skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have a markov-chain twitter bot that was trained on a few of my friends twitter posts. It was funny because that included hastags, tagged users, and images. There were some funny results and this was long before LLMs.
Isn’t the right place to fix this at the junction between the plants and the grid? Regulate the grid utilities into a gateway role, and require all inverter control & telemetry traffic to pass through them.

This seems likely to be more fruitful than attempting to regulate 400 Chinese panel manufacturers.

What am I missing?
> there’s statically one indirect branch per opcode rather than statically just one indirect branch.

Could you elaborate on this with a couple more paragraphs? What do you mean by one indirect branch per opcode rather than just one indirect branch? How is this achieved?
Given a lack of actual data, we can explain away anything.
But they can claim, in good faith, that Soyuz is? Im afraid thats not how logic works. Either the error bars are too large to take a position, or they aren't. You can't have it both ways.
I think you missed the silent "j/k".
To be clear, you can have multiple and iterative MVPs
Q: Are there no regulatory requirements for power plants of any kinds in EU, specially around cybersecurity?

I do not allow any system into my environments (at home and at work) that requires a third party data connection function.

There are way too many incidents where a provider, cloud or otherwise which required connection failed for various reasons.

(e.g., Cisco Spark Board, Xerox ConnectKey, Google Cloud Print, WeWork's Connected devices, Lattice Egnines, MS Groove Music Pass, Shyp, Adobe Business Catalyst, Samsara, Zune, FuelBand, Anki Vector Robot, Google Stadia, Pebble)

Despite this, I am very leery of regulating solar power specifically.
I have a friend at GM. I am inside this guy. He says things could be going better; but they can always get worse.
> So, no social media

When I was a kid, everyone was absolutely riddled with self-doubt and insecurity. Jealousy and bullying was the norm. There wasn't a soul in my middle school who didn't deeply, deeply hate themselves.

This was before social media. Imagine that, but now kids ALSO get to form unrealistic expectations and envy at home on their devices.

> no video games for kids?

What are you talking about? You can still get your friends together and play mario party or super smash or kirby or whatever. That never went away, we still have co-op games where it's free to play for the other kids.

We just shouldn't have gambling for the kids. Probably.
I wonder if this is an attempt to cover their asses in case their game becomes part of discourse the CCP censors don’t approve of.
> By running a Linux VM

Or just run Linux on your local machine as the OS. I don't get the obsession with Macs as dev workstations for companies whose products run on Linux.
why can't people just make stuff and sell it?
Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada Generation and RTX 4000 Ada Generation Linux Performance
Ask HN: How do you work as a tech lead?
This is a blanket question.
I am working with a team of junior engineers, 1-3 yrs in experience.
We have been assigned a project that is to be delivered in phases till end of Q1, 2025.
Main things that I want to know about are:

1. How do you interface with your team (and how frequently)?

2. How do you interface with your manager (and how frequently)?

3. Do you have some recurring meetings? What is their cadence?

4. How do you take care of documentation?

5. How do you ensure that you have time to work on your sprint tasks while context switching?

6. How do you ensure everyone is moving in the same/correct direction?
They have positive cash and are paying their employees well. That's what a company should be doing rather than paying peanuts and hoarding wealth like a dragon. Especially as it seems they are actually profitable, just hiding it with accounting.
I'm having a hard time knowing how dangerous it is to drink once from one of those glasses. How many times till I reach dangerous dose?
I knew him a little in his capacity as a mad Hindu cultist. He was mad, Hindu, and a cultist.

https://shivashakti.com is where you can find that aspect of his work.
I don't see anything illegal. It would be a device intended for my use, not the police's use, and I'm happy with the way it is constructed, therefore I purchase it and own it. If you steal it, you assume all liabilities thereof.

See similar: https://skunklock.com/
I find it a fantastic tool to ask generalist questions that I can subsequently validate myself, when necessary.

It's largely replaced Google for me as a general purpose answer finder, for everything from basic coding and tech stuff to historical events, veterinary medicine/pet advice, homework help, tribal law, translations and cultural differences, GIS, biology, mental health, radio licensing, finance...

If an answer seems dubious, I'll double-check it the traditional ways. But that doesn't really happen all that often for me.

I also use it a lot for its natural language abilities, like asking "what do you call it when ____" or "what's that thing/company/software that does _____", which are traditionally really hard to do in keyword based engines like Google. The LLM is so much better at this than keyword stemming.

