skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Claude Pro paid version every day, but not for coding. I used to be a software engineer, but no longer.
I tried OpenAI in the past, but I did not enjoy it. I do not like Sam Altman.

My use cases:
Generating a business plan, podcast content, marketing strategies, sales scripts, financial analyses, canned responses, and project plans. I also use it for general brainstorming, legal document review, and so many other things. It really feels like a super-assistant.

Claude has been spectacular about 98% of the time. Every so often it will refuse to perform an action - most recently it was helping me research LLC and trademark registrations, combined with social media handles (and some deviations) and web URL availability. It would generate spectacular reports that would have taken me hours to research, in minutes. And then Claude decided that it couldn't do that sort of thing, until it could the next day. Very strange.

I have given Gemini (free), OpenAI (free and Paid), Copilot (free), Perplexity (free) a shot, and I keep coming back to Claude. Actually, Copilot was a pretty decent experience, but felt the guardrails too often. I do like that Microsoft gives access to Dall-E image generation at no cost (or maybe it is "free" with my O365 account?). That has been helpful in creating simple logo concepts and wireframes.

I run into AI with Atlassian on the daily, but it sucks. Their Confluence AI tool is absolute garbage and needs to be put down. I've tried AI tools that Wix, Squarespace, and Mira provide. Those were all semi-decent experiences. And I just paid for X Premium so I can give Grok a shot. My friend really likes it, but I don't love the idea of having to open an ultra-distracting app to access it.

I'm hoping some day to be like the wizards on here who connect AI to all sorts of "things" in their workflows. Maybe I need to learn how to use something like Zapier? If I have to use OpenAI with Zapier, I will.

If you read this far, thanks.
Baseball bats?
> I'd argue that the "rules-based world order" as most people perceive it never really existed. Some will say that it existed for a brief moment in the 90s-2000s. Back then, most countries played nice with the international treaties even if there were no penalties for noncompliance

The utter disrespect for the CFE treaty during that period is exactly what got us the Ukraine war right now.
> Not only is the implementation fantastic, with perfect controls, but the level design is also great.

I was surprised how well the WASD controls worked. Perfectly intuitive.
one day TM

i was listening yesterday to "Andrew Newberg || Your Brain on Enlightenment" from 'The Psychology Podcast' (host's among the 1% most cited scientists) & its pretty rad how much we don't understand about the human brain... & how much research is yet to be done; then a columnist pops in and starts wondering about sentience of particles & that may science has a hard limit because "consciousness" || meanwhile science is ballparks more solid/factual on validity than philosophy; yet (science) claims it doesn't understand much shit

i would ride on the pro-science wave/movement a thousand times more than a bunch of people trying to cap reality with concepts that @ least are dubious if not straight fairy tales for adults
I doubt in this case they'd weigh 10 MB, or have you experienced "terminal movies" growing that large?

In fact, I wonder if in this case the gifs would be smaller, while lossless.
Love this project and I've been following 'winamp skins bot' on mastodon and Twitter previously for a while. Fun blast to the past: https://indieweb.social/@winampskins@botsin.space

Potentially a small correction, I think the 'new' skins were introduced with Winamp 3 not 5. 5 was released because 3 was disliked, and incorporated both features from 2 and 3 (2+3 = 5)
It is specified previously in the text that support for references would be nice for optionals.
I don't even have a dog in this fight, but if someone cited a YouTuber—particularly as their first qualifying attribute—as an authoritative source, I'd just laugh.

While some YouTubers may be correct about the things they talk about, or may even be doctors or researchers, I think we're in a pretty sus world if disputes about factual or even anecdotal information can come down to whether someone's watching and getting recommended the same content on a video site designed to exploit chronic viewing habits.

