skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the vitamin.

Many are water soluble and so any excess in the body is peed out by the end of the day and so all tests are useless. Fortunately you typically get more than enough as part of a typical balanced diet and so you shouldn't need to supplement in the first place if you are eating well. Though it is almost impossible to overdose so if it makes you feel good there is no harm in making the vitamin companies rich.

The rest you can get blood tests. In general it isn't worth testing unless your doctor suspects something is wrong though. Just eat a healthy diet and get plenty of exercise and you will mostly be fine. Maybe take some vitamin D in winter, but ask your doctor (my doctor told me vitamin d in winter so that is what I do)
I’ve wanted a Garmin for running but they are so expensive. I just buy a cheap old version of the Apple Watch for $30 on eBay and it works great. The crappy battery life doesn’t matter because the maximum length of my run is 1.5 hours.
The important thing is, when we're all replaced by robots, deep down we will know we are superior because we can count letters in strawberry.
Except we’re probably decades away from reliable open ended agents that can be trusted to perform any task.

There’s a reason why waymo started out in SF and Phoenix, getting to enough 9s to be hands off is really hard and current ML based systems don’t extrapolate well to new environments.
Little-Known Finnish Company Became One of the Hottest Gadget Startups
Right, there's already some very encouraging trends (this study out of Nigeria). Clearly AI can lead to laziness, but it can also increase our intelligence. So it's not a simple "better" or "worse", it's a new thing that we have to navigate.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/education/From-chalkboards-to...
That shows quarterly revenue not user activity in the US? In my orbit there is nearly 0 Facebook usage outside of a few boomers but instagram seems very popular.
To put it another way, it is an implicit cost of using AWS: You have to have contingency plans to cope with discontinued services, and you need to be able to realistically execute those plans. I think it is just another reason that AWS isn't as good a deal as it might initially appear to be for small businesses. (Larger organizations may have a better chance of amortizing these costs over many projects.)
Inspired by other receipt printer projects on HN, I just purchased a MUNBYN P075 printer last week. I thought it was going to be a lot more complex than it was. I thought I'd have to write ESC/POS codes manually to generate images, for example. But, it's actually quite simple, since there is a printer driver.

I also decided to make a text file for my daily progress report and shoot that over to the printer with `nc`. The only ESC/POS code I'm using is to send the cut command.

I'm also surprised how FAST these printers are now.

Everyone I told I was buying a thermal receipt printer gives me an inquisitive look. I expected that from a lot of people but I was surprised to get the same response from the tech people I work with.

Anyway, they are lovely little devices.
> The low-hanging fruit of the mobile/web era has largely been picked, making truly innovative opportunities harder to find.

I sort of disagree with this. While clearly the lowest hanging fruit have already been picked, I still see a ton of good ideas! This might come off as rude, but if you’re the type of person who follows the standard track of graduate with a cs degree then work at big tech for 5 years with your main hobby being socializing or working out, then yeah good ideas will hard to come up with. For those of us interested in tech but with highly non-linear career paths, startup ideas basically fall out of the sky.
Mostly very insightful article, except for one thing: the reference to the early 1990s recession as ‘the first Bush recession.’ Ancient peoples would sacrifice their kings when there was a drought or a bad harvest, and we are not much better. Presidents do not actually control the economy, and neither do governments in general. Granted, they have more effect on the economy than ancient kings did upon the weather. Still, economic cycles move mostly on their own.

And of course that 1990s recession ended in March 1991, in roughly the middle of Mr. Bush’s term (he left office in late January 1993): one might just as well refer to ‘the first Bush recovery.’ Neither moniker is really accurate: ‘early 1990s recession’ is best.
I originally entered on an L1B and was affected by an acquisition layoff. I wasn't able to work until my EAD came through, which took forever due to a certain president who is currently back in power. The single employer limitation carries risks.
Currently in an idle search of a new position.

Got denied for a car insurance company, one of the questions I bombed was "what is the topological sort algorithm make uses to build headers, and how do you implement it". The company doesn't use C.
Eval Is More Important Than the Model
I would wager that just paying attention to, and thinking about what someone eats has a decent impact on their health - so it feels like it's working, and like your estimates are accurate.

After all - once you started doing it, you started losing weight/building muscle/achieving whatever result.
I overestimate on some things because it is safer than underestimating.
We're an early stage startup and the models are expensive, we're trying to get the price as low as possible, but yes we need to charge to cover costs right now. Sorry about that!

You might get a yearly discount offer that is less than $2/month if you get lucky (A/B test split). But that's less than the cost of running the model for people, so hopefully others will consider paying full price.
most tech employees in SF
We will rewrite SQLite. And we are going all-in
I think there is some validity to the nature of generational knowledge loss through differing information systems. At one end of the scale, you’ve got 80,000 year old stories, still being told - at the other end of the scale, you’ve got App Of The Day™ style social media, and kids who can’t write an email, use a dictionary, or read a book.

