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Hammerspoon 4 months ago

Excited to see this here! Only yesterday I used it to create an interactive native-like notification my coding agents use to ping me when they push a PR. I had tried a few different libraries over the past month but only hs had the ability to render custom panes over maximized windows.

Will be using it for more automation tools moving forward.

The problem is that dealing with regulators takes years and millions of dollars, reducing competition and societal benefit. He's quoting $200m in additional health costs borne mostly by Medicare/Medicaid. Regulations aren't a useful part of the system if they're gunked up.

I don't believe we have any indication that the big offerings (claude.ai, Gemini, operator, tasks, canvas, chatgpt) use multiple models in one call (other than for different modalities like having Gemini create an image). It seems to actually be very difficult technically and I'm curious as to why.

I wonder how much of an impact our being still so early in the productization phase of this all is. Like it takes a ton of work and training and coordination to get multiple models synced up into an offering and I think the companies are still optimizing for getting new ideas out there rather truly optimizing them.

I'm not finding any direct sources from OpenAI, but here's this snippet from a Reuters article [1]

Priced at 15 cents per million input tokens and 60 cents per million output tokens, the GPT-4o mini is more than 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo, OpenAI said. It currently outperforms the GPT-4 model on chat preferences and scored 82% on Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU), OpenAI said.

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The GPT-4o mini model's score compared with 77.9% for Google's Gemini Flash and 73.8% for Anthropic's Claude Haiku, according to OpenAI.

For some more context: We don't know the size of 4o-mini but Mistral's just released NeMo 12B scores 68% on the MMLU. [2]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/o...

[2] https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-nemo/

Just tried Toucan and it can't be disabled on localhost, a major pain for using it during work as an engineer. For those that haven't used toucan, it's an extension that translates words/phrases inline on a page with various levels of replacement frequency and complexity based on your proficiency with the language.

Tesla FSD Timeline 3 years ago

A YouTuber named DirtyTesla has done a series of drives over the years throughout his hometown where he's tracked the intervention and disengagement rates per mile. He often shows those numbers at the end of his videos.

What is FORGE? 4 years ago

"EGS are engineered reservoirs, created beneath the surface, where there is hot rock but limited pathways through which fluid can flow. During EGS development, the injection of fluid into the hot rock enhances the size and connectivity of fluid pathways by re-opening fractures. Once completed, EGS function just as natural geothermal systems do: fluids circulating through the hot rock carry energy to the surface through wells, driving turbines and generating electricity. EGS could provide up to 100+ GWe of economically viable capacity in the United States. This potential could supply green electricity to over 100,000,000 American homes, and represents a domestic energy source that is clean, reliable, flexible and renewable."

Read a bit more and you'll find

Prices for food at home increased 3.3 percent over the past 12 months. All six major grocery store food group prices advanced over the period, with increases ranging from 1.6 percent (dairy and related products) to 5.4 percent (meats, poultry, fish, and eggs). Prices for food away from home rose 3.7 percent, as the 6.5-percent advance in prices for limited services meals was the largest 12-month increase since data were first collected in 1997.

Doesn't quite fill your 20% claim, but 5.5% for meats and 6.5 for limited services meals (places where you primarily order at the counter/drive-through/online) is quite the bump!

The Oculus Quest 2 6 years ago

I recently created a Facebook account with a made up name and a new Google Voice phone number to sell an old monitor and the account was disabled within 2 hours.

Woah - Epic says they would release a competing app store if it weren't for "Apple's illegal restraints".

But for Apple’s illegal restraints, Epic would provide a competing app store on iOS devices, which would allow iOS users to download apps in an innovative, curated store and would provide users the choice to use Epic’s or another third-party’s in-app payment processing tool."

Part 16, in the Intro.

GitHub Codespaces 6 years ago

Ah, this really makes sense with all of the recent work they've done on VSCode's remote development capabilities.

- An early announcement on their focus: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/05/02/remote-develo...

- Most (all?) of their recent VSCode updates include improvements to remote development. i.e.: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_44#_remote-developm...

- Facebook partnering and becoming an early, heavy adopter: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2019/11/19/faceboo...

Agreed, the You Don't Know JS series is very good for solid fundamentals.

At some point, that knowledge can then be applied by learning more advanced language features such as implementing Proxies, Generators, and template literal functions.

To do so, some here are suggesting you read the language spec. I think Rau schmaer's series "Exploring ES6" [0] (and then ES7/8/9) is a great alternative to the actual spec. In those books he basically goes through the new features of each version of the language and does the deepest dive I've seen, with examples and references to the spec.

[0] https://exploringjs.com/es6.html

Data Brokers 7 years ago

> Go to spydialer.com, then click the link "Do Not Sell My Info".

Cool. Now compare that to another one listed [infocore]:

To opt-out of spydialer.com, you go to https://www.spydialer.com/Consumers/, then you have to provide all of the information you think it has on you to verify your identity and selectively remove it from their services.

I'm not really comfortable providing my full name, address (or addresses if you've lived in multiple places), and phone numbers to a Data Broker just to opt-out - that feels quite counter to the idea of them ideally not having my information in the first place.

I feel like I need a global opt-out where a system or agent on my behalf can then handle this for me at each place where data can be collected.

Wow, that's awesome! Seems like it opens a lot of powerful possibilities.

I am a pretty technical person but also didn't know (and couldn't find) info on what RBI is and how it can be used - would love to see this information highlighted on GH and the website.

Consumer-grade hardware & software is a wonderful demonstration of why aerospace and medical systems cost what they do.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?

I know IPFS is happy to help with implementation advice on discuss.ipfs.io or #ipfs on IRC, they did for me.

It does depend on the scale of your data and whether you want upload data in a streaming or discrete fashion. If by segmentize you mean to like chunk your data into smaller sections, then that is handled automatically by both DAT and IPFS.

"Until today, people could enter another person’s phone number or email address into Facebook search to help find them. ... malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers or email addresses they already have through search and account recovery. Given the scale and sophistication of the activity we’ve seen, we believe most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped in this way."

Hm. This seems like an interesting tidbit, I would love to know more. It seems to imply that many profiles have already been scraped in this way. A phone number is a really strong cross-domain identifier as we use it across a bunch of different online services. Collate your Facebook scrape with a couple data brokers and you've got a real strong profile of someone.

Well.. the development that can come from traveling is never what you expect. There are many different facets to your experience but I can touch on one.

You're traveling with friends. My idea of traveling is to jump into something different. A different culture, sounds, traditions, animals, priorities. As we travel, we bring our own bubble of culture with us - we bring our perspectives and education and interests, etc. The first part of your trip, days or weeks or months, will slowly feather the edges of this bubble until you notice more differences and similarities between you and wherever your traveling. You will learn and grow when you start to recognize these differences and play with them. You attention to these things will become more refined as you are traveling and as you loosen that bubble.

Traveling with compadres only strengthens this bubble of culture that needs to wear down so that you are able to learn and grow.

I guess it's important not to be overwhelmed by some grand desire to grow or change but to take each moment as it comes. Seriously. Look at the fine details along the edge of an awning? what signage is there? Why was this city built where it was?