skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sure, but radio transmitter time is almost always much more expensive than CPU time! It’s 4mA-20mA vs 180mA on an esp32; having the radio on is a 160mA load! As long as every seven milliseconds compressing saves a millisecond of transmission, your compression algorithm comes out ahead.
> Bewildered, Eaton tried to grasp what she had just read: The judge was penalizing them because everyone — the state, the defense, the witnesses — agreed that the Mazes committed no crime.

This is especially upsetting. I don't understand how so many people can be so averse to new understandings and new science. The shaken baby conversation is extremely frustrating, because many of the people responsible for the past convictions that are now being shown to be based on faulty understandings still refuse to accept that it may have been wrong. Even worse, they frame it as a political issue or a culture war, rather than just more understanding and the progress of science. It's a weird, stubborn, obstinate conservatism for its own sake and it confuses me. Is it a defense mechanism or something, to protect yourself from having to confront the idea that you may have unjustly imprisoned many innocent grieving parents for life?

The new science is wrong if it makes my own actions in the past wrong. The lack of impartiality and consideration from a judge is disturbing.
> What you're complaining about isn't new, and it isn't killing science fiction or the Hugo Awards.

Ha! Just because a situation isn't new doesn't mean that it's good or shouldn't be improved or wasn't flawed or doesn't warrant criticism.

As for killing awards: the concern is that audience interest in the output of awards will be killed or has been killed already. But "killing" is too dramatic a term, and institutions can take an impressively long time to die: it's more that our natural constituency of nerds will be bored to death, not that anyone cares; and the general audience won't see anything uniquely valuable.

As for killing sci-fi, you correctly noted that there's no universally accepted definition of the genre! It's difficult to kill what one can't even identify! Or is the inability to define it a sign that it's already dead? (Hence the ridiculous and gutless "sci-fi and fantasy" lists where everything is fantasy?)

But as that judge once said: "I don't know how to define [sci-fi], but I know it when I see it." If we're being honest, we all know what sci-fi is: It's the genre of literature that takes science and scientific methods of problem solving seriously. It looks at the world through science. That's not so bad. :-)
While I’m excited about the launch, I’m concerned that your data policies are extremely vague and seem to contain typos and missing parentheticals. As of 12:30p ET they say:

> We have nuanced privacy controls on minusx. Any data you share, which will be used to train better, more accurate models). We never share your data with third parties.

What are these nuanced controls? What data is used to train your models? Just column names and existing queries, or data from tables and query results as well that might be displayed on screen? Are your LLMs running entirely locally on your own hardware, and if not, how can you say the data is not shared with third parties? (EDIT: you mentioned GPT-4o in another comment so this statement cannot be correct.)

https://avanty.app/ is doing something similar in the Metabase space and has more clarity on their policies than you do.

Frankly, given the lack of care in your launch FAQs about privacy, it’s a hard ask to expect that you will treat customer data privacy with greater care. There is definitely a need for innovation in this space, but I’m unable to recommend or even test your product with this status quo.
Exactly. This is the fundamental problem with Europe. I would understand the protectionism if it were part of a geopolitical strategy to weaken China, whose government is not aligned with European values. Or maybe as a way to bolster national security with local manufacturing. But if it is for economic or labor reasons, this is at best a short-term strategy to appease voters that doesn’t fix the underlying issue, which is that Europe lags in innovation. Fixing that is hard, and I don’t think governments that chase votes for election with populist strategies can also have the right policies to fix the underlying issues.
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Terminal guidance since ~1995 on higher-end weapons has switched to hybrid inertial + scene matching (various sensor types).

F.ex. the 90s Tomahawk used terrain contour matching to orient itself

For more details see https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA315439.pdf (US translation of a mid-90s Chinese survey of the guidance space, but it covers the material and is publicly available)

Afaik, most modern systems use infrared target matching for final course correction. (Initially developed to allow anti-shipping missiles to autonomously prioritize targets, but now advanced enough to use in land scenarios as well)
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From my perspective there was nothing rhetorical about that question as I occasionally encounter it as a serious thing. Some colleagues really do not want optimistic UI events. Some swear by them.

