skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, what I do with the data using an LLM is separate and can be complex. I have written my own prompting framework I call "method actor promoting" that has two layers: first I tell the LLM that it is a method actor, using the formal terms method actors use. This creates an impersonating LLM that goes further, goes deeper in the impersonation than just a plain LLM. Then I tell that "method actor" the role they are playing is a subject matter expert in whatever it is that the user is trying to do. Then communicating with that LLM Agent requires the user to actually treat them as if the are that expert, and when interacting with them using the terms and language that expert would expect when discussing their professional vocation.

My prompts are larger than most, but my replies from the LLMs tends to be very high quality.

I've also written what I call "chatbotBot" a chatbot that will conversationally gleam from the user a new agent they need, and then chatbotBot writes that new agent, or modifies an existing agent to suit, and then integrates that into the system for immediate use. Then there's "agent morphing" where an agent can have their knowledge and skills morphed to another set of knowledge and skills - which is very useful for some of the more complex agents (the spreadsheet agents) that have complex prompts and are difficult to modify.

You can check this out for yourself at https://midombot.com/b1/home I'm building in public, more or less, with little to no fanfare. What you see was all hand coded by my, except for the word processor and spreadsheet tools, which as I've describe above, I've heavily modified. I do not use AI coding tools, I find they do not help. But I do have multiple coding 'bots I've written that I converse with all the time about the strategy of coding.
From what I can tell, they have not suspended it yet. It's disabled in the latest betas, and those have yet to be released.
this doesn't even scratch the surface. Slow motion cameras and real time sensors for debugging hardware issues, computer simulations, 3d printing.

Apollo program directors would advocate to start a nuclear war with ussr if they could get hands on that kind of tech.

But also NASA landed two SUVs on mars first try, using skycrane, Full remote. they developed and built mars helicopter/drone (rip). First try. But spaceX gets the glory because... break things??
Requiring a separate kit made of HDMI cap box, and two usb cables (assuming the box power is feedable via usb) also makes canon create further e-waste. That's only because they're greedy and that stuff is already inside. And nothing on the site of the camera https://www.canon-europe.com/cameras/powershot-g5-x-mark-ii/... gives any indication that such external app and subscription would be required.
This balance was a struggle for me in college. I'd forget without notes and taking too many I missed a lot of nuance and opportunities to ask questions.

Ultimately I realized it was more important to have a skeleton of notes and err on the side of paying closer attention in the moment. Then backfill any additional notes afterward.

Others would record the lecture audio. But that seemed like torture to me since it doubled the lecture time.

As others have said, the most optimum point varies per person and perhaps even changes per subject or over time.
I guess the share your home BS started hundreds of years before my time makes life seem more futyl
You do, capture cards introduce latency something around 30-50ms (at least the cheaper ones) and if you are using non built in mic you need to resync everything up.
At least not "Lua Programming in Lua"
Streaming is a major use case where the camera may be recording continuously for several hours at a time. Another one is for video meetings, though in that case I’d prefer it if my camera forced the end of the meeting after 30 mins.
Hm

> Let me be clear: this is pure speculation. The evidence is public, but there are no leaks or insider rumors that confirm I’m right. In fact, I am building the theory with this post, not just sharing it. I don’t have privileged information—if I did, I’d be under an NDA anyway. The hypothesis feels compelling because it makes sense. And honestly, what more do I need to give the rumor mill a spin?
I think you mean this link: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...
It's a reminder of how crucial it is to stay vigilant and educate users about these threats.
did you get a second glance? did you figure out why they are taxed differently?
Make fast food great again respect the ancestors
There is a legal distinction and definition, Legal Eagle on YouTube had an episode on exactly this a few weeks ago, about that the DA might have picked a more difficult crime to prove than murder. IANAL but IIRC the terrorism charge has to prove there is an intent to intimidate larger swaths of government or bodies of people. Just "other CEOs of Health Companies are now scared" is not enough.
That's huge isn't it? $800 bucks in profit per customer? What does Apple make? Or Unilever?
US FTC refers complaint about Snapchat use of AI chatbot to Justice Department
Which implicitly means: "everyone must always pay into the government pool."

