skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Important testing excerpts:

- "...for the closed (OpenAI) models I tried generating up to 10 times and if it still couldn’t come up with a legal move, I just chose one randomly."

- "I ran all the open models (anything not from OpenAI, meaning anything that doesn’t start with gpt or o1) myself using Q5_K_M quantization"

- "...if I gave a prompt like “1. e4 e5 2. ” (with a space at the end), the open models would play much, much worse than if I gave a prompt like “1 e4 e5 2.” (without a space)"

- "I used a temperature of 0.7 for all the open models and the default for the closed (OpenAI) models."

Between the tokenizer weirdness, temperature, quantization, random moves, and the chess prompt, there's a lot going on here. I'm unsure how to interpret the results. Fascinating article though!
Yeah it’s infuriating. I’m using this tool mp4-merge them which afaik preserves almost pretty much all metadata / tracks. What I do in a bash script is: Find all groups of mp4 files that share same last 4 digits, pass those to mp4_merge, do a ‘touch -r’ to update timestamp of merged file to first file in batch. Has been working great so far.

https://github.com/gyroflow/mp4-merge
Nevermind the fix. IMO, if you have to identify these basic issues for them, that's already a problem.
I think unit tests and debug/verbose print statements are useful for debugging. Even if you're firing up the debugger, these provide a lot of information up front! But more importantly, they make your project more approachable for contributors who aren't already familiar with the debugger.
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Temporary tax breaks make no sense when one can 4x their salary just by relocating a few 100 kms away.
Seinfeld is right wing, TIL.
Elon Musk emails OpenAI cofounders – September 20, 2017
The way I read the article is that it's just as terrible as you would expect it to be from pure word association, except for one version that's an outlier in not being terrible at all within a well defined search depth, and again just as terrible beyond that. And only this outlier is the weird thing referenced in the headline.

I read this as that this outlier version is connecting to an engine, and that this engine happens to get parameterized for a not particularly deep search depth.

If it's an exercise in integration they don't need to waste cycles on the engine playing awesome - it's enough for validation if the integration result is noticeably less bad than the LLM alone rambling about trying to sound like a chess expert.
What's your workflow with vim?
> Musk actually made it harder by turning the entire site into a walled garden

So we're supposed to thank him for selecting the ugliest brute-force solution?

It's not security theater to offer a user settings that help them tailor their experience. People aren't mad about stalkers being clever, they're angry at X for not giving them better options. If your social media doesn't let users voluntarily segregate themselves from antisocial behavior, it shouldn't surprise you when they want to leave your website altogether.
I bet you provide your own API key to Sonnet and 4o and you're paying to use their IDE...?
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I'm working on adding Firefox support to a web-based extension of mine[1]. Recently I've wanted to explorer how to develop an extension, and so far I like it. I think I'll be working on web extension development for next few weeks.

[1]- https://next-gpt.app/
I think it's cool. Thanks for sharing
High pixel count cameras aren't that useful in microscopy. Big low noise pixels are better. For every sensor there is already a breakout board with USB. Mostly intended for machine vision.

Edit: added link to Arducam USB cameras : https://www.arducam.com/product/arducam-64mp-motorized-focus... is a 64MP camera although note it's 1FPS. Instead I would prefer https://www.arducam.com/product/presalesarducam-8-3mp-imx585... which has C-mount that's perfect for scopes, it's 4K for still images, and the sensor is specifically designed for low light, when tends to be common in microscopy at higher magnifications./
Embedded C and C++ should be good for at least another 20 years or so (except AI will take over by then).
There is one thing where you are right: Apple doesn't care much about mouses and is all in with trackpads.
But this also completely disproves your theory about why the charging port is on the bottom of the Magic Mouse. Indeed, both the Magic Trackpad and the Magic Keyboard have charging ports on their back, making it very easy to use them wired, which many people do.
If Apple was so set on forcing people to use their wireless peripherals without the wire, you would find the port on the bottom too. Yes, it would be very dumb and this is exactly what it is with the Magic Mouse.

The only difference is that the Magic Mouse was first designed with a door for swappable batteries and when they did the refresh and just put a port in its place with no further amelioration.
Both the keyboard and trackpad shape changed (became thinner because there was no need for round batteries storage anymore) but they didn't change the mouse.

