skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you noticed any improvement with IPL/RF? I've done 5 sessions - I saw improvement after the first and fourth, but regressed pretty quicky back after a few days. I've heard some people saying they had to do like 10 to start to notice a bigger difference. The problem is it's so expensive (I have to pay $750 for the combo session).
Not to drag this out in the mud, but that 5% is filled with some really nasty legislation and policies.

And yes, I'm mostly referring to Republican lead legislation that encourages or enforces conversion therapy, minority disenfranchisement (Haitians most recently, but also black, mMuslum, and Palestinian groups), and anti-LGBTQIA+ (more specifically anti-trans) actions.
We're at the point where we have a pretty high percentage of about 3-4 generations of people who are probably clinically addicted to phones/social media. We're slowly starting to come to this realization as a society but escaping addiction is extremely difficult. Especially a new one, that has no name yet, that we don't understand well, that has enveloped a large percentage of us. It's definitely an uphill battle.
Definite Non-Expert Opinions:

From a quick peek (Yahoo! Finance web site), Q has about 2X the market cap of I, so it's plausible-ish there.

Q looks to be a US company, so probably no "can't sell America's critical technology companies to foreigners" veto from the US Govt.

I don't know what the anti-trust situation would look like...but the US Govt. has some history of blatently ignoring such things when they think something is vital to their interests.

Huge question in my mind: Why would Q pay that kind of money? (Yahoo! sez I's market cap is ~$93 billion, and companies are usually bought at a substantial premium to that.) I is in an extremely complex business, and seems to be in seriously deep do-do. Sure, on paper, Q could get their hands on all sorts of awesome assets from buying I. But, on paper, the Titanic and her contents were still worth a fabulous fortune an hour after her infamous bump in the night.

Speculation: Talk about Q buying I is just a means to an end. Test the waters. Pour some blood into them, to see what's attracted to the struggling I. Check whether futile-looking struggles and more bad news could further tank I's market cap. Q might consider buying I, if the price was dirt cheap - but mostly they hope to buy the specific parts of I which they really want, after the sharks tear I into pieces.
Unfortunately the CSG65CE02 is not binary compatible with the WDC65816.
The US is structured like an experiment; different states have different policies, so in ten years we can compare the mental health of teens in California with teens in other states without this bill and see if it made any difference.
Here seems to be one what the grandparent suggested, an EV with a SIB battery.

https://www.electrive.com/2024/01/02/first-sodium-ion-batter...
Does anyone know of a local "Siri" implementation? Whisper + Llama (or Phi or something else), that can run shortcuts, take notes, read web pages etc.?

PS: for reading web pages I know there's voices integrated in the browser/OS but those are horrible
Exactly. That quote doesn’t mention mileage. You mentioned it.

> No, once you total up their carbon footprint they make up their additional costs in carbon in less than 20k miles.

You’re being overly generalised. There are different ICE cars that have different carbon footprints. Hybrids too. Different driving styles that can affect fuel consumption too.

Just as there are different EVs that have different running costs, different mileage per charge, and different carbon footprints to manufacture.

Then you have questions about how that electricity was generated. Most countries are improving with their use of renewables but there are some counties out there that are just going to burn fossil fuels anyway.

However even if you ignore external factors like driving style, and where the electricity comes from, you still have literally thousands of different variables just on the vehicles alone.

These are all important variables that shape the results. Saying “20k miles” is completely bullshit headline made by people trying to greenwash people into buying EV. There isnt this magic line you claim there is. Instead we have a massive fuzzy grey area.

I also think you massively underestimate just how different European cars are to
American cars.

Plus the fact that even your grossly generalised statement acknowledges that there is a cross over point, means I’m still factually correct; even ignoring how overly simplistic (to the point of being factually incorrect) you are.

> As far as bikes are concerned, I've never owned a car in my life and I'm 40.

Right. So your points are from a theoretical perspective rather than actual experience. Understood.

> So if you want to join me, fell free to, it's am awesome way to live.

I’m getting really sick of your assumptions about me. I’ve already said I work from home and rarely need to drive. That was literally in the comment you claimed to have “read carefully” - thus proving my point that you hadn’t.

I live in the countryside. So I do walk and cycle lots. That’s the entire reason I chose to live where I live.

———

You have this impression that cars are literally one thing and it’s a Boolean decision. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. People like yourself need to understand that life is fully of nuance. Which was the point of my original comment: that the issue around EVs environmental footprint is still being understood but even by conservative estimates, there’s still a lot of room to improve.

Yet you missed all of that when you “carefully read” my comment and instead focused on some meaningless generalisation you saw on twitter coupled with a bunch of incorrect assumptions about myself.
> Were there meme-pages on tiktoks which contextualized his writings in different day-to-day scenarios so that the importance of his general ideas were imprinted on their minds?

