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petsoundson Detecting when LLMs are uncertain

When I read about potential optimizations like this, I can't believe that people trust LLMs enough to do things with minimal oversight. Do people really believe that "AI" products that use LLMs are capable enough to do things like control a computer, or write accurate code? By design, isn't _everything_ a "hallucination" or a guess? Is it really possible to overcome that?

petsoundson Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor (2023)

The title of this article is a reference to "Happy Fun Ball", my favorite SNL skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmqeZl8OI2M

petsoundson Horrible edge cases when dealing with music

There is a band from Pasadena, California called Ozma. Way back in the day (1999), they released an album called “Songs of Audible Trucks and Cars” [0] via MP3.com. I later found out that they really wanted the title to be “Songs of Inaudible Trucks and Cars” [1], but MP3.com had a character limit on album titles, so they had to shorten it

[0] https://www.discogs.com/release/8369169-Ozma-Songs-Of-Audibl...

[1] https://www.discogs.com/release/15809071-Ozma-Songs-Of-Inaud...

petsoundson Inhaled Vaccine Delivers Broad Protection Against SARS-CoV-2

There are ~10k people dying of COVID every day since Omicron was detected, sounds like we could use a better one

petsoundson Shoegaze: an oral history

Swervedriver are actually working on a new record, "I Wasn't Born to Lose You", and have put out a few songs from it (more "Mezcal Head" than "99th Dream", IMO):

"Setting Sun", "Days": http://open.spotify.com/album/0C0q7niaA3GxJpVQsWiiKz

"Autodidact": https://soundcloud.com/blackandblueam/autodidact

Sorry for the shameless plug, but: I play in a shoegaze-influenced dream pop band called Weed Hounds, and we recently put out our first LP, for anyone who's interested (think Pale Saints, Swirlies): http://open.spotify.com/album/0aABjwPh5l2UOM5yWWON11

petsoundson Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k

Just to be clear, these are people with either a BS or a BA in Computer Science, right?

petsoundson Show HN: Custom Nginx Indexer

That makes sense, it depends on JavaScript :)

petsoundson Show HN: Custom Nginx Indexer

I did something similar recently for an S3 bucket: https://github.com/PatrickStankard/bucketlist

petsoundson GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

Glad to see there's an Atom plugin[0] named after the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie Timecop[1]

[0] https://github.com/atom/timecop

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timecop

petsoundson The Mt. Gox alleged insolvency document has been posted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7294888

petsoundson The Mt. Gox alleged insolvency document has been posted

Page 8, nonredacted: "MtGox business is healthy and profitable", "Projection Draft": http://i.imgur.com/u9aP9Hg.png

petsoundson The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS

Whisper Systems' headquarters is located in San Francisco, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_Systems

Doesn't that make them susceptible to a search warrant forcing them to give up the private keys (or equivalent) to TextSecure, ala Lavabit?

petsoundson US Federal Employee Salaries (2012)

check out the "award bonus" column :)

petsoundson US Federal Employee Salaries (2012)

~161k are! second only to "N/A": http://cl.ly/image/3U2K232E3102

petsoundson US Federal Employee Salaries (2012)

for anyone who's interested, i generated a link to this sorted by the base salary (descending): https://bits.enigma.io/s/t/8b6aa881e02d8c2b851a3d5140c263f4

and here's a link to a full export (csv): https://s3.amazonaws.com/enigma-data-export/shutdown/enigma-...

petsoundson US Federal Employee Salaries (2012)

sure! we actually posted a link to the raw CSV before we pushed this in the beginning of the shutdown: https://twitter.com/enigma_io/status/385166410063691776

petsoundson US Federal Employee Salaries (2012)

soon, but not yet... this just went live last night :)

clarification edit: this is the end result of a new feature that allows enigma users to publicly share a frozen table state (up to 10 pages), which takes into place the current filter/sort state

petsoundson Raspberry Pi Hosting

FYI: "Verenigde Staten" is the United States

petsoundson A PRISM-inspired Google Doodle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeyes

petsoundson Extracting Audio from Pictures of Gramophone Recordings

Sadly, it seems that all of the audio samples are dead

petsoundson Facebook Is Recycling Your Likes To Promote Stories You've Never Seen

There's been a running joke with my friend who always shows up as liking T-Mobile in my timeline (along with the timeline of everyone he's friends with) with whatever the latest T-Mobile update is, but he "unliked" T-Mobile over a year ago - pretty trivial, but also pretty annoying

petsoundson Show HN: Syncable - Stop searching old email threads on iPhone

is this going to use the native iOS email client? are you going to be sending the content of the emails to your own servers, or is everything going to be done on the device?

petsoundson Web crawling and downloading ebooks with phantomJS

https://github.com/chriso/node.io

looking forward to being able to distribute jobs across multiple machines

petsoundson How I've Made $200k in the iOS Education Market

way to go, pierre! if anyone is interested in the analytics he used, here's a shameless plug: http://www.appfigures.com