skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There is no simple answer to fix these 2 problems due to crf targets. Traditionally in x264 such scene will simply end up in blocking artifacts. x265 chooses to eliminate artifacts at the cost of detail loss. The down side is that even at lower crf targets it is tough to eliminate x265’s tendency to blur. To truly eliminate such effects, you will first need no-sao:no-strong-intra-smoothing:deblock=-1,-1 to make x265 behave more like x264, then raise psy-rd and psy-rdoq accordingly (2 and 5 respectively should do the trick). However, this reintroduces unpleasant artifacts x265 aimed to eliminate in the first place, thus I do not recommend such encode parameters unless encoding crf <16 (in which case file sizes are so big just use x264, why even bother x265?).

There might be something to be said for perceptible degradation: the characteristic macroblock vomit produced by bit-starvation gives a sure signal to the viewer that something went wrong with the video encoding, whereas a smooth looking image with some details omitted can produce a false impression of what the video signal is, with no indication as to whether or not this is taking place (imagine this happening, for example in security camera footage).
A lot of things may have a different meaning depending on the context, not only words or text: even face expressions. You sometimes need to know the person to understand what they truly meant.
Isn't part of the problem that the US/FDA trial and certification process is designed to be very expensive? And who benefits from a moat created by high cost of R&D if not big pharma? I seriously doubt that pharma lobby would be thrilled if costs of bringing new drugs to market suddenly fell by several orders of magnitude, so it's not going to happen.
Ahh, fair enough. Thinking about it, that comment was probably from 10 years ago when almost everything was cracked near day one and Steam hadn't yet reached 100% penetration.
While I understand the sentiment this type of filter would make people's lives with a disability worse in the real. Better to accept ones self then cover defining features with a filter
Youtube is probably the worst, but even Netflix has this problem. I have seen so many terrible encodes on there and the streaming bitrate is usually quite low overall. Watching dark scenes in shows on an OLED is particularly aggravating.
No, it's "should be".
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So what is designed for that? Generally as an encoder you want to target a certain (perceptual) quality level and when testing different settings you're aiming to hold that constant and see whether you achieve a lower bitrate. There should be a way to do that.
I agree with the point of premium-gecko regarding CO2 / climate change.

I also feel COVID is way less dangerous as portrayed by media and politicians. I actually not worry about COVID at all, will not get a vaccine and only wear a face mask for other people in places where face masks are required.
Is there a reason to think that government bureaucrats would do a worse job? I mean, generally I trust the government to run things like building roads, or taking care of security and education reasonably well. At least as well as a private organization would.

"Efficient" resource allocation strongly depends on your performance measure. I don't think that "maximize shareholder value" is necessarily the best measure to use for healthcare.
I don't think we should always see a reply as criticism. It makes the discussion unnecessarily contentious.

Even this reply - this is intended as conversation.
Be sure to include the considerations that went into standardizing the spellings to make sure that we can't express dangerous ideas with doubleplusungood words.
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That's fair enough, maybe Europeans should pay more than they do for pharmaceuticals and get away with paying less due to the huge profits Pharma makes out of the US health care system.

That's not really on Europe though. It's for the US to sort out it's horrifically dysfunctional health care system, if it chooses to. Honestly I don't know if what Biden plans to do, particularly in relation to Big Pharma is reasonable. I suspect it's likely to be treating the symptoms with regulation rather than the disease through reform, but maybe that's what you do when treating the disease runs into insurmountable political resistance.
Yeah, Blitz does feel beta-y, in a true sense: a few things are still being polished, but it’s pretty stable and v1 seems to be close to done.

I’ve only been using it for a personal project, but since the fix for the Material UI recipe (which I think was actually related to an npm behavior) I haven’t run into a single bug.

I suspect that’s because it seems like a lot of Blitz is unifying some really good established libraries into a framework. It’s not written from the ground up.
Put a sock in it and grow up
Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger
Made me think of this

https://obamaischeckingyouremail.tumblr.com/
> that doesn't interrupt people with a notification [...] The emoji-reaction this way is a kludge for a lower-priority asynchronous response

Isn't the entire premiss of Slack that it is asynchronous? That it does not interrupt the flow in the way a phonecall or tap-on-shoulder does?

What went wrong that now the senders of communication have to -again- tread carefully, be aware of the receivers status and work, employ kludges, so not to interrupt co-workers?
The same thing could be claimed of plenty physical goods though to. How much energy was used to make the aluminum foil I baked on so i don't have to clean the pan? How much money is spend mining gold that im just going to carry around as jewellery that could have instead atleast been mere plating. And when all those things are directly tradable with money, and bitcoins are tradable with money, mining bitcoin is to a consumer no different than mining gold.
What properties must a system have for the quote to be applicable then?
I hate this so much. Facebook Messenger does this too, in fact almost every app does. They've banned the old style smileys altogether -- there's no possible way to send a message containing one -- and it really bothers me.