I honestly cannot tell whether this is satire or if I just don’t want to be on this planet anymore.
That’s a lot of different things to consider and try, thanks!

What worked for me was drinking massive amounts of water throughout the day.

Not so much to cause hyponatremia, of course, but it was a cheap easy way to establish a baseline for me (i.e. helps with dry climates, salty foods, dehydration, etc). And yeah, I tried some of those other things too.
Hee. I applaud the boldness of this theory, and I will be wary about seductive rhythms and over-exciting fantasies in future.

(I must confess to being a jazz user.)
I'm shooting to do 35mm and medium format. 4x5 is a stretch goal. Even illumination is definitely a challenge, though I use the same technique you do, which is generally refered to as flat field calibration, where we capture the field of light without any target and use it to calculate the offset to apply an even field. One of the trickier aspects is finding affordable lenses with appropriate magnifications that can focus evenly out to the edges of the frame. There are various lenses pulling from scanners or that were specifically used for copying that are useful if you can find them.
I would prefer to have some personal recommendations - I've had some success with Llama3.1-8B/8bits and Llama3.1-70B/1bit, but this is a fast moving field, so I think it's worth the details.
When I program something new and challenging, whether I want to or not, I follow Kent Beck's pattern[0]: “Make it work, make it right, make it fast.”. It seems unavoidable.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Beck
Does it also flatline your positive emotions? Ashwaganda does a similar thing for a lot of people, it tamps down their anxiety and depression but suppresses most other emotions as well (it's called anhedonia).
BBC has an article on the same topic, without the paywall:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4dn4z02emo - Brazil fines Musk's X for site's return after ban
Don't know about other sites, but I stayed at Marriott ... their web site is torturous.
>And we know from Goodhart's law and reward hacking that optimizing a proxy is, at some point, either useless or actively counterproductive.

I don't think that's accurate. It might be useless from the perspective of the system, but hugely advantageous from the perspective of the individual. When a co-worker hacks the metrics and gets the promotion, that might be bad for the company but it is great for them, and perhaps bad for you.

The same is true for sales, search engines, and social interactions.

I agree with your first point that the proxies are not true reflections, but don't see where this is peace of mind when someone loses out because of them. If anything, I think it would Foster anger that the system is rigged, basically the opposite of Peace of mind
The Power Tool Era of Software
Approximately, how many tokens per second would the (edited) >~ $ 40k x 8 >=~ $320k version process? Would this result in a >~32x boost in performance compared to other setups? Thanks!
The left and the right both agree 100% on protecting Israel, and social media is the biggest threat to Israel's existence given how low support for Israel has plummeted in Americans aged 18-25 thanks to unfiltered access to imagery from the war in Gaza.
VMWare is owned by Broadcom.
I don't believe any evidence would be sufficient to meet your requirements to make policy actions legitimate unfortunately. The harm is diffuse, so while action to counteract it (regulatory and policy) will be imperfect, it is still necessary based on the evidence collected so far (imho). The cost to regulate is low, and the harm by regulating is also low. Good enough.
I'm sorry but no. There is no emergency I can think of that either can't wait till lunch (or end of class, whenever the kids are allowed to check), or else calling the school office directly (remember those?), or even just showing up to the school to pickup their kid in person.

By the way, most parents I speak to would love to have their kids off their phones and focusing on school during the day. This whole "parents, emergency" argument seems highly suspicious to me.
Since the first day I consider AI as a noob working very fast and always making errors. My main usage is for tedious and non-critical tasks such as boilerplates. And I always review what has been generated like a merge/pull request, because in a sense that's what it is.
What reinforces my opinion are papers like these :
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05746
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817
We do this. It has worked very well for us.

There's a couple of fundamental rules to follow. First, don't put something that will have insane impact into the application deploy changes. 99% of the DB changes are very cheap, and very minor. If the deploy is going to be very expensive, then just don't do it, we'll do it out of band. This has not been a problem in practice with our 20ish person team.

Second, it was kind of like double entry accounting. Once you committed the change, you can not go back and "fix it". If you did something really wrong (i.e. see above), then sure, but if not, you commit a correcting entry instead. Because you don't know who has recently downloaded your commit, and run it against their database.

The changes are a list of incremental steps that the system applies in order, if they had not been applied before. So, they are treated as, essentially, append only.

And it has worked really well for us, keeping the diverse developers who deploy again local databases in sync with little drama.

I've incorporated the same concept in my GUI programs that stand up their own DB. It's a very simple system.
I've never seen anyone use Nix to actually build software; it's a glorified launcher for shell scripts in a sandbox, and typically is used to start the actual build system, such as make/cargo/go build/npm/etc, with known inputs.
Asymmetric Communication Encounters
Dangit. I get them mixed up. I’m not an analyst. Frick my mistake.
> Why would anyone buy a Raspberry Pi when they can get a fully decked out Mac Pro?