If your crowd does differently, just cite that, if they don't, speak from a place of speculation if that's what you'd like like them to do, because that's basically what watching YouTube does for a person.
It is not uncomfortable once we realizing that we are but a mote, a talented mote in charge of the Earth, but a mote nonetheless. Once reaching humility, we are then free to bask in the glory of being a human being with the power to choose selfless love or selfish foolery, the power to learn and explore this magnificent universe full of wonder.

Reaching out to become love, we find peace in service, joy in our every interaction.

And, yes, via Castaneda's Don Juan, there is the known, the unknown, and the unknowable. The Creator of all that will ever exist is Unfathomable, Timeless, the Ultimate Loner, but we are capable of communing in some small extent with It, learning a tiny sliver of Its Nature.
> It's claimed that this model "understands" chess, and can "reason", and do "actual logic" (here in the comments).

You can divide reasoning into three levels:

1) Can't reason - just regurgitates from memory

2) Can reason, but makes mistakes

3) Always reasons perfectly, never makes mistakes

If an LLM makes mistakes, you've proven that it doesn't reason perfectly.

You haven't proven that it can't reason.
Really though, I have struggled, and I mean struggled, to explain to several people how to run a simple command as an administrator, over the phone.
Depends on how much of the work you do yourself.

Math is like skiing or playing the guitar, you don't get better by watching others do it.

Personally I find videos useful to augment books, but rarely a substitute for them. But I am bad about pausing, ruminating and practicing, you may be more successful than I.

But practice is required IMHO.
pretty much the only toys i get for my kids to get are lego compatible bricks. with those it doesn't make a difference if you have 1 or 10 kg of them. just add to the pile.

no books in my house because we are moving to often. but i grew up in a library. my dad probably has 10-15m worth of bookshelves. from my granddad we inherited 3 or 4 times as much. but they were both collectors, curating their collections with care. still, sorting through those books to figure out whats valuable is a lifetime occupation. and i can see how a lot of books can be overwhelming if you are not into that.

a year ago i heard about someone passing away leaving behind a house with a collection of 75000 books. the cost to sort through them would be higher than the value of the collection, so instead it all goes to a landfill because i a not even sure it can be recycled or the cost of getting it recycled was to much too.
Through stuff like https://ipld.io/specs/transport/car/carv1/

> It's also not clear to me how content-addressed content protects against node failures in general.

Imagine my PDS host disappears. Server's gone.

I can spin up a new PDS of my own, or sign up for one that exists, and then replay all of my posts from the relay, and put them into the new PDS. I'm now back up and running without any involvement from the old PDS host.
Actually, that’s probably the key insight. A democratic, successful Ukraine (not a guaranteed thing at any point) would be an existential threat to the “Russian World” narrative from Moscow, and upend the regime. Even a partially successful Ukraine with working if imperfect pluralism, and regular transitions of power would probably be an profound threat, proving that other models could work.
That is, unfortunately, a norm in diplomatic persons. Erdogan's bodyguards savagely beat up protestors on American soil and nothing will ever come of it.

That's not some meaningful example of the US being especially bad in international relations, and certainly not evidence of the US being especially bad at committing war crimes.
I’m not sure how the speed of sound could depend on altitude, even in principle. The air doesn’t know where it is!

Putting that aside, in an ideal gas, the speed of sound depends on the composition of the gas and the temperature and, interestingly, does not depend on pressure, and pressure is the main way that the altitude would affect the speed of sound. So measuring the speed of sound in air actually makes for a pretty good thermometer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound
There's one problem with Claude's chat box where ``` opens an intrusive code block box that's hard to close/skip.

But I also agree that Claude 3.5 Sonnet is giving very good results. Not only for coding, and also for languages other than English.
I believe it can, there's a demo under the "Directional Audio" section, unless I misunderstand you.
I mean, he's certainly acting as if he's entitled to train on all of it for free as long as it's not made by a big enough company that may be able to stop/sue him. And then feels entitled to complain about artists tainting the training data with tools.