If I type punctuation, I want the punctuation, if I wanted the emoji I would have typed the damn emoji. I can't believe anyone thought altering people's messages without their consent was a good idea.
I have another Belgian solution that you can put on a postcard. For some context, Belgium is divided in a Dutch speaking part (Flanders) and a French speaking part (Wallonia). Contrary to common belief the French speaking part is a minority, it's not really relevant here but websites always get it wrong when they default to French for Belgian IP addresses.

Anyway back to Belgian solutions... About 10 years ago there were plans to change the colour of the license plates from red text on a white background to black text on a white background to improve readability. This was blocked by the French speaking minister at the time because this looked too Flemish. In the end they compromised on dark red text on a white background.
Wow thanks. I just learned something new.

This is now my favourite way to grab the WiFi password.
Were charges pressed? No. Was there a court case? No. Was there a guilty verdict? No.

What was the justification for the raid?

Perhaps you need to revise your understanding of Fourth Amendment protection from fishing expeditions before dismissing a home raid which found no grounds for prosecution as "satire."
It's tragically my experience of HN - someone posts an interesting fact or discusses something they've done and someone comes up and picks up the smallest irrelevant detail to argue about.
Oh that's great. I'm really glad to see Julia getting faster there.
> the title is burying the lede.

The title is clickbait.
This is bare-bones to say the least. So much so that I don't understand why it has been showcased here on HN. Anyhoo, I look forward to revisiting in a year or so.
My partner didn't grow up "on the internet" like I did, and her ability to convey or perceive emotional cues that exist in the internet chat zeitgeist has been really interesting to me.

Just one really small example that I think will be a good demonstration:

Ending a sentence without a full stop is normal

Ending a sentence with a full stop feels cold or aggressive.

Ending a sentence with an ellipsis has a negative connotation depending on the context...

Some of you will be thinking "Uh, that's not true." Which it's almost definitely not true for everyone, but those emotions were ubiquitously conveyed in chat networks I was part of while I was growing up and there are dozens if not hundreds of uniquely text based emotional nuance that grew out of the need to be more expressive in chat/sms/text based messages.

I'd love to see a study on it since I feel it may well explain a lot of miscommunications on the internet. If you assume the person you're talking to knows the 'rules' then you could be totally misunderstanding them. My partner finishes all her sentences with a full stop and on more than one occasion I've had to remind myself not to read into it, it's just that she's not 'from the internet'.
There was something stupid I tried to buy earlier before seeing this (and couldn't), and now I can't remember what it was. Perhaps a keto snack food I thought of?

Maybe it will come back to me, maybe it won't.
1. Most of the programs put things all over the place. If you install software and use it for a while, you may find lots of keys in lots of places, all subtly affecting something.

It’s technically the fault of the program, not the registry. But culture and ecosystems matter, and by-and-large, Config in files is usually much more concentrated.

2. Related to (1), it is very hard to just move settings from one machine to another. How do you export your settings related to program X in order to use it on another machine? I keep my Linux config files in a git repository - I can easily track history and clone it to new machines. What’s the registry equivalent?

3. It is incredibly slow. When I still used windows, if I needed to do some registry editing, I would dump it to a text file, edit and then import the edited keys. That took about 1/10 of the time doing the same took in ResEdit.
Quite the converse, in fact I use vim mode whenever I can; I would struggle to think of a better way of editing text. (My current editor is Emacs+evil and I don’t anticipate changing it any time soon.) I strongly suspect GGP’s post was simply a typo, as ‘%’ and ‘$’ are right next to each other on the keyboard. And if I were to make that typo while editing a real document, I would need only the three keystrokes ‘ud%’ to undo it and then do the editing action I originally meant.
My (basic) understanding is that 1/ there's some inductive bias (knowledge from researchers) 2/ data is definitely "compressed" in some ways 3/ since the model predicts better than the others, then it actually found some relationships in the data that were not found before.

From what I understand, deep learning, although opaque and relying on tons of data, is a bit magical : although one would say "it's just probabilities", it actually does probabilities at a level where it actually figures some things.

