skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most you can tell from an IMU or gyro is that there is a change in velocity in a direction aligning with East-West when there is a change in location and that the change in velocity is greater when the location changes in line with North-South. The change in velocity would be greater as one approaches the poles and lesser at the equator.

Thought experiment: if I zeroed my IMU at the North pole and traveled in a straight line away from the pole along longitude zero, following the guidance of the IMU. By the time I got to 45° latitude I’d be traveling Westward at 1,180 kph (.95 Mach) to keep the IMU at zero.
Okay sure, faith is fine and I don't oppose people being religious, but it seems very strange to slot this stuff into a discussion about physics if it's not empirical.
You aren't running against a local LLM?
There is no way that Google won’t be able to ummm “influence” Trump into not dropping this. 2016 was different, Trump was a neophyte and pulled in people who were actually competent and not necessarily sycophants, this time around he is -only- selecting sycophants. There won’t be delegations any longer other than small details, overriding detail will come only from Trump himself, he will not cede any major decisions this time. Those he doesn’t care about the details on you can refer to Project 2025 for likely policies. I consider busting up Google not being a “small item”. Trump has said that the justice department serves him and his needs/desires, and will not be an independent entity. This will go for all departments that he has the slightest bit of interest in.
Fair. I wasn't aware of that, for the same reason that if you search Titan vs Claude on HN, you'll find way more mentions of Claude:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I think its fair to say this is also a hedging strategy then.
Russian Spies Jumped from One Network to Another via Wi-Fi in Hack
I would love to know, how many paying customers, especially big spenders, are leaving.
There are a finite amount of the small paper rectangles available (yes the supply is increasing, but it is finite at any moment) AND these small paper rectangles are required in order for US residents/citizens that earn income in any currency in order to stay out of prison. So, in other words, not a fiction.
Discussion (1211 points, 3 days ago, 1425 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42177767
Still, knowing is what makes the difference between gaslighting and merely subpar/inconsistent service.
The problem with monopolistic markets is that the new service won't quickly capture the market lol. That's why the DoJ is going after them, there are meaningful barriers to competition that creates incentives for Google to choose value for their business over maintaining a high quality service.
Who do you think I am, Uncle Sam? Holding each others to standards of who we allow on our platforms has nothing to do with freedom of speech in the US constitution. The US constitution does not force anyone, even the government, to provide a platform.
Yes. All I can assume (by making an ass out of me) is that you live in a big city. Come to suburbia, there are children everywhere, all the time.

As for the lego thing. Yeah, just take a moment to think this through. Lego has become absurdly popular with adult nerds. Adult nerds have money. Children do not have money. If your company was previously marketing to children. But, suddenly had a large influx of interest from people with money. Who would you market to?

Are you implying "The Government" is lying? Because now we're entering crazy-land and I won't discuss that further.
Runa local LLM tuned for coding on LM Studio. It has a server and provides endpoints.
Cool! Curious what do you like most about it compared to other solutions?
Last I checked, AWS reserve pricing for one year of an 8x H100 pod costs more than just buying the pod yourself (with tens of thousands left over per server for the NVIDIA enterprise license and to hire people to manage them). On demand pricing is even worse.

This is essentially money that they would have spent to build out their cloud anyway, except now they also get equity in Anthropic. Whether or not Anthropic survives, AWS gets to keep all of those expensive GPUs and sell them to other customers so their medium/long term opportunity cost is small. Even if the deal includes cheaper rates the hardware still amortizes over 2-3 years, and cloud providers are running plenty of 5+ year old GPUs so there's lots of money to be made in the long tail (as long as ML demand keeps up).

They're not making money yet because there's the $4 billion opportunity cost, but even if their equity in Anthropic drops to zero, they're probably still going to make a profit on the deal. If the equity is worth something, they'll make significantly more money than they could have renting servers. Throw financial engineering on top of that, and they may come out far ahead regardless of what happens to Anthropic: Schedule K capital equipment amortizations are treated differently from investments and AFAICT they can double dip since Anthropic is going to spend most of it on cloud (IANAL). That's likely why this seems to be cash investment instead of in-kind credits.

