skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All social media platforms I've used have eventually become useless for the purpose I wanted to use them.

Remember when Facebook was about staying in touch with the people you know? Then there was a huge controversy when they introduced the algorithmic feed, made it the default, and always reverted back to it despite user preferences. Today it's a wasteland full of recommendations, promoted content, influencers, silly videos, controversial topics, and other forms of spam, with some interesting content randomly sprinkled around.

Defaults are important, because they influence people's expectations. If algorithmic feed is the default, it encourages posting certain kinds of content and discourages others. Eventually even your manually curated feed will be full of content that would be successful in the algorithmic feed. That is what happened to the part of Science Twitter I was following. People started posting less and eventually left, because Twitter was discouraging the kind of content they were posting.

As for Reddit, I don't consider it a social media platform. It's more like a collection of unrelated message boards that share the same underlying technology. I'm vaguely aware that there is a front page, and I sometimes visit it accidentally, but I never go there on purpose.
I don't know that that's quite it, people like them because they have a different sound. Objectively speaking, they do a worse job of recreating audio, but they do it in a consistent way that people like.
"In the process to convert our nice-to-have product to a must-have, we burnt out."

I think this is a great quote to show that you should be focused on creating must-have products. Not nice-to-have ones.
It's a state charge, but I'm not sure the Secret Service is required to enforce it as they're employed by the Federal government. I don't think Trump's commitments mean anything, he's not exactly famous for his reliability.

It seems to me that it could lead to interstate litigation, though I don't see what leg DeSantis has to stand on. Then again we're in an era of theater rather than substance.
As the lamest, least armed “overthrowers” of a government ever?

;)
The "Best Google" busts up Microsoft monopolies via going big on open software and open standards.

The "Worst Google" copies the business model they just un-fucked.

I'd say in 2023, we really need the "Best Google".
I've never seen this one before. It has several features I've been looking for. Has it been working well for your organization?
Did you also apply in the batch before your successful application?
Neat! just fyi i think that link is broken
You can use gated measurements to skip the crane and eliminate those reflections... to an extent.

https://www.minidsp.com/applications/acoustic-measurements/l...

There are limits to that, admittedly. You're still going to get that bounce below a certain frequency (height dependent) so you'll still want to get it off of the ground as high as possible. At 2 meters you can get accurate measurements down to 90hz-ish IIRC. Actual in-room bass response is highly room dependent anyway so that's not totally the end of the world, but of course it's not ideal, and overall it goes to show you how impressive and valuable the Klippel is.
When I went to high school in the early 80s our in school security / dare officer was known to just take half of whatever he "found" and everyone just walked away with no problems. Unless he didn't like you, then you got tossed under the bus. And I know that mine wasn't the only high school with this issue in the area.
I had to log in and look around my old account, revisit the silly projects I made when I was 9 years old. Scratch wasn't my first exposure to programming (that would be batch scripting) but I still remember how fun it was to use and how it felt like I could make anything with it. I'm incredibly glad to see it still going strong.
Wait, there are six deans of DEI?
> super easy, barely an inconvenience

Wow wow wow wow wow wow. I see we have another Ryan George fan here.
Feels like artificial social engineering. Bizarre.
That's what toolbars did.
Could you package all that compute into a "virtual" graphics card?
Things you find interesting, which may or may not coincide with work.
You can use cookieless tracking.
Many of Google's products were second, or later, to market. Google does not care.
> running it through a _single_ of the many openly available language model benchmarks.
A formal management calculus is an intriguing idea. It could allow something like specifying invariants that must hold for any reorganization or deriving the necessary precondition for some desired organizational property to be achieved.
He doesn't care about science twitter, he cares about The Science twitter
I don't think google has really been considered a beacon of innovation for a number of years.
The list of Ubuntu "sins" is very long, and goes all the way to their founding - effectively forking the Debian ecosystem. As for being "dev friendly", it really depends on what you mean by that; their insistence on building their own things and discounting third-party input, over and over, was anything but friendly.
They did seemingly position it as a generic name for this style of AI model, and other people have been using it in that fashion (eg "gpt-j"). It's usually recommended to contrast a brand name for your product with its generic name, so that the two don't become confused. Hence why scrabble is always subtitled "crossword game".
Copyright.gov says the copyright office has started an initiative to examine AI copyright issues.

That makes me think even the copyright board is not confident of their answer.
That's fair (but please don't ban me for that @dang). I genuinely just wanted to see if anyone would figure out it was chatgpt generated. What tipped you off?