Plus, and that's very much a problem to me, Google does it at 100x the scale of a regular researcher. Since I just invested a year in studying data sciences, that worries me a lot : where am I suppose to work if, to produce meaningful results, you need way-too-expensive hardware...
Going off on a bit of a tangent, this is a classical problem in linguistics. Is the literal meaning of "John has three cats" "John has exactly three cats" or "John has at least three cats"?

https://semantics.uchicago.edu/kennedy/classes/w14/implicatu...
What's the difference between "knowing things" and finding a more compressed form of the solution space?
Did I ever say that I expected them to show X whenever I wanted? No, I simply eaid "for no reason". If I was entitled I'd have said "I demand to watch it".

Stop being an idiot.
Also a shoutout to Blender which also had a lot of 2D animation upgrades in recent times.
There were crimes involved here. They just just weren't worth the federal prosecutor's time to take to court.
And 25% of the world's prison population. Do we want to keep this stats dump going or did you have a point?
Yeah they did in the UK!
China, and Russia, and other countries, are making big breakthroughs in biotech, but we are hesitant on believing their results--now.

They have the advantage of pushing through Clinical trials without much oversight.

I am all for strict Clinical trial protocols, but our biotech companies are testing their drugs in countries that don't have strict protocols on safety.

I don't get the price increase argument anymore. The biotech companies are multinational. It's just Americans give them the most money.

I'm getting afraid of the whole, "American biotech will cure anything because of the financial perks they get" mantra too.

I pay out of pocket for my needs at Costco. Their prices are a bit above wholesale. That said, I pay way to much for certain drugs. I guarantee their are shinagigans going on in the pricing if certain drugs.

Bupenorpine us a generic drug. Why gave I been paying $70 for a decade?

(This drug is America's answer to the opioid crisis. I was prescribed this drug off label for another condition. It's the price that has me scratching my head. It's been the same price for too long. Other pharmacy's price it higher.)

I won't get started on the drugs (new--not genetic) prescribed for depression. And then reading Irving Kirsch's research. His paper can be found, but you need to hunt for it. I'll offer this interview.

https://www.aarp.org/health/drugs-supplements/info-05-2010/d...

I am proud of Biden's promise to lower prices. I am so glad he's at the helm. I'm not being overly political. I just am just at bit hopeful now. Something I haven't been in 4 plus years.
This...

You need more and more Know your customer processes for crypto services because its getting regulated. So wallet addresses are linked to person Id.
Sure, but in that case you’d need to have some sort of convention for what each combination represents, and at that point you’ve basically invented a whole new writing system based on emoji. As I said previously:

> Of course, there’s nothing stopping you from turning emoji into a complete writing system, and inventing a language and grammar around it. But emojis as they are used today do not constitute a complete writing system.
Because new freenode is 4chan. Same atmosphere you know.
And isn't this a side project? They are also the dev team behind Dynalist?
But is it possible? The CPU can, in principle, coalesce writes, especially to the same cache line, so, on a given microarchitecture, the intermediate value might be actually impossible to observer even without compiler optimizations.
In case there’s someone else like me who could use an introductory video on the topic, Sabine Hossenfelder has recently made one: https://youtu.be/yhJWAdZl-Ck

It includes some commentary on this discovery, as well.
That's a different distinction.
^_^ =^.^= -_- -_-' -_-U ^_^u *_* O_o? Ô_ô

All of these, and various other combinations, are pretty old -in internet time, I guess-. They are usually known as "upright emoticons" [0], as opposed to "sideways emoticons".

^_^ gets abbreviated to ^^ and that's how you get it to be a smile.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons
Is it 32 bit or 64 bit?
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> where am I suppose to work if, to produce meaningful results, you need way-too-expensive hardware...

I know how you feel, but I also think stories like this may be a wake-up call for some groups to invest more in hardware. The Baker and Tsinghua University groups are not small. They can afford more than 4 GPUs.

Probably it's more about setting up a good pipeline. Once you get about 4 GPUs you need more than one machine to run them. Hopefully in the next years we'll see more open source tools to make it easy to "build your own GPU cloud".
I believe that some emojis devolve the language while others advance it, same as certain slang words or portions of a dialect.

I personally don’t use emoji’s, but I am open to use words or emojis that allow us to describe more concepts in a concise manner.
Especially to host what could be implemented as a single static HTML file.
The only thing that was proven was that throwing truckloads of government cash at difficult problems creates innovation.

I think throwing tons of cash at difficult problems that would actually directly benefit humanity would be even better. You get all the collateral benefits as well as the possibility of solving a real problem.
My mistake, I left the $ sign before the URL by accident. Yesterday was late when I was trying that and I made a noob mistake.

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.
With the $ problem corrected, everything works perfect.
In Egyptian hieroglyphs, the equivalent of saying "smoke" would be using a smile, an open mouth and an ok sign to indicate the sounds "sm - oh - ok." Rather than, for instance, showing a picture of a cigarette.
Obsidian = best Digital.