I think that’s what people mean when they say Amazon is making money off the deal. It’s not an all or nothing VC investment that requires a 2-3x exit to be profitable because the money just goes back to AWS’s balance sheet.
There will be a thousand breakthroughs before that point.
from the readme: https://deep-fold.itch.io/pixel-planet-generator
> Not sure I'm a big fan of focusing on concrete cryptographic primitives

It's a versioned protocol.

If you use version 1 of the protocol (which is still being specified), you get a hard-coded suite of cryptographic primitives. There is no flexibility in this list.

If we want to offer an upgrade, we'll specify a new version that has a different suite of cryptographic primitives, with a distinct version identifier.

The concrete primitives are just the ones I'm selecting for v1.
Apparently Trump voters were unaware of basic facts like "Obamacare" and the ACA being the same thing. Immigrant voters are just now becoming aware of plans for mass deportation and removing birthright citizenship. Parents are realizing that closing the Department of Education would actually affect their children.

They just thought "Biden made the prices go up, Trump will make them come back down."

He won't, though. Those tariffs they voted for will only make things worse, because companies will just pass the cost on to consumers, and start laying off employees.
If you had listened to the podcast, you could have learned through the grapevines that FedEx fired the driver.
The weird thing is that when I tried to tell it to distill it to a much smaller message it had no problem outputting it without any followup questions. But when I edited my message to ask it to generate a larger response, then I got stuck in the loop of it asking if I was really sure or telling me that `I apologize, but I noticed this request would result in a very large response.`

It sparks me as odd, because I've had quite a few times where it would generate me a response over multiple messages (since it was hitting its max message length) without any second-guessing or issue.
Should programming languages be safe or powerful?
Agree, this is a rather trivial use case. Let me know if you have any specific PR that you'd like me to test this on, or feel free to test it yourself https://github.com/presubmit/ai-reviewer
I have added two projects in the same repo here

https://github.com/vivek100/oneShotCodeGen/tree/main/example...

Thanks for the suggestion, I should have added them before.
I got a kick out of that link. Had certainly never heard of "vertical castling" previously.
Managing geolocations with H3 indexing in ClickHouse
New Steam DLC policy: players are entitled to compensation if plans fall through
I don't think training on code and training on chess are even remotely comparable in terms of available data and linguistic competency required. Coding (in the general case, which is what these models try to approach) is clearly the harder task and contains _massive_ amounts of diverse data.

Having said all of that, it wouldn't surprise me if the "language to world model" thesis you reference is indeed wrong. But I don't think a model that plays chess well disproves it, particularly since there are chess engines using old fashioned approaches that utterly destroy LLM's.
I'm curious, why haven't you used TDM I2S microphones for your array and used PDM?

I understand that ICS-52000 is a relatively low cost ($2/100pcs) and there are even breakout boards available with 4 microphones, which can be chained to 8 or 16, like https://www.cdiweb.com/datasheets/notwired/ds-nw-aud-ics5200...

Then you can take Jetson (or any I2S capable hardware with DSP or GPU on it) and chain 16 microphones per I2S port. It would seem a lot easier to assemble and probgam, if comared to FPGA setup.
My human responses degrade when I’m heavily loaded and low on resources, too.
You hypothesize that a god/creator exists, yet you do not show any convincing argument that this is the case.

If you want to make the argument that a god/creator does in fact exist, it’s up to you to show why.
This reminds me of Lytro, a "light field" camera, that could be focused digitally after-the-fact to any focal plane using online software.

Does anyone know why Lytro couldn't be shrunk to fit in smartphones? Because this seems like similar technology.
I was also curious about how a popular beaver [1] was raised by humans and "instinctively" knew how to build dams.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DggHeuhpFvg
Sonnet is better than 4o for virtually all use cases.