Overall I find it a crazy helpful tool, like having a super smart personal assistant that knows a little bit about a heck of a lot. Sure, it's wrong sometimes, but it's way way less spammy than Google (for now), and is generally good enough to provide a Wikipedia style summary in readable English

I don't think of it as some sort of magic. "Glorified autocomplete" is a perfectly useful tool, for common enough datasets where the training data is statistically likely to be accurate anyway. I mean that's a lot of what human knowledge is to begin with. For every true expert that actually does their own research and replicates their results for validations, there are thousands more who will just blindly parrot a good-enough answer.

In my conversations with employers, doctors, friends, peers, and more, the LLMs are really helpful for getting up to speed and learning the basics beforehand. From there, it's a matter of validating the specifics the old fashioned way, but saving time on the initial background is a huuuuge thing for me that would've been otherwise really hard in the Google SEO wasteland.

Put it this way: I wouldn't trust an LLM over a human expert. But I would trust it more than your typical online marketer, who has misaligned incentives and often lacks domain expertise.
> And of course we should blame the technology: the sole purpose of a standard is to be used by people. If people struggle with it the standard is unfit for its purpose.

'People' is equivocal here. While complex, and (as you point out, in so many words) an evolved standard, the HTML/CSS/JS stack is arguably one of humanity's greatest achievements, up there with the invention of paper, or perhaps cuneiform.

It's imperfect, like all living standards, but it manages to be ubiquitous, expressive, and _useful_. And for those of us who grew up with these standards, they are second nature.

Like piano, mastering these standards gives you the ability to express complex UI concepts with grace and alacrity.

Don't smash up your parents' piano simply because practicing scales is a chore :)
Seems that way. Probably because I'm using Maximum delta of the difference as the metric. Using some intergral-like function (e.g. average amplitude of all samples) would probably yield better results, but I have a hard time getting any useful data out of this script on my home computer. Weird.

I'll possibly work more on this topic, maybe I'll make a HN post.
Don't need painful art because there is enough pain in real life?

"There's pain aplenty there without needing to get more from 'entertainment'"

So no Diary of Anne Frank? no 'Night' by Wiesel, Etc... Etc......

Sometimes art is also a cautionary tale of what could happen again. Maybe Texas Chainsaw Massacre is also in that thrust, a cautionary tale of society collapse.
OMG, you’re right. They nerdsnipped themselves.
> xparent

Do you mean transparent?
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard v2 with User Contributed Data
You can check the example described here: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/644280/stable-viol...

Judea Pearl’s book also goes into the above in some detail, as to why faithfulness might be a reasonable assumption.
Yes, I'm sure all that money is perfectly tracked and the system is perfectly efficient so there's no money being burned somewhere along the way to line someone's pocket.
Property is property

Until they start seizing bank branches under suspicion of being used in a crime, this selective scamming won’t stop
I see a lot of these posts about how Tesla UI (and touchscreens in cars in general) are unsafe and cause accidents. Intuitively it makes sense, but I haven't actually seen any evidence that Teslas or other touchscreen-heavy cars are actually involved in more accidents per mile. Would be curious if there's any studios on this to back up these claims, or is everyone just making intuitively true claims without evidence?
When I lived in Atlanta, every four years when the mayoral election came around you could depend on there being an undergrad at Georgia Tech who would run on a platform of using the internet (and later a mobile app) to enable direct democracy. Each time they were sure they were the first to come up with the idea. It's significant that four years not only is the length of the election cycle but also the time it takes to earn an undergraduate degree so each cycle had a new crop of students who weren't around for the last election.

I wonder if this will be the next evolution of that phenomenon. Just as it evolved from dial up voting to web voting to mobile app voting, will the next thing for Tech students to push for be AI voting? Perhaps voting for an AI to be mayor or having your own AI vote for you. Or a "direct" democracy where your AI votes on each issue throughout the term.
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Why AMD Spent $4.9B to Buy ZT Systems
Pretty sweet to get to run models locally and have more advanced usages like tool calling, excited to try it out
That looks great!!
Crazy for intel to name it something that sounds exactly like a CIA tailored operations codeword.
A 50 years old man is indeed a classic piece of hardware.
Periodic reminder about how cursed Japanese wiring is
Treating the Intent Detection Problem as Dynamics in a Low-Dimensional Space
It's only a core life skill if you are in a society/class which puts you continually on the brink of the abyss.

e.g. starting a company requires looking into the abyss? Is dropping out of Harvard really staring into the abyss?

I suppose we'll never entirely get over our Puritan heritage, but we really shouldn't be romanticizing painful, traumatic experiences. Pain is your body's way (and the abyss is your brain's way) of telling you that are being damaged.
I never thought someone would compare polymaths (let's call it, intellectual or mental power) to people with great athletic ability (let's call it, physical power)

Although thinking about it a bit more right now, I don't see why someone shouldn't be able to be great at a wide range of physical activities to be considered a polymath - as opposed to both physical and mental activities, or solely just intellectual activities

If someone excels in a great deal of, say, a number of sports (which I admit, would be nigh impossible in the current age with all the professional sports leagues and their exclusiveness), one could probably argue that that person is a genius
Duplicate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41288958
> sleeping on the couch for 8 months rather than 8 days.