This is no hyperbole - humans have to constantly fight the degeneracy of our knowledge systems, which is to say that knowledge has to be generated and communicated - it can’t just “exist” and be useful, it has to be applied to be useful. Technology of knowledge which doesn’t get applied, does not persist, or if it does (COBOL), what once was common becomes arcane.

So, if there is hope, it lays with the proles: the way every-day people use ML, is probably the key to all of this. It’s one thing to know how to prompt an LLM to give you a buildable source tree; its another thing entirely to use it somehow to figure out what to make out of the leftover ingredients in the fridge.

Those recipes and indeed the applications of the ingredients, are based on human input and mores.

So the question for me, still really unanswered, is: How long will it take until those fridge-ingredient recipes become bland, tasteless and grey?

I think this belies the imperative that AL and ML must never become so pervasive that we don’t, also, write things down for ourselves. Oh, and read a lot, of course.

It seems, we need to stop throwing books away. Oh, and encourage kids to cook, and create their own recipes... hopefully they’ll have time and resources for that kind of lifestyle…
> I went through the post quickly, but didn’t get why Signal would just download an attachment from an unknown number/contact without first prompting the user to accept or deny the conversation request.

I guess you went through the post too quickly, because it goes over how that's exactly how it works. Unless you have push notifications enabled and on default settings to include the content in the push notification.
Food delivery run by restaurants has existed fine for decades for pizza and chinese food. I guess the delivery app puts too many fingers into the pie.
>people are on average off by 53% and even trained professionals are still off by 40%. Basically if you want to have a higher level of accuracy you need to use a food scale or something that measure the volume of food, people just can't estimate portion sizes visually.

I can typically estimate them accurately without direct measurement, and with feedback that will tend to make errors cancel out over time. My trick is to note package weights, and divide containers into N equal portions. That is: I decide a target portion size first, and then portion it out.

If the task is "measure out an ounce of butter" I realistically won't be 40% off - because I can very accurately divide a rectangular solid in half repeatedly, and the butter comes in a one-pound package. Similarly, I have a pretty good idea how much grilled chicken is on my plate, because I know how much raw chicken I cooked, because I made a whole piece from a pack of N roughly-equal pieces weighing X (values which I noted when I bought it).
> every time I voice the idea about building something I get bombarded with premature growth and commercialization concerns instead of excitement about how to solve the problem.

Talkers hate doers and those who dare to think of doing something.
the reason the current format exists and is used is because it's very information dense. i think scientific papers would be better if they were socratic dialogues.

but the limitation in publishing a dialogue is that you'd just get to publish one of them and each reader is going to come in with different questions and goals for what they want out of the paper.
I think the economics drive the same way for all companies.
The bullet points below the abstract is basically the paper w/o reading it.
> And well, let me put it this way: deepseek-r1 won't be replacing anyone anytime soon. It generates a massive amount of texts, mostly nonsensical and almost always terribly, horribly wrong. But inexperienced devs or beginners, especially beginners, will be confused and will be led down the wrong path, potentially outsourcing rational thought to something that just sounds good, but actually isn't.

Are you considering the full "reasoning" it does when you're saying this? AFAIK, they're meant to be "rambling" like that, exploring all sorts of avenues and paths before reaching a final conclusive answer that is still "ramble-like". I think the purpose seems to be to layer something on top that can finalize the answer, rather than just taking whatever you get from that and use it as-is.

> Currently, over-reliance on the ramblings of a statistical model seems detrimental to education and ultimately the performance of future devs. As the probably last generation of old school software engineers, who were trained on coffee and tears of frustration, who had to really work code and architecture themselves, golden times might lie ahead, because someone will have to fix the garbage produced en masse by llms.

I started coding just before Stack Overflow got popular, and remember the craze when it did get popular. Blogposts about how Stack Overflow will create lazy devs was all over the place, people saying it was the end of the real developer. Not arguing against you or anything, I just find it interesting how sentiments like these keeps repeating over time, just minor details that change.
> but not to write the exercises

As the post mentions in passing, the integer-valued polynomials are completely characterized by the property that when written as a sum of {c_i (x choose i)}, all the coefficients c_i are integers. I imagine this is where most of the exercises actually come from. For example, using [3 1 4 1 5 9], the polynomial {3 + 1·x + 4·x(x-1)/2 + 1·x(x-1)(x-2)/6 + 5·x(x-1)(x-2)(x-3)/24 + 9·x(x-1)(x-2)(x-3)(x-4)/120} simplifies to 1/120 (9x^5 - 65x^4 + 185x^3 + 5x^2 - 14x + 360), so you could use it to generate exercises like:

- Prove that 9x^5 - 65x^4 + 185x^3 + 5x^2 - 14x + 360 is always a multiple of 120

(or 5, or any divisor of 120).
The ideal charging cycles are either daily or never. With some non-daily cycle, I need to add “does my watch need recharging?” to my cognitive load.
A well made buggy whip was probably beautiful too. But if economic forces incentivize something else, the skill goes away
Yep not a tech worker at all but here because i like tech and the discussions
> I could see myself using something like this to print recipes.

