skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CEO Cloning: Innovating Executive Assistance
http://ceocloning.com/

Summary:
I’m an executive personal assistant trying to innovate my role and find a CEO to support who’s open to this idea.

Problem:
Besides getting over the intimidation of pursuing this, I'm struggling to figure out a marketing strategy/approach that doesn't make it come off so weird.

Feedback:
This is my 1st time sharing, so I’d be extremely grateful for any brutally honest criticism, questions, or suggestions on ANY aspect.

Or just a 1-10 rating:
1. How clear is what I’m proposing?
2. The viability of getting interviews presenting it as is?

Thank you.
Its the stock firmware. You can find the changelog here:

https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/relea...

or more details here:

https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/compa...
> As for strings, just shove a char[4096] in there.

For the love of God, use a proper slice/fat pointer, please.

Switching over to slices eliminates 90%+ of the issues with using C. Carrying around the base and the length eliminates a huge number of the overrun issues (especially if you don't store them consecutively).

Splitting the base and the offset gives a huge amount of semantic information and makes serialization vastly easier.
Why is it wrong to show someone ads that are relevant to their interests? Local AI is a win-win, since tech companies get targeted ads, and your data stays private.
> I have a very high income and I still can’t afford a home

This is only true if you limit your choices of homes to popular areas. Homes out in the country are usually easy to come by, especially with the salary of someone working in tech. Now, if you want to live in a big city, this is obviously not true, but this is arguably a livestyle choice to spend money, which you then need to earn [0]. If you love farming more than anything, moving to flyover country and make your living doing that is entirely possible, which is the point PG is making.

[0] I don't mean to say that the housing bubble is not a bad situation, but this does not invalidate the argument.
Whaaat? The sleazy Governor sided with the tech companies??

I'll have to go get a thesaurus, shocked won't cover how I'm feeling rn.
I wonder what Go would look like if it had generics removed but something like comptime added.
You're not wrong, but tell that to the bots :) Do you have any other suggestions?
By "not be able" they don't mean legally, they mean GPS-based enforcement.
It's not the data format that is important, but the tooling, code generation and binding quality.
You consider that punishment to be proportionate to the crime?
I've started writing a technical book about "how to develop a game boy emulator from scratch". :fingers_crossed:

I'm using typst[1] for my writing journey.

[1] https://typst.app/
The article describes experiments with aider that show the benefits of using a pair of LLMs to make changes in an existing code base:

- An Architect model solves the coding task.
- An Editor model edits the source code.

This approach set a new SOTA on the aider code editing benchmark, using o1-preview as the Architect and either DeepSeek V2.5 or o1-mini as the Editor.
It was from this thread. I don't know what happened to the gallery link
You can look at die attach[1] which basically solders to pads on the circuit board (no magnet wires required :-)).

[1] "Die Attach Comes to PCBs" --- https://www.eeweb.com/die-attach-comes-to-pcbs/
Try not worrying about as much stuff?

100 years ago well before the invention of so-called surveillance capitalism, people were making soft drinks out of radium, and inhaling asbestos.

Many things are better since then. Some new things are probably worse, but every reasonable measure of human welfare suggests we are better off than we were previously.

Something some subset of us are worried about right now, whether it’s WiFi or 5G or Covid vaccines, will turn out to have had horrible consequences and you can’t really fault the rest of us that we didn’t listen to the crazies.

Just embrace panglossian optimism because the alternative is to just be angry and exhausted and indignant all the time and then you’re no fun at parties.
“but its just an init system, you don’t have to use these pieces!“

/s

Here’s a vote for Devuan - you don’t have to accept systemD if you don’t want to. I didn’t.
They do not learn new facts instantly in a way that can rewrite old rules or even larger principals of logic. For example, if I showed you evidence right now that you were actually adopted (assuming previously you thought you werent), it would rock your world and you’d instantly change everything and doubt so much. Then when anything related to your family comes up this tiny but impactful fact would bleed into all of it. LLMs have no such ability.

This is similar to learning a new skill (the G part). I could give you a new tv and show you a remote that’s unlike any you’ve used before. You could likely learn it quickly and seamlessly adapt this new tool, as well as generalize its usage onto other new devices.

LLMs cannot do such things.
This is just marketing speak and wasn't written by Matt.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"WP Engine sponsors 11 contributors for a total of 40 hours per week across 5 teams."

Doesn't sound like a lot given the money they make. Biblical ROI.
I would note that Facebook and Google were opposed to eg gdpr although it gave them a larger share of the pie.

When framed like that: why be opposed, it hurts your competition? The answer is something like: it shrinks the pie or reduces the growth rate, and that's bad (for them and others)

The economics of this bill aren't clear to me (how large of a fine would Google/Microsoft pay in expectation within the next ten years?), but they maybe also aren't clear to Google/Microsoft (and that alone could be a reason to oppose)

Many of the ai safety crowd were very supportive, and I would recommend reading Zvi's writing on it if you want their take
Imagine Stephen King putting out first 2 chapters of one new book.