The only reason I still use OpenAI's API and chatbot service is o1-preview. o1 is like magic. Everything Sonnet and 4o do poorly, o1 solves like a piece of cake. Architecting, bug fixing, planning, refactoring, o1 has never let me know on any 'hard' task.

A nice combo is have o1 guiding Sonnet. I ask o1 to come up with a solution and explanation, then simply feed its response into Sonnet to execute. That running on Aider really feels like futuristic stuff.
The person who crippled her country's power grid has thoughts...
Given my experience with the models, giving it the ability to think would allow it to attend to different ramifications of the current board layout. I would expect a non trivial performance gain.
> At least the fact that he got a state-level conviction means the felony will stick.

That’s far from guaranteed. He has multiple grounds to appeal that conviction both through the New York state courts - and if they don’t overturn it, then the federal courts. If it makes it to SCOTUS, odds are high the conservative majority will be looking for some federal law grounds to overturn it. But it might not ever make it that far. Legal commentators all along have been saying the prosecution’s legal theory is rather novel, and maybe the state appellate courts decide it is a novelty they don’t like. Plus, the way it uses allegations of uncharged federal crimes to upgrade a state misdemeanour to a state felony gives the federal courts an easy way to overturn it, by deciding the state courts have misconstrued the scope of those uncharged federal crimes.
Colonic adaptation to daily lactose in lactose maldigesters reduces intolerance
"London skyscraper can melt cars and set buildings on fire" (Sept. 3, 2013)

London isn't famous for hot weather, but that may change soon, and not because of global warming: The design of a new skyscraper in the city is melting cars and setting buildings on fire....

<https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/london-skyscraper-can-me...>

Only one of several examples. Also the Vdara hotel in the somewhat more probable location of Las Vegas, NV, the Nasher Sculpture Center and Museum Tower, both in Dallas, TX:

<https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-buildings-attack-...>
please don't let this new "innovation" in buzzwords get out. its not april first is it?
Building a Vector Database in Excel
Chat assistants are table stakes. No individuals will be paying for these.

Search for bing, get to work.
Good to see more in the composting space!

Using the oxygen sensor to tell if it's anaerobic or not makes sense, what sensor do you use for oxygen and how accurate is it over time? Does it have to be calibrated often?

And can you talk more about the role of TVOCs in anaerobic conditions? Wouldn't oxygen be enough?

Thanks!
Fun fact, some software developed for the Atari ST survives until today. For example one of the fastest word processors https://www.papyrusauthor.com
The unbearable value of potential. Similar to a blank notebook or whiteboard. Or good land eviscerated for lawn.

The other day, after cleaning my own desk (~4 months of accrued detritus), I thought it would be good to invent a desk filing system where the benchtop can be moved out of the way and a different workspace can be deployed, similar to virtual desktops. A sort of 'physivirtual' desktop. I might just try that at home. My sketchy idea was a vertical cable-driven elevation, followed by a horizontal filing in to ceiling and wall-suspended racks for storing the array of out of use desktops. Electronics in particular is frustratingly object-laden, and any dense workspace array of test equipment tediously immobile. The biggest problem would be vertical space: in a typical room only 3m is available and 2 of that is taken for standing, leading to a maximum benchtop count of 2-3 which is insufficiently attractive to justify the investment.
Can an ideal gas of same volume, mass and temperature be brought to different pressures?

