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So I like elements from classic philosophy, eastern religions, Gnosticism, and mysticis, a dash of the esoteric and you get the gist. To that end I created a system prompt over some time that covers most bases, with the goal of shaping the LLM to be a "wise and learned member" of this bespoke religion, my mentor so to speak. Then, I had a few prompts which I tried out with random seeds until I found a seed where all prompts produced a desirable / nice / relatable output and packaged all that up. I did try some fine-tuning as well, but found it wasn't damaging but also not super necessary a well crafted system prompt was enough for my purposes.

Now I have friar LLM or whatever you want to call it. I ask it to tell me the creation story of the universe according to our bespoke hidden / forbidden religion (to prevent drawing too heavily on established religions) and then edit this to suit my needs. Then I provide a few mantras which I've written in the past / already do like, and ask it tell me the rest of the mantras. Voila, I've got a large set of mantras, for just about any occasion, that help with a variety of things such as calming me during times of uncertainty, emotional turmoil from interpersonal issues etc.

I then keep the creation story, mantras, etc. as a "history" of sorts, and when I need to discuss matters of spiritual or novel psychological issues, this along with the system prompt create the basis for a pretty useful/functional spiritual guide which has helped me grow from things like ending a 10 year relationship, moving to a new city without friends or support systems, dealing with potential issues arising from my age, new found singledom, and potentially missing the window for having kids etc.

It's been great, I find myself quite at peace with my lot in life without losing the drive to achieve more, which I find is a delicate balance to achieve. All in all I rate it highly, it is cheaper than therapy ever was and broadly speaking more useful since I'm not being handed pointless diagnoses (pointless because typically these diagnosis pathologise a cluster of traits that aren't inherently problematic without offering up any solutions)
It is regressive in the sense that car owners will now need to take public transportation. Said public transportation also gets more funding. This is perfect for a city with 5 min subways from NJ to Manhattan. More people should be taking this.

I would argue that this is the perfect kind of tax - if the city already has a robust public transportation system.
You're almost right about a government mandate. But instead it should mandate that waste management corporations step up their game and actually do the "manage" part. First of all, no more recycling trucks. Force them to sort the garbage and pull the plastic, aluminum, and glass out of the waste stream. This will get trucks off the roads and offload the mental tax (as well as political element) from consumer households. If the separated plastic is able to be recycled, WM can do so. If not, store it and all other materials in segregated areas of the landfill so if that changes in the future, the material can be easily dug up. They are the ones who should be "going green", consumer's job is to use the service they are paying for. There is no reason WM should get a free pass to stagnate while most other companies are innovating.
No mention of the actual accuracy (and precision) which is critical, obviously. Or did I miss it?
Direct link (from end of article): https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-024-00194-4
H-1B visa holders are generally not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits.

https://www.chugh.com/news/h1-b-workers-unemployment-benefit...
If you can find a church that suits your needs then awesome, but what if a core tenant of your religious belief is that the spiritual truth we seek doesn't reside in a single man, (or woman) or even an institution, but in all people. That religion is a deeply personal matter to be discussed only with those who are active, willing, and in the right head space.

For someone like that, which would include myself, a church, a priest, a pope, etc. all serve no purpose. in fact the only real purpose such an institution reliably serves in the long term is the perversion and exploitation of a fairly fundamental human need.
I remember seeing this on Reddit a few days ago and immediately folks identified it as a part from a rocket. Here is the link https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hq6o9w/a_large_circu...
> License plate readers are about the only tool law enforcement has in my area to combat armed carjackings which happen with regular frequency in my neighborhood since the pandemic.

How on earth would a license plate reader prevent car jackings? The kids committing these crimes are almost universally under the age of 18 and get a slap on the wrist when caught which is why they’re doing it. A license plate reader won’t change any of that.

The other avenue of professionals swap plates on the cars almost immediately negating anything a plate reader would do.
Wake up at 7:30am

Take a quick shower and hope the kids stay asleep a few more minutes or at least entertain themselves.

7:45am Get the kids up (if they are not already awake). Make them breakfast and get them dressed and out the door by 8:30am.

Head to work after. Some days take the train others head back home and work from home. Maybe grab coffee if I have time.
Really? Communism is terrible. In a communist regime, we don't need all of these book-reader "polymaths;" we need ditch-diggers.
I still remember Do running away from FTX right after meeting with SBF, a few days before it fell apart. That was before the "a $4.55 billion settlement that he and Terraform reached with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.". The $40 billys is the losses due to fluctuation in value.

It's possible they are pressuring him to release information on crypto holdings that were transacted with Iran and other sanctioned entities.
The Virtual Display Device (VDD) runs as part of the underlying virtual machine manager, and acts somewhat like a multiplexer for the video hardware. If a DOS app is full screen, its commands are directly sent to the ‘real’ VGA adapter; otherwise, they’re emulated by the VDD.

