEBP?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36213330 (2024)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39250938 (2023)
Obviously there is no legitimate example. It's all just fantasy.
Yea, a guy named David Neal (@reverentgeek) was a full stack dev, who now does data engineering.

He also taught himself to draw, and is really good at it.
You would be probably better off just running esbuild or similar - it will happily strip types from any version of TS.
Anything remotely backed by a cryptocurrency immediately puts me off.
I can only assume it’s based on VLAN for security (and probably dedicated ports assigned to VLANs so regular ports are never able to access the VLAN), but other than that, I have a hard time envisioning in-band management that doesn’t lock you out when the network goes down.

It would protect you against things like DDoS attacks, and you can even assign dedicated (prioritized) access for these management ports.

It’s an economical decision I suppose.
I'm always up late and I'd like to get a last minute habit checked off before I go to bed, but so many tools move to the next day at midnight. I ended up building my own minimal chore tracker[1] because I couldn't find any that aligned to that schedule. I really think everyone has slightly different needs and chore/habit trackers make a great minimal programming+design project.

[1] https://alexsci.com/blog/personal-apps/
The reality is that the seeds were on his land, and they're seeds. It seems wrong that to sue someone for that in the first place, and then furthermore to win the case just seems wrong. The fact that he used Roundup to get the right seeds isn't this gotcha that changes public opinion. As children, before we're taught economics, we learn farmers plant seeds to grow corn to feed us. Suing the farmer for planting seeds hurts this very basic role we learned as kids. Of course the world is more complicated than the world we learned of at seven, but this is a farmer planting seeds.

That bit in India also sounds horrible.
So why have a take you know is bullshit?
Crypto Collective eh?