He has a very "wealth makes right" approach to the value of creative work.
Let me rephrase it, there could be a misunderstanding: "Surely many people cannot think properly but some have much more ability than others: the proficient ability to think well is a potential (expressed in some and not expressed in many".

To transpose that to LLMs, you should present one that systematically gets it right, not occasionally.

And anyway, the point was about two different processes before statement formulation: some output the strongest correlated idea ("2+2" → "4"); some look at the internal model and check its contents ("2, 2" → "1 and 1, 1 and 1: 4").
Whatever you want to call the code that parses the file and emits a syntax error.

Though what would you personally call "the thing that turns it into bytecode"?
Apparently a lot of Trump voters searched "how to change my vote" online right after the election, so yeah. And I wonder how all of the Democrats who sat the vote out because Harris wasn't anti-zionist enough are going to feel when Trump sends troops in to help defend Israel from the few Palestinians still alive.
US births by day data is available here:

https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/births

For the period 2000-2014 the number of births by month, divided by the number of days in a month, is:

1 31 5 072 588 163 631.87
2 28 4 725 693 168 774.75
3 31 5 172 961 166 869.71
4 30 4 960 750 165 358.33
5 31 5 195 445 167 595.00
6 30 5 163 360 172 112.00
7 31 5 450 418 175 819.94
8 31 5 540 170 178 715.16
9 30 5 399 592 179 986.40
10 31 5 302 865 171 060.16
11 30 5 008 750 166 958.33
12 31 5 194 432 167 562.32
365 62 187 024 170 375.41

The difference isn't huge but it's significant. There were on average 180k birth in Sept. vs 165k in April and 170k in December.

Edit: also, here, a graph per day:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fm...

(The source is mentioned but I did not verify it directly).
Can a blind man sculpt?

What if he makes mistakes that a seeing person would never make?

Does that mean that the blind man is not capable of sculpting at all?
Which use case do you think benefits more regular customers around the world?
The whole point of this exercise is to understand what "understand" even means. Because we really don't have a good definition for this, and until we do, statements like "the system understands nothing" are vacuous.
> It starts with objectively good advice like "work out and go to the gym to get a good body"

This advice is given almost exclusively by men to other men. Similar to how women enforce toxic beauty standards on other women

And I mean, just because you don't see boners in films doesn't mean that society thinks that boners are bad. That's like saying that not seeing vaginas in films means society thinks vaginas are bad
It looked neat but relies on a cloud db called 'TIDB', I checked its repo out and it looks like you can self host that as well but damn - it's a lot of containers. So yeah looks like self hosting is an option but likely a pain in the ass.
Except it isn't a "bogus number". Fossil fuel subsidies are real.

>"It’s not just the US: according to the International Energy Agency, fossil fuel handouts hit a global high of $1 trillion in 2022 – the same year Big Oil pulled in a record $4 trillion of income."

https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/sen-wh...

I say give the subsidies to environmentally friendly producers instead, that don't use fossil fuels as the base material for producing packaging products. $1 trillion in one year is just an unfathomable amount of money to give away to corporations that are already making record profits far above the $1 trillion they already get.
Line of sight might be an issue there. I'm thinking more high-end clandestine eavesdropping. Fun fact: curtains are a pretty good defeat for laser microphones, but if the building is really old and made of solid stone, you can point at the rock instead!
So it's a $2.4B investment, announced as $4B.

Significantly less, still a huge investment.

I look forward to the moment the sunk cost fallacy shows up. "We've invested $20B into this, and nothing yet. Shall we invest $4B more? Maybe it will actually return something this time." That will be fun.
I fail to see anything of substance here, seems to be some person with a chip on their shoulder. Apparently the word cosmopolitan is a derogatory dog whistle for Jewish person, but why would an antisemite name their own work after something they do not like?
I made a simple rule - you will "talk to her" (it's a she of course :) ) just as if she is your actual teacher. hence of course you can't ask for an answer to your homework but you can ask anything that you do not understand in order to first and foremost understand the concept(s) and then solve the problem(s).

she will frequently go "I do not understand this still, can you try to explain this in another way" over and over for some concept(s) she is struggling with (last one was related to permutations)
I use PR-Agent for this, it's great
You can have a lot of fun with a tiny traffic light using an Arduino and three different color lights. There are bunch of things you can do to build on it.