We can make all kinds of theories about why but the simple answer is that they don't care and they feel like their mouse looks nice and don't want to invest in changing the design.
This is pretty much all there is to it, lots of apathy towards customers and a general lack of care, otherwise they could have made some other upgrades (like the sensor) a long time ago, without having to touch this stupid charging port.

And this is why they get a lot of shit for it and it's well deserved, if Apple is too lazy to make a mouse, then they shouldn't make one, especially not one that cost a 100.

All the apologetic theories about teaching people to use wireless stuff are so nonsense its really crazy that people can believe that.
> To be fair, there was Onlyfans kind of money in it in 2022. It ebbs and flows. Always has, always will.

Are you thinking about some of the homestead influencer types here?

I have a homestead / small family farm and follow quite a few of the common ones. Those that make good money as influencers don't really farm, and those that do farm are getting by but not making any profits big enough to write home about.

We decided not to make our farm into a business pretty quick. The primary goal was to grow our own food anyway, including meat, but it doesn't take long to see how bad the business fundamentals are if you're unwilling to go into a crazy amount of debt to run what most would consider animal abuse and/or ecological destruction.
Wow - never heard that before, it's brilliant! Definitely one to run through this!
And possibly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugaled_Breizh as well.
This scope is nontrivial to build and run. I recommend buying a cheap stereoscope and spending more time enjoying looking at things before jumping to diy.
Is 7 figures even realistic? I was under the impression that even a senior FAANG job was still just under $300k typically. Does anyone outside of a CTO/CIO make $1mil+?
They are not homophones? I’m not a native speaker and I’ve simply always assumed they are. I lived in London and the US for many years, but these are not common words in speech so I never got corrected.

I guess that must mean “wear” and “weary” have a different pronunciation for “ea”.

This vowel digraph remains my eternal nemesis… Ever since I learned as a child that “bear” doesn’t rhyme with “fear” and found myself faced with the overwhelming realization that I will never speak this language 100% correctly, no matter how much effort I put into reading and writing.
Just thank you for this link, didn't know this OST it's just incredible...
Sorry but I'm not willing to live in an insane orwellian world just so your grandma gets her vaccine. It's her family's responsiblity to convince her and if she still refuses shes an adult she has the right to refuse treatment and vaccines.

As for libel, it has always existed and always will. There are laws against it to protect people if they suffer any damage from it. It's not without consequences.

What you're proposing is so much worse. Imagine a tyrant government is after you and has control on information like you propose. How will you protect yourself from the goverment's false accusations?
A useful feature of bash and zsh is the "edit command". The standard shortcut is "ctrl-x ctrl-e".

It opens the current command line in $EDITOR, which often defaults to vim.
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Ask HN: Amazon Bedrock vs. Other Modes
I see that Amazon Bedrock offers models from companies such as Stability, Anthropic etc., Is it more profitable to use them through bedrock or are there other modes offer better economic value?
I wish exploring the integrations were easier. The plugin details are behind the sign-up barrier. I'd like to see a short description and a screenshot.
Plus it has some bizarre expectations, e.g. where users were expected to accept abandoning all their old posts when migrating servers…
But is there a good way to find the "better possible hires" which doesn't have other significant disadvantages? If you have a convincing method of doing that, many companies would be interested in your ideas.
Hack is only PHP in a very ship-of-theseus sense - it has PHP _vibes_ but they replaced the language, the runtime, the standard library, and all of the infrastructure

(and all of them much improved over PHP IMO - especially XHP [equivalent to JSX, where HTML is a first-class citizen in the language syntax])
I've recently had a couple technical interviews where they were structured much more like a pair programming session. Those were a great experience on my end, and for the interview I expect it gives a much more realistic view of what it would be like to work with someone.
My kids are much older but something about the experience of rearing babies and toddlers changed my sleep permanently: I sleep much lighter (read: woken up by every noise and movement), and the whole concept of "sleeping in" has vanished as a possibility, even if I go to bed very late and no one else is in the house.

