skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Digital" cooperatives using (optionally) open source platforms is an idea that should be much more explored imho.

The concept applies to so many verticals involving small companies or individual operators (from taxis, to hotels, to restaurants, to real estate agents, local bookstores, cinemas, to game developers etc. etc.)

The inability of large numbers of small entities to coordinate and cooperate in the digital era means they create the conditions for third parties to completely take over the intermediation with clients and use that leverage to extract unreasonably large rents.

In fact the extreme "taxes" small businesses and individuals have to pay to shrewd digital platform owners are multiples of the cost of development of the platforms themselves.

In other words, if a collection of independent entities cannot get they act together to codevelop digital infastructure (that will benefit all of them) somebody else will do it for them and will be eating their lunch.

This reclaiming of their market / ownership of digital tools might be challenging in conditions of rapid technical innovation. The autocracy of a top-down corporate structure is more effective than a democratic collective. Yet despite incessant marketing noise currently we are in a rather stagnating phase so there is a window of opportunity to reclaim some agency.
I think part of it is generating and stretching out drama to create more content. If situations were handled like sensible adults then much of the show wouldn't happen.
Fridge Flight Tracker (2021)
And the content is garbage. Even if one would disagree, we are comparing with the American cinematic canon, by most measures the greatest body of artistic accomplishment humanity has ever produced. I cannot believe people even have the nerve to question the comparable value.
1000 times this.

Also, the time of focus loss grows highly super-linearly with the distracting delay time. One second could be imperceptible, once you get used to it, 15 seconds is enough to get distracted by looking at something else, like checking IM / email and spending 2-3 minutes on returning to the full focus, and 2 minutes is enough to go for a coffee / reddit / YouTube, and a potential loss of an hour of focus time.
Article is from 2010, so maybe add (2010) to the title.
If it's still retrieving an image and not reconstructing it, if the dataset is large enough that's decently fine, but this is generally not how diffusion models work in general and I'd have expected the model to map the fMRI data to a wholly new image.
Truly, these are strange times. We need to go back to the times where adults scoffed at the robots of Asimov. I mean the time machines and vampires of Wells and Stoker. I mean the electrically reanimated corpses of Shelley. I mean the ghosts and fairies and witchcraft of Shakespeare. I mean the demigod superheroes of Homer. I mean…
Even if you could you'd probably have to fix it yourself, because the guy in town who used to run a general repair shop retired/died from old age 10 years ago and never managed to find a young guy to take over the business. I knew a guy who used to repair anything from work boots to sewing machines to televisions, but he gave it up in his 80s with nobody to replace him. I've heard this is very common, those kind of handyman repair shops mostly don't exist anymore.
It is always the businesspeople at fault for it. Creatives don't naturally want to create bland and uninteresting work any more than software developers want to naturally build CRUD apps for ad-tech companies. The employees go where the businesspeople and their money lead because working class folks need to make a living and most Hollywood creatives are working class.
Just use alloca.

// in your code, which you could write a helper macro for if you were so inclined

opaque_foo_t *my_foo = alloca(opaque_foo_sz());
opaque_foo_init(my_foo);
Really tough one to guess. If the small laptop-run models win (become useful enough), the value may be captured by the commons, with various applications (glue code essentially) capturing the value. A bit like the early internet scenario - good for startups.

Likely NVidia, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud will capture a lot of the value. OpenAI might, but they are playing a game of tennis where they are "Advantage" but could still lose.
Putting all knowledge in the hands of a for-profit company is the opposite of “democratization of knowledge”.
I've been using this with Microsoft Edge on Windows, this is so very useful. It does have autofill on the browser, but for some reason it keeps asking for password if you want to directly open it to add a password or look up something.
EU has a bunch of states that have been in the Soviet Block not so long ago, even 3 countries from the USSR. This is way more diverse than USA at least as far as the economics go.
Imagine getting to know about this 20 years ago.
what is waste?
Right and I would go so far as to say that most types of intelligence are a type of functional compression also.

There's definitely room for direct transfer of concrete unrolled information. But at the same time we would still need some forms of abstraction in many cases.

I think the biggest issue with the compression of natural language is that the loss is different for each person, since everyone's "codec" varies. In other words, people often interpret language in different ways.

But suppose that humans or AIs or AI-enhanced humans could have exactly the same base dictionary or interpretive network or "codec" or whatever for a (visual or word-based) language. Then we could get away from many of the disputes and misunderstandings that arise purely from different interpretations.
I think the fact that it will be added to POSIX was decisive.
> I don't believe it's a coincidence that the ill-posed problem gets the high profile attention.