Still inferior to Analog Notecards.
volatile should work. Each volatile access is a side effect from the point of view of the abstract machine and compilers are supposed to document this mapping to the concrete CPU (and usually is the obvious one).

In fact the fact that volatile atomic has additional guarantees is a strong reason for plain atomic not to have them, otherwise there wouldn't be a way to express the more relaxed requirement.

I think atomic not being volatile by default is a good default: the majority of code doesn't need to care about atomic in the first place, for the majority of the remaining code, these sort of optimizations are benign and desirable. For the remaining code that cares, volatile is the safety hatch.
I most country's water is free, you pay for the infrastructure that brings it into your household and cleans it.
If you'd like to see some tiny BF interpreters, have a look here: https://www.hugi.scene.org/compo/compoold.htm#compo6

98 bytes, the smallest!
Very cool and new way of thinking
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But you are defending a home raid on someone who was not brought to trial, but was making a politcal and moral point about corporate tools and corporate behaviours.

When you think criticism - oblique, but clearly still harmless - is more of a problem than the behaviours, you are very much trying to shoot the messenger.
Indeed. I notice a big difference in meaning implied by eye rolling and the eye roll emoji for example. It’s definitely not a universal thing.

When talking to someone from a different culture it’s important to accept that.

Personally I find the suggestion to always assume the innocent meaning in communication to be the best policy for that reason.
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>Scientific logic is proving things by losslessly compressing statements to their axioms. Commonsense logic uses lossy compression, which makes it less accurate in edge cases, but also less brittle, more efficient, further reaching and more stable in most real-world situations.
Why do we find some visual stimuli pleasing, and others repulsive?

I think that’s partly our experience, and partly our generic heritage — an ‘attractive’ face is one where the effect of the emotional affect correlated with reproductive success.

And I think pop-culture locked room mystery crime shows like Sherlock and Jonathan Creek would be written very differently if the puzzle solving character was supposed to represent the norm rather than the exception.
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I grew up using MSN messenger, Me and my friends used to spend way to much time extra viruses to get more emoticons.

However the one thing that stayed with me was how cheap emojis can make things look. Unless its a slack reaction, but they were almost always custom.

So I don't use emojis in a standard day. But I suspect that says more about me, rather than anyone else.
Diamonds are sometimes absurdly expensive with no valid reason. Do you believe this justifies robbing diamond stores?
It's likely that many of the patterns it learned are encoded understanding of the form you mention, but not at a formal level of explication.

The architecture of the system and design of the training methodology are laid out to specifically prevent direct database-esque "pattern in pattern out" failure mode.

Similar to Google deep dream, there will be contextual features and feature clusters encoded into neurons that can be explored and extracted, and those could provide insights that can be sourcing translated into "hard" science, with explicit formulae and theory allowing a fully transparent model to be created.

Like other transformer models, you can elicit the training data intact, but such scenarios are a statistically insignificant selection of the range of outputs the models are capable of producing. That doesn't mean anything with regards to accuracy of the novel output, though.

With alphafold 2 going open source, it's possible that tools and methodologies to extract hard science from transformers will be formalized quickly and in the public eye. We have an amazingly powerful new tool, and the coming decades will be fascinating.
"Dear leader" is a really good example of how you can get yourself into awkward situations if you're not aware of certain historic precedents. Another example: in Germany, nobody would call their boss "mein Führer", although "Führer" is the literal translation of "leader"...
I'll echo this as well. Not only the development pace is ridiculous for such a small team, they're very responsive to support requests via mail and Discord as well.

I had a small problem with the app once. I contacted them via email and it was resolved in a couple of hours and they were kind enough to offer different solutions -- solutions that didn't fill their pockets. (Needless to say, I'm sticking with their services.)

The fact that they can manage all that is almost a testament to how useful the app they're creating must be for them.

I too am just a happy user/customer and wish them nothing but success.
It would be fairer to compare by wealth, where the USA is at 30.2%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_wea...
I have used the internet for 25 years and I learned that ending sentences with a period is/can be rude like two years ago. That surprised me a lot.

But I never used chat a lot. I think on Usenet etc., full sentences were the norm.
sure, it can be x86 as well, right now the program outputs C code, I just thought that compiling to byte code would be more fun
Atomic instructions wouldn’t be reordered like that on a CPU, that’s the point of using them.

Non-atomic ones might be, and volatile would since it’s only a C concept. Although it wouldn’t be through instruction fusion, more like non-coherent caches.
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It's a shame that the typical HN "thing" happened where people focussed on small details and argued strawman arguments instead of focussing on the main fact that some AI/ML upscalers can make older shows look much better.