The home equivalent of a fast food kitchen ticket printer!

I think this is a fun little project, but only until people discover how annoying thermal printers are in actual use, combining all the user-hostility of printers with a tiny form factor.

If you want a really unique gimmick, you can get wireless bluetooth thermal printers that have belt loops. Intended as table-side receipt printers for waitstaff or ticket printers for transit.

Another unique feature receipt printers often have that regular ones don't: a 24V pulse "kicker", intended for firing the release solenoid on cash drawers. I'm sure someone can find a use for that.

(I spent some time in the POS software mines)
Thanks for that input! I've used it before as well, it was really good for images indeed, though I haven't had a chance to compare it with OpenAI's Vision offers.
It sounds like your describing models. Yes we have small models. Yes we have big models. We have rat models, we have matching models, we have twin models. We have lots of models I don't know about.

I'm not sure what you're getting at. These models get better, our understanding is improved, and we will slowly uncover more truths. We already have so much more knowledge about nutrition than we did 100 years ago.
I'm going to be the party pooper and point out that thermal paper isn't great for your health: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5453537/
Again, the utilities cannot be scaled as easily. There are problems with building houses right now because there just isn't enough supply in some areas of the nation grid. That isn't something being in the EU would magically fix.
Would be very interesting to see how other IM behave with this:

For example: Jami - one of the most feature-complete, distributed IM...
>Its quite bizarre why social media apps allow anonymous people to interact with you.

I mean, it's one of Discord's major use-cases. Joining a server of a common interest and meeting/talking with other people that share that interest.
You're not into ML, got it.
big companies care more about how easy it is to automate the labels, the accounting, the scheduling, ... Saving 2 euro per delivery but requiring a few hour of human effort is typically not worth it
To be honest, that watch line-up with dozens of watches looks a bit like Nokia in 2007.

I have no deeper analysis than that, other than that I remember how proud they were to be able to launch 2 phones per month.

I am a Garmin user myself, but i have a basic $150 ForeRunner 45. I love it and use it every day, because it has all the features and no touch screen.
Why did you change the words that I used? I said "strategy" for a reason. True intersex conditions (where the strategy is ambiguous) are vanishingly rare.

With humans, there is only male, female, and for lack of a better term, very rare birth defects. We say that arachnids are "8 legged species" even if due to birth defect a spider is occasionally born with 7 legs. We say a coin flip is a binary "heads" or "tails" even if there is a vanishingly rare chance it could land on its side.

This whole "what about people with intersex disorders" is total sophistry. If it was just people with intersex disorders, this would not be an issue. The issue is people who are very clearly one sex demanding to be treated as the other sex. The issue is publicly teaching children that it is possible to change sex.
An example (over 1 year old): https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/17dmev...
When I think about what a reasonable hourly wage is, I don't see it working in my country at all. My understanding is that the main portion of drivers in Copenhagen is made up of exchange students, who have to work some hours per week to qualify for student aid, so it makes sense for them because the state basically tops up their wages.
The ADCU has been representing app drivers and couriers in the UK for years, but they're probably not the best model.

https://www.adcu.org.uk/

https://www.wired.com/story/adcu-gig-economy-union-toxic-rep...

The reality is that a large proportion of app workers are undocumented. Worker accounts are rented or sold to people who do not have the legal right to work. We can't reasonably address the issue of working conditions on these platforms if we don't acknowledge that fact.

https://inews.co.uk/news/deliveroo-uber-eats-just-eat-illega...
Outline of the History of Artificial Intelligence
The swimming tracking seems magical to me. It counts laps and even identifies what stroke I’m doing (although I need to have a pause if I change strokes to let it accurately catch the change of stroke).
Big related thread a couple of months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743881
I was surprised by this, but you can install a driver and simply print to these printers. Or, at least, the one I purchased is that way.

You can also use lp, lpr, or nc to send text and codes to it.

Mine is connected to my network via Ethernet. No RPi is required to send stuff to it from any computer on the network.
When I look at the progress and advancements in industrial automation as a blueprint, and I have worked in this field for my entire professional career, and from my time building a few toy 'agentic AI' systems as a hobby and for education, the jobs aren't going anywhere.

They're going to change, where humans sit in the loop and how they program will change, probably a good blend of procedural control and object-oriented processes, where the agents are considered objects and process flow is defined in the procedural methods, but don't freak out there's still a ton to do.