How much could he raise for each next chapter?
This has happened for free RV camping spots. After the internet occupied the space, you can't find a peaceful area to camp anymore. In fact many places in AZ closed due to people just dumping their black tanks straight up on the land.
I have seen far, far too many people say things along the lines of "Sure, LLMs currently don't seem to be good at [thing LLMs are, at least as of now, fundamentally incapable of], but hey, some people are pretty bad at that sometimes too!"

It demonstrates such a complete misunderstanding of the basic nature of the problem that I am left baffled that some of these people claim to actually be in the machine-learning field themselves.

How can you not understand the difference between "humans are not absolutely perfect or reliable at this task" and "LLMs by their very nature cannot perform this task"?

I do not know if AGI is possible. Honestly, I'd love to believe that it is. However, it has not remotely been demonstrated that it is possible, and as such, it follows that it cannot have been demonstrated that it is inevitable. If you want to believe that it is inevitable, then I have no quarrel with you; if you want to preach that it is inevitable, and draw specious inferences to "prove" it, then I have a big quarrel with you.
Not as many as you think, because you need to have targets bigger than the ~20um wirebond wire to solder to... and the little wire and bond pad are not very tolerant of strain at all.

Bonding wires to the thing in the first place easily increases its size by a couple of orders of magnitude.
> The cheese was dug up with mummified human remains...

That's quite an opening sentence.
I am working an Instagram reel downloader savreel(.) app to learn SEO. I have gotten 37 clicks so for in the last month organically.
I am on Twitter as @cornfieldlabs
I can't speak for the tangentially related Stanford study since I haven't read through it yet, but I want to make the obvious clear here and will re-state that my main issue is the dishonest comparison of two unequal metrics.

> That's not what they did; they only counted speed citations in the study.

Okay so I found the paper and read through it to see if it said something contrary to what the article written by the researchers themselves said and you seem to be incorrect. The study is very clearly just traffic stops in total, not speeding tickets. In fact it's not even that, but a complex model estimating the traffic stop distribution.

Based on the study text, I'm guessing the data they need for this is simply unavailable so this is the best they could do, which I find both surprising and unfortunate. I personally think it would be worth collecting this kind of data precisely so that more robust arguments can be made.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2402547121

While an unbiased enforcement system is naturally a good thing, I can't help but wonder what strategies the middlemen who build these systems use to get public support. Consider this, what if these systems are built in a predatory manner, positioned at locations where a speed limit change is non-obvious, or at intersections where the timing of yellow lights is reduced below the usual? If a portion of everyone on the road is getting ticketed, then of course it would appear "unbiased". While I can't speak to the nature of these cameras, a misleading studying directly advocating for more of these systems should always raise alarms unless they have good data backing them.

So in summary, not only have you misrepresented my complaint with your strawman: "well black people drive worse" argument, you yourself were dishonest about the contents of the study you clearly did not read.

I don't think I will be replying to any other posts in this thread since this overall discussion has been unproductive and frankly a waste of my time.
just adverb
to turn a complex thing into magic with a simple wave of the hands

E.g. To turn lead into gold you _just_ need to remove 3 protons
For medical devices, lack of function would be malfunction
i mean, you could totally solve a problem yourself and not write it up. i did that lots of times too!

it'll be interesting to see what happens with llms and things like stack exchange
> They have long tongues, that they used to catch bugs.

Shouldn't "that" be "which" in this sentence?
I took a bookbinding class on a whim at university, and it's still a hobby I enjoy. I would love to have a dedicated space for all the big equipment one day, but it's easy to make notebooks with just a bone folder, awl, needle, and thread.
> The definition of “covered model” within the bill is extremely broad, potentially encompassing a wide range of open-source models that pose minimal risk.

Who are these wide range of >$100mm open source models he's thinking of? And who are the impacted small businesses that would be scared to train them (at a cost of >$100mm) without paying for legal counsel?
> it does seem inevitable that we will eventually create something

Also don't forget that many suspect the brain may be using quantum mechanics so you will need to fully understand and document that field.

Whilst of course you are simulating every atom in the universe using humanity's complete understanding of every physical and mathematical model.
There's of course a wide spectrum of religious thought, so I can't claim to cover everyone. But most religious people would still acknowledge that animals can think, which means either that animals have some kind of soul (in which case why can't a robot have a soul?) or that being ensoulled isn't required to think.
Banning online advertisements would essentially cripple small businesses in the US. Even local businesses today rely on online ads for foot traffic. Banning ads would send us back to the economy of the 1950s, where most profit accrues to a number of powerful corporations, and small manufacturers and creators have no market power.