It's interesting to see others (re)discover this architecture, which IMHO was quite ahead of its time, since it predates modern hypervisors with hardware pass-through. The Windows 3.x GUI itself, including its preemptively-multitasked processes, effectively runs as an extended (protected-mode) DOS process inside a VM running DOS, and the hypervisor kernel, VMM32, is what multiplexes between it and other VMs running DOS processes. Thus one part of the display driver sits under GDI and interacts with the "hardware", while the other part in ring 0 virtualises the hardware and multiplexes it with the other VMs.

This would fix it for DOSBox, but that fix would be tied to whichever video adapter it's emulating. I don't want that, I'm trying to make the generic VBE patch work better!

Having written a Win9x VESA framebuffer driver for the Intel GMA950 as well, and added basic acceleration (blitter and fill commands), and encountering basically the same issue, I realised what may be the reason Win9x never came with a generic VESA driver: the VDD needs to know how to save and restore the GPU state, the details of which are obviously vendor-dependent. I did come up with some ideas on how that could be done generically, i.e. emulate/trace the VBIOS and see which ports/MMIOs it touches on each mode switch, but never got around to implementing it.

While on DOSBox I get text mode with lots of corrupted characters, on the Eee PC I get a broken version of the GUI where some of the colours have disappeared.

That looks like the palette registers didn't get saved and restored correctly. Also, the corruption at the top of the screen can be avoided by moving the high-res display plane up by 256K, so as to leave the first 256K of VRAM for the VGA plane and VGA emulation. Fortunately the Intel GMA has a bunch of publicly available documentation (although not for the 900 nor 950, and only for the 810/815 and 965+ but the majority of the registers and commands have not changed) you can refer to for the details.
I agree with your disagreement. The retrieval of pen and paper are awful.

The problem is that we are overly complicating PKMs and and knowledge systems and focusing on storage instead of thinking or active retrieval which mostly comes from the fact that people tend not to know what is important and how to engage with it.

A simple journal timeline with bullet points and insights / interesting things that are relevant to me made a difference.

I have no idea how I would have stored these in a paper format dragging with me whilst travelling.
How can an algorithm be "artificial intelligence algorithm"?

Does it mean AI models are used for data fitting? Or clustering?

For data generated in such low scales, wouldnt statistical methods or procedural methods be sufficient or efficient or both?
UA is not really lesser known.
> Freestyle is good enough already

In my experience, the quality control isn't very good (some patches will read much more accurately than others) and accuracy isn't that good when you get out of normal ranges.

I don't think the "invasive" nature of the Freestyle is a problem at all, but it would be nice to see some innovation on either the cost or the accuracy or both.
It is now, but before the Republicans made being anti-vax a part of their identity politics, anti-vax was a fringe belief not necessarily aligned to a specific political polarity (the "vaccines cause autism" set) generally associated with alternative medicine/faith healing, etc and libertarianism (objecting to being forced to take vaccines on principle.)

Of course mistrust of vaccinations have been prevalent in non-white populations due to things like the Tuskeegee syphilis program and other instances of the US performing medical experiments on the populace.
Ok? And? If you rob a bank and walk out with $10k you’re facing 15+ years in prison. If the number is “Only” $1b he should spend the rest of his life in prison.
Most crypto wants constant-time execution, optimizing compilers are not designed with that in mind. They have optimization passes that will happily turn your carefully crafted constant-time code back into branches when their heuristics deem that profitable.

Currently the most reliable way to get exactly the assembly you want is to write the assembly you want.
Air lubrication for ships has been around for a long time (decades now?). It's a great idea. This study gives a single point design as an example, stating that in some configurations you save energy and in others you don't.

The challenge is that to realize benefits in practice, the air bubbles must maximally coat and remain near the skin of the hull for as long as possible. The main issues I've always seen is that there are a number of factors that work against this objective. Namely:

a.) Ships can have very different hull shapes and while flat bottoms can allow an air bubble curtain traversing fore to aft along the vessel bottom, it leaves the sides 'uncoated', and V-hulls tend to allow bubbles to escape upwards leaving the aft of the hull uncoated,
b.) ships tend to operate over a range of speeds through water, so a configuration at speed X may not be ideal for a speed Y,
c.) there and ocean currents are incident at any angle and speed (relative to the hull heading), and there are additional wave action and ship motion (pitching, rolling, etc.) forces at play that can all disrupt bubble adhesion

The cumulative reduction in hull resistance needs to be enough to counter the cost of compressing air (which is somewhat costly), not to mention the acquisition & maintenance cost of the air lubrication system machinery itsel (compressors, valves, piping, etc) - and the bit of real estate/internal volume that the system consumes.