They want compliant Linux drivers?
In this post, I don’t see any comparisons of their solver to other LP solvers on benchmarks, so it’s difficult to know how useful this is.
Ghost for my personal blog and also photography portfolio. Been happily using it for years, easy to self host. Quite surprised not to see more mentions of it here.
That was "2 days ago", the NYT article is about newer developments:

>Now, X’s lawyers said the company had done exactly what Mr. Musk vowed not to: take down accounts that a Brazilian justice ordered removed because the judge said they threatened Brazil’s democracy. X also complied with the justice’s other demands, including paying fines and naming a new formal representative in the country, the lawyers said.
Zed has also support for ollama, but all the local models I tried do not really work so well to things like "write docs for this method"... Also local editor autocomplete in the style of github copilot would be great, without needing to use proprietary Microsoft tooling...
I wonder if they put any matrices in the suitesparse collection, or anything like that. It would be a nice fun weekend project to just play around with them.
With (I assume) cell phone use prevalent in every single classroom in the nation that hasn't banned them, and school shootings a minuscule probability, "much rarer" is doing a lot of work here hah.
Ah, extra ports, that makes a lot more sense. I had missed that detail.

So the first phase is like a regular 4-stroke engine, and the second phase is more like 2-stroke engine, where extra air (and possibly fuel) is introduced into the cylinder, like a 2-stroke, through ports located below the position of the piston during the bottom dead center of the first phase.

So I guess you have something like intake (high), compression (high), power (high->low), compression (low), exhaust (low->high), where in parenthesis is the adjustable piston height?

So a richer higher-compression first phase, followed by a leaner lower-compression second phase?
Interesting to see how o'reilly has changed since then.

It's overly difficult to buy O'reilly books anymore that aren't counterfit anymore.

You'll notice this if you buy several of them at a time, you'll get ones that are different sizes, different weights, different paper thickness, yellow pages, various printing issues.

The problem is that they only sell through Amazon anymore, so chinese publishers are just copying them and selling counterfit versions in the same listing.

I tried to inform them after my last batch of counterfits, but the customer service person I spoke with was only interested in closing my request.

Their distribution through Amazon would also mean that all of this Africa stuff is likely a thing of the past as well.
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Neurodiversity vs. Autism Symbols?
This whole post makes no sense I think now. I was thinking about Broadcom. Dangit.
I watched 135 time loop movies
I was ok until this:

> Python is Esperanto

No, it's not. Esperanto never caught on with ordinary speakers.
My own experience with nieces nephews and niblings agrees that it's pretty much this. It's more about the parents' wishes than the children's demands.

Phones are powerful tools. Ideally kids would learn how to use them properly while respecting their sharp edges. Ya know, more work for teachers on budgets that are already under attack and such.
In Los Angeles and Phoenix glass goes into the recycling bin, together with aluminum cans, plastic bottles etc. Here the idea is that you throw it into recycling and that it gets sorted at the recycling facility. We are told not to crush cans before throwing them in recycling as crushing them makes it harder to separate them.

It's very different from when I lived in Belgium. Glass went into glass recycling, plastic in a blue bag (and they checked, a LOT), refuse in the grey bin, and there are battery recycling stations EVERYWHERE.

And the way they encourage you to sort your trash in Belgium is by weighing your trash (container full - container empty = weight of trash), and you pay for that. So cheating and throwing your glass into your refuse container will end up costing you.
Or https://ollama.com/
I would definitely say so. I can still feel happy if I choose to but I don't feel upward swings. Overall I'd say its a net positive as I generally feel content.
Many have mentioned just, but I'm a much bigger fan of Earthly [0].

It allows you to write something similar to a Makefile, but everything runs in Docker. This gets you isolated builds with parallelism and caching built-in.

I've found it to be great especially for small to medium projects. For some examples, I use it to publish my personal site/blog [1] and to build a C/C++/Fortran/Rust cross-compiler targeting macOS [2].

[0]: https://earthly.dev/

[1]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/sjer.red/blob/main/Earthfi...