Wonder what that actually translates to, in space

Is there an extra "guest" specially-adapted "zero gravity sleeping bag" or such?
> Incidentally, why are all those panels centrally connected anyway? I’d like to know what my panels are doing, but you don’t need the internet for that.

This is because of the market for carbon credits. When you installed your PV panels, someone estimated how much electricity they would generate over the next 10-15 years. Tradable carbon credits were created based on that estimate and went into the marketplace. And for the next 10-15 years they have to verify that the electricity was actually generated, or else someone has to pay back some money. Did you read the fine print on your contract? It is probably you that has to pay it back. You didn't know that one of the "rebates" you got was actually a pre-payment for those credits?!? Should have read the fine print ;)

Oh yeah, BTW: that "rebate" was only your portion of the credits. The installer got some of it (and doesn't have to pay back anything), the person that filled out the paperwork you didn't know existed got some (and doesn't have to pay back anything)...
> some targets fundamentally do not support tail call optimization

Can't any tail call be rewritten as a loop? Couldn't a WASM compiler without the tail call extension implement it this way?
Smartphones don't count?
Reading analysis[0] of the damage caused by a foam strike on STS-119 makes the loss of Columbia feel more "on NASA" to me than not. NASA knew a foam strike could be catastrophic and that the odds of a bad strike weren't astronomically remote. It had already happened on STS-119 and only luck prevented loss of the vehicle.

I didn't have that take initially, but the Causality podcast did an episode[1] on it a few years ago that got me into reading more about it.

[0] https://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts119/090327sts27/

[1] https://engineered.network/causality/episode-24-columbia/
The difference between log 2, ln, and log 10 is less than an order of magnitude, so to a physicist it's all the same :)
TLDR: ChatGPT was useful in summarizing arguments that have been repeated ad nauseam on the internet, but not useful in generating an enforceable ordinance. OTOH, it did do an okay job generating a grade-school (meaning, 3rd or 4th grade equivalent) overview of what existing leaf blower ordinances roughly look like when viewed through the eyes of a child.
How many of these are due to LLM wrappers without a clear advantage over ChatGPT?

This AI bubble is like the dot com bubble, where tons of "AI-first" companies will come up and go down quickly. The companies that create genuine machine learning innovation, or that use LLMs as "glue" to complete a full product, will find opportunities to solve problems with new tech that we couldn't solve before.
> Is the environment that the tools are run from sandboxed?

It is up to the person who implements the tool to sandbox it as appropriate.

> I’m unclear on when/how/why you’d want an LLM executing code on your machine or in a non-sandboxed environment.

The LLM does not execute code on your computer. It returns the fact that the LLM would like to execute a tool with certain parameters. You should trust those parameters as much as you trust the prompt and the LLM itself. Which in practice probably ends up being "not much".

Good news is that in your tool implementation you can (and should) apply all the appropriate checks using regular coding practices. This is nothing new. We do this all the time with web requests. You can check if the prompt originates from an authenticated user, if they have the necessary permissions to do the action they are about to do. You can throttle the requests, you can check that the inputs are appropriate etc etc.

If the tool is side-effect free and there are no access restrictions you can just run it easy. For example imagine an LLM which can turn the household name of a plant to its latin name. You would have a "look_up_latin_name" tool which searches in a local database. You have to make sure to follow best practices to avoid an sql injection attack, but otherwise this should be easy.

Now imagine a more sensitive situation. A tool with difficult to undo side-effects, and strict access controls. For example launching an ICBM attack. You would create a "launch_nukes" tool, but the tool wouldn't just launch willy nilly. First of all it would check that the prompt arrived from directly the president. (how you do that is best discussed with your NSA rep in person) Then it would check that the parameter is one of the valid targets. But that is not enough yet. You want to make sure it is not the LLM hallucinating the action. So you would pop up a prompt directly on the UI to confirm the action. Something like "Looks like you want to destroy <target>. Do you want to proceed? <yes> <no>" And would only launch when the president clicks the yes.
would be interesting to see if they tried LDA (latent direchelet allocation) topics
I've been saying for years that pockets enable batteries, NOT vica versa. What happens is people go thinking that the battery enables the pockets. The pockets are getting smaller. BUT this is not TRUE!

I've reading somewhere about the stats and the pockets are bigger than ever. It's simple we don't have the batteries, "the size selector" that enable us to get the most ideal pockets that I have in my dreams.