I used data and ran experiments to measure and mitigate teen well being and harm at Instagram. I was not on the team responsible for this, but I worked on organic ranking and was responsible for understanding and measuring the impact of these things. I can say with certainty nobody cares more about teen well being than Meta. It's their future, and the success Instagram over Snapchat is essentially completely due to better positive interventions for well being. We measured this carefully with RCTs and had more data than anyone on the planet.

Overall Instagram is net good for the majority of teens across a wide variety of well being metrics, and net negative for a small percentage. Meta spends hundreds of millions trying to fix those latter, rarer cases.
https://archive.is/qBaiH
Like I said, supporters included wary copyright holders and the bottom-market also-rans like Musk. If your model is barely holding up against Llama, what's the point of staying in.
It's so easy to do, and the publicity is instant and massive. If the consequences are light, then we'll see more and more of this in the future. At this rate, we're going to see permanent damage to these paintings done soon.
kagi is explicitly not a community; it's a service you pay for. it's organized around a them/us distinction, and the users are the (atomized) outgroup, individually paying the ingroup for the service provided by that ingroup

there is nothing wrong with that; it's a perfectly good way of organizing things. but it's important not to confuse it with the relationship between, for example, linux users, any of whom is free at any moment to improve the kernel for everyone
> There have been a few different attempts that look like this. Samsung Nx, Samsung Galaxy Camera, Sony has tried phone add on accessories. Basically they all sort of flop in the market.

There was exactly ONE attempt. One. And it was pretty successful, at that: Samsung NX1. I had it, it was pretty good, but with a first-gen teething issues.

Phone add-on accessories don't work because they're clumsy and connectivity just sucks. And ultra-professional $6k cameras from Zeiss miss the mark entirely, you need to target a prosumer market (i.e. me).

> I wouldn’t say that camera design is stuck in the 80s, either. The form factor is necessarily constrained by needing a tubular lens projecting in front of a flat imaging plane.

But why do you need a large protrusion on the right? You don't have a film canister anymore. I already wrote about a myriad of physical controls. Just make it large enough to hold the camera.
'Bristol Myers Squibb executives say most eligible patients are covered by Medicare or Medicaid and wouldn’t pay the list price.'
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7493#section-2.2
No.

(which expands on the slightly fluffier text in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7159#section-6 which broadly says the same thing... and https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8259#section-6)

If you look at a parser matrix, flouting this rule is asking for trouble. Which is why the recommendations on MDN for bigint recommend an explicit parsing from a string as needed.

(I'm genuinely curious why this is being downvoted. Does someone out there feel so strongly that because an arbitrary string of characters technically can be parsed as any infinitely large number, that it's wise to ignore RFCs and dozens of existing implementations when making use of JSON as a common interchange format?)
It's a reference to the infamous dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Anyways, if you're at the grocery store and you need to see your shopping list, and you're happy with your current workflow of opening up Termux and typing `rsync -avrsomgwtfbbq me@server/shopping-list.txt` with your thumbs, then by all means keep doing that! For the rest of us, there's Syncthing.
Why don't they just adopt the same fundamental IPC design as Wayland? Swap out the root wl_display singleton object for something dbus appropriate and away you go?

More or less all the display specific stuff is an extension on top of the core design.

https://wayland-book.com/protocol-design.html
the most important file (the .qasm) is missing from the repo...
What's "tenure evaluation"?
96% of climate policy since 1998 failed
Electric power crosses state lines, very little loss.

It's looking like cooling water may be more of a limiting factor. Yet, even this can be greatly reduced when electric power is cheap enough.

Solar power is already "cheaper than free" in many places and times. If the initial winner-take-all training race ever slows down, perhaps training can be scheduled for energy cost-optimal times and places.
There is this one somewhat widely deployed niche system that uses sqlite databases as RPC serialization format. The original idea behind that was limited virtual address space of the CE-based embedded devices, but the design got stuck.
Please if you are young and still in full-time education and reading this, please please please take it with a pinch of salt.

What you are reading is essentially a sales-pitch trying to lure you in. This has the tell-tale signs of classic hard sales pitches - playing on the fear of losing out, offering big rewards, comparing to a negative stereotypes, appealing to your ego/self-worth about not being ignorant, flattery by dismissing it as not greed but an intellectual puzzle for smart people like you etc etc. Your internal alarm bells that stop you getting suckered into things should be going crazy about now!

He has a vested interest in getting as many people as possible to throw themselves and their lives 110% into doing a start-up so that he can invest in it and make money off of your work.

For every successful billionaire (or hell even millionaire) that comes out of his "sales funnel", there will be hundreds if not thousands of people whose full-potential/career-potential/earning-potential will be severely curtailed as a result. They'll waste many of their most productive years, potentially building up massive debts in the process, chasing some start-up dream before eventually capitulating and failing before trying to get a "steady job" when they find themselves burnt-out and debt-ridden with nothing to show for it after 5-10 years of slog.

