skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure this was an entirely unplanned enterprise...
> New restriction in their License suggests the software can't be modified.

It can be modified. That just says it can't be modified to bypass their filters.
Yes, it would be much better! I didn't add it to the homepage, because I didn't want people to end up playing with the quiz, instead of trying out the builder themselves. But you are right, I'm going to integrate a clickable quiz into the homepage somehow!
Did you talk to anyone who successfully lost weight and kept it off? I have, and from my own experience and talking to others who did the same _every_ single person succeeded via low card high protein/fat. Would be super interested in meeting someone who lost weight with a high carb diet and how they pulled it off. It's really hard for a lot of psychological and hunger based reasons which is why basically nobody can do it
If you're struggling with OAuth I recommend reading this article from Ory:

https://www.ory.sh/oauth2-openid-connect-do-you-need-use-cas...
Without knowing all the details, I'd call this a major loss for Canadian consumers, and exactly the kind of crap we have to put up with in Canada. Instead of getting to buy a new, innovative product, we'll be forced to get the expensive shitty version though our telecom oligopoly that has the government in their pocket. I'm really pissed off Elon Musk would have collaborated with one of the worlds most consumer unfriendly companies in this way, and not tried to help Canadians avoid getting screwed. (Fixed typo)

Edit: per another comment, this appears more benign than I though at first reading, though anything involving Roger's is a loss for Canadians https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35719151
For some reason, the thing i most remember about Transmeta is their appearances in After Y2K, where they are some sort of sinister cabal with an underground base:

https://joyoftech.com/geekycomics/Aftery2k/y2Karchives/125.h...

https://joyoftech.com/geekycomics/Aftery2k/y2Karchives/158b....
HN "fixes" capitalization upon submission... but if the user goes back and edits the title ex-post, it respects those capitalization decisions.

OP probably doesn't know that or did not notice the capitalization
High Velocity Data Teams Don’t Shard. Here’s Why
>New restriction in their License suggests the software can't be modified.

To remove filters.

"Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:"
Agreed. Rails uses ActiveRecord and you'll most likely be trying to load millions of records through an ORM which will make you go insane trying to get it to work efficiently.

I have no problem with Rails or ActiveRecord but bulk upload of data through any ORM is a big no for me.
As a PhD student working on core ML methods with applications in chemistry, I second this. During my PhD, I read very few papers by chemists that were exciting from a ML perspective. Some work very well, but the chemists don't even seem to always understand why they made the right choice for a specific problem.

I don't claim that the opposite is easy either. Chemistry is really difficult, and I understand very little.
>understand how machine learning models work (at a high level)

>Calculus, on the other hand, will be used by very few students,

These two statements do not mesh. Understanding how machine learning models work requires Calculus.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: this has apparently been a problem for years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23886523 (July 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14396344 (May 2017)

I appreciate your good comments, but bad comments cause more damage than good comments add value. If you'd please review the rules and stick to them from now on, that would be good. I don't want to ban you!
That would also work well, yeah
Power Ventures' actions violated the CFAA because they bypassed security measures intended to make the content not-exactly-public. The judge dismissed claims of copyright infringement despite them hosting "cached" versions of the scraped profiles using Facebook's trade dress. The damages + discovery sanction had to do with them bypassing security restrictions with their scraping, creating profiles and using bots to scrape with those profiles to access further information than was public, and Power Ventures' ignoring their explicit cease-and-desist the first time, and their non-compliance with discovery in some context. Read the case.

>I could go on, but I am not sure what exactly you’re trying to argue here.

That public is public. If you leave the door open in the real world, someone CAN enter your home. If you host your image on a public webpage, they can scrape it. robots.txt is not a security measure, nor is it a contract that magically gives the right to scrape where it wasn't given previously, it is a gentleman's agreement that you can ignore if you want to be a dick about it, and know about the robots.txt. Ethically, that's wrong, but it is how it is.

Not to mention, as I came to understand while reading during this discussion, LAION wasn't even crawling: they were using a public commoncrawl dump to gather their images. commoncrawl had crawled the author's site previously. They just took that data and got image links out of it.

