skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably should try more base models, given that the weaknesses sound characteristically mode-collapsed, like ChatGPTese. (Prompt engineering tweets with base models is near trivial - just include a bunch of tweets.)

It would also be more relevant to examine win rates by generating a large batch of candidates and using the best rated one. There is no point optimizing for mean win rate, when you actually care about the best possible tweet you can get out - you can't tweet every tweet a LLM can generate to begin with, and you need the best possible tweet, not reliable mediocrity.
I personally don't trust products with "lifetime" tiers will be around in the future, so that would be a negative flag for me.
I've applied to nearly 2,200 jobs and am ready to give up
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking.

Who would be educated? Everyone, I would hope.

Whose education would they be given? As in, what education plan? I would say one devised by teachers and educational experts, the goal of which (in the context of this discussion) would be to educate children on things like critical thinking, media literacy, recognizing propaganda, etc.
Yes, the thermistor is inside the tip. That's essential to getting good performance out of the algorithm.

The instant that the iron detects that it's under load, it pours power into the heating element. That makes it feel and perform like a much more powerful iron. We're dynamically responding to the power load and flowing heat into the material.
So it can be as low as 3 if you're only concerned with some of the noise, but if you're trying to correct both for bit flips (0 exchanged for 1 and vice versa) and phase drift (0 + 1 being exchanged for 0 – 1 and vice versa) then you need at least 5 physical qubits to create one logical qubit, see [wiki] for details.

[wiki]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-qubit_error_correcting_co...
They make soldering iron stands in factories every day, and have probably done so for at least a century so far.

Just pick one out out that you like and get it coming your way.

For portable use, I got some snap-on purpose-built "legs" made from steel wire from aliexpress the other day that let me put the Pinecil down safely on a flat surface. They work a treat.

(And for bench use, stick a magnet to the collar of the stand. Pinecil V2 has a Hall effect sensor built in (and one can be added to V1) that will detect when the iron is in the stand, so IronOS will enter a selectable lower-temperature sleep mode right away. It heats back up quick enough that it's unlikely to ever get in the way.)
It works now. Thank you
Lots of cheap tools are excellent. In this space, Sugon/Aifen make fantastic JBC clone soldering stations for under $100; you can use original JBC tips, but MAGMA tips work 95% as well as the JBC originals at a fraction of the cost. The range of tools and materials being produced for the Chinese phone repair market is incredible - some stuff (like tweezers) that's just outright better than any western equivalent, some stuff that's completely novel and has no big-brand equivalent.

https://bresun.aliexpress.com/store/900239507

https://kaisitool.aliexpress.com/store/3152011
Devils advocate, writers block and jams are symptoms not bugs to fix
UK designates data centers as critical national infrastructure
An LLM is like a well read college student with a nearly photographic memory that sometimes mixes things up.

It's great for bouncing ideas off of and getting feedback on them. And yeah, it might product "novel ideas" by mixing and matching existing ideas, but LLMs will never create truly novel ideas. Not in their current form.

The paper didn't really answer the question sadly: their conclusion was just that humans rate LLM answers as more novel than human ones, but less feasible.
Pretty sure F# was created by Don Syme, not Erik Meijer.
I remember this same thing. I think it is likely that there was never just one Mayan civilization, but that these different Mayan civilizations may have broadly shared a similar culture.
As someone who has worked in the game industry for years both in AAA and indie, I’d say the switching costs are quite high and proportional to the team and code size. The reason it can be so challenging is a late change can easily double your preproduction time as you have to port over existing systems/tools/workflows and the bigger teams have many more of these systems. Usually this means bigger studios only changes engines at the start of new franchises or when fully rebooting old ones (For example, the new Mass Effect is porting from Frostbite to Unreal 5, but it’s only viable because it’s a super high budget reboot with new creative direction and the time to do it)

It easier to switch if you’re indie, of course, but the reality is if your game is great it’s better to launch with the engine you have. And if your game is struggling gameplay-wise porting it to another engine isn’t going to help make the game better and puts the release at risk.
I tried it with a few questions.One racial, one political and one sexual. Answers were pretty balanced. Good response rate and context.
Very cool, I've been working on getting Qlever setup and using it as my main triple store. Was excited to see this hit my feed
This thing hits me. True.
Pitfalls in Generating Kubernetes CRDs from Go
Show HN: SnazzyPDF – Convert Any JSON Data to Beautifully Formatted PDFs
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Awesome, you now have a private fork! You the application developer now know your code isn't portable with the library! The JVM also can do its optimizations without having integrity change from under its feet at runtime! Win win!
> (my submission on "offensive horticulture" did not even make honorable mention haha)

Do you have this posted anywhere? I for one would like to learn more about "offensive horticulture."
Yes.