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-physics/chapter/13-3-...
Introducing Sill: Aggregate popular links on BlueSky and Mastodon
I wish this project godspeed. I used Pidgin on and off over the years. Last time I gave it serious use was around 6-8 years ago, when I created a full Lync / Skype for Business setup for Linux with it. I could even do screen shares and everything. It was a blessing because Linux was still a BYOD thing in my company, no support at all. And of course the stack was Microsoft based. Office already had competent enough web clients, but Teams wasn't on the horizon yet (for our company), and so, I had to keep around a Windows VM for S4B and other random stuff. That is, until I tinkered with Pidgin enough to set it up as a client. I really appreciated that it enabled me to do that, and I wish the best with the current efforts as well. It would be really, really funny to send iMessages with it one day.
Mr. Dice – A dice rolling gadget
I was being malicious and dropped down onto the hovering pink cube outside the play area on the final level. Once you roll off that pink cube your respawn point is on the cube, leaving you stuck and unable to get back to the main course.

NBD but sharing in case you want this kind of playtesting feedback!
"X is eating the world" articles are eating the world
It's not just cost of a retrofit. Like other structures, the utility of a dam depreciates over time. Unlike other structures, some of that is due to sediment accumulating behind the dam, not the facility itself wearing down. This happens faster than you'd expect - service life for a dam can be <100 years.

Maintaining the facility at full capacity means dealing with the sediment, not just the dam itself. For example, look at what LA County is having to do in the San Gabriels to maintain a damn we want to keep [1].

[1]: https://www.amesconstruction.com/project/san-gabriel-reservo...
I think it's fundamentally misleading, even on the central quantum stuff:

I missed what you saw, that's certainly a massive oof. It's not even wrong, in the Pauli sense, i.e. it's not just a simplistic rendering of ECC.

It also strongly tripped my internal GPT detector.

Also, it goes on and on about realtime decoding, the foundation of the article is Google's breakthrough is real time, and the Google article was quite clear that it isn't real time.*

I'm a bit confused, because it seems completely wrong, yet they published it, and there's enough phrasing that definitely doesn't trip my GPT detector. My instinct is someone who doesn't have years of background knowledge / formal comp sci & physics education made a valiant effort.

I'm reminded that my throughly /r/WSB-ified MD friend brings up "quantum computing is gonna be big what stonks should I buy" every 6 months, and a couple days ago he sent me a screenshot of my AI app that had a few conversations with him hunting for opportunities.

* "While AlphaQubit is great at accurately identifying errors, it’s still too slow to correct errors in a superconducting processor in real time"
Whoop Adds Psychedelic Tracking
I wish the environmentalists would make up their minds.

Either they want clean power from hydroelectric dams or the don't.
I heartily endorse Lisp In Small Pieces. It's sitting beside me right now.

I recently wrote an assembler in scheme; I'm in the process of adding macros. You need very few primitives to implement what amounts to a lisp compiler. A larger issue is bootstrapping garbage collection from manual memory allocation—while there are a few tricks to do this simply, if inefficiently, high-performance garbage collection needs to be tightly integrated with the compiler in order to implement a) scanning for roots, b) rewriting pointers when you move allocations around, and c) likely pointer tagging. None of this is easy to design around or to bolt on to a macro-oriented compiler-assembler.

And of course, writing the really fancy bits of lisp—escaping closures, continuations, conditions—take a lot more effort and thought and care.

Curiously, garbage collection is far from necessary to achieve bootstrapping. It's just rather odd to use a lisp with manual memory allocation. I've found stealing from Rust's memory model has been very fruitful in this regard (not the borrow checker). RAII is also very easy to implement with careful attention to how scoping and moving is implemented.
Why did the Leinster House bike shed cost so much?
Nice stuff! It's extremely fast and a breeze to use with cooperative applications that are shared by multiple users in realtime. Pretty sick work on the part of J Chris Anderson and the Fireproof team.
I agree with everything except the use of the word “anachronistic”. It’s using LLM for everything today that is anachronistic, because almost everyone today does not ;)
such an absurdly difficult game, especially when playing with old school NES directional inputs.
I am not sure that web search is a monopolistic market, though it seems that Google is the dominant player. Google itself wasn't the first player, and managed to capture a large market share from established incumbents. Why do you think that competitors couldn't quickly capture the market? You seem to think this is an obvious fact, but I don't see why, as switching costs are very low.