1. they weren't selling a dataset

2. the artist didn't "disable" scraping in any meaningful way, legally

3. linking to the image is not illegal, and they're justified to respond with an invoice in Germany to recover legal fees for this dumb copyright complaint

4. it may fall under fair use to download images and train neural nets on them, it may not be. it always depends on the context and the specific case.

pretty simple stuff.
Great job! I hope you're proud of yourself 70 pounds is pretty amazing
Also like when a freshman doesn't start their project until the night before the deadline, or every other way that people procrastinate that leads to failure. If they start getting some real practice overcoming this in high school that would be an insane benefit.
Definitely. This is why we also do things like optimistic updates, setting query performance alerts, and when possible reducing as much DOM elements.
Even more savvy people use full automation with Usenet and torrents as backups.
> Good jobs are difficult to come by if you don't have a college degree.

what awful logic. this is exactly what's wrong with america. we've been taught this exact sentiment and it will be our demise. so, what if every college closed tomorrow? my god, how would we get jobs?!

i had a friend who started mowing lawns in high school, after he got his driver's license. i genuinely looked down on him because he mowed laws to make a living. what kind of career is that?! i knew i was superior for going to college...

the result? he owns a multi-million dollar landscaping firm, employing dozens of people, drives a fully-loaded company vehicle (which is replaced every 2 years), and he makes GOBS of money loving what he does.

the lesson here is that you actually don't NEED a college degree, but we sure as hell have been programmed to think otherwise. too many kids are forced into college, take on massive amounts of debt, when they were better off going into gasp the trades!
They took down the blogpost, but from what I remember the model is composite and consists of a text encoder as well as 3 "stages":

1. (11B) T5-XXL text encoder [1]

2. (4.3B) Stage 1 UNet

3. (1.3B) Stage 2 upscaler (64x64 -> 256x256)

4. (?B) Stage 3 upscaler (256x256 -> 1024x1024)

Resolution numbers could be off though. Also the third stage can apparently use the existing stable diffusion x4, or a new upscaler that they aren't releasing yet (ever?).

> Once these are quantized (I assume they can be)

Based on the success of LLaMA 4bit quantization, I believe the text encoder could be. As for the other modules, I'm not sure.

edit: the text encoder is 11B, not 4.5B as I initially wrote.

[1]: https://huggingface.co/google/t5-v1_1-xxl
> How is Passkey so much better than a password manager with a good implementation

Because:

1. Passkeys have better UX, on account of them being able to interface with websites through a standard API rather than through text boxes.

2. Password managers are incapable of eliminating user-memorized passwords, again on account of them interfacing with sites through text boxes designed to facilitate that particular insecure practice.
Omnisome Satisfaction and Feedback Survey
A lot of people already "live" in Slack (i.e., slack has a 'network effect', same with Discord) and so naturally I think people are more likely to engage with my community on a tool they are using because of work (their company is on slack). How does Linen think about addressing that concern?

disclaimer: OSS founder here that cares a lot about managing community!
Not elons problem
> I have a hard time believing that genetics being a dominating factor for outcome would not be an obvious/major/easily discovered and proven finding.

IQ is 57-80% heritable [1]. It's not the same as probability of getting a PhD, but it's hard to argue it wouldn't be a significant (it doesn't have to be "dominating", as you put it) factor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
It's not taboo on the right. You can find right-wingers who'll talk your ear off about how culture is what's "wrong" with, say, black America, all day long. Shit, if there are any first or second generation black African immigrants nearby while you're talking, they might chime in to strongly agree—I've seen that enough times that I'd say there's some substantial body of that demographic that's sympathetic to that point of view.

Now, maybe you can dismiss this as a thin veneer over outright racism, but it's also not the only culture-related thing they're happy to talk about. They're huge on culture—at least, they're huge on talking about it.

(for the record, my own politics are farther left than most elected Democrats, on practically every issue—I'm not striking a blow for "my tribe" here)
Actually, there's a point: doas is already smaller and safer, so it would probably be easier to port to a new language as well as having less attack surface in the first place. Of course, it's still necessary to work with sudo as well because it genuinely supports a lot more features and some of them are even useful, but if you want the low hanging fruit...
Scrolling is broken for me (iPhone). Sounds like an interesting idea though.
I want to expand on this. Companies use gift cards for all sorts of strange things. We once had a company that treated gift cards as tickets to their events. You bought a set price "gift card" on their website, and redeemed it at the event, but there was no other use of it.

Our sales pitch to companies is also about treating gift cards as a marketing tool, mainly by giving away gift cards for certain purchases during sales. For example, IKEA once had a promotion where they would give you a ten dollar giftcard for every one hundred dollars of gift cards you bought. Unlike most companies pushing one of these promotions, they chose not to set an upper limit. The result was hilarious and predictable.
"The "equity" piece of it is mostly window dressing"

"no way of gauging how well students are retaining the lessons until the end of the quarter."

Yeah, if you don't know who is behind or on what area, then how could you possibly help them?
so install firefox + uBlock Origin for her?
I'm no expert, but I think it's so that the model can learn the relative position wrt other tokens.