If low-risk individuals are allowed to make their own choices, they will choose an insurer that caters to their group, thus depriving the government "option" of "premiums."

Just like with school property tax vouchers: if people are allowed to directly appropriate the benefits of their funds, less "desirable" schools would receive less funding.

Mandated government "insurance" is a form of welfare.
What The Navy’s Massive Orca Submarine Drone Is Actually Capable Of
> He was reviewing his junior team member's pull request. When asked what a chunk of code did, the team member matter-of-factly replied "I don't know, chatgpt wrote that"

I remember being a junior nearly 20 years back, a co-worker someone asked me how I'd implemented an invulnerability status, and I said something equally stupid despite knowing perfectly well how I'd implemented it and there not being any consumer grade AI more impressive than spam filters and Office's spelling and grammar checking.

Which may or may not be relevant to the example of your friend's coworker, but I do still wonder how much of my answers as a human are on auto-complete. It's certainly more than none, and not just from that anecdote…
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=enjoy+your+meal+thanks+you+to...
If only they'd do something revolutionary like give away some LLMs.
My first thought was that obviously he was a smoker.

I loved cigarettes. I haven't smoked in almost 15 years and I might say I still love cigarettes. There really is no replacement for the feeling of being a smoker, waking up in the morning and drinking coffee with a cigarette as the sun comes up. That is a large part of what makes the addiction so bad.

I say this even with the benefit of knowing how horrible they are for health. It is why I quit eventually.

It is really hard to be objective about your partner when you are in love. A highly abusive partner at that.

I suspect the only thing stronger in humans than love is denial. The combination can be especially deluding.
Transformer²: dynamic weight adaptation in LLMs
The last sentence got garbled?
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That’s why most productivity “hacks” are prioritization systems…
There's something I am missing here. I sync my servers with rsync, but it is over ssh - is this still vulnerable?
The problem with "people should aim lower" type arguments is eventually everyone is living in a tent.
Do you know Hussites? [1] The Hussite Wars (1419–1434) predate printing press and Luther told: "We are all Hussites without knowing it."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussites
Oh wow a company in 2020s is compared to company in 70s. Wow nice benchmark. We are going to be good as guys from 50 years ago.

Imagine Mercedes said it, or Intel or anyone. They would be a laughing stock.
I would eat that.
BTU?

Or Watt, too?
I'm one of the creators of OpenHands (fka OpenDevin). I agree with most of what's been said here, wrt to software agents in general.

We are not even close to the point where AI can "replace" a software engineer. Their code still needs to be reviewed and tested, at least as much as you'd scrutinize the code of a brand new engineer just out of boot camp. I've talked to companies who went all in on AI engineers, only to realize two months later that their codebase was rotting because no one was reviewing the changes.

But once you develop some intuition for how to use them, software agents can be a _massive_ boost to productivity. ~20% of the commits to the OpenHands codebase are now authored or co-authored by OpenHands itself. I especially love asking it to do simple, tedious things like fixing merge conflicts or failing linters. It's great at getting an existing PR over the line.

It's also important to keep in mind that these agents are literally improving on a _weekly_ basis. A few weeks ago we were at the top of the SWE-bench leaderboard; now there are half a dozen agents that have pulled ahead of us. And we're one launch away from leapfrogging back to the top. Exciting times!

https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands
So, Salesforce stops hiring software engineers, but OpenAI has 20 pages of open positions? That doesn't sound quite right.
My plan is to buy an old 1960-1970 280SL (or, really, any somewhat reliable vintage car) and stubbornly refuse to drive anything else.
> Are you saying that we should only pool risk between people in the same risk bucket?

People should be free to make that choice even though it increases net costs for higher-risk or less-affluent individuals.