In this case even the well-posed problem(s) can be highly controversial as it can be seen from other comments - including someone who claims that probabilities are meaningless here because "it’s not a repeated game."

> something strange is going on.

The New York Times may be part of it then, I got the second quote from https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/21/us/behind-monty-hall-s-do...
These things tend to trade 200% performance for 10% security, though. That's not a tradeoff I am comfortable with in anything like all situations.
It depends on who controls the cameras, but yes generally every added means of surveillance by a centralized power takes us closer to an Orwellian society.

anti-theft cameras less so, because they are controlled by individual people, but as seen with Ring doorbells, the government can still access them, so it's pretty creepy.
Just moves the suffering years to 60-70.
And yet, most residential construction is basically the same, whether it's going to be built in Palo Alto, upstate NY, Kansas, south Florida or Portland. Most of those don't have anything that even resembles strong earthquake risk.

American housing is built the way it is not due to extra interest in safety, but because it's cheap to build under US prices. You can call it better or worse than Europe, but it sure isn't earthquakes.
Yeah It’s an old extension and doesn’t work great but it sort of works. I had to disable autocomplete in forms for it because it would break even apple’s login screen - couldn’t submit (some js error from the injected extension code). now i just use it from the button in the toolbar and that gives me the password
> I think it's because they're hiring writers who are too young with too little life experience.

That’s what you get when you hire writers willing to work in mini-rooms (and not go to production): inexperienced folks still sponging off their parents.
Just watch anything JJ Abrams has been involved in.

A classic case of hating or not caring about source material, whilst also being a complete writing hack.
> my macbook now seems to often stutter for 2-3 seconds switching spaces

I get so angry at this sort of thing. The M1 chips are so fast! When they came out they could open basically any program instantly. But now that they’ve been out for awhile, developers everywhere are (of course) just assuming everyone has an M1 or faster and doing even less optimization on their code. So the net effect is that software doesn’t get any faster. We just collectively spent billions of dollars on new hardware with almost no tangible benefit. (The exceptions being high performance computing - like AI or AAA video games where optimizations still matter).

Computers are fast. Slow software comes from lazy developers who steal your cpu cycles instead of doing their jobs properly.

It’s inexcusable.
It is not that simple and varies country to country. Here Finland best software developers usually go consulting/freelancing in their later career because that is where big money is in our software ecosystem and it has some rather big tax benefits.
Sydney has metro rail lines that go out into the mountains as an alternative to driving.

Do you need a personal vehicle to carry a few sandwiches, some water and a first aid kit? If you are going camping can’t you rent a vehicle, how often do you realistically go camping that it justifies the cost of ownership over renting when you _truly_ need it?

If you really do need a car, that’s totally acceptable! But how many people don’t actually need it for anything other than weekend grocery shopping and work commutes? Hint: a very large portion of the population.
According to the PDF data sheet it has a diameter of 7.6m, length 9.8m. The only rocket I know of that could launch that is the SpaceX Starship - when it's ready.

I would go as far as saying this looks specifically designed for the Starships payload dimensions, 8m dia by 17m. Baring in mind that the front ~7m are in the nose cone of the rocket.

I think it's quite sensible for a startup to be working on space station designs that are utilising the expected capability of starship.

https://gravitics.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/StarMax_One_Pa...

See payload section on: https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf
(Cool. I've moved on from ergodox to lily58 and have a cst trackball.)

This last weekend I pulled out my 12 year old Thinkpad running custom qtile window manager to transfer old DV movies to mp4s. Sadly my muscle memory was mostly gone and I had to revert to gnome... (Hanging my head in shame.)
If they need immature characters to generate drama, they're bad writers.
> Imagine if someone said that to you about something you liked, would you make a sincere attempt to explain why someone might do such a thing?

"I like my hobby because X, Y, and Z. It poses no danger to anyone".

Seems a bit rude to accuse OP of concealing anything. The owner of the Porsche is proud of the shoddy state of his vehicle, and this rubs him the wrong way. It's not hard to see why.

Car culture forces us into daily contact with folks who are also proud of their vehicles, and their blinding lights, their lifted suspension, protruding rims, tinted windows, overpowered engines, etc. I am reminded of this vehicle [0] and its owner. Running "beaters" is one facet of that same culture.