Meanwhile 5-10 years at a FAANG you would have pocketed several million in total-comp (probably in the region of 5+mil USD in the bay area I guess), working in low-stress environments with some of the best engineers, researchers, PMs, and leaders in the world while still having time and energy to live your life too.

It is a numbers game for him. Think carefully about what you are getting into before throwing your future life away. Good luck.
Maybe that'll be the first way, but there's nothing special about biology.

Remember, we don't have a rigorous definition of things like life, intelligence, and consciousness. We are narrowing it down and making progress, but we aren't there (some people confuse this with a "moving goalpost" but of course "it moves", because when we get closer we have better resolution as to what we're trying to figure out. It'd be a "moving goalpost" in the classic sense if we had a well defined definition and then updated in response to make something not work, specifically in a way that is inconsistent with the previous goalpost. As opposed to being more refined)
There are many small errors in some details if you look hard enough in images with many objects. But on the first look, these look like casual random photos. They simply don't stand out like your usual generated imagery.

I can't spot anything out of ordinary in the second image (man with green sweater) for example.
> Nukes are a far more primitive technology (i.e., enrichment requires only more basic industrial capabilities) than AI hardware, yet they are probably the best example of tech limitations via international agreements.

And direct sabotage, eg Stuxnet.

And outright assassination eg https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55128970
> In any kind of remotely just and sensible society, this corporation would be shut the fuck down by authorities, have it's assets liquidated, it's leadership imprisoned, and the trademark barred from use for 50 years. The sheer volume of horseshit a company of sufficient size can get away with here bends the mind.

Which society would act differently?
syncthing automtically connects with bunch of external servers automatically. Relays/discovery servers/stun etc. You can disable but they are enabled by default. They connect on first run and before you get a chance to disable - atleast on android. Everything may be encrypted but I still prefer to not connect to external servers
Ask HN: Are new AI code editors adding superficial value?
Specifically referring to Cursor and Melt. It seems to be the rage among the bay area AI community but they're basically just VS Code skins. Im pretty happy with VS Code both features-wise and UX, but I think now is the golden opportunity to fundamentally rethink the craft & work of human coding and build a new UI/App from scratch. Including NOT building on Electron..
Can't today. Except for AlphaProof who can, by training on its own ideas. Tomorrow they might be able to, if we find better tricks (or maybe just scale more, since GPT3+ already shows (weak) online learning that it was definitely not trained for).
If a brain connected to a machine is "AGI" then we already have a billion AGIs at any given moment.
I think the fact that this particular fuzzy statistical analysis tool takes human language as input, and outputs more human language, is really dazzling some folks I’d not have expected to be dazzled by it.

That is quickly becoming the most surprising part of this entire development, to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson
Why I Write My Own Obituary Every Year
Solar power is the least suited power source for dataceners other than wind.

You need nuclear reactors or other base line power generation energy sources.
> Well seriously what profession is immune?

Any job that requires general purpose hands and feet to to "real work". Like the thousands of people fixing infrastructure right now everywhere after Helene.
I’ve got LGB friends and family and growing up in poverty taught me to genuinely appreciate non-race based DEI and an eclectic life. This corporate ESG wokie brand of community management is cancer. If my Moroccan female Muslim hijab wearing friend and her black American husband say it then a conversation starts, when I say it I’m shunned. It’s true either way and I’ll say it because I’m not playing for HN points.
> ... “well it can’t be racism it must be that black people are naturally bad in other ways”

First it's not what GP said at all... But seen that you obviously want to go down that route here's a harsh reality check which you're not going to like.

Here are official numbers from the FBI from 2018, only concerning white and black victims and white and black murderers:

3114 murders of either black or white (but mostly black) victims by black perpetrators
2911 murders of either black or white (but mostly white) victims by white perpetrators

These are official numbers from the FBI [1].

But then in 2018 black people only made about 13% of the US population while non-latino whites made about 61% of the population.

Invoke socio-economic status / class warfare or whatever you want to explain why black people are 5x more likely to commit murder but the official numbers are there and hard to dispute.

FWIW my family is white, black and yellow so you can safely send your "racist" card to /dev/null.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
https://archive.ph/KTKco
Cool! You should consider aquaponics

https://github.com/fhk/plantz
Ibuprofen and acetaminophen may already be that option.

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2018/0301/p348.html

I believe there are other studies besides this that points to these two OTC pain relievers as being 'just as good' as opiates.
Well, since you don’t know anything, let me tell you we’ve been able to get any book we’ve wanted for the last 15 years and the sky hasn’t fallen
when I want to support an author, I buy their book, this as a sort of patronage