> How do you aim to determine the resolution of that risk? Not to mention calculating it accurately?

By allowing private actuaries to make these pricing decisions: skilled organizations will succeed, others will fail.
Would be unpleasant if there was crew. Of course this thing is pretty far from human eating.
The problem is not productivity porn but productivity tool yak-shaving, where the tool undergoes constant churn with no or marginal justifying productivity improvements
> you don’t say it’s a good thing

But I also never said OP’s anecdote was a bad thing. (Why shouldn’t countries be able to tax video cameras coming in…). What’s the difference?
I use my Sony a7iv as a webcam. Plug the USB C in and it is recognized as a webcam. I got asked a lot im teams calls what webcam I use
The entire west coast sits on top of a fault line. That’s why people don’t build with brick here. There’s plenty of brick buildings on the east coast (and on the west coast like in Oregon, but they have to be seismically retrofitted which is expensive).
It's rage bait. People hate subscriptions, understandably so, and people without A/V experience might expect a camera not sold as a webcam to easily double as a webcam since they both can capture video.

It's just a really poor reason to be outraged at Canon (or Sony or any of the other companies whose non-webcam cameras don't seamlessly turn into webcams without some standard A/V adapters).
Searching online for a recipe, she found a video of herself in a sexual act
> Your kids will be traveling to space

I can 100% guarantee to you that the children of anyone born today will not travel to space in any significant number. There is nothing in space to travel to until we build extremely complex habitats, and that can't be done with manual human labor, it requires mostly automatic drones and maybe a handful of human controllers living in the ship that brought them there.

And building habitats that any significant amount of people (say, 1000) could actually live in will take a loooong amount of time and a huge amount of resources. And the question of "why would anyone waste time and resources on trying to live in conditions more inhospitable than anything the Earth can ever become, even with a major asteroid crashing into it in the middle of a nuclear war and a global pandemic?" will crop up long before more than one or two of these are finished.
Probably not, because the if-statement in my post is likely false. The Australian user base is likely not high enough.
Google causing global SEO tool outages
Mostly because a whole generation lost that part, and finds cool putting Web everywhere, saying this as someone that also does Web projects, I only don't see a value using it as a hammer for all kinds of nails.

Apparently the whole Windows UI mess is also related to Microsoft not able to hire new folks with Windows development experience, probably they only saw Win32 after joining Microsoft, funny how things come around.
Red is the "good," lucky color in Chinese culture. It's the color of the new year, of weddings, and of other auspicious events
Not sure. The article is long and I only skimmed it, but what stood out to me were the following paragraphs:

"After trying to fix Oklab for a dozen of hours, it appeared that the numerical issues it raises are grounded into design constraints we don’t need for the current task. And so do most of the other perceptual spaces.

[..]

So we could fit an Lch model directly from Munsell hue-value-chroma dataset, without going through LMS space and without even tilting the lightness plane. Doing so, we will not try to model the physiology of vision, but approach the problem as a geometric space distortion where the Munsell hues and the saturations (as a ratio of chromas / values) can be predicted by a 1D mapping from the hues, chromas and lightnesses of forming the principal dimensions of the model.

This model will need to be invertible. We will try to fit brightness data to derivate correlates of perceptual brightness accounting for the Helmholtz-Kohlrausch effect. Using the brightness and saturation correlates, we will rewrite our image saturation algorithm in terms of perceptually-even operators."

They obviously took a lot from Oklab but it seems to me they did more than just modifying it to reduce the residual error. But again, I just skimmed and I can be completly wrong.
Eugh.

Meanwhile, the 30 bucks camera I bought works out of the box. I didn't even need to install any software. Decent quality, no frills.
Very clickbait title.

People ran rpcs3 on actual jailbroken ps4 years ago.
The camera already have high-quality compression since it needs that to store video. If maybe latency is poor or other reasons exist not to use that then fine. HDMI can be a workaround, it still is an insanely bad tool for the job.
Not only Silverlight, XNA was used for games.