It's a very public hobby, which puts the public at real risk. That makes it fair game for criticism.

[0] https://www.motor1.com/news/597254/1300-hp-mercury-comet-bra...
I think you're sidestepping an important nuance of what Jung was saying.
Those are different people. The ones who die early don’t have disposable incomes that are high. At least on average.
Run Pinecone on Azure
I have heard this discussed as ones 'character gap'
I don't understand this:

> at least a 16:10 ratio, if not taller

Should the ratio be at least or at most 16:10?
seems expected for a new app with hype that people want to see for themselves.
it would have been the same regardless of this or that feature.
how many moved to telegram from Whatsapp to see what it is and never logged in second time when the whatsapp tos came out? about 99% of my personal contact list.
that's how things work.

i would have use mastodon as an example as well but the create account there is so challenging that hype or not, you can't login. for example i still didn't get where best to create the account at. so its just skipped.
One curious explanation of midlife crisis I've seen was that at the age of 33 the "spark of spirit" completes its connection with its earthly vessel, looks down and expresses its major disappointment with how little has been done. The more advanced, who haven't wasted time, this connection feels like sudden rush of wisdom and intuition.
The EU has better social support.

However, the US dodged the austerity fad bullet in the 2010s. A lot of the EU really fell for it hard.

Austerity is a fantastic way to inhibit growth.
But eh, that is not the case in crystal. You are not on your own - the language knows what a variable is during runtime and you have plenty of ways to dispatch between the types.
Allow me to rephrase: If you are prototyping for mass production, $16 is probably a rounding error in your prototyping costs.
Please read the paper. Or at least the blog post. It's really quite readable.

They explain that they've done both retrieval and reconstruction, and have lots of pictures showing examples of each.

https://medarc-ai.github.io/mindeye/
Drone deliveries substitute for cars and trucks, which kill 20 pedestrians every day in the US.
You're right, but just to point out the obvious - you can decide (to some extent) not to be bitter, even if you aren't fulfilled at your job.

Many people, in fact most people, and certainly most people throughout history, have worked not because it was the thing they wanted to do to be most fulfilled. They worked because they had to provide for their family.

The choice isn't binary - it's not "do something you love and not be bitter" vs "work to provide and be bitter". You can also choose "work to provide, understand the tradeoff you're making, and accept it". You can still have a plenty fulfilling life outside of your job - many people do.
The number of actors coming out of hollywood that don't act these days is awful.

The Chris Pratt school of not acting is strong.
They print money though. That is what the customer has demonstrated they want.
You’ll get your time back as he gets older, for sure.
Yes, but just as they’d prefer playing video games over reading books. Might have been absent from their life at times, but I’m sure they’ll appreciate the properties and stocks I’ll leave behind for them.
The repo the paper is pointing to indicates that the code will be released within ~1 week! If the sheer difference in VRAM requirements and latency holds up, this will seriously be a major breakthrough for LLM architectures!

Can't wait to try it out
"Studies indicate that some cultures may be more sensitive to this phenomenon than others; one study found that there is little evidence that people undergo midlife crises in Japanese and Indian cultures, raising the question of whether a mid-life crisis is mainly a cultural construct."

I thought this was interesting.
> To achieve the goals of retrieval and reconstruction with a single model trained end-to-end, we adopt a novel approach of using two parallel submodules that are specialized for retrieval (using contrastive learning) and reconstruction (using a diffusion prior).

What you can think of contrastive learning as is: two separate models that take different inputs and make vectors of the same length as outputs. This is achieved by training both models on pairs of training data (in this case fMRI images and observed images).

What the LAION-5B work shows is that they did a good enough job of this training that the models are really good at creating similar vectors for nearly any image and fMRI pair.

Then, they make a prior model which basically says “our fMRI vectors are essentially image vectors with an arbitrary amount of randomness in them (representing the difference between the contrastive learning models). Let’s train a model to learn to remove that randomness, then we have image vectors.”

So yes, this is an impressive result at first glance and not some overfitting trick.

It’s also sort of bread and butter at this point (replace fMRI with “text” and that’s just what Stable Diffusion is).

They’ll be lots of these sort of results coming out soon.
In both the cases you mentioned -- college professors and cab drivers -- supply (of labor) massively expanded, and wages fell accordingly.

Of course, the execs are greedy, and of course they win. The execs always win.