Of course it's a trade-off I'd gladly make again but it still sucks that I will never feel as well rested day-to-day as I did before kids.
What tools, what helpers? I hear this comment a lot and it's just ignorance on the part of people who clearly have never tried to actually learn how to use (Neo)vim or Emacs. I've used Jetbrains, VSCode, Atom, Xcode plenty and there's nothing that I can do in those IDEs that I can't do in Vim besides things related to platform specific SDKs.
Local LLMs have helped me a lot in this regard. Even something as simple as "how do I say this formula out loud in words?" helps tremendously.
If I were doing this, I would accept one more C++-ism and implement a user-defined string literal, so one could do:

"Some text"_s8

The underlying mechanism is even polite enough to supply a length without a horrible array template hack. (A somewhat unusual case where the C mechanism is a complete fail, the older C++ mechanism works but is incredibly ugly, and the newer C++ mechanism is actually straightforward and comprehensible.)

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/user_literal
Better throw it back then; they aren't in season right now.
The technology has been around for a long time, but the cost has dropped dramatically, which has made drones a lot more accessible.

In terms of hardware, a small drone is essentially a smartphone connected to motors, right? The autopilot needs a bunch of sensors to estimate its position, and it turns out that many of them (e.g. IMU, GPS) are part of smartphones.

With the mass production of the smartphones, those components have become infinitely cheaper, making it possible for a student to build a drone at home. If you look at open source autopilots like Ardupilot, it seems to correspond to the era of smartphones, I think.
> Eggs are readily available and a low-cost option to obtain protein and nutrients linked to health in other studies.

Not sure that's the case anymore. Maybe it's just in Colorado (due to a new cage-free requirement going into effect in January) but the shelves are empty except for some cage free ones for $10 a dozen.

> Funding

> An unrestricted grant from the American Egg Board’s Egg Nutrition Center (award #20194881) funded this research.

Thought so.
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SSH has the argument that they are older than the specification, now cargo, nah, a lot of application that use ssh hardcoded .ssh, cargo don't have that excuse
We could theoretically have the best of both worlds, right?

No unnecessary gatekeeping, but maximum necessary quality standards (which I distinguish from gatekeeping).
Okay, and what makes sure the browser isn't stepping outside the granted access?
Geothermal power is vying to be a major player in the clean-energy future
Fabulous - many great SNES soundtracks, I'd recommend this one - in fact, the beach intro too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peuTnilEv9g
Effort matters.

This won't solve a dedicated stalker, but it will discourage a troll who scrolls twitter like a normal person.

You're quite right that it's trivially easy to work-around, but if you just use a main account 99% of the time you won't even know that you have something to work around because you're not seeing the posts you want to attack and sick your followers upon.

Twitter is mostly entertainment, so most people will use it in the way that's the most convenient. That means "hide posts from people who blocked me" should make a decent dent in that kind of negative harassment.

Yes it won't stop somebody who treats hating people on Twitter as their job but how many of those are there?
This may come as a surprise to you, but there are plenty of us who don't have Apple devices to use FaceTime with.

OK, I do have a Mac Mini for development purposes, but I don't want to have to drag it out of storage just to make a call.
The fact that it has nothing to do with evolution is exactly my point. We built something that can fly but has nothing to do with how birds fly. So we might be able to build an AGI that isn't based on biological mechanism and/or evolutionary principles.
Cool.

I assumed it uses ripgrep (or the underlying walkdir) because that's the established high-performance tool for this. But apparently not.
That isn't a change of physiology, it's a change of our external environment. AFAIK there's no evidence to show humans living 100 years ago would respond any differently to modern nutrition than we do.

If the cause of being taller were internal, such as genetic changes: that would be a change in physiology.
What you seem to be tripped by is the fact that an information source can on first appearances seem quite legitimate and useful, by telling you all kinds of perfectly valid and interesting stuff, like the book you are promoting here, with all these nifty factoids about 19th century history, that fun quote by JSM and so on -- while at the same time also subtley (or in the case of this book, not so subtley) blowing smoke in your face in regard to other aspects which are important to the key message it's trying to get into your head.

In regard to the topic -- of course negative sentiment has existed against Russia, as it has against the US, the UK, France, Spain, Germany and and other other major colonial powers at various times. And of course politicians will always say and do stupid things, especially if we go back to the 19th century.