After WinRT transition, Microsoft sabotaged themselves, due to the way WP 8 => WP 8.1 => WP 10 happened to be, with rewrites, promised upgrades that didn't happen, deprecation of C++/CX, and plenty of other missteps.
It‘s a clickbaity headline, but at least I (as a layman) was not aware of the technique of AI distilling and found the concept interesting.
Research the car ahead of time and figure out how to disconnect the telematics control unit (or whatever that manufacturer calls it).
Fortunately (for him) he'll be President on Monday and can then order the FAA to let him do whatever he wants.
At least with my camera the feed is low resolution and has the on screen overlays on it.
As a whatever kind of being I am, I am repelled by the very concept of a system of productivity.

Any sustained system of externalizing or conceptualizing my tasks at all threatens my thought processes.

Once in a while I write something on a card.
Louis Rossmann is putting together a Consumer Action Task Force. If people care, now would be a good time to show it.
You test components in isolation, you test integration of components, you run simulations of the entire rocket, and finally you test the rocket launch.

You’ll catch issues along the way, but you can’t catch all of them before a full launch test. That’s why there are launch tests.
Makes sense to me. Good comprehension
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And "domestic industry" in EU means German :)
You're assuming that these practices are actually beneficial in any way on the market. That's a fallacy. Just because a company is making money, doesn't mean they are making good products.
Luxury vs premium vs ‘esssential’ at work eh?
It sounds highly interesting and would maybe partially explain why current models appear to get more stupid, or rather more boring.
It’s profit and it’s very large.
That's about the music royalties, the comment above is about the CDJs ability to play MP3 encoded audio.
That’s me. I wing it. I do this because I believe productivity as such is not a virtue.

I’m interested in creative breakthroughs, not maximizing any predictable or conceivable variable.
Import substitution. Before the free trade ideology it was quite a popular and (usually) deliberate method for industrialisation and technological progress.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_substitution_industri...
Freezing to death is worse than looking nice?
Apparently it was disclosed well enough for it to not come as a surprise to people, including German politicians (https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/volkswagen-konzern-daten...)

But fair, it's probably disclosed somewhere in a 80 page EULA for the app.
exactly what I expected, and thank you!
I found the same when the first Falcon Heavy executed the simultaneous booster landing. Watching them both come down, within moments of each other at neighbouring pads was incredibly cool.

Its sad that Gerry Anderson never got to see this. It's like something from a Thunderbirds episode.
I bet it’s Readwise…

- i tried it, and it’s okay… however personally i much prefer a more private rss reader, where i don’t share all my personal data with yet another commercial company.
Also, it’s quite expensive.
Yeah, I guess it kind of make sense the US has a somewhat different definition of terrorism that the rest of the world I suppose. I think in most jurisdictions I'm familiar with, the amount of victims isn't the consideration if it's "terrorism" or not, but rather if there is a objective to destabilize the state, gravely disturb public peace or provoke a state of error in a specific segment of the population. Basically, the purpose/objective takes a vital importance in seeing if something is terrorism or not.

But again, makes sense that the US would have different definition.
Devin does ask for help when it can't do something. I think I have it asked me how to use a testing suite it had trouble running.

The problem is it really really hate asking for help if it had a skill issue, it would prefer running in circles than admitting it just can't do something.
it used to be reported that Venice is sinking into the water but now the climate nut jobs have flipped it to it’s actually because it’s rising. I guess it’s all relative
Try and extend this logic to other highly correlative, immutable individual factors.
Capital One acknowledges 'outage' as users report issues accessing deposits
For cybersecurity, look at the entry certifications and do one of them, then start applying for entry level jobs.

Move on to the more intermediate certifications if you want to/keep learning.
I own a 2001 Dodge Grand Caravan. No tracking. Runs Great. I just keep fixing it, much cheaper than a new car. Plus I can live in it as well.