They use indices for models like vision transformers with a fixed number of patches but for variable length context I think it's more beneficial to use encodings that can also capture the relative distance.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t Rust unsafe only when explicitly using unsafe? Provided this project does not do that, it would be memory safe, no?
I think that's also true in most of the US for first-party gift cards like Starbucks.

The typical offenders for expiration dates and/or fees are bank-issued gift cards that run via a credit card network. Does the Alberta regulation cover those?
As long as they don't stop offering Starlink direct to home owners and RV users as a result of this. Unfortunately, given how aggressive and monopolistic Rogers is I could see this being an outcome. I'm sure Rogers has at least pushed for it.

For non-Canadians, Rogers is the largest but also the absolute worst mobile/internet/tv provider in Canada. They routinely use grey area tactics to both bully competitors, and even bully customers.

For example, long in the past I rented an apartment in a large rental building. The building had a no solicitors rule. However, Rogers would routinely come into the building knocking on doors, somehow they got an exception with management who supplied them with a list of all non-rogers customers.

Where it got really obnoxious is that every month they would also have someone come and shove papers under your door that had a big "notice from management" on it. Photocopied like, looking for all the world like you were in trouble. Open up the paper, Rogers ad.

This is really pretty minor as far as this company goes.
Heh, this is where video format naming is stupid. 1080p = 1920x1080. 2K = 2048x1080. 2K and 1080p are practically the same. 4K = 3840 x 2160, which ends up being 4x the total number of pixels as 2K/1080p.
According to https://kazemnejad.com/blog/transformer_architecture_positio... they explain it as a clever way to satisfy the following criteria:

- It should output a unique encoding for each time-step (word’s position in a sentence)
- Distance between any two time-steps should be consistent across sentences with different lengths.
- Our model should generalize to longer sentences without any efforts. Its values should be bounded.
- It must be deterministic.

Your example contradicts the 'values should be bounded' criterion as it generalizes to longer sentences.
This is the movie studio/streamer endgame.
Netflix validated the concept and was able to get short term licences while the traditional movie studios watched these licences run out.
Netflix now must create new content and compete with the old(and dated content as well as the new stuff from studios and others.
Seems logical to get rid of the free loaders. Not sure how they fight copy streamers of their content unless them embed a steganographic ID in whatever they stream and scan streams for that ID and cut that subscriber off = lots of detailed work, but it could probably be botautomated - except for private streams that can not be automated via FTP etc - that would also have a subscriber cost as well.
Netflix is facing an existential threat IMHO, so they need to limit free loaders AND create new content AND defeat ripoff streamers- a true challenge. I am content to pay Netflix...
This is brilliant and incredibly useful. Also easy to customize.
And this is why the most clamor for sideloading etc on iOS is from other companies, not users: They would love to fleece the users with as few interventions in between as possible.
What do you mean? I don't understand what "[sic] knew, innovative product" you wanted or expected. I also don't understand what you wanted Musk to do to "help Canadians avoid getting screwed".
I'd love to see "people search" websites like Spokeo/etc be forced to delete everything about me. once I find a website, make an account so I can get my information deleted, another 3 sites have popped up. I think even one of them wanted a copy of my drivers license before it would delete my information "obtained from public sources."

it's been frustrating. I shouldn't have to hire an identity protection service just to remove myself from annoying websites.
Apple is reportedly working on an AI health coach
The Dune navigator theory of evolution
I am only aware of 2 examples, the one that was posted on reddit and is now apparently being shipped to GamersNexus, and Der8auer, who didn't even notice pad discoloration (so may not have even been caused by an overcurrent event).

I wouldn't bet their "fast" response is due to them internally already knowing, so much as the PR hit from getting to the top of the PC enthusiast forums on reddit. None of the statements so far even suggest they've reproduced anything wrong, leaving vague statements of investigating it or adding more limitations in case that was an issue.

I remember a while ago something similar happened when someone read a lot into a comment into the open source AMD GPU driver as the "Shader Prefetch" feature of their GPUs was broken and disabled. AMD ended up having to issue a statement saying it's enabled and working where it benefits performance - and that shot to the top of those same forums and people "demanded" an explanation, and that was just an internal detail of hardware performance, not even a user-visible feature. To this day some commenters think the performance is somehow hobbled by this, so there may be more pressure to get faster responses.

I personally work on GPU drivers, AMD GPU drivers, but not on windows. I actively avoid commenting on things I have personal knowledge of, so I don't accidently leak something, but also because I see so much /wrong/ stuff repeated on the internet. In fact, I would say the majority of the specifics that are "generally accepted" on those subreddits are wrong to the point of being misleading. And a couple of times I've tried to question things I knew were incorrect I was heavily downvoted and dogpiled, so I gave up.