It seems to me that the important market is online ads (which is where other companies focus), and that Google is the only company willing to invest in web search.
This reminds me of better doctors having higher fatality rates because the most critically ill patients seek them out. Since Teslas are at the top of every crash test safety study, I suspect that this is a spurious outcome of Simpson's paradox and that proper controls would make the effect disappear.
Meeting certain time-temperature requirements decreases pathogens and kills weed seeds in the finished compost. A normal threshold for commercial composting operations is to meet 131 deg F for 15 days with 5 turns (for turned windrow sites).
If selfishness were our default state (as you state) no baby would ever be nursed. No wounded person would be treated. No missing person would be searched for.
Because in these "highly populated areas" speed limits are typically around 30MPH. There's a substantial gulf between 30 and 90mph. Are you suggesting that cars should be speed limited to something like 35mph?
Are Go Generics Simple or Incomplete? A Design Study
L-Tek is probably the best option by far that is somewhat affordable.

Definitely penny-mod them too (just remove the panels, tape washers under the edge of each metal contact point - it makes the pads way more responsive and more fun to use).

You can also buy a portable barre bar on amazon, that's what I use. Super stable and easy to stow away. A bar lets you maintain form on crossovers/jumps, and I recommend for anyone not super casual (playing 12+).

Lastly, if you are really serious, you can buy a replica DDR pad from China for about 4-5k, or a used real pad for similar. The arcade feel is much better than L-Tek, but you need a lot of space for these. [1]

1: https://www.globalsources.com/Dance-pad/DDR-metal-dance-pads...
Carr is perhaps the only selection who is more brazenly political than even Ajit Pai. He actually wrote a section of Project 2025.
Thanks for the substantive contribution to the conversation ... /s

You wanted to try to call me a hypocrite but failed. Better luck next time
In its trials, Ozempic was combined with intervention/guidance from nutritionists and fitness advisors, and doctors are supposed to reproduce this by referring patients. You can't do that with mice.

I think if I were taking Ozempic I would ask my doctor to halve the rate of progression to higher doses to make the whole process easier to manage, not just managing muscle loss but also the whole of life impact. The official protocol is very "crash diet" in style.

Anyone thinking of taking Ozempic should be aware that many people abandon the drug within the first two years, due to too much nausea, diarrhoea and cost.
I don’t think that is AI art Turing test.

An AI art Turing Test would be interactive with me telling it what to draw and what changes to make and see if what is producing the art is human or AI.
Threepeat
The End of China's Rise and the Future of World Order [video]
I don't know. I have talked to a few math professors, and they think LLMs are as good as a lot of their peers when it comes hallucinations and being able to discuss ideas on very niche topics, as long as the context is fed in. If Tao is calling some models "a mediocre, but not completely incompetent [...] graduate student", then they seem to understand math to some degree to me.
As someone who grew up with Game Boy Tetris, this sounds much too easy, to the point of making it quite a different game. ;)
Yeah, what I'm saying is that something very similar to an ontology is there. (It's incomplete but extensive, not coherent, and it's deeper in details than anything anybody ever created.)

It's just that it's a kind of a useless ontology, because the reality it's describing is language. Well, only "kind of useless" because it should be very useful to parse, synthesize and transform language. But it doesn't have the kind of "knowledge" that most people expect an intelligence to have.

Also, its world isn't only composed of words. All of them got a very strong "Am I fooling somebody?" signal during training.
We are bested
Are there any next-gen filesystems in the works? Is this really it?
I have been flogging the hell out of copilot for equities research and to teach me about finance topics. I just bark orders and it pumps out an analysis. This is usually so much work, even if you have a service like finviz, Fidelity or another paid service.

Thirty seconds to compare 10yrs of 10ks. Good times.
Hahaha yea

I've seen that in electronics lab a few times. The "temporarily light emitting diode"
Yeah, it's table stakes.