You can look to Spotify for what happens on residuals, when an individual can choose to listen to any of 100,000,000 different songs. The only winners are those who control their own image and distribution. Like Taylor Swift, who makes 10 million each show and has full control over her recorded music.
If it changed, it definitely wasn't only recently. Friedrich Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6383/pg6383.html

KARL. Hast du ihn drauf, wie ich dir anbefahl,

Zum Kampf mit mir gefodert auf der Brücke

Zu Montereau, allwo sein Vater fiel?

Karl: "Did you then, as I bade you,

Demand him to fight me on the bridge,

Of Montereau, where too his father fell?"

Schiller is otherwise using very archaic and/or dialectal language (anbefehlen, fodern, allwo) and yet "Kampf mit" (evidently referring to a duel, not some kind of fight together against a third party) already makes an appearance.
Where to begin? The Criterion Collection pretty much exists to preserve and make such films available.
I don't see how the kids "blessing" their parents with grandchildren matters much. My parents had a hard time adapting after I, as the youngest, also moved out and finally started being able to support myself, even though they had grandchildren from my eldest sibling to think about.

In the end, for them the point still stands that their own kids are adults now, and while grandchildren are fun to take care of, they aren't typically the same amount of responsibility on grandparents as on parents. It still leads to suddenly having time to think about their own life, as well as the freedom to take risks, creating the same room for a crisis.
I suspect this still only works if you can utilize the capacity and have simultaneous deliveries, which would required a cluster of deliveries, thus likely not good for rural areas.
True democratization of knowledge would mean LLM's are open source and usable by everyone (the way of Wikipedia).

Even then you'd want attribution to survive.

Eliminating or changing the incentives people have for doing things is the absolutely surest way to change behavior.

Postulating that all published work can be appropriated at will by certain private for-profit entities is the death knell of the knowledge economy as we know it.
Jonny Depp in the Pirates of the Caribbean, even though he wasn't drunk, is a good example of a drunk character that I could understand.

I can't comment on the sequels.
Light is produced and consumed in quanta (photons) by reguar matter. Light itself is just radio wave. Radiowave has not such limitation. It's limitation of atomic particles.
Neat project with a nice minimal aesthetic and fast performance. Thanks for sharing.

But the repo does not seem to have the shell scripts.[1] What is the statistical definition of a strong stock?

And which chapter or part of the book specifically inspired you? At first glance, it seemed like a long winded personal memoir of trading and would rather just read the essential parts.

[1] https://github.com/weeklycharts/charts
If you can retrieve an image using a latent vector, it’s trivial to reconstruct it (decently well) with a diffusion model.
It feels like when you're on a plane and it suddenly drops due to turbulence without warning. Only you could be anywhere doing anything.
Exactly - those with kids and/or those who are poor can’t afford a midlife crisis
You do realize that you're one of many people (and large media outlets) in the past year or so who claimed that Twitter will die "very soon"?
> end stage

This is a silly meme, none of us have a crystal ball; there's really no telling how much further there is to fall. If this is the end stage, what are you going to call it in 50 years when people are getting themselves euthanized so they can sell off the last of their organs to put their child through elementary school?
> I find it hard to believe someone would fall for this type of scam

People who pay for a bluecheck are an easy target I mean...
I am here to tell you there is a dan.com
Just to be clear here, the law you are referencing has been stopped and isn't passed yet. Mentioning it as if it were a fact is misleading, in my opinion.
That is the portrait of a typical Torontonian.
Reverse engineering Tesla 2-bus protocol
yes I did, and I loved it that's why I shared it here :)
A man wakes up in a strange room
He doesn't recognize the woman next to him
He gets out of bed, there's a wallet on the dresser
He opens it up, looks inside at the driver's license in there with his face on it
And someone else's name
Ask HN: Why is calculus considered such a difficult subject to learn?
I see this primarily from students in US universities. They dread their freshman calculus classes? Why? Are the teachers bad or the curriculum or books?

Calculus is such a beautiful field with geometrical explanations for almost every theorem. It is the least abstract or dry subject in math.

What is your favourite textbook that made you understand and love calculus (single and multivariable)?
Senate bill targets requires online companies to report drug activity
> Not to mention the lack of braking, and lack of things like crumple
> zones etc, plus feeling light headed from engine fumes and poor ventilation.

Actually, the 914 did have crumble zones. The car was very advanced for its time, with a mid-engine layout and even fuel injection in the late 1960s. I won't excuse the author's refusal to fix his brakes, windows, rust holes, or clutch linkage, but the car itself could be brought to a relatively safe standard for cars of that period.