LLMs have helped me generate 1 novel discovery: that every top 10 programming language has a single creator (https://pldb.io/blog/aSingleCreator.html).

They also helped me generate this map yesterday (https://pldb.io/blog/whereInnovation.html), which is the most comprehensive map of programming language creation and software innovation ever created.
Embeddings are actually generally not that effective for code.
That's the specialty of a centralized state. There is a heavy push towards homogenizing Indian culture often at the cost of regional subcultures since almost 1947.
That's not true because your lack of a rolls Royce has forced you into buying a Kia, and not only suffering the cost of that vehicle, you are paying the lost utility and comfort of the rolls Royce.

Similarly, space operators who can't launch goldie-locks efficiency payloads are paying for multiple inefficient small loads instead.
You can set the temperature on the iron with our web console, which uses Web Serial: https://www.ifixit.com/fixhub/console

Once you set the temperature, the iron remembers it and you can use any power source.

We've spent a lot of time talking to engineers and makers who solder all day, and it turns out that most people rarely change the temperature. Pick a temperature you like and leave it there.

Our heating algorithm detects and dynamically responds to load, so you don't need to turn the temperature up for larger thermal masses: it'll add as many joules as required to get it to temperature.
In that case (fascinating reading!), the person used far too cold of a solution, applied it for too long, and in consequence suffered a really bad injury, possibly compounded because she didn't seek treatment for 2 and a half weeks. Also, it was on a forearm, not the head or other hairy areas, so the mechanism of marking was more "kill the whole skin" than "kill pigment cells" specifically.

It could be done in a much safer manner - I don't think it really proves much about effectiveness overall.
I've been frustrated with embedding search approaches, because when they fail, they fail opaquely -- I don't know how to iterate on my query in order to get close to what I expected. In contrast, since repogather merely wraps your query in a simple prompt, it's easier to intuit what went wrong, if the results weren't as you expected.

> I wonder if an increase in usable (not advertised) context tokens may obviate many of these approaches.

I've been extremely interested in this question! Will be interesting to see how things develop, but I suspect that relevance filtering is not as difficult as coding, so small, cheap LLMs will make the former a solved, inexpensive problem, while we will continue to build larger and more expensive LLMs to solve the latter.

That said, you can buy a lot of tokens for $150k, so this could be short sighted.
Interesting that new products are shipping 'relying' Web Serial, given it's tenuous position as a web standard.
Results vary depending on the phone.

EDIT: I take the following back. The actual cable is USB-USB. The P2 connector links directly to the heated head, what is perfectly equivalent to "labeled".

But yeah, people that design products, please if you make a non-standard use of a standard connector, label it.

I would absolutely not buy this because that USB-P2 cable will mix with every other thing that thought was a good idea to use an unlabeled USB-P2 cable that only God knows whether they are compatible or not. (Common sense would imply they are, but common sense already flew out of the window long ago when you see a cable like that.)
Microsoft lays off another 650 from gaming division
If there was "Bought out Texas judges" that were blocking such rule making, I would agree. However, if the agency has not even tried, I can't sit here and blame Texas judges or anyone else.

Why aren't these same judges blocking this rule? It's from the same agency.

We have had this problem for how many years exactly? Chevron was overturned this year.

And when has the possibility of a court blocking action ever stopped an agency from even trying? Trump with his stupid boarder antics went through at least 5 lawsuits, Biden tried to get student loan forgiveness at least 3 times.

If the agency gives a damn, they try lawsuits be damned. This is just them clapping themselves on the back for doing what amounts to almost nothing.
Even more grandiose is the temple at Tanjavur built by the Chola king. Its dome is taller than Qutub Minar and is wider than the Taj Mahal.
Someone truly new to Haskell shouldn't use it professionally.

Once you've learned what is necessary to, say, modify already-existing applications, you should be familiar with monads and some basic monad transformers like ReaderT.

