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I thought the article was going to be about system prompts, or model specs, or "constitution documents".

Isn't it?

Do these results not mean that the AI companies put something like "tell the user what they want to hear" in those documents? (Or whatever phrase would produce those results.)

The authors, bless their hearts, suggest that running halogen lamps at lower-than-rated voltages might be a good idea.

> If this is done with a halogen bulb, which is a type of incandescent tungsten bulb, the filament lasts for a longer period as evaporated tungsten is redeposited on the filament rather than blackening the bulb glass. Hence, using a halogen bulb at lower voltage is a realistic alternative in terms of health and energy consumption.

Unfortunately, as I understand it, the redepositing action only occurs at high temperatures.. It's a chemistry thing. I have been led to believe that running halogens at low voltages will cause the bulb glass to blacken sooner. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halogen_lamp#Effect_of_voltage...

Thank you for a good laugh! Very well done. :)

Since this is a post about a programming tool, I expected links to repositories. I like to pick up a tool and turn it around in my hands before I decide if it is a good tool or not.

I set up a local BBS-like system and used the real NetZero* dialer to call it and attempt to log in. Then I changed my password and repeated the process several times.

That gave me the key to the Caesar cipher they used for the password.. so I could create a fresh account with a scrambled password any time I wanted.

At runtime, in the OS-provided ad-free dialer, I'd use the unscrambled password.

I also pre-created some accounts with unscrambled passwords like "apple" and "bicycle" to share with friends.

NetZero* ceased operations mere weeks after I started this.. Hm.

(* Was it NetZero specifically, or some clone? I forget..)

Y'all let the public in before finishing your wait-list. I joined the list on 2023-03-02.

Y'all didn't email me that signups were going to be public.

Y'all didn't email me when signups actually went public. I found out about it here.

...And, let's see.. Yep, my handle is taken.

PSA: there is an Android application named "Google" (sic) which is a browser, but it's not Chrome. This browser application stores every interaction (browsing history, etc) on the server-side. My mother-in-law uses it .. to buy sweaters from bloggers? She uses it for everything. And yes, she thinks the internet is just named Google. :(

The article is the output of generative AI or human who is new to the language.

Here is a replacement article: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/astronomers-find-largest-most-...

Group Settings > Group Link

Then share the link publicly. Signal Public Groups.

Thank you! I see now that "cloud variables" are a specific feature of Scratch projects.

dnsge, would you be willing to help me carry out some research? Could you please explain in your own words, that is, without doing any searches, what a cloud variable is?

I'm 40, and I started on Commodore Basic, but my son is 11, and he started on Scratch. I'm curious where this will go. :)

Huh. You can't rewind/fast-forward/seek these "shorts" videos. (Well, I can't, with my particular browser/os/county/screen-dimensions/etc combo.)

Here is a direct response to the author's other work on the same topic: http://dorkmission.blogspot.com/2016/05/yes-folks-its-xenon-... (2016)

Using the "download PDF" feature resolved that on my Firefox. Though, I don't seem to have gained much by seeing it rendered correctly.

I think the commenter means that mechanical watches don't keep time as well as digital watches. So, I guess they are optimized for mechanical beauty instead of timekeeping.

Correct, our eyes have cells that respond to certain wavelengths ("blue light") and send signals through nerves to the brain, but those nerves aren't attached to the visual cortex, they are attached elsewhere. And that's why "blue light" inhibits sleep. ...I wish I could provide a citation, these details are something I just heard late last week...

I'm skeptical, too. But apparently OP isn't the only one using (or trying to use) "TensorFlow-Lite for Microcontrollers" on an ESP32-S3. See this (little bit of) chatter: https://github.com/tensorflow/tflite-micro/search?q=esp32&ty...

Sorry, I didn't see this reply until just now.

To my eye, kmeisthax's comment appears to be entirely accurate.

Well, that is to say, that assuming the facts that listed are accurate, then I agree with the conclusion: it's not "open source" at all. (And certainly not Libre.)

The things you said do not describe an open source project.

The point here is that the title of this thing is incorrect. If the ML community doesn't agree, it's because they are (apparently) walking around with incorrect definitions of "open source" and "Free Software" and "Libre Software".

