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I can't imagine doing something like this anytime soon, but I will probably follow the advice around having AI check the return against all my forms and previous years return before submitting.


If you do this, make sure you use a local only LLM. I would be cautious in uploading SSNs and other highly personal information.


I was explaining this to my elementary school aged kids just a few days ago. We were eating in a restaurant and I told them that when I was their age most restaurants had a smoking and non-smoking section. Of course the smoke did not respect the invisible barrier. The idea that people could just smoke indoors and it was normal really blew their minds.


High school boys bathroom was basically a de-facto smoking lounge. It was banned but kids still did it. They occasionally cracked down, but the smell was permanent.

There was also an unwritten understanding that it was preferred the boys went out back to a certain door to smoke outside there instead and wouldn't get in trouble if caught.


"…had a smoking and non-smoking section"

You're younger than me if you don't remember before there was even that distinction.


I went to bingo years ago and there was a glass partition between the smoking and non, but it didn't go to the ceiling. So you'd sit in the non and just watch a wave of cigarette smoke roll over the top of the glass into your area... I only went once because of that.


I suspect they made this public because many customers will notice that they are no longer carrying Adafruit products. I respect both companies greatly and have purchased from them in the past. It will be interesting to see what happened, if that is made public.


Yeah, what a weird turn of events. I have a tub of random little boards and kits from Adafruit... and the same from Sparkfun.

Next we'll see Waveshare and Seeed Studios have a go? Strange happenings.


This is really cool! As someone who has basically no piano training, this is fun! Perhaps there could be some super-easy mode where you actually highlight the keys while you're playing the sounds (in simon mode) to help the super noobs train their ears.


Thanks! That's not a bad idea. So in Simon Mode, as you depress a key we let you see what note you pressed (A3, C4, etc)?

Thanks for the feedback - that should be pretty easy to add as an option in the Settings. I'll see about getting it added this evening!


I think there is also some FOMO involved. Once people started saying how AI was helping them be more productive, a lot of folks felt that if they didn't do the same, they were lagging behind.


Is there any way to do this with the frontier LLM's?


Ask them to mark low confidence words.


Do they actually have access to that info "in-band"? I would guess not. OTOH it should be straightforward for the LLM program to report this -- someone else commented that you can do this when running your own LLM locally, but I guess commercial providers have incentives not to make this info available.


Naturally, their "confidence" is represented as activations in layers close to output, so they might be able to use it. Research ([0], [1], [2], [3]) shows that results of prompting LLMs to express their confidence correlate with their accuracy. The models tend to be overconfident, but in my anecdotal experience the latest models are passably good at judging their own confidence.

[0] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10832237

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14737

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25532

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10913


interesting... I'll give that a shot


It used to be that the answer was logprobs, but it seems that is no longer available.


I don't believe that it just analyzes the transcription. I asked Gemini to look at the youtube video referenced on the site below and "build" something that duplicates that device. It did a pretty good approximation that it could not have done without going through the full video.

https://bitsnpieces.dev/posts/a-synth-for-my-daughter/


The author actually discusses the results of the paper. He's not some rando but a Wharton Professor and when he is comparing the results to a grad student, it is with some authority.

"So is this a PhD-level intelligence? In some ways, yes, if you define a PhD level intelligence as doing the work of a competent grad student at a research university. But it also had some of the weaknesses of a grad student. The idea was good, as were many elements of the execution, but there were also problems..."


100%. I have known a couple of people that did some form of "medical tourism", mostly for expensive dental work. In both cases they did some form of tech contract work as a sole proprietorship and bought their own health insurance (not through a partner). The overlap of people who can save up thousands of dollars for treatment abroad and have poor health insurance is probably not too large.


I know it's popular with the US transgender community, looking for gender reassignment surgery.

Cost of travel to Thailand < savings on medical procedures (with equivalent or better outcomes)


As someone who works with firmware, it is funny how different our definitions of "bare metal" is.


As someone who does material science, it's funny how our definition of "bare metal" is so different.


As someone who listens to loud rock and roll music …


Ask an astronomer what a “metal” is.


Wikipedia still thinks it means the thing I (and presumably you) do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_metal

Edit: For clarity, wikipedia does also have pages with other meanings of "bare metal", including "bare metal server". The above link is what you get if you just look up "bare metal".

I do aim to be some combination of clear, accurate and succinct, but I very often seem to end up in these HN pissing matches so I suppose I'm doing something wrong. Possibly the mistake is just commenting on HN in itself.


Seems there is a difference between "Bare Metal" and "Bare Machine".

I'm not sure what you did, but when you go to that Wikipedia article, it redirects to "Bare Machine", and the article contents is about "Bare Machine". Clicking the link you have sends you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_machine

So it seems like you almost intentionally shared the article that redirects, instead of linking to the proper page?


I indeed deliberately pasted a link that shows what happens when you try to go to the Wikipedia page for "bare metal".


Right, slightly misleading though, as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare-metal_server is a separate page.


Yes, but if you look up "bare metal" it goes to the page about actual bare metal (aka "bare machines" or whatever).

Can we stop this now? Please?


> Yes, but if you look up "bare metal" it goes to the page about actual bare metal (or bare machines or whatever).

Fix it then, if you think it's incorrect. Otherwise, link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_metal_(disambiguation) like any normal and charitable commentator would do.

> Can we stop this now? Please?

Sure, feel free to stop at any point you want to.


There is nothing that needs fixing? Both my link and yours give the same "primary" definition for "bare metal". Which is not unequivocally the correct definition, but it's the one I and the person I was replying to favour.

I thought my link made the point a bit better. I think maybe you've misunderstood something about how Wikipedia works, or about what I'm saying, or something. Which is OK, but maybe you could try to be a bit more polite about it? Or charitable, to use your own word?

Edit: In case this part isn't obvious, Wikipedia redirects are managed by Wikipedia editors, just like the rest of Wikipedia. Where the redirect goes is as much an indication of the collective will of Wikipedia editors as eg. a disambiguation page. I don't decide where a request for the "bare metal" page goes, that's Wikipedia.

Edit2: Unless you're suggesting I edited the redirect page? The redirect looks to have been created in 2013, and hasn't been changed since.


In similar way I once worked on a financial system, where a COBOL-powered mainframe was referred to as "Backend", and all other systems around it written in C++, Java, .NET, etc. since early 80s - as "Frontend".


Had somewhat similar experience, the first "frontend" I worked on was a sort of proxy server that sat in front of a database basically, meant as a barrier for other applications to communicate via. At one point we called the client side web application "frontend-frontend" as it was the frontend for the frontend.


I don't work in firmware at all, but I'm working next to a team now migrating an application from VMs to K8S, and they refer to the VMs as "bare metal" which I find slightly cringeworthy - but hey, whatever language works to communicate an idea.


I'm not sure I've ever heard bare metal used to refer to virtualized instances. (There were debates around Type 1 and Type 2 (hosted) hypervisors at one point but haven't heard that come up in years.


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