Once you're there, I don't think 'choosing an effect system' is a perilous question. The monad transformer library, mtl, is an effect system, the second simplest one after IO.
More than half of Brazil is wracked by drought. Blame deforestation
Indeed. "Fed is best." However you can accomplish that.
Eh, I'm mostly just sad Firefox hasn't implemented it yet. I daily drive Firefox, but switching browsers temporarily still beats installing single-use applications with full local machine permissions by a huge margin. So I've been opting for building web serial companion apps on my own projects as well and it's great (besides Firefox)!
The contrast is already on the low side and higher resolution would probably lower that further. Not much point in additional pixels that are hard to see.
A system is what that system does, not what it should ideally do in theory, but constantly fails to do in practice.
Thanks for using real buck converter, unlike many other type-c soldering irons. Hope this helps achieve full USB PD power range.
Nope, native applications are not ever going to get the ridiculous level of sandboxing demonstrated by the restrictions on accessing the clipboard in the article. Nor are they ever going to be prevented from accessing the file system as web applications are.
Dont shoot the messenger, just remember taking away my karma when you see it happen sooner than you think
I am not sure how EVE and high-frequency anything would work. Think of large fleet fights. ;)
> I am nervous that this will add more toxic fuel to the “breast is best” movement because context isn’t being considered and pros and cons aren’t be weighted appropriately.

The article isn't about breastfeeding at all is why I assume people downvote.
> Libraries and highways are very mainstream and are not commercial.

I would argue that the highways are actually a counter-example of what you are saying. They exist to connect workers to businesses, businesses to other businesses, and businesses to consumers. While there is certainly an amount of traffic on the highway that is not doing those three things, we have a name for the first one in any populated area - rush hour. To say that the highway system was not intended to facilitate commerce is just historically inaccurate.

The difference between the highway system and the Internet is that the creation of the Internet was not intended to facilitate commerce - it in fact took several years (1991-1995 as best I can tell) for it to officially be allowed as the neolibs in government did not want to keep funding the network. That choice is why we are where we are with the Internet - the good and the bad.
Can't help feel like these stats were eye opening for them. There was a big shift in the community. The funnel of new Unity devs and games was drying out.

https://x.com/reduzio/status/1830184668588568701

"A year ago on Itch, Godot was about 1/10th the projects of Unity. Today its closing in to 1/3rd."
Yes! You need a way to pull the iron out and put it away quickly.

Our cap is just a game changer there. You handle it more like a Sharpie than a soldering iron. Put the cap on and stick it back in your bag.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXR8kMVbgAEeRgd?format=jpg&name=...

I set the motion timer on mine to 5 seconds. It heats up so quickly when you pick it back up that there's no reason to bother with the power switch. By the time I have it back at the joint, it's at temperature ready to go.
> If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it ...

"Fair market value" as stolen goods, or if it could be sold with a clean title?

What if that value changes between when it's stolen and the end of my tax year, or when I sell it? Should I treat the latter as a short-term capital gain or loss?

BTW, can I ask my fence to do tax withholding for me, when I sell my loot?

Um...just asking for a friend.

</joke>
I'm always getting a little sad when I read JEPs. Our app needs to run on Android as well, so we will probably never be able to utilize these things as intended.

I would love to modularize our app but AFAIU Android doesn't care about that. It doesn't choke if it sees modules (anymore) but it does not enforce the access restrictions.
What are "real types and the associated constraints"? It has strict tables:

https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html
You are right and IDK why you are downvoted. Few units of perceptrons, few nodes in a decision tree, few of anything - they are "interpretable". Billions of the sames - are not interpretable any more. This b/c our understanding of "interpretable" is "an array of symbols that can fit a page or a white board". But there is no reason to think that all the rules of our world would be such that they can be expressed that way. Some maybe, others maybe not. Interpretable is another platitudinous term that seems appealing at 1st sight, only to be found to not be that great after all. We humans are not interpretable, we can't explain how we come up with the actions we take, yet we don't say "now don't move, do nothing, until you are interpretable". So - much ado about little.
> Some of them don't really care that much about the actual gameplay, as long as there is a quick way to complete sets of tasks and get their rewards.

Trophy/achievment-oriented gamers. Focused more on their profile than the particular game. Not to be confused with Trophy hunters, who tend to target harder or popular games for achievements.
Soldering is one of those things where the tools you use have a direct impact on the quality and enjoyment of the work. Shitty $20 soldering irons from Home Depot not only produce awful results but they are incredibly frustrating. I’m pretty sure most people who think they suck at soldering and hate it only feel that way because their tool sucks. A good quality soldering iron and high quality, thin solder make a huge, huge difference in output.