I do not know the year they started with all the tracking stuff but you can find an older car that does not have any tracking and spend the rest of the money making it mint.

There is no getting away from it though, we are all watched over by the machines of loving grace. You know with the new LoRaWAN and IoT everywhere scam they are rolling out there will be nothing you can do to escape the surveillance apparatus.

I am giving up. no sense in fighting it anymore. I am just a good little corporate boy toy now.
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> One of the key components of terrorism is random or at least very loose targeting and some degree of disregard for collateral damage.

Thanks, learned something new about the US today :) In the jurisdictions I'm familiar with, the goals/objectives behind the actions seem to take a more important role than how you seem to consider it in the US.
> That's only because they're greedy

No, it's because Canon didn't sell OP a webcam. There's no expectation for them to provide webcam software.

If someone wants an external camera that doubles as a webcam with no adapters, that's totally fine for them! They should shop with that in mind.
cool project name
That might still happen this year, it’s the next step in the development plan.

What makes these launches “non-production” tests is that they are not carrying any valuable payload. Blowing up rockets like this is exactly what gives the company it’s advantage over competitors who try to anticipate everything during design stages.
Nokia is still around, because NSN survived this mess.

As someone on the Networks side, with occasional visits to Finland headquarters, Nokia Mobiles would have done alright, if they kept down the Symbian/Linux path.

The Burning Memo killed the remaining trusth from app developers, in a company and ecosystem that was pretty much anti-Microsoft, just made the transition to have Qt properly integrated in Symbian, with PIPS and nicer Eclipse based IDE than the previous experience.

Only to be told to throw away all that developer experience, adopt Windows and .NET.
I have an old EOS 550D (I think it's called Rebel T2 in the US?) and I can use the webcam software for free. I downloaded a copy back in 2020 when Covid hit and Canon decided to release it. Maybe that would be the key to reverse engineer it and make it free for everybody?
> I have spent a lot of time trying to mentor these sorts of devs and help them to understand why just doing the bare minimum isn't really a good investment in their own career not to mention it's disrespectful of their colleagues who now need to waste time puzzling through their nonsense and eventually (inevitably) fixing their bugs... Seems to get through about 20% of the time.

I've seen that, though fortunately only in one place. Duplicated entire files, including the parts to which I had added "TODO: deduplicate this function" comments, rather than change access specifiers from private to public and subclass.

By curious coincidence, 20% was also roughly the percentage of lines in the project which were, thanks to him, blank comments.
> I reckon it'll be more than fine for older diesel engines

There's always the risk of getting your fuel tank dipped if you're on road. Moreso for trucks, but some jurisdictions will set up inspections and check for dyed fuel and tear you an absolute new one when they catch it.
Airbnb gave up on React Native just after that and wrote a series of articles about their experience:

— https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/sunsetting-react-nativ...
This is ridiculous (for Firebase). There have been countless episodes like this one happening, as well as the amount of people asking for a hard-block when the spending reaches a certain limit (currently there's only a notification that is triggered, which is anyway lagged behind the actual execution).
Making a mistake can happen to anyone (especially for a platform that targets itself to new devs) and makes me seriously consider leaving the platform.

To Firebase: either you must automatically condone such mistakes or implement the requested feature.

To anybody else: Does Supabase or other platforms offer this?
Some parts of Italy are at earthquake risk https://maps.eu-risk.eucentre.it/map/european-seismic-risk-i...

Despite being hit by earthquakes more often than other parts of Europe, usually only buildings and houses not built up to standard or old ones crumble, other buildings just shake and that's it. Of course, I do not know the exact risk of earthquakes in California and their intensity, but it's definitely possible to build earthquake resistant brick buildings
It seems completely reasonable and sane.

Jan 19. is Sunday. Trump becomes president Jan 20. Biden understands that it's Trump's problem now. Filing stuff in the morning just to complicate any decisions Trump may take is just silly.