We need batteries that enable the smallest pockets of all time. Much "work" is being done on "smarting the phone". No body considered that it coulds be the side of a coin. This is something they could be working on.

Imagine terminals everywere, you insert your "smartphone", and it's a whole PC! You can even insert into a payphone to make regular phone. There's still payphones everywhere. It's just an idea.
I don't think so?

They use voxels under the hood but still render smooth graphics with techniques like marching cubes.

I think you are underestimating voxels or don't understand how they are applied in modern game development.

If those aren't voxel games, neither is Minecraft.

That's like saying games don't use polygons or triangles to render because when you zoom in everything looks smooth / no triangles.
Happiness and productivity will go to 100%, with a 1/12 chance of going rogue. Just put your fusion tanks on the outskirts of the city and be prepared to re invade cheyenne
You'd be surprised, I'm sure a human that is proposing this, and is in politics, would do everything in their power to shed responsibility for bad actions and take responsibility for all the good stuff. Tangentially related is the question of who is responsible in an accident when the at fault driver is AI. Is it the engineer, is it the CEO? So if a bot is running the government, same thing...
> It has a lot of dark patterns designed to scrape cash

Addiction triggers and reward center abuse. This, to me, is no different than bright slot machines.
It's like a hackathon but with the fun and excitement of a game (yes like Mario Party) plus 100% freedom to create what you want. Most hackathons are sponsored by product and service companies that require you to use their stuff.
> Whose decision was it to outsource the decision to the computer? The voters?

The mayor. The dumb guy saying dumb things to get people to vote for him does not get a special extra layer of deniability because his dumb thing is “computer” instead of e.g. astrology or the channeled spirit of Mae West
I have to stop using MS Paint for my artworks
The dangers of consuming uranium are mostly because it's a heavy metal-- so the risk profile is similar to lead crystal glasses.
Thank you for your suggestion. Yes, I am planning to add a search function in the future.
> For LC connectors, the two cables are held with a plastic clip...

Be careful doing that. There are LC connectors that are not capable of being split. (I know this because I attempted to split one of this type and damaged a fiber assembly at.)

The vast majority of LC connectors I've worked with can be split but some cannot.
Try doing the math of accepting payment (Apple and Google take 30% off the top), then building, operating, and moderating a globally distributed auto-scaling gaming platform with 350M+ MAUs.

75% may be too high, but comparing it to say Steam’s 30% cut for distribution only is a grossly imbalanced comparison.
The author mentions that some programs have made sound with the TRS-80 by using tight timing loops that access the bus(es), which create a lot of RFI that can be received by a nearby AM radio tuned off-station. The software loops can be timed to produce musical notes that will be heard (along with much static) on the radio. Looks like he used the cassette outputs directly for sound in this case.

I noticed that the video link on his web page was not a hyperlink. His video is here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JD9sXwgHMfc

I never owned a desktop TRS-80, but I repaired one once after a friend of mine inadvertently put 120VAC on the internal 5V power bus. About 1/3 of the chips were blown.

He told me how he blew it up: The Condor power supply he was using to provide +/- 12VDC needed for the RS-232 EIA voltages to drive his modem had the input (line voltage) present on a the same terminal strip with the +/- 12VDC output terminals. After a few beers, he had dropped some metal object (bottle opener?) and it momentarily bridged the 120VAC and one of the 12VDC outputs. The line voltage found its way through one of the 1488/1489 EIA converters, and onto the 5VDC bus. That was enough to let the "magic smoke" out of about a third of the chips.

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

I do still have a TRS-80 Model 100 in a closet somewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100
I'm pretty sure you could make it work if you expanded the context to hundred or so messages.
"reasonable" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that post. I haven't examined the input/outputs -- just calling it out as an inherently subjective thing that warrants some further definition.
Hi! Author here, I wasn't expecting this to be at the top of HN, AMA
buf.build
Apologies, but do not understand the question.

Are you suggesting using smart phones should count in "not allowing it in"? Then yes, I try to where possible. I do not depend on a smart phone. All functionality that are operationally necessary can be done elsewhere without major delays or impact.
All I read was that the "couch" is a sleeping bag in the Japanese module. I think the real sleeping quarters provide privacy as well as strapping down the occupant as some semblance of gravity.
How do i use it without an Airtag? At the step number 9 the setup asks me to enter an Apple ID, which i do not have. Is there a way to track it on Android or Linux without an Apple ID?
And it got removed
There was a guy in San Antonio that ran for an office he felt should be eliminated. He was successful won the election and eliminated the office (had the city counsel vote to eliminate it). AI might not, at this point (and likely never) be a good thing to turn over city government to. This might be an interesting project to watch.