If your experience with soldering is one of those cheap flimsy $30 dollar things from Amazon paired with fat, chunky solder… yeah you will hate soldering and you’ll never get even remotely good results. You don’t need to spend $500 dollar or anything but something like what is in this post and a $40 roll of thin gauge solder (which will last the rest of your life) will make soldering actually fun and enjoyable.

…I should also mention a solid, heavy parts holder factors into this as well.
I don't think there's an issue with being motivated by a desire to sell books. Selling poorly supported narrative-driven historical fiction as a work of pop history is potentially an issue though.
> And yeah, it might product "novel ideas" by mixing and matching existing ideas, but LLMs will never create truly novel ideas. Not in their current form.

Can you give a historic example of a human creating "truly novel ideas" that is not the product of mixing and matching existing ideas?
I've been using a small glass jar and just sticking it into the jar while it's hot.
"I won't help building roads because criminals might drive on them"

Law enforcement are blaming the road builders, that's what's wrong with the picture.
There once was a user online,

Who thought AI verse wasn't fine.

"These LLMs can't reason!"

He cried with displeasure,

"Their rhymes are just data, not mine!"

-

He typed with furious might,

Certain robots can't versify right.

But with each posted screed,

The irony grew indeed -

His arguments lacked the insight.

-

For while he debated with zeal,

AIs composed with appeal.

They reasoned through meter,

Made metaphors sweeter,

And rhymed with poetic ideal.
I would be surprised if TS100 style tips couldn't do that power output. Folks have gotten the Pinceil to 140W with the right power supply.
CPU rate is only quasi-continuous. The fact of a thread running or not running is binary. You cannot be 63% on a CPU, that is an illusion of sampling and integration.

But the real trouble with CPU rate is that it represents the past, not the future. It tells you what happened to the last request and nothing about what will happen to the next request. A signal with actual predictive power is how many other requests are running or waiting to run.
Could you elaborate? Symptoms of what?
I prefer "Dawn of the millennium"
Apache is credited with things it didn't initiate, but accepted after they were given up by another company (e. g. Cassandra)
This is what I've found. It's so hard to do embeddings correctly, while it's so easy to search over a large corpus with a cheap LLM! Embeddings are also really inscrutable when they fail, whereas I find myself easily iterating if repogather fails to return the right group of files.

Of course, 'cheap' is relative -- on a large repository, embeddings are 99%+ cheaper than even gpt-4o-mini.
Show HN: Galaxy Visualization
100k real ( +100k random ) galaxies from a sector. Visualized with Raylib.
It is a shame that the article almost completely ignores the issue of the tooling. I particularly find the attitude in the following paragraph offensively academically true:

All mainstream, general purpose programming languages are (basically) Turing-complete, and therefore any programme you can write in one you can, in fact, write in another. There is a computational equivalence between them. The main differences are instead in the expressiveness of the languages, the guardrails they give you, and their performance characteristics (although this is possibly more of a runtime/compiler implementation question).

I decided to have a go at learning the basics of Haskell and the first error I got immediately phased me because it reminded me of unhelpful compilers of the 80s. I have bashed my head against different languages and poor tooling enough times to know I can learn, but I've also done it enough times that I am unwilling to masochistically force myself through that gauntlet unless I have a very good reason to do so. The "joy" of learning is absent with unfriendly tools.

The syntax summary in the article is really good. Short and clear.
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/migrating/u...
FCC Chair Encourages Satellite Internet Competition,Hints Starlink Is a Monopoly
I've heard people voice the opinion that browser extensions are uniquely difficult to actually monetize. Moreso than SAAS/mobile apps, etc. because users are accustomed to extensions being simple and free with the exception of a very select few (Grammarly)

Thoughts?
Pinecil can not deliver actual 100w, and most chinese type-c handles can neither. This one uses real buck converter which can help with this problem.
Hasbro CEO claims all his friends use AI for D&D, signal to embrace it
Not unlike Graeber.
GUI, dependency injection, huge collection libraries, dynamic runtime Interoperability, distributed objects, compiler plugins, custom runtime schedulers,... for example.

Some of the above will never be in Go due to how the community and language designers are philosophically against them.
Getting the input from someone, means not getting the input from someone else… in that unit of time.

So it doesn’t make a difference?

(Assuming there are way more potential inputs than you have lifespan to receive, which is already the case)

And I’m pretty sure it’s the case for everyone, since even if someone is 10x smarter than Einstein, they will still only have 24 hours a day. And their neurons have a chemical upper limit in processing speed.