I'm not familiar with machine learning.

But, I'm familiar with poking around in source code repos!

I found this https://huggingface.co/openjourney/openjourney/blob/main/tex... . It's a giant binary file. A big binary blob.

(The format of the blob is python's "pickle" format: a binary serialization of an in-memory object, used to store an in-memory object and later load it, perhaps on a different machine.)

But, I did not find any source code for generating that file. Am I missing something?

Shouldn't there at least be a list of input images, etc and some script that uses them to train the model?

Well I tried to bring the "[...] employs a reflow solder to improve sound localization." typo/glitch to the author's attention, but I couldn't find any way to send a DM or email.

Hi. Could you add a section that explains what this is about? The linked repo does not explain what the objective of the game is supposed to be.

I understand that the game is related to "the dining cryptographers", but I haven't memorized that piece. I read it once? I can probably find it on Wikipedia?

I recommend making your game a self-contained work that does not rely on at least one of the players remembering some details about a very specific thought experiment.

This is the second time I've read this Ali Baba paper and I'm pretty sure I got hung up on this, too. And I don't see what that property is good for (though I am aware that other people do).

Maybe the paper should have a preface. It might work for entertaining someone who already knows all about zero knowledge proofs, but it doesn't seem to do much to educate those who do not.

Here is one data point.

I purchased a M.2 device from Amazon this morning. It has a warranty serviced by the seller, so I checked to see if the seller is likely to continue to exist during the timeframe of the warranty.

I discovered the seller indeed has been selling memory products since 2017. While checking out their website (in the Wayback machine, too) I noticed that they have a shopping cart mechanism and indeed the same product is available there.

I noted that Amazon lists the product as being shipped by the seller. I note that the seller actively answers questions on their product pages on Amazon. Sounds as if nothing would change for me if I buy from the seller's website vs. Amazon.

I decided to cut out the middleman. I speculate that Amazon would otherwise take a percentage and I'd prefer to support the small business.

Turns out the product is a few bucks more expensive on the seller's website.

I can only speculate as to why that would be the case.

I finish the transaction (on Amazon) and refresh HN. Here is this story. So, I for one believe the accusations leveled against Amazon.

Additional extreme duckery: Some words appear in the URL which do not appear in the article. Perhaps there is a previous version of this article? Archive.is and the wayback machine don't seem to have it, not at that URL.

This!

I remember being *stunned* in a positive way by Google's out of the box thinking back when they *invented* "self-service" account management, aka "no phone support provided". I thought that it was a brilliant move and that this little search company was really going places.

I hope I might be forgiven for failing to anticipate the consequences for our least affluent sisters and brothers.

I am now of the opinion (for many, many reasons) that human-interactive customer support is a mandatory cost of doing business when your business is materially important in the lives of the customers (both paying and not paying customers).

That Gmail is "materially important" is well established already, yes?

UPDATE... This seems related. https://old.reddit.com/r/Outlook/comments/vy2gej/unusual_sig...

Here is my hot take. N.B. that I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Some other kids tried to use a Microsoft mail service of some kind to access the emails in those accounts (for example, to get a password reset email for the Minecraft account).

The login attempts came from Microsoft servers rather than the kids' home internet connections, because that is how it works when you ask a web app to go fetch mail from another account for you. And conveniently, it obscures the home IP addresses of whoever was doing it.

Like I said, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Good luck!

kashav, my advice is to take a break to spend several days with your family or lifelong friends. Someone you can trust to tell you if you have changed and trust to give you medical advice.

In case anyone reading this works for Fortinet.. FYI, this domain is currently categorized as 'pornography'.

Yes, this.

If you have an "ASL-first" person on your team, it might be extremely useful to take a college course on ASL, if only to learn some fundamentals (sign space, facial expressions as grammatical constructs, etc), a description of deaf culture (like, it exists and varies from region to region), and the inevitable "hey class, let's debunk some myths about deaf people" talk.

(ASL is American Sign Language. Substitute your region's dominate sign language. I did hear that not every sign language is as linguistically rich as ASL?)