Because I believe it's going to get harder and harder to figure out what's human and what's not.
Virgin Orbit grounded as Branson's space ambitions face setbacks and uncertainty in the commercial space race
We need to focus on how to transition. The ideal you describe aligns witb socialism, Adam Smith's vision of reduced labour, and 'luxury space communism', but the outcomes are more effected by our economic structures than this disruption of any one technology like AI.
This looks great, but not a fan of Chakra. Will this support Bootstrap any time soon?
Hmm, that's an angle I hadn't considered. Interesting points.
I live in city with a pretty squeaky clean police department.

They are extremely paranoid when hiring - especially “experienced” officers who often turn out to be rejects.

Recently the BLM folks were able to get a big say in police hiring.

They’ve been demanding more Black officers.

It’s hard to get any officers at all, and the city doesn’t have many Black residents.

So they’ve been pushing to change the rules about hiring officers with “previous experience” - basically turning “previous experience” from a negative to a positive.
Eh, if it's my actual core team, like the devs I work with on a day-to-day, then it sounds cool. We haven't yet managed to replace that sense of free flowing adhocness that comes with being in an office together.
Large Language models can also generate novel and working protein structures that adhere to a specified purpose
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01618-2
> Who made you?

> I am an AI language model created by Geri Coleman, a former senior research scientist at the world-renowned research institute, Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), and now a principal researcher at the US National Research Council. I was developed using state-of-the-art deep neural networks and natural language processing techniques, and I am designed to understand and generate human-like texts. My primary function is to provide helpful and informative responses to a wide range of questions and topics.

Total B.S. (source: https://vicuna.lmsys.org/)
When will people learn, "those who work forces are the same who burn crosses" the cops have been corrupt since the days of the runaway slave.
If people only liked the sound, I would assume that it could be emulated on the digital sound processing platform they already use. People buying tubes must be something else.
Stephen Hawking's famous black hole paradox may finally have a solution
ACH is cheaper but the onboarding UX is worse. Maybe FedNow will solve this but probably not.
Vector indexes only form a component within vector databases - you'd want the database bits and bobs (scalability, replication, caching, etc) surrounding it in addition to the index itself. Milvus, for example, supports flat indexes - as far as I know, Weaviate could support flat indexing as well if it doesn't do so already.

Most vector databases focus on ANN because of scale. Once you get to around a million vectors or so, it becomes prohibitively expensive to perform brute-force querying and search.
What makes a pharma company inherently any better than a cartel? Is this just an argument to buy American?
Petition to advance AI research safely and transparently
>This is incredibly wrong. They aren't both Chrome; they're both Chromium-based and use Blink and V8 under the hood.

So they're both Chrome. You can't have a war with just one participant.

>These companies don't care about the rendering engine under the hood, they care about literally one thing: the default search.

They absolutely care about the rendering engine, because that's how you secure a monopoly and subsequently get to foist your default search engine and whatever other monetization schemes on more customers. Did you not learn anything from Internet Explorer and its victory over Netscape? Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

There are many sites that only function properly in Chrome today, and that is to Google's (and now also Microsoft's) commercial interests. You can't have a browser war with just one participant.

>If anything, Chrome/Firefox are more aligned than Chrome/Edge, because every 3 years Google pulls up with a dump truck of money to stay the default search engine.

As far as Google is concerned, it's cheaper to pay Firefox to stay irrelevant than to compete on the market. Mozilla's flush with cash thanks to Google, but that also means they have no incentives to develop or not mismanage their products.

>Also, not for nothing, but there's not a single iota of malice inside Mozilla. Extreme mismanagement, yes, but it's genuinely guided by good people trying to do good for the world.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

History also shows Mozilla today are more concerned about checking the right political checkboxes than delivering a good product that users want.

>(Source: I'm ex Mozilla)

I'm not surprised that (ex-)Mozilla would play the "Am I out of touch? No, it's the people who are wrong." meme almost to the letter, but that is probably neither here nor there.
It is the best database if you are a bank, military or very large company who is already using it. Even in large government departments where I do contract work no one, absolutely no one, ever says "Why don't we use an Oracle database for our new application".
If you are a large company and pay enough in licensing fees you can get great support and it plays well with other Oracle acquisitions like PeopleSoft. Some of the support tooling is a nightmare to patch (looking at you OEM!).
No one ever went to GDC for technical presentations. It was always about networking and no amount of online events can replace face-to-face meetings when it's comes to business. Yeah you can reach a lot of people through friends of friends and Linkedin, but it's much easier to get funding or publishing deal in-person.

Also jobs in gamedev usually pay way below other IT markets and being part of community and parties is one of ways companies keep their staff from leaving for better paying jobs.
Sleep well. Sleep is critical for structural learning (insight, generalization, etc.). Your hippocampus is theorized to randomly walk through memories to build these structural connections in your cortex during slow wave sleep.
> fertile ground for architecture astronauts building Ivory Towers and Pristine Jewels

I have run into that. :)

I was on the HR-XML standards committee for a brief period, and we had an XSD submission that was truly amazing. The author had a solid knowledge of XML, it was fully annotated and documented, and it would fulfill a need for the community. But it was absolutely huge - XML Spy would crash if you expanded too many nodes. I couldn't see any existing DOM style parser being able to validate a document against it.