I don’t have any strong feelings one way or another as long as there is proper inline feedback.
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The flip side is you are claiming CPS is over-reaching but conveniently can’t provide any evidence of it.
In 1981 I was just out of high school and had a summer job at NUWES - Navel Undersea Warfare and Engineering Station in Keyport, WA. I was in a group that was refurb'ing fire control computers from submarines. They kind of looked like those stand up video game consoles that became popular in arcades soon after - except these cabinets were made of solid aluminum. They were full of gears and resolvers - analog computers. The "display" was all analog. And they were all being replaced with new gears and resolvers. I recall that there was another group nearby that was experimenting with microcomputers - they had some S-100 boxes like IMSAI 8080s.
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What happens when Metabase releases this? (Asking without malice!)
I'll take a swing at this.

Like software engineers, gamers want clarity of the "rules" so they can optimize the most efficient route to "victory". The problem is that rules are written by people. And when you ask them why/what led them to create those rules, it was all heuristics to solve a situation that occurred before. They will readily admit sometimes the rules don't make any sense. Things change, circumstances change, and there are a million edge cases. In such situations, they either do not enforce the rule or give you an exemption.
Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o
The availability of great documentation and good support used to be a strength of Microsoft, but they apparently decided they didn't need that strength.

For my part, I have answers.microsoft.com downranked in my Kagi searching because an overwhelming majority of the time it's either worthless or wrong.
The waiting time paradox is not only about the bus.
> it's hard to put your hand under it without making an opening between it and the glass. And that is not a risk I'm willing to take.

TBF, for most of the spiders that we find in our homes, the risk is only psychological, not physical. That said, I prefer not to make physical contact. My nephew though, he plays with them like they are puppies.
Most recently Houston had a large ARM field campaign which brought together a lot of atmospheric scientists from around the country. (https://www.arm.gov/research/campaigns/amf2021tracer)

ARM is a DOE program that ships top-tier instrumentation to various sites around the world. Loads of university researchers will follow, and you end up with a massive open source data pool. Houston in particular was focused on Aerosol effects on precipitation in the Coastal-Urban environment. There were loads of balloon launches from sites all over the city during the campaign, from large ozonesondes to the tiny sparv embedded foam cup ones (https://sparvembedded.com/products/windsond)

I'm in NY, and my university NOAA department has a focus on PBL Ozone measurements lately. My work in particular is focused on low cost UAV profiling up to about 150m, with a pipe dream of doing 0-3km.

I'm just a grad student, but if anything there sounds interesting feel free to email and I can try and get you in touch with more knowledgeable people.
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We just saw an article about why advice is dumb and not helpful, now this article is talking about how if we could just follow all the advice then we would be happy.

Sorry to break it to you, there's a reason we arent all following "sage advice" from others. Its because advice fails to internalize the near infinite amount of context that is some persons life.

We cant even give really sound advice on something as mathmatical as which stock to invest in. How the heck are we going to give advice on what to spend your time on? The world is so many infinities more complicated than people seem to think.
Lack of security mindset. It's important to have the fundamental habit of assuming that every surface area you expose could receive arbitrary inputs and will not necessarily only interact with code you've written. But that's not an innate thing that everyone knows without explicit learning/training.
What do you think happens when regular employees don't get paid by their employer (who also has more money and more resources than them)?
Yeah, I've encountered that in a few systems: I'm aware I accidentally just changed the wrong thing but I don't know which wrong thing, there are no clues. This is especially problematic when there's a chance nothing changed, but you can't be sure.

To illustrate the problem with "perfect storm" example, suppose a your back is turned and a ball rolls of the shelf and hits the keyboard. Did anything change? What changed? How do you fix it?
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A gyro by definition IS inertial guidance.
I will apologise then - I was so sure Xanax is SSRI too that I didn't even bother checking that to be sure. Thank you for correcting me.
My favorite version:

A patient comes into a doctors office complaining of pain all over. The patient grabs their elbow and says: "It hurts when I touch my elbow like this." They then grabs onto their shin and says "When I grab my shin like this, it starts hurting too!" Finally, they massage their forehead and say "It even hurts when I rub my head! Doctor what's wrong with me!?"

The doctor runs a few tests and replies: "Your finger is broken."
Forgive my ignorance, but... what competition? As far as I'm aware, the only robotaxi company offering rides to the public at this time is Waymo.
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Very nice. I am trying using ollama with it, looks like something is off either on my server or in the way the program calls it: I get the CPU used instead of the GPU (while using ollama in other apps doesn't).