Where the material you are advocating itself crosses into the realm of propaganda is precisely: (1) the attempt to promote "russophobia" as an actual thing, that is, as universally accepted and recognized concept (it is not by any stretch); and (2) the suggestion that negative sentiment in regard to any version of the Russian state and its actions in the world is basically just an instance of irrational "fear", essentially a form of xenophobia, or racially driven fear; and (3) the implication that this imagined "russophobia" is in fact the tail wagging the dog of relations between Russia and other countries today, and is what's really driving people's perceptions about its current regime and what it is doing to its neighbors on the ground, right now.

Points (1)-(3) are all pure nonsense of course, yet they are the very heart of the modern "russophobia" accusation. All that stuff about what happened in the 19th century or what JSM said is just sugarcoating to get you to swallow and internalize these 3 basic messages. And then get on the internet and tell everyone about this neat little book you found, and how they really ought to read it because you know, it just might change their worldview.
How could Hillary lose if she had an 80% chance? That seems impossible (if i'm bad at math)!
While we're at it: enough with the brain teasers and weird analogies. These, too, have nothing to do with actual day-to-day work and are really just a way to exercise power over candidates.
And by that argument, difficult big tech system design interviews are interchangeable with bar examinations.
I think, strategically, that all companies want moats. I do not think this will ultimately be anything resembling a meaningful for moat for MSFT (or GOOG), given that it's designed to interoperate with anybody who can run an OIDC IdP.

As I've said about 50 times in the last day: the only reason GitHub is being used for examples and was the first one enabled is because that's where the overwhelming majority of PyPI upload traffic comes from. It's not a commitment or an endorsement; it's a strictly strategic move to help the largest uploading demographic first.
I wasn't criticized for anything. I don't have a Twitter account and only view posts when somebody links it or send it to me.
Yes, exactly that. Or anyone who hacks their Github account.
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> What if the relations between US and EU sour to the point that US is cut off from EUV machines and the Europeans cut a deal with Russia and China instead

That will not happen. I am an American, I greatly dislike Trump, but fundamentally you have to understand that if Taiwan is a stable enough country to sell EUV machines to, America's money is good enough as well. There is just no chance the EU plays this card, even with NATO threatened as a whole - selling EUV to Russia and China would be actual industry suicide with no tangible benefits besides the scorched-earth policy.
According to gadders the definition of ethical is apparently “what’s good for gadders personally”. I don’t see anything ethical about your take - i see nationalism and greed. Misguided at that btw because skilled immigration demonstrably is good for us and good for wage growth. I asked you to prove otherwise and you just gave me some econ 101 vibes crap
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People about to learn the power of network effects.
I had that kit and it was really good.

I actually used it to write a small game to demonstrate the PS2 architecture in my CS undergrad capstone project.

It was slooooooooow even by the standards of the time.
This is not cognitive dissonance.

GP is of the opinion that coding interviews filter out people who can't code.
It also causes inactivation of vitamin B12 with long term use. This can cause demyelination and bone marrow suppression.

By the time you notice the peripheral neuropathy, it's probably too late. Note: to get to this point, you would be doing quite a lot at a time.

Be careful with nitrous and take your B12.

https://www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Nitrous...
Dropping this article without mentioning Sandwiches of History is kinda wild lol
Had similar experiences a decade ago and now I hang up if the voice on the phone has an Indian accent and block all domains that send recruiting emails where the name is Indian sounding.

Don't give these people an inch.
Those developers frankly sound like idiots, I don't think they should be coding at all. Also yes, all of those things are easily done in both vim and emacs.
Thanks, I hadn't read that far into the paper. But I have to say I had what I feel is a good reason to be skeptical before even reading a single word in the paper, honestly. Which is that Facebook never felt so... blazing fast, shall we say, to make me believe anyone even wanted to pay attention to tiny performance regressions, let alone the drive and tooling to do so.
that's part of what i like about whiteboarding interviews -- you can get realtime feedback and discussion the pros/cons of your solution in realtime
Good catch, I remember someone referring to a sub that way and never double checked the numbers.