skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowadays they use pre-trained pattern recognition AI models, yes, which has become much more impressive (and CPU-intensive) with mirrorless cameras where the entire resolution of the main image sensor is available for analyzing the scene. Some higher-end traditional DSLRs have a "high"-resolution (around 0.1 MPix or so) metering sensor that is used to assist the AF system (eg. what Canon calls iSA and iTR [1]).

Traditionally, cameras would just focus using the single focus point the photographer has selected, or if they have selected a larger area focusing mode, the camera would typically pick the closest point of a group of points, assuming that that's usually what the photographer is interested in. (Remember that traditional (D)SLRs have a discrete AF sensor with at most a few dozen focusing points to choose from!)

In tracking AF modes (eg. Canon's Servo AF), depending on settings, the camera tries to avoid sudden shifts in focus even if a foreground object momentarily occludes the original target. Tracking AF also has to predict the subject's motion to prevent the focus from lagging behind a fast-moving subject. Higher-end cameras allow configuring the AF behavior in terms of how reactive vs "sticky" it should be when tracking a subject, and how linear the subject's motion is expected to be.

[1] https://www.canon.com.hk/cpx/en/technical/pa_Overview_of_65-...
"Orthodox" is the word you're looking for. "Heterodox" means not mainstream. MMT is heterodox.
There was a moniker for the few people with high speed back then - LPB - low ping bastards. All those fortunate enough to live in a city with adsl or cable high speed in the early days (or gaming at work or university on the T1)
Building up to an Internal Family Systems model (2019)
Technically both techniques can be used for gps hacking. It also seems you can fake a gps signal altogether, because the public signal is not cryptographically signed, which surprises me (the only thing that makes sense to me is that the gps protocol doesn't have room for adding a signature, so it'd be a breaking change to the protocol).
what do you mean by chatgpt versions?
Yes. SpaceX absolutely depends on the v^2 automatic deceleration effect the atmosphere provides. They also depend on GPS which is not available on the moon. SpaceX also takes advantage of 50 years of improvement in orientation sensors, INS, image analysis, thrust vectoring servos, and thrust control.

As another post points out, the Apollo landings had real pilots who could look out the window. It's a testament to their skills that they all made it home.
> Halfway through my freshman year I decided to swap the motherboard and CPU for a crazy motherboard/CPU combo. There was a brief moment where Intel Celerons didn't really prevent you from using them in a dual CPU setup, so I had two 366mhz Celerons overclocked to ~433mhz (sometimes up to 533mhz, but that was less stable) and started playing around with OSs like Linux and BeOS to actually take advantage of them.

Half of HN alive at the time probably had that motherboard - ABIT BP6 was the reason I got my hands on a copy of W2K, and also started playing with Linux.
> Ok, I think I know who you voted for in the last election...

No, you don't ;)

Anyways, it's not only about Germany. It's the whole Europe. The establishment uses tricks, fraud, and deception to stay in power despite diminishing support and introduce policies opposed to the majority will of the people.

In Germany, one party was prevented getting into the parliament by theft. In Romania, the election was annulled, and the leading candidate prevented to candidate because he was the wrong one. In Moldova, the election was manipulated by the government deciding which diaspora has the right to vote, and which not. In Slovakia, the elected president got shot for the wrong politics. In the Ukraine, president refuses to organize an election or transfer the power to the Head of Parliament, as the constitution requires, since he's a good guy. France, Ireland, Italy, Poland, everywhere the same or similar story.

JD Vance was right. It's not democracy and not free speech and not freedom, when one group op people have the power to decide about election results, and no real opposition is allowed.

And the party you think I voted for is getting bigger and bigger, not because they offer any solution. They don't. It's because the ruling parties keep pushing policies and laws that suit only a small minority, and which a majority of people oppose. It's the current (and future) German government that is bringing us closer to 1933. You can't blame an opposition for that.
Just because there's a PR process in place doesn't mean that it's any good. At one place, we desperately avoided some sections of the code base because we didn't want to trigger a PR that would force us to interact with the team running that section. They were slow, obnoxious and power mad.

A PR is only as good as the person evaluating it. You can't even say reliably that it's better than nothing because sometimes it isn't.
Your claim was most companies though but to be fair, you are more accurate.
Most of The big tech companies that are viewed heavily on levels.fyi definitely has question banks.
Small article with little depth, but it mentions a few core points.