There are many design principles we can leverage to enhance human participation and fulfillment instead of just replacing them. Lights out manufacturing hasn't taken off, why would we think a lights out society would work any better?

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funny enough
Just gimbal lock. Drifting happens to all of them.

But also the gimbal mechanisms, gimbal low response time, etc.
This doesn't surprise me.

Just trying to keep track of calories for myself stupid things like supersized slices of bread becoming common in stores can really throw off my expected calorie counts.

It seems like this can completely throw off any attempt at figuring out nutrition from an app or research perspective.
An interesting note about the history here. We can all spend some time talking about the reasons why the federal government has no reason regulating that plant and other things, but from a legal perspective I think this precedent was terrible.

My understanding is that cannabis regulation in the United States is mostly predicated on a case where a farmer grew his own non-cannabis, I believe it was wheat, and then the government compelled everyone to sell their wheat at a specific price, which he did not want to do. He protested and I believe turned the wheat into other products, which caused this court case.

The result of the case was that the government was able to justify use of the Interstate Commerce clause because the actions of NOT selling the wheat could cause economic disruption.

The case is Wickard v. Filburn (1942)

This was essentially re-upped in 2005 with Gonzales v. Raich (2005)

Wickard v. Filburn established "activities local in nature can still be regulated by Congress if, in the aggregate, they could substantially affect interstate commerce."

The effects of this ruling are broad. Like all things there are plenty of things that as it stands right now are built on top of that legal "system" like bills that enforce clean drinking water, but those can be done a different and correct way and we don't need the government using this method to accomplish that.
It's hard to read with all the fancy scrolling.
There must have been a breakdown somewhere in our objective view of reality when doing fascist salutes at the inauguration of the largest tech-business bearing country in the world, by the wealthiest tech CEO in the world, are whittled down to "Celebrity troll moves". I don't know if HN is beyond saving, but it does feel like it tows the line when it comes to techno-fascism.

A discussion worth having, if we could.
Another possible conclusion is that your definition of good, whatever that may be, doesn’t include the benchmarks these models are targeting.

I don’t actually know what they all are, but MATH-500 for instance is some math problem solving that Sonnet is not all that good at.

The benchmarks are targeting specific weaknesses that LLMs generally have from only learning next token prediction and instruction tuning. In fact, benchmarks show there are large gaps in some areas, like math, where even top models don’t perform well.

‘According to these benchmarks’ is key, but not for the reasons you’re expressing.

Option 3
3) It’s key because that’s the hole they’re trying to fill. Realistically, most people in personal usage aren’t using models to solve algebra problems, so the performance of that benchmark isn’t as visible if you aren’t using an LLM for that.

If you look at a larger suite of benchmarks, then I would expect them to underperform compared to sonnet. It’s no different than sports stats where you can say who is best at one specific part of the game (rebounds, 3 point shots, etc) and you have a general sense of who is best (eg LeBron, Jordan), but the best players are neither the best at everything and it’s hard to argue who is the ‘best of the best’ because that depends on what weight you give to the different individual benchmarks they’re good at. And then you also have a lot of players who are good at doing one thing.
when's the last time you were happy and excited when someone randomly knocked on your door? exactly
especially since they won't support exporting password hashes.
Focussing on pricing those externalities (tiny as they'll be in a 100% renewable world), through laws + policy, is a better strategy than trying to convince people not to use their electricity for <thing I personally don't value>.
A regular printer, a binder, and a three-hole punch work fine. As a bonus, the printer is also useful in other ways, and any mementos produced with it will last in a way thermal paper never really does.
> We will add a paid tier at some point, but unsure of the pricing for now. However, the self hosted version will be free forever and there will be a generous free tier too.

What you wrote above is clear and helpful to me - and in any case I find it more useful than "it's free (for now)".
The compensation is often lower energy levels. Your body compensates by keeping you from doing as much.
> Given Cloudflare's less-than-straight approach to sales, it is astonishing the words "secure" and "Signal" ever appear in the same sentence.

This is an overly binary take. Security is all about threat models, and for most of us the threat model that Signal is solving is "mainstream for-profit apps snoop on the contents of my messages and use them to build an advertising profile". Most of us using it are not using Signal to skirt law enforcement, so our threat model does not include court orders and warrants.

Signal can and should append some noise to the images when encrypted (or better yet, pad them to a set file size as suggested by paulryanrogers in a sibling comment) to mitigate the risks of this attack for those who do have threat models that require it, but for the vast majority of us Signal is just as fit for purpose as we thought it was.
Am I the only one to expect a S curve regarding progress and not an eternal exponential ?

People moving away from prideful principle to leverage new tech in the past doesn't guarantee that the same idea in the current context will pan out.

But as you say.. we'll see.