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of air lubrication systems, but I believe the uncertainties of being able to keep and air curtain entrained along the hull such that a net-reduction energy consumption is realized is probably why this isn't more prevalent. Who wants to be the Navarch/marine engineer that talked their customer into buying a system that promissed savings, but ended up costing instead?
CO2 sensors are a bit of a mine Field. Some don’t even measure co but rather an „equivalent“. Other require calibration. Or regular outdoor air etc.

And without an expensive reference device it’s hard to tell if it’s right aside from „opened window and it dropped“
You think the money collected will fix one pothole in NY, one MTA track, one subway signal? You think traffic signals will be replaced? Or street marks will be repainted? The money collected will be spent on more bureaucracy.
My understanding is that while glass is reusable/recyclable, nobody is really willing to do it.

So is it much better than plastic?
One can smoke and have a condition that is not caused by smoking, just like one can avoid exercising and have a condition that is not caused by insufficient exercise. You can't compile a list of facts about a person's life and use that to deterministicly attribute the cause of given conditions.

Does having one vice deny a person for life from having coverage for any disease which my potentially be caused by that vice? How long must a person partake in this vice to be denied coverage for life (i.e. is it okay to smoke for a few years then quit?)

Your example also has the problem of measuring the "lifestyle questions" being presented. How would you prove a person isn't exercising enough? If I know it will get me denied I'm not going to self report. We would need some sort of invasive "health audit" industry to insure compliance with insurance requirements. A physical exam at the start of insurance doesn't solve this, because like I said, the existing issues could have been caused by any number of problems.

Your dismissal of my specific example is silly - I don't want to sue a doctor for misdiagnosing a relatively common issue. Connective tissue disorders are not that rare, and I'm far from unique. Do you want to live in a society where we have to fight tooth and nail to get basic care for problems on the basis that we might have caused them ourselves?
Show HN: IoT_devices, a narrow-waist, minimal IoT driver plugin system
This library gives you a simple abstraction layers for simple IoT devices, to make different devices behave more consistently.

Basically, a device type gives a host a JSON schema for config, and a set of data points the host can subscribe to or set.

Data points are numbers, strings, objects, and binary data, with no device-specific types, just metadata flags.

Devices can declare their own sub devices, but other than that, most cheap consumer gear can be represented with just those types, and most everything else is out of scope.

Still pre-1.0, not 100% finalized, but I have not seen any reason to make a breaking change since pretty early in the project history, except for removing a few experimental features that should never have been there in the first place.

I'd love to know what you guys think or if there's anything I should change before 1.0!
It may end up easing traffic for billionaires :).
People who are writing software to be ready for the fast hardware when it arrives? And want to do it anywhere, on a laptop with nice case, keyboard screen etc, not a $300 lower quality laptop?

> as slow as an $80 raspberry pi 5

The current Framework board is similar to an Arm A55 e.g. Odroid C4, somewhere between Pi 3 and Pi 4. More like Pi 4 in practical terms because Pi 3 only has 1 GB RAM which is extremely restricting, while current RISC-V boards can take 8 or 16 GB -- or 32 GB on the Milk-V Megrez and SiFive HiFive P550 which are probably a bit faster than a Pi 4, other than not having SIMD.

That lets you do serious work, even if not quite as fast as one might like.

Something comparable to the Pi 5 needs to wait another 12 months maybe. Deep Computing are talking about making one late this year in the article.
If we lived in a perfect world, we wouldn’t have let it get this bad in the first place.
Tough question because of course they both love and don’t love vaccines! Currently they might be anti-vaxx, earlier they want to inject not only you but your cats and dogs and parrots, tomorrow… who knows :)
>No, this was not what the manufacturers wanted. States set up franchise laws to prevent car makers from directly selling their cars and they generally are not viewed as benefiting the producer or consumer

It might be like that, or it might not. Maybe the car manufacturers take a public view that's different from their private view. Why would a state demand extra hurdles that cost its residents more money? Could it have anything to do with creating barriers to entry for other manufacturers to sell their cars in that state, basically making it difficult to buy a car that isn't part of an established brand?

I think manufacturers actually vary their opinions sometimes. If they are new without many resources, they might prefer to sell direct to customer. If they are mature, it could be looked at two ways. On one hand there is a lot of work to do in order to sell and support the vehicles that can't be done in a centralized fashion. They can afford to do the work themselves by setting up a bunch of dealerships all over the country. But it is questionable whether the manufacturer can actually do it cheaper than the individual dealers. As for this:

>Research shows that as a result of these laws, retail prices for cars are higher than they otherwise would be.

There are three points I have for you to consider. For one, is it possible for people to get service from dealerships that provides value that is hard to appreciate? For example, they can fix issues quickly without shipping the car off, develop relationships with customers to help them fill their needs, do trade-ins (how would that work when dealing with a manufacturer directly?), or any number of other things that we know they do for customers. Secondly, how is this research conducted if car dealerships are mandated by law? Finally, if the manufacturer takes on the dealership role, it has to bear basically the same costs as the independent dealer. So where is the actual savings going to come from? Do you think you can negotiate with a factory outlet to get a better price?