One of them is related to a statement that got me a puzzling lynching a few days a go: after a member rejoiced after seeing that AMD's new LLMs are based on open material, I asked why exactly, noting that «A great part of the important material for knowledge and mandatory intellectual exercise is not "open" (possibly "accessible", yet under copy rights)». Now this article mentions how

> “The reason [Small Language Models] get so good with such small models and such little data is that they use high-quality data instead of the messy stuff” [Zico] Kolter[, Carnegie Mellon Uni] said

This should be valid not just for "distillation", but also for the original dataset (collect our intellectual output as opposed to vast random output...).

And, while it may be true that "quantity can bring emergency", this phenomenon should be studied quantitatively and qualitatively, so we can calibrate the resources to get what we want.
Rhysida pwns two US healthcare orgs, extracts over 300K patients' data
That and high speed internet. I played for a couple of years on 28.8K. The day I got a better graphics card was great. No more choppiness. The day I got cable internet was life changing in Tribes (and Tribes 2)!

I think I still have a pic somewhere of the infamous NoFix scolding "LPBs"

"Shazbot!" "The enemy is in our base!" "Woohoo!"
The cheapest way to supercharge America's power grid
Show HN: Open-source Garmin Express alternative for syncing music
Oh, wow, I bet you’re right! I thought it was part of Night Mission but now that you mention it…
Fraud is being pretty heavily normalized. The crypto space model is what all things are moving to imo with the feds being dismantled
I have no wish to use bitcoin as a currency. Maybe one day, perhaps not in my lifetime it will become one, but I'm fine with it being the hardest liquid store of value we've ever seen and will likely ever see.

It's also not trivial to "deanonymize" bitcoin. Especially if it was acquired through non-KYC and/or takes steps to add privacy (such as conjoin or non-KYC on/off ramps).
> The US has historically provided between $200m (£155m) and $250m a year in bilateral funding to poorer countries for their work on TB, the World Health Organization said last week, warning that “abrupt funding cuts” would “cripple TB prevention and treatment efforts, reverse decades of progress, and endanger millions of lives”.

> The WHO and UN have set targets of eradicating the disease by 2030, but even before the US aid decision, there was an $11bn shortfall in the global response.

So even without the usaid money, we're still at an $11bn shortfall due to rounding! Nice try, Guardian!

The whole world is shocked and awed that we stopped paying while holding out empty wallets themselves.

The US isn't an empire in decline...it was given away!
If I had that leverage, I certainly would hard-pass, but the market just isn't there right now. I have hands-on dev experience (and the education) in different roles, but none of those roles are solely as a "software developer," so just getting the opportunity to do these goofy things is almost necessary just to get a seat at the table so to speak to begin talking about my background and KSAs. One thing to note is it is all perms given through the browser.

The most recent example for me was even worse- the position was for a web dev asking for experience in C#/.NET. The integrated IDE had all of the usual spyware did not actually compile anything or run any example checks. Then it proceeded, without any brief at all, to ask 7 more 'optional' gotcha-like questions on C pointers and nuances.

It's a terrible time to want to pivot into dev full-time, from the lense of being in the job market anyways.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1898674257808515242.html
OpenAI: How We think about safety and alignment
you mean memory T cell right? As I understand it B cells are created by T cells to an acute infection.(they also kill infected cells but this is a gross simplification and i'm not a epidemiologist.)
C has less moving parts — it’s more difficult to define a subset of C++ that actually works across all platforms featuring a C++ compiler, not to mention of all the binary-incompatible versions of the C++ standard library that tend to exist — and C is supported on a wider variety of platforms. If you want to maximize portability, C is the way to go, and you run into much fewer problems.
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Huh, I thought it was Donatello that was missing from the list.
Mind you this only helps to tell you if the signal is authentic, you're still without that navigation system at that point, hence the search for a localized alternative.
Well here's one: tons of people do drugs. It's not even a question whether or not drugs have inspired discoveries. They obviously have.
I never thought I'd see the day that LessWrong would be accused of being biased against near-term AGI forecasts (and for none of the 5 replies to question this description either). But here we are. Indeed do many things come to pass.
> Instead it took a few hours, and I finished a project.

Did you?

If you wanted to expand on it, or debug it when it fails, do you really understand the solution completely? (Perhaps you do.)

Don't get me wrong, I've done the same in the last few years and I've completed several fun projects this way.

But I only use AI on things I know I don't care about personally. If I use too much AI on things I actually want to know, I feel my abilities deteriorating.
Open metric export&import tool for Prometheus migrations
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I think "math is solved" refers more to AI performing math studies at the level of a mathematics graduate student. Obviously "math" won't ever be "solved" but the problem of AI getting to a certain math proficiency level could be. No matter how good an AI is, if P != NP it won't be able to prove P=NP.