So while I have no direct knowledge of anything related to the CPU and it's power management, I'm trying to avoid Gell-Mann amnesia on "facts" repeated in those same subreddits.

So my current position is there may be an issue here, it may even be related to the SoC voltage regulation currently being blamed, but the "evidence" so far could also be caused by a thousand other things.
Exactly. My personal example: wanting to cancel due to shady advertising practices, my newspaper said i owed them money for an additional subscription I didn't make, and then threatened to send it to a collection agency.

I hate to turn my back on local news, but its owned by Gannett now who've ruined it, so I guess I'm ok with it failing. Sad though...
At the same aspect ratio, 2K is 2048*1152 which is only 13.8% more pixels than 1080p.
I once heard a story about Microsoft: a research group had discovered that they could control the radio-frequency emissions of computers with code, and could broadcast the license serial number of running software. Unfortunately, the signal was too weak to detect unless a large number of computers were broadcasting the same license number. But you could easily discover companies that were illegally sharing licenses by driving a radio equipped van around the business district. (I probably have most of the details wrong; it's been years.)

Anyway, the punchline was that Microsoft wasn't interested because it wouldn't catch all illegal licenses.
The "Transmeta employee (of mild fame)" is Linus Torvalds. I don't mean to spoil the surprise; I just want to encourage people to read his explanation who might have overlooked it otherwise. :)
You're welcome in this community, but can you please stop posting repetitive comments? The idea here is curious conversation on topics of intellectual interest.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Processed foods are a vaguely defined and somewhat arbitrary category of foods, but that does not mean the correlation between foods being highly processed and unhealthy is BS. Things that have ingredients like brominated vegetable oil or various other preservatives and stabilizers for texture and shelf life, artificial colors and lots of HFCS, meat slurries that have been pumped through tubes and formed into precise shapes, the "simulated yogurt" that wrapped the raisins in my trail mix... None of that stuff is a favor to your health.

Food optimized for mass market scale and profitability is practically never optimized for nutritional value, except as a hollow gimmick, e.g. Vitamin Water.
Doctors make a lot of money, therefore going to med school is worth the cost. So in order to increase economic prosperity we made more and more med schools until EVERYONE went to med school. Would doctors still make lots of money in this case?

The general case for college is similar. Graduates only make more (and not all of them too by the way) because they are of limited number and companies use degrees as a metric of competence. It bothers me when I hear politicians and the like saying that everyone should go to collage and get a degree because then everyone will have a highly paid job. It doesn't work like that.
> Why not just google it?

Lets try an example. This took chatGPT seconds to answer. Tell me how long it would take a person with zero ffmpeg experience to come up with the same solution using just google / stack overflow.

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Create me a command using FFMPEG to convert all video files in a directory. The source files are mkv files in 4k, and they should be output as mp4 files with h264 encoding at 720p. Also, produce a thumbnail image for each cropped to 320x320 pixels using a frame of the video 10 seconds from the beginning.

for file in *.mkv; do
ffmpeg -i "$file" -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 18 -c:a aac -b:a 192k -vf "select=eq(n\,300)" -s 1280x720 -frames:v 1 "${file%.*}.mp4" && ffmpeg -i "$file" -ss 10 -vframes 1 -s 320x320 "${file%.*}.jpg"
done

Also, this does not just have to be blindly copy/pasted. ChatGPT also went on to break down exactly what this command does so you can revise it / understand it.

Here's a breakdown of the ffmpeg command and its flags used in the solution:

* -i "$file": Specifies the input file.

* -c:v libx264: Sets the video codec to libx264, which is a widely used H.264 video encoder.

* -preset slow: Specifies the encoding preset as "slow." The encoding presets range from "ultrafast" (fastest but lower compression) to "veryslow" (slowest but higher compression). "Slow" strikes a balance between compression efficiency and encoding time.

* -crf 18: Sets the Constant Rate Factor (CRF) for video quality. A lower CRF value, such as 18, indicates higher quality and larger file sizes. You can adjust this value based on your desired trade-off between quality and file size.

* -c:a aac -b:a 192k: Sets the audio codec to AAC with a bitrate of 192 kbps. Adjust the bitrate value as per your requirements.

* -vf "select=eq(n\,300)": Specifies a video filter to select the frame at the 300th second (10 seconds from the beginning) of the video. You can modify the value inside the eq() function to select a different frame.

* -s 1280x720: Sets the output resolution of the video to 1280x720 pixels, representing 720p resolution.

* -frames:v 1: Specifies that only one frame should be extracted from the video.

* "${file%.*}.mp4": Generates the output MP4 file with the same name as the input file, but with the extension changed to .mp4.
Think we can optimize this with rust