- 3d print a stand (here's one I did https://github.com/SalvatoreT/howmm/blob/master/week06/Traff...)

- incorporate an infrared sensor + infrared light to simulate triggering the red -> green flow

- make an intersection with each of the lights working together to show the right thing at the right time

- add a crosswalk
That's also exactly how some poisonous mushrooms kill you, which I mentioned earlier. You become seriously ill for a bit and you recover, but your liver is already destroyed and you die a few days later. The only way to save you is for someone to think to test for that and to get you a transplant before then, so practically impossible.

EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91-Amanitin#Symptoms_of_po...
This was an incredible explanation of the types of issues facing locks. It may not be exhaustive, but it is certainly illuminating the types of issues and potentially unforeseen problems with distributed systems. I loved reading it, thanks.
PWA to cache everything locally?
Air pressure differentials, to be precise!
I remember seeing a guy selling his book about practical software engineering and project management at a trade show some 25 years ago. One of his claims was that he had a statistic that showed that a closeable door and muteable telephone resulted in 10x productivity for programmers / sw-engs.
"LLM can reason" is trivially provable - all you need to do is give it a novel task (e.g. a logical puzzle) that requires reasoning, and observe it solving that puzzle.
It is, but if you're running on different hardware than us, you'd have to do a bunch of porting. Buying a solution would be a lot simpler, as we'd have already done the porting.
Slight correction, latitude, not longitude.

The earth’s surface closer to the poles has less distance to travel for any rotation than the surface closer to the equator. As a result the inertial navigation systems of long distance systems must be adjusted. Iirc, this is also the case for artillery firing computations.

https://www.oxts.com/blog/going-round-circles-earth-rotation...

https://www.britannica.com/science/latitude
The Inner Game of Knowledge Work
Another thing I've always wondered - what would have happen if everyone in the room freaked out and just ran away, leaving the two reflector halves completed closed?

Would it have actually gone bang like a bomb, or more like just get insanely hot and give off an insane amount of radiation, but over the span of many seconds?
They are also confident in the investment because they know that all the money is going to come right back to them in the short term (via AWS spending) whether or not Anthropic actually survives in the long term.
Is that the same thing where a flat-earther tried to measure something with an expensive laser gyro and kept finding that Earth was rotating?
Ya I was off the mark, didn't read the bit about it actually being a bat thing, seems absurd.
Thanks for the feedback! I actually want to have it on mobile as well but will most likely choose React Native instead of trying to make the web app work on mobile (or maybe only with some very simple functionality). At first, my approach was to have a planner on desktop and route viewer/navigator on mobile, but you're right - there needs to be an option to update/modify your route while traveling.

Regarding state: it's only a matter of changing the blacklist array in redux persist config. Right now I have all global state blacklisted because I noticed a small bug with rendering the map layers when the state is persisted and I didn't have time to fix it but in the next version it will be persisted in localstorage.
I think "activist" in this context is simply shorthand for "environmental activists" has a local/distant component, as well as a direct/indirect component to the impact.

There are thousands or millions of activists, statistically urban and distant, that like the conceptual idea of a free flowing river with salmon. Most of them will never visit the river. These are pitted against a much smaller number of geographic locals, many of whom may suffer flooding and the loss of their jobs, businesses, and retirements. This is not to say one side is inherently right or wrong- it is still a matter of values.

I thought the article could have done a better job of explaining what the locals realistically stand to lose in this situation, and less time on the conspiracy talk. In my experience, the conspiracy theories come as secondary post-hoc justification for economic and cultural interests of their adherents.