I get what you're saying about the X-alphabet soup. And you're right - see the other comment from jerf about the hype cycle. JSON is going through it's own hype cycle at the moment and there are active projects to do many of the things you dislike about the XML ecosystem .. against JSON.
Why is that whenever a woman (be it a scientist, politician or any other profession) achieves something, the gender is always mentioned in the headline. E.g.
If she had single handedly caught the biggest smuggler, the headline would be "Female executive director of San Jose police union blah blah blah". But when it's something like this, the gender is often omitted.
Nobody is charging enough that revenue from fare collections can provide this. So what is your point then? Clearly funding from then government can be enough to make fare collection an insignificant amount when it comes to paying for upgrades and new service.
Cool! I tried out the speech to text and it was instant and accurate, i had no idea whisper was that good.

Do you know their privacy for our voices? Do they train on it, hear it, etc ?
Definitely! We have a first draft of a protocol for integrating any components/theme into Noya, but it still needs a little more work. Once it's ready, we (or anybody else) can add Bootstrap as a supported design system.
They are enough, just need care and sysad knowledge which are in short supply these days. Docker is an end-run around that, but you'll then have to know it as well.
Code.org is more focused on learning and has some controls to lock down what they can and cannot access.

I use it in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades to teach kids coding at an elementary school.

It’s more setup for kid/teacher than kid/parent though so YMMV.
Me too - standard 12V and 5V rails run throughout the house would be great. I even thought about a wallpaper with conductive strips so the power could be invisibly delivered to any part of any room and "tapped" with a push-into-the-wall socket.
Does it matter if Poland overtakes Britain, if both our populations are able to survive and prosper? The phrasing has a racist and geopolitical element to it, which superceeds the issues around UK government's lack of investment in R&D and destruction of the welfare state. This is not a zero sum game.
Redrawing something by hand creates a new copyrightable work, so it certainly isn't fraud to claim you own the copyright in a work of art you drew based on an AI output.
The main way is increasing your general level of health. Physically, emotionally and mentally. Reading more doesn’t make you smarter, it just makes you more knowledgeable. Imagine if you had the level of acuity and liveliness you did when you were a child, but the maturity and experience you have now. People say that humans have an intellectual peak in their twenties, well that’s only because most people’s health starts going downhill at that point. Excessive stress, mental overstimulation, emotional problems, etc. You remove these, there’s no doubt you’ll have a clearer and faster mind.
If some half-baked regulation take place in US on AI research, most probably many corporations will just spin-off some "new" startup somewhere less touchy about AIs. Let's say Germany, France, Ireland, it could be almost anywhere, as long as the money get to bootstrap a sufficiently effective replacement for any inhouse research division. It could take time, or not, now the money isn't a problem, and if some regulation begin to cripple the market, suddenly you have a hungrier market with even less offer to satisfy demand, hence the money get hotter and will be pumped even faster into AI research.

I think these guys looking for regulations, stopping development, etc. don't know anything about economics. Everything they are doing, will backfire quite soon.
Results with -O are below.

x1 (AoS) vs x2 (SoA): no performance difference
x3 (arrays not in structure, both arrays in loop): slower
x4 (arrays not in structure, one array in loop): faster

My advice is still not to assume that SoA is always faster than AoS without benchmarking.

+ cc -O -o x1 x1.c
+ ./x1
s=1808348672

real 0m11.775s
user 0m3.540s
sys 0m6.592s
+ ./x1
s=1808348672

real 0m5.427s
user 0m2.727s
sys 0m2.682s
+ cc -O -o x2 x2.c
+ ./x2
s=1808348672

real 0m5.185s
user 0m2.296s
sys 0m2.872s
+ ./x2
s=1808348672

real 0m5.140s
user 0m2.273s
sys 0m2.852s
+ cc -O -o x3 x3.c
+ ./x3
s=1808348672

real 0m6.423s
user 0m3.745s
sys 0m2.660s
+ ./x3
s=1808348672

real 0m6.485s
user 0m3.741s
sys 0m2.714s
+ cc -O -o x4 x4.c
+ ./x4
s=1808348672

real 0m4.875s
user 0m2.205s
sys 0m2.651s
+ ./x4
s=1808348672

real 0m4.894s
user 0m2.189s
sys 0m2.684s
You'll find that's consistent with the data, but also that cancer diagnosis techniques have improved, confounding results.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362167164/figure/fi...
Cool stuff! Any physiological reason why the ear canal would be better suited for PPG compared to a say something like a PPG device in a watch?
Sure, I'm sure you can move to an apartment that is more central, cheaper and more efficient to heat as well. People would rather not do that.
Really? On the API docs it still says write-only access. I don’t see anything about allowing user queries (unless the docs haven’t been updated to Musk’s latest whim, which should be expected given Twitter’s state I guess).
AI will need lower power consumption. Digital architecture will (ultimately) not be suitable.
It's almost embarrassing typing this but growing up as a "leet cod3r kid writing c++" I used to be a Scratch hater. It didn't dawn on me until much later that the RPG Maker VX I grew up with was just a different version of Scratch and visual programming :)