Anyway, impressive
> i.e., you accidentally clicked but have no idea where, and let's assume you have no idea of that particular checkbox's state prior to the accident

That the same for every single checkbox in every single form on the Web.

Even in the unlikely case in which you clicked on the lists button that opens the popin and then accidently clicked on a checkbox without seeing which one and without seeing the checkbox state change, you still have the list of lists on the screen and you can still choose if you do want this video in this list(s) or not.
This is a kind of error-cascade, common for lots of systems.

Maybe more specific though, situations where mistakes cause more dire mistakes are sometimes called "incident pits". Not unknown to engineers, but I think we ripped it off the scuba-divers, mountaineers, and other folks that are interested in studying safety-critical situations. https://www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/the-incident-pit/
Ridiculous. Only you believe those two are equivalent.
I think there’s a critical distinction to make here.

Some UI can model what the users interacting with accurately enough that updating the state of the model is a great way to communicate changes. If you remove an item from a list, you can demonstrate success through that interaction without using a toast.

On the other hand, sometimes the UI doesn’t reflect the model at all and there’s no sensible way to communicate with the user what has occurred outside of something like a toast.

The trouble is, you get inconsistent feedback mechanisms if you leverage both online feedback and toast feedback.

If this was an easy problem one way or the other, I’m fairly confident we’d have seen a convergence of implementations at some point and everyone would use a fairly common convention. It’s not that easy, though.

Good UX is really hard. People thinking it’s this simple are actually why I stopped doing it as much. Back end programming gives you so much more freedom to explore problems and people respect it to some degree. With UI/UX, especially UI design, everyone seems to think they know better already.
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Yes. I thought the article wrote it off as being a hater spouting nonsense, whereas in my estimation it was a mix of good points and nonsense by a mostly well-meaning but jaded human.
> Or maybe as a way to bolster national security with local manufacturing

It is this. The push for EV and Battery Tech tariffs are part of the EU's Net Zero Act [0] which itself is a reaction to America's IRA [1].

The EU (especially Germany) still remembers how the German PV fabrication industry collapsed due to Chinese subsidizes [2][3].

[0] - https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...

[1] - https://home.cib.natixis.com/articles/european-net-zero-indu...

[2] - https://www.bruegel.org/blog-post/protectionist-dog-didnt-ba...

[3] - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-mulls-option...
To be clear, I had many interviews with them over that 6 months (10+ I think).
I've had a PI4 and a PI4-zero running for years. The only failure I've seen so far is that the Zero's SD card failed and the system became read-only.
It’s also way cleaner at home.

Movie theaters are probably going the way of the dodo. That doesn’t mean all outside activities are doomed. There’s just a higher bar. Entrepreneurs will have to focus on experiences people can’t get at home and make them accessible and affordable.
Which is kind of normal, we don't need infinite batteries ;-)
Bad news, red wine drinkers: alcohol is only ever bad for your health
Yet people anthropomorphize them constantly.
lol keep editing your message clown.
I wrote a synthesizer last year. It was a lot of fun. Just through trial and error I learned how sound waves work. It's really enjoyable to build things that aren't websites
Of course, this is just abused by sites to spew their garbage outside the confines of their own pages, which makes the API effectively dead.
I honestly did assume it was a sincere question, but I will admit I was rubbed a bit the wrong way about "serving formats you don't prefer" because I was trying to word my original comment carefully enough to avoid that implication.

Internet commenting has definitely taught me many times that it is actually really hard to convey what you're thinking accurately.
I hate toasts too. I even dislike the name of this UI element - “toast”. Unlike a hamburger menu, the toast element doesn’t even resemble toasted bread slice. Or is it supposed to represent the short lived aspect of a toast between 2 parties?

Some sites even have toasts on mobile which block content. Have even tapped some of those actions by accident.

Also, since they are ephemeral. How does it impact a user on a screen reader? Is there an audio cue indicating a toast is on the screen?
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I wonder how much of a difference it would make if these kinds of stories went prime-time. It sickens me that Chappell Roan can make the front page of the BBC about some comments she made online, but this one is tucked away in a lesser known part of the internet where the majority of the public will never see it. If you google Russell Maze, the search results are a bit anemic, it's very sad.