> Neither side is more ‘scientific’ than the other; they’re both driven by values

This isnt always the case. With respect to the science, sometimes different sides claim different and conflicting outcomes. The extent of the salmon run when it returns is a factual prediction, where one side can be shown right or wrong, as is the number of people who will be flooded or lose their jobs.

Towards the end of the article, it talks about spotted owl conservation, where 9 million acres of Forrest were protected, causing 30,000 loggers to lose their job. The environmental activists overstated how much this would help the owls, while the objectors held the position that logging was not big impact and the real driver was out competition from the barred owl. The aftermath showed the position of one side to have more scientific merit, but that is little consolation to those who had their lives destroyed. Inversely, the bad science has no cost to the conservation activists, because they had nothing to lose from the regulation.

This is a bit of a pet issue for me, because I have family who lost their life's work and life savings in similar situations.
A human brain in a vat doesn't act on its own, either.
The test is to connect with our Creator and ask for the proof you seek. It is why we are here, but we are free to choose to ignore our potential, because our free will is so freely given that we are free to choose ignorance over fulfilling humanity's highest purpose.

In the clarity of communing with love, our subjective reality is harmonized with the truth of existence, thus our knowing transcends thinking. It is our highest purpose, but like all great loves, it is freely given with no obligation, only responsibility for our choices and their effects upon others.

As Rumi said, "The Way goes in." I have described this process more fully in other comments.

Peace be with you.
awesome, I'll give it a shot. I'd lost all hope of ever getting Nsight to hook into WebGPU
You just reminded me that during the first years YouTube had only a flash video player. It took time until we got a functional html5 video player. Flash was everywhere back then. And before flash players, the only thing we had were the Real Player and QuickTime plugins for explorer and Netscape/Mozilla.
Which is a sad goal, given that tripping is enjoyable for the vast majority of trippers.
Recall isn't even released yet.
Shutter Encoder
is she typing with it or using voice? I've found voice mode isn't able to generate pictures
By the way: I have seldom come across a post so weak.

> every last one of us

And how do you prove it.

> A Nobel prize was given

So?

> If you think, you

Prove it.

Support it, at least. That is not discussion.
Show HN: Best way to setup a fullstack webapp using AI to get >97% code accuracy
Best way is to create as much context as you can for your project. Agents do it by prompting you again and but still get lost.

My Solution: A python script that generates code with custom prompts and chaining in following order:

User prompt -> Functional doc -> Technical doc -> Backend code -> Frontend code

Using this approach the script forces the AI to document and save all of its assumptions and code decisions. To increase its accuracy it uses custom prompts and also adds on output of previous steps as context to generate response for next step. Its open source and free available here :- https://github.com/vivek100/oneShotCodeGen

Link to two projects generated via this script: https://github.com/vivek100/oneShotCodeGen/tree/main/example...

PS: This can still make errors, happy to take suggestions on how to improve it.
Bicycle (2023)
In the limited sense in which the world is recoverable from measures of it requires a model of how it was generated.

For animals, we are born with primitive causal models of our bodies we can recurse on to build models of the world in this sense. So as toddlers we learn perception by having an internal 3d model of our bodies -- so we can ascribe distances to our optical measures.

Without such assumptions there really isnt any world at all in this data. A grid of pixel patterns has no meaning as a grid of numbers. NNs are just mapping this grid to a "summary space" under supervision of how to place the points. This supervision enables a useful encoding of the data, but does not provide the kind of assumptions needed to work backwards to properties of its generation.

In the case of photos, there is no such `m` -- the state of a sensor is not uniquley caused by any catness or dogness properties. Almost no photographs acquire their state from a function X -> Y, because the sensor state is "radically uncontrolled" in a causal sense. Thus the common premise of ML, that y = f(x) is false from the start -- the relevant causal graph has a near infinite number of causes that are unspecified, so f does not exist.