Regardless I don't think our AI systems are close to a proficiency breakthrough.

Edit: it is odd that "math is solved" is never explained. But "proficient to do math research" makes the most sense to me.
Seems that way given how the site is sometimes responsive. I can bring up my replies so that part of the site is working.
It seems like the emphasis on getting results in one shot reduces the maximum potential quality of the output as compared to a more incremental approach. For example, create an initial prompt to generate a structured description of the features in the program you've described. You can then iterate on this and follow up with a prompt that generates a structured description of a system architecture based on the feature description, and iterate on that. You could build up other informational layers as well, before aggregating all that structural data into the generation of the actual code. This can feed into the generation of tests as well.

If you look at things like LLM party for comfyui, it's the same basic concept.
> If they're being forced to do something, that suggests someone doesn't believe they would do it voluntarily

But wait. US retail shops are not forced to accept USD.

They can, if they choose, accept payment only in smiles. Or CAD, or good vibes.

(Taxes, however, must be paid in USD).

In practice, US retail wants USD, for obvious reasons. There are no viable widespread alternatives (but there are countless insignificant local currencies!).
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Show HN: Typing Game for League of Legends
This typing game helps players build muscle memory for commonly used keys in League of Legends.

I created this for my wife who excels at typing games that test speed and accuracy. Despite being a fast typist, she often needed to look down to locate specific keys like 'F' on the keyboard when playing. I wanted to help her develop muscle memory so that she doesn't break her in-game flow.

While specifically designed for League of Legends, this web app can be easily repurposed for any game or learning requirement.

I build this using an AI app builder, modified the code a little, then deployed it.
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(author here)

> The problem is 95% about laying out the instruction dispatching code for the branch predictor to work optimally.

A fun fact I learned while writing this post is that that's no longer true! Modern branch predictors can pretty much accurately predict through a single indirect jump, if the run is long enough and the interpreted code itself has stable behavior!

Here's a paper that studied this (for both real hardware and a certain simulated branch predictor): https://inria.hal.science/hal-01100647/document

My experiments on this project anecdotally agree; they didn't make it into the post but I also explored a few of the interpreters through hardware CPU counters and `perf stat`, and branch misprediction never showed up as a dominant factor.
This is very cool. Kuzu has a ton of great blog content on all the ways they make Kuzu light and fast. WebLMM (or in the future chrome.ai.* etc) + embedded graph could make for some great UXes

At one time I thought I read that there was a project to embed Kuzu into DuckDB, but bringing a vector store natively into kuzu sounds even better.
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I have the mstick4. If you have android auto, it is amazing.
https://www.m-gears.com/
That sort of arrogance is absolutely out of control in the tech industry and it's bizarre because I've never seen it at the remotely same level anywhere else.
X Under Cyberattack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323111

X Is Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322371

X (Twitter) Is Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318757

Is X Down? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318709

X / Twitter down for a third time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321933

X down: Twitter not working amid major outage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43320900
Does make me wonder about the 18th and early 19th C, where the written language was very polite and formal but people regularly had duels and killed each other. But perhaps spoken language at the time was far less polite? What did Hamilton and Burr shout at each other in Weehawken, I wonder.
Sometimes people say something I agree with in a way which is so annoying it makes me want to disagree with them.

It's bad USAid stopped funding this but can you tell me that in a less infuriating way please?

I mean here obviously the bug creates itself through an evolutionary process. USAid had been doing great work to make this less likely, and now they've stopped. That doesn't mean the cuts create the bug!
That is not a good analogy. They are closer to assistants to me. If you know how and what to delegate, you can increase your productivity.
LLD has a new option "--randomize-section-padding" for this purpose: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/117653
Sure! Actually it is already in there if your Chrome is in light mode, but I couldn't yet figure out how toggle the themes yet with the theme-changer npm. :D When I get back in the evening I'll write this down! Feel free to open an issue for it also!
While President Camacho is shown in a more theatrical light, what this character actually does on screen is

* find an expert who has apparently superior knowledge about a widespread problem afflicting his people

* immediately seek guidance from that expert and conscript him into solving that problem

* apply that guidance by directing resources to test the theory experimentally

* begin to hold that expert accountable when their experiment fails to follow that expert's predictions

* Stop seeking accountability and reverse course when it does produce results (despite this process being very public), and offer the expert the job of fixing more things.

Could you ask for more? Do you think the current democratic discourse is above or below this level?