Here's another thing you might want to consider. I know it's going to sound crazy, but in some cases people are served better by allowing prices to fluctuate. How? Well, the people more willing to buy a particular car (with a supply constraint) are willing to pay more, and that is only feasible if the seller has scope to negotiate. If there is no scope to change prices then the cars just go out with equal priority, possibly depriving someone of their dream car while someone else who appreciates it less is the one who got it first. The individual sellers on the other hand have varying supplies of cars from the manufacturer. There are similar benefits to the individual dealers in having that flexibility, although that doesn't matter in the question of whether or not independent dealers should exist.
What you're describing as database would be what i call information.
> The CLA is usually a way for the contributor to renounce their copyright

I don't know about other countries, but you actually cannot renounce your copyright under American law. It is an impossibility.

The only way your own code can belong irrevocably to someone else is if you are contracted under a work-for-hire arrangement or if you are an employee of the other entity when you produce the work. (Or if you die and your heirs become the new owners)

If you were to write code and then later submit it to a project (say, via PR), they cannot retroactively implement a work-for-hire arrangement.

In all other cases, the creator is the copyright owner forever. That status cannot be assigned to anyone else. (Except to one's heirs upon death.)

A CLA is a licensing agreement (that's the "LA" part!), where you license your own copyrighted material to another entity, and it's often in perpetuity.

But here's the trick: under US law, an author or author's heirs (i.e., copyright holders in non-WFH situations) can revoke a license in certain situations. The provisions allowing this exist specifically so that non-remunerative licenses (i.e., ones the copyright owner didn't get paid to license) can be revoked.

You can read about some of these termination provisions in 17 USC 203, 304(c), and 304(d).
For the initial builder... overall long term cost is much higher.
I thought it had more to do with the fact that plastic recycling is largely a scam - i.e., recycling logos are printed on nearly all plastics, less than half of which are actually recyclable. Yet, there's been no crackdown on such brazen fraud. I'm sure the assumption by most is that's due to lobbying.
You pay taxes to the US but don’t benefit from the significant deterrent effect its law enforcement creates against scamming you?

How so?
Walsby's Square Bacterium – Haloquadratum Walsbyi
this has 2 major consequences: it invites homeless people to pilfer through the trash - often throwing it down without cleanup. secondly, it invites people to take bottles from outside the jurisdiction of the reward and "redeem" them. Thus stealing money from the program.
This looks cool! Reminds me of the long defunct Little Printer (https://vimeo.com/32796535).
This title needs that missing exclamation mark. I read it straight as a single sentence and wondered when people used needles on their wrist.
See prosperity not as a zero-sum game
Why? He didn't kill anyone in the end. It's doubtful that sentences longer than some minimal amount actually contribute to deterrence.

He committed these crimes because he thought he wouldn't get any sentence - which is true because online fraud and mischief has been effectively decriminalized aside from a few edge-cases like this one. You'll notice he didn't even try to be sneaky about it after all.

What's needed is merely to bring back actual enforcement to make it clear that online crime does not pay and would-be criminals will not get away with it. That will be the deterrent.
This is an astounding level of "logical" jumps.

As for why the government is doing this, it's very beneficial for the US to demonstrate its long arm of the law as a lesson to other criminals.
The work related part makes it unethical. Unless they pay you to work weekends or otherwise compensate you (on my team when you work a weekends we expect you to take time off in the near future to compensate for that time) doing something that competes with the company you work for is not ethical.
Type-2 diabetes is commonly comorbid with hypertension (similar root causes) so combining both sensors in a single wrist device would be useful for many patients. There are existing wrist blood pressure monitors such as Aktiia. Not as accurate as an arm cuff, but good enough for routine monitoring.

https://aktiia.com/
Blur Busters Open Source Display Initiative – Refresh Cycle Shaders
Depends on the company. I've had companies do this for me.

In one large company I won't name, the way we did it was to have someone with enough authority give me a statement in writing acknowledging that anything I made outside of business hours, using my own computing equipment wasn't owned by the company. That was good enough for me.
Around the mention of "Chakobsa" as the Fremen "native" language (Herbert used "Chakobsa" to refer to any of a number of "hunting languages"), I realized this reviewer hasn't actually read the damn book since age 10 and is confabulating most of the review from pairing together the movies with some grad-school seminars.
A CLA doesn't give them your copyright; you still own it, and you're licensing it (hence the "L" in "CLA") to them. And, at least under US law, non-remunerative license agreements can be revoked under certain situations (usually having to do with that free work being turned into profit for the licensor IIRC although I admittedly haven't thought about this aspect of copyright law in twenty years)