Keep kicking ass Scratch!
Check out trychroma.com
It depends if your redrawing is substantially different enough from the original image to earn copyright on its own. Your changes to an image from ChatGPT do not affect the copyrightability of the original content. If you've simply redrawn what the computer designed it may not be substantial enough to earn copyright. If you've made changes, it may only be copyrightable for those changes.
Show HN: Pair Your Food with Music
We built a simple (48-hour) mobile web app (no signup required) that uses Google Vision AI and the Spotify search API to help you decide what to listen to while you eat.

It's written in Python and hosted on NorthFlank; uploaded and generated images are cached in an S3 bucket.

Future enhancements would obviously be to use a classifier to convert the raw food labels into a more natural "Playlist topic", and perhaps to support SoundCloud or other services.

Currently taking feature requests, bug reports and questions.
Interesting - I'm a medium user of Loom, but I've not used it for anything like async meetings. I just use it for sharing quick product demos or walkthroughs of a section of UI. You're using it to replace meetings in some way?
Great, I think updating the docs to note that it accepts both might be helpful. As I recall, if you try to use those models with the /completions API in OpenAI it throws an error and makes you use the chat/completions API. I haven't messed with it a ton though, and I could be wrong here. I have been watching this space and there is a lot to like about this product.
That’s pretty cool. I had always hoped someone would do something similar with CRTs. A modern CRT would be killer for gaming and retro computing.
We've always known that there's a quantum equation for gravity, like forever. Now we're all excited that it did what, some math? Whoop de doo.
I dunno, man. At least with guitar amps the solid state ones _try_, but even expensive ones kinda suck compared to a tube amp
This isn't opensource. Where's the weights??
I feel like I’ve been able to make decently informed choices without too much hassle…

Recent purchases include usb cables, rechargeable batteries & USB power pack, LCD monitor, SSDs, multivitamins, torque wrench, belt sander, pressure washer, washing machine, gluten-free pastas and baking mixes, video games…

LED bulbs are kind of a pathological case, along with things like USB cables, speaker wire... If you want something better than the lowest common denominator it’s very hard because they are nearly indistinguishable from the outside and take a long time to fail.

But for example shopping and comparing washing machines online wasn’t terrible. You can narrow down the list very easily based on your requirements and budget, probably you end up with 2 choices that both seem great, you can watch videos of them running, and then you pick the one assembled in your home country or the one that makes a more pleasant ding when it turns on, and call it a day? Obviously the “reviews” are all fake, but the point isn’t for someone to tell you what to buy, but that all the options are readily discoverable while I’m lying in bed on my phone.
> Not really what we'd consider "useful" today, though

Simple numerical/mathematical programs are certainly useful today, especially for students and researchers - BASIC emerged from Dartmouth's math department after all. Of course now we can run them on pocket calculators - some of which still run BASIC!

As I understand it, subsequent editions of BASIC running on Dartmouth's time-sharing system were used for a wide variety of applications, including:

- numerical programs (including scientific and engineering computation)

- simulations

- text formatting and document preparation

- statistics and data analysis

- communication programs such as online chat

- data storage and retrieval

- course management and grading

- games

- printing things from form letters to large signs

etc.

Regarding the limits of 1960s computing, it's worth noting that primitive computing systems, along with numerical and control software, were useful in helping to send humans to the moon and back (among other impressive accomplishments.)
Yeah most of that comes from the current implementation of basic transparency which just uses a sort of punch through method without any smoothing. Even though it's basic it allows for surfaces to be blended together in a deferred pipeline (Intel Sponza has a surprising amount of this) but it adds to the dithered look you mentioned. In future versions I'm going to remove it in favor of true order independent transparency. And you're right that it does add to visual instability with its current form. I think there are a few things I can do to help it before just switching over to order independent so I'll mess around with that.

Right now it's using fast-approximate anti aliasing for its AA method but overall even though it's better than nothing it's definitely not good enough especially in motion. I'm going to keep FXAA as a togglable option but I want to add in TAA/TSSAA which look like they handle AA in motion much better.
>Putting toothpaste back in a tube has never worked

The confetti has left the cannon.