Or non-democratic discourse for that matter. How did we deal with Lysenko's theories on crop yields?
These are considered pretty common knowledge nowadays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test
I worked for an elevator manufacture that killed somebody, they fucked up the whole apologize in Japan thing too. Even if it wasn't actually their fault.
Okay its so funny to see how many ways are there :D
Control is maybe the wrong word here. GmbHs are required to have one or more natural persons as a Geschäftsführer, which would presumably just stay the founders, so they would retain control of the GmbH. The holding Stiftung would then impose the rules under which the GmbH would issue dividends, and (presumably) also retain the ability to fire the Geschäftsführer:innen, if the Satzung der Stiftung decided to. And of course the founders could also put themselves on the board of the Stiftung for added control. Interesting side note, this would probably result in the founders being Sozialversicherungspflichtig, but that's a whole different can of worms. But the founding documents of the Stiftung could perfectly well spell out exactly the situations under which the founders could be removed as Geschäftsführer der GmbH.

What I mean by legal insulation is more that, in this holding construct, the GmbH ceases to have any financial relationship to the founders. Stiftungs are sort of... headless financial pools governed strictly by their founding documents, completely divorced from the people that created them, and the GmbH would simply be an asset in that financial pool. That means that, for example, were someone to sue the founders, even for something completely unrelated, there is no possible way that shares in the GmbH could possibly end up someone else's hands. Typically when we talk about the liability limitations in corporations, we're talking about them in terms of shielding the founders from the actions of the company, but the inverse is in my opinion just as important (if you're truly interested in forming a self-governing social organization pursuing a social good). I'm not sure if there's any examples of shares in a gGmbH being assessed as assets in a civil case; that would be another interesting question to inform the decision.

That being said, one of the reasons that I'm so interested in the idea of a Stiftung holding, is that I think it also opens up options for actual democracy within the leadership of a company, which is a fascinating idea. That isn't a requirement in a Stiftung holding relationship, but I do think it's an interesting possibility.

At any rate, I think probably the primary downside of this idea is that, like I said, I've not seen any examples of it discussed publicly. Which means you'd need to be doing a lot of the legal legwork on your own -- which means lots of time spent talking to lawyers, which would be really expensive. But I think there's some really interesting possibility for innovation in terms of corporate governance here, in a way that, like I said, wouldn't be legally possible in the US, and it definitely seems like the structure that gives the social purpose the maximum possible protection.
>> Housing is a fundamental human right.

No it's not. A fundamental human freedom is to build or to buy a house. Nobody is owned a house.
the moment Nvidia stops selling...
GPS signals are relatively low power (American GPS broadcasts at 25 watts and the signal is a tiny fraction of a mW at sea level). In theory, it's easy to pump out noise over it, especially the civilian frequencies that Iran would in theory be using.

Depending on the receivers and what (combination?) of GPS/GLONASS/GALILEO/BAIDU Iran uses, you could easily overwhelm them.

There have been cases of delivery drivers using jammers to stop companies from tracking them, only to interfere with airport landing systems, which is a concern as a lot of warehouses are near airports.

EDIT: power at ground level is miniscule
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Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen Mg supplements with other stuff added. I'm currently using glycinate and taurate in powder form, and there's nothing else listed.

I sprained something in my lower back badly enough about a year ago that it took four trips to the chiropractor before I could get out of bed in the morning without lots of swearing. After that, it would seem to be getting better for a few days, then regress into spasms again. After a month or so of that, I remembered that Mg is supposed to be good for tendons and ligaments. I took a good dose of Mg that night, and it was significantly better the next day, and improved from there. That's the only time in my life that I've had a clear, major difference from taking a supplement.
Hi, I work at Kuzu and can offer my thoughts on this.

You're making a fair observation here and it's true for any high level query language - SQL and Cypher and interchangeable unless the queries are recursive, in which case Cypher's graph syntax (e.g., the Kleene star * or shortest paths) has several advantages. One could make the argument that Cypher is easier for LLMs to generate because the joins are less verbose (you simply express the join as a query pattern). This post is not necessarily about graph analytics. It's about demonstrating that it's very simple to develop a relatively complex application using LLMs and a database fully in-browser, which can potentially open up new use cases. I'm sure many people will come up with other creative ways putting these fully in-browser technologies, both graph-specific, and not, e.g., using vector search-based retrieval. In fact, there are already some of our users doing this right now.
wish this didnt resonate with me so much. Im far from a 10x developer, and im in an organization that feels like a giant, half dead whale. Sometimes people here seem like they work on a different planet.
Typing loudly, wearing AirPods: 'taskmasking'
Is this just slacking?