[2]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/macos-cross-compiler/blob/...
For those similarly curious, I went sniffing around the PRs and found that, yes, there are two .onnx (via git-lfs) in https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/tree/v0.9.7/selfdrive/m... - one for the forward camera and one for watching the driver. The driver one had a lot more features than I expected, but I'd guess they are related to the NTSB certification I saw mentioned elsewhere in the thread here. Regrettably, because I don't have a Panda-compatible car, I actually can't try out the self-hosting setup but it certainly seems plausible

Also, while poking around, I saw they use a "CTF" for on-boarding new contributors, which I thought was neat: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/v0.9.7/tools/CTF.m...
May I ask how small? From what I see on r/localllama, it seems that at least 3B and 7B ones are starting to be useful? Also I cannot use CUDA or modern AMD cards..
> Still loads the kernel faster than a virtual ISO on a server's shitty IPMI over the internet

This gave me flashbacks of trying to boot Dell M1000e blade servers from an NFS-hosted ISO running on a Raspberry Pi, which was painfully slow to boot and run.
There are many parents with different preferences than you.
This article was a really interesting read! Probably about a 9 out of 10.
I'm sad about how smartphones have turned out. The effects are entirely dependent on how they are used. If used as a portable information retrieval device, camera, and communications tool, they make us smarter than ever before. But it seems most people have instead chosen to focus on attention-stealing data collection apps that encourage neuroticism, narcissism, and anxiety.

We had envisioned something like PADDs on Star Trek or the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but what we got was an jingly electronic mirror that bullies you. I don't know how we are so okay with this. Keeping phones out of schools is not the cure. Keeping evil and harmful apps off the phones is a more precise solution.
> There is no emergency I can think of that either can't wait till lunch

Respectfully, most parents I've met do not agree with you. And I don't think that the random events like school shootings and bomb threats have helped them relax into the same environment we had in the 90's.
This is very cool. But now instead of emacs make it Vi ;-)

update: I am very sorry for this silly post. I love you all whether you use vi or emacs.
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Silly me thinking there is something like product recalls, food poisoning, and use cases that insurances don't cover due to high liability in hazardous goods.

Anything that brings proper engineering practices into computing, and liability for malpractices, gets my vote.
Olympics-tier mental gymnastics, considering Apple treated both Intel and AMD as manufacturing partners at the time.
DesTestMAX (Desmond's C64/Max RAM Test Thing)
Adding a quote from the article:
“We are called Panda Dogs, a pet dog that looks like a panda, dyed and dressed up by Chow Chow. We are gentle, smart, friendly, cute and adorable!” the sign says.

The zoo’s manager, surnamed Huang, said the dogs are one of its top attractions.

“You can see by our name, we are ‘Strange Animals and Cute Pets Paradise,’” she told state-affiliated outlet Sichuan Observation. “These are Chow Chow dogs being painted (as pandas), as this is part of our specialties.”
Bitcoin Mining Shutdown Cause 20% Surge in Electricity Bills
> Then it possible to get “looped.” Literally things are happening faster than you can keep up, and the world passes you by, at least for a moment.

Isn't this the real time OS concept of "lovelock"?
> If these don't work for you, write a better solution

It's MacOS, you fucking can't.
This is true for a great many things
If I had had an iphone, I would have just picked it back up.
Punishment is effectively not allowed at many schools because parents suck.

Kids complain to parents.

Parents complain to teacher. Teacher tells parent to pound sand. Parent complains to administration about unfair teacher. Administration takes a “customer is _always_ right” mindset for various reasons, and teacher told to not enforce. Or the rule is changed.

Some parents refuse to allow their child to do anything wrong (by moving the goalposts of “wrong”, assuming their child is always right, etc), some have anxiety if they can’t reach their child instantly via text, some parents refuse to enforce rules they don’t understand or agree with.
Both solutions are OK, we have the in between one where people are expected to do their duty. Which they do or not.

The recycling was solicited a few years ago with just 3 bins: green for glass, yellow for paper, plastic, metal and a few other things and brown for generic trash
Could usb-c also connect an ethernet port and/or a flash drive?
Apple intelligence?
This particular piece of work is damn near 400 years old. When one is tasked with participating in preserving such an item so the next twenty generations can also enjoy it, it pays to take notes on what you’ve done with your small part of that chain.
This, exactly. Rapid iteration on user control surfaces is good; rapid iteration on public APIs is bad.

Edit to say — rapid iteration of UX is good as long as it’s goal-aligned and has an endpoint. Set a goal, iterate and measure until you achieve it, then leave it alone.
Laboratories of democracy, I get it… but simply allowing law to vary by state is just the enabler. There’s a lot of structure you could add to make it an actual experiment.
Isn’t there also some Firefox AI integration that’s being tested by one dev out there? I forgot the name and wonder if it got any traction.
Yeah I just don't 'see that' in them. Like I said I'm far from an art connoisseur.

So what I said is my opinion alone :)
Yeah, I've noticed too much Omega 6 is at least one big cause of my anxiety.

Avoiding vegetable oils (and foods that are cooked with it) and just using coconut oil, tallow, butter etc. reduces my anxiety to the point that it's barely noticeable.
you'd be glad to hear the e810 series is not better in this regard. at least the out-of-tree driver somewhat works, and supports more than 1 queue.
Reading these articles is like when you used to read articles in 2005 about people "innovating" on OS/2.

The market has moved to electric (see China) and Porsche would be well served on investing there versus on OS/2 (nee ICE engines).