We should be loud and very angry about this type of injustice. It can literally happen to any one of us.
A few weeks ago I had a eureka moment to describe it: GPT writes just like a non-native speaker who has spent the last month at a cram school purely aimed at acing the writing part of the TOEFL/IELTS test to study abroad. There, they absolutely cram repeatable patterns, which are easy to remember, score well and can be used in a variety of situations. Those patterns are not even unnatural - at times, native speakers do indeed use them too.

The problem is dosage. GPT and cram school students use such patterns in the majority of their sentences. Fluent speakers/humans only use them once every while. The temperature is much higher! English is a huge language grammatically, super dynamic - there's a massive variety of sentence structures to choose from. But by default, LLMs just choose whichever one is the most likely given the dataset it has been trained on (and RLHF etc), that's the whole idea. In real life, everyone's dataset and feedback are different. My most likely grammar pattern is not yours. Yet with LLMs, by default, its always the same.

It also makes perfect sense in a different way; at this point in time LLMs are still largely developed to beat very simplistic benchmarks using their "default" output. And English language exams are super similar to those benchmarks; I wouldn't be surprised if they were actually already included. So the optimal strategy to do well at those without actually understanding what's going on, but pretending to do so, ends up being the same. Just in this case it's LLM's pretending instead of students.

I should probably write a blog post about this at some point. Some might be curious: Does this mean that it's not possible to make LLMs write in a natural way? No, it's already very possible, and it doesn't take too much effort to make it do so. I'm currently developing a pico-SaaS that does just that, inspired by seeing these comments on Reddit, and now HN. Don't worry, I absolutely won't be offering API access and will be limiting usage to ensure it's only usable for humans, so no contributing to robotic AI spam from me.

I'd give you concrete examples, but in the comment in question literally every single sentence is a good example. Literally after the second sentence, the deal is sealed.

There's other strong indicators besides the structure - phrasings, cadence, sentence lengths and just content in general, but you don't even really need those. If you don't see it, instead of looking at it as a paragraph, split them up and put each sentence on a newline. If you still don't see it, you could try searching for something like "English writing test essay template".

I remember that there were "leaks" out of OpenAI that they had an LLM detector which was 99.9% accurate but they didn't want to release it. No idea about the veracity, but I very much believe it, though it's 100% going to be limited to those using very basic prompts like "write me a comment/essay/post about ___". I'm pretty sure I could build one of these myself quite easily, but it'll be pointless very soon anyway, as LLM UIs improve and LLM platforms will start providing "natural" personas as the norm.
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And yet in all the examples the code seems to be overflowing the grid.
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Yes, because you only have to generate about 192 kilobytes/second to be able to make a pair of humans ear hear anything they could possibly hear, so the problem is bounded.
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I meant bad as in UI/UX bad, not actually bad as in ill-suited to the problem. Of course, you are correct.
Ouch. That just adds insult to injury.
I would think it's probably better for a cleaner planet as well. Possibly better regulation on keeping it clean, plus the ocean has less polluting ships running through it.

This doesn't apply to 100% of industry but I would think in a lot of cases it would be better. It also doesn't cause a loss of convenience for consumers.
Swift has the money to sue - and she should. The GOP has been terrified Swift would support Harris and heretofore she hasn't endorsed any candidate. This level of stupidity on Trump's part will probably change all that. Swift should also ensure every "Swiftie" shown in these photos are party to the suit. They look like minors to me, so that's not going to go well for Trump.
Your advice is useful for detecting bugs in the code that you release, before your push it to production, but it would not have helped here, because the bug was in Posthog code that was pushed to production asynchronously.

In fact, it would have made debugging this particular issue harder, because the difference in Posthog configuration between dev and prod is what clued the author in on Posthog causing the problem.

To avoid this kind of problem, the solution is to avoid “live” dependencies which can change in production without your testing. Instead, pin all dependencies to fixed versions and host them yourself.
> According to Richard Weller, who co-led the study, most uv exposure guidance has thus far been firmly focused on preventing melanoma skin cancer. But, he says, “Many times more people die from other cancers and diseases. We have to think about how uv radiation could help them avoid illness.”

> The exact mechanism whereby uv light might lengthen lives is unknown. The authors, for their part, believe part of the explanation may lie in vitamin D’s ability to boost the immune system and improve bone health. They also point to nitric oxide, a potent blood-vessel widener capable of reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.