skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the essay at all, perhaps because I'm not a domain expert. Edges are clearly a very strong signal in the visual system -- as the article points out, edge detection is one of the first things that happens in the visual pathway from the eyes. However, edges are clearly not the only signal, as the article demonstrates with cross-hatching, colour, and so on (and is also obvious to presumably all sighted humans).

If you remove edges as a signal -- say, by taking the coloured apple in the article, removing the lines, and blurring the colours around the silhouette -- you'd probably still recognise an apple, but not as quickly. For the same reason, if you defocus your eyes (or take off your glasses -- the popularity of these is a strong indicator that contour matters), you'll have more difficulty navigating, even though many signals (colour, shade, depth) are still present. Clearly edges are important, but are not the only thing we're working with.

Optical illusions also don't invalidate the hypothesis, because they almost by definition rarely occur in nature. Similarly, objects in extreme shadow don't invalidate it either, because, e.g., we are quite capable of recognising half a lion as a lion.

I think possibly there's a difference in interpretation here. The claim the author has an issue with is (his phrasing): "the lines in a line drawing are drawn at natural image edges, where an edge receptor would fire. These lines activate the same edge receptor cells that the natural image would. Hence, the line drawing produces a cortical response that is very similar to that of some natural image, and thus you perceive the drawing and the photograph in roughly the same way."

But the paper the author links to doesn't say that. It says "The likely explanation is that lines trigger a neural response that has evolved to deal with natural scenes." It's not claiming that line drawings and photographs are perceived in "roughly the same way", only that we evolved to recognise outlines and line drawings are outlines or at least contain outlines.

So problem 1 (what about all the other features), problem 3 (what is the benefit), problem 4 (visual art isn't just line drawings), and problem 5 (edge detection is not a line drawing algorithm) don't seem to really address the hypothesis.

That just leaves problem 2, "we can't see internal representations". I'm not sure what the statement is here. The author writes "The idea is that we have neurons that activate for object contours and similar, and that line drawings directly activate these neurons. Lines-As-Edges is a special case of this hypothesis. I don’t understand this claim at all." But that claim, as a hypothesis, seems very reasonable? The author seems to be saying that you can't bypass all the neuronal machinery to get directly to the contour-recognising neurons. But that's not true if all you're bypassing is the stuff to isolate the feature of interest (edges, in this case).
I'm integrating llama 2 7b with an application I'm building out currently and one of the biggest reasons was privacy, followed closely by price and lastly by getting it to work locally in a few minutes.

I built a now abandoned project using the GPT API and it was fine and not terribly expensive for my use case but customers didn't like the pay for usage model and the alternative was do weird UX to limit people abusing the prompts into something I couldn't afford bootstrapping as a side project.
Germany the fines do not depend on income. Are fixed. AFAIK this is in Switzerland, for local citizens.
Data security and privacy. Our clients (in aviation, finance, etc.) need this due to legal and regulatory reasons. Also, the new Llama 2 models are very powerful. In my testing, Llama 2 70b is comparable to GPT-3.5 in capability.

(Shameless plug: here's our website: https://www.amw.ai/)
The ramifications of everyone living forever would be catastrophic.
I used Remirror, TipTap with React. They were both great but I needed to implement custom editing behavior and that's where they both fall flat. Building your own extensions is poorly documented, and oh, by the way now you will have to learn ProseMirror anyway. Which has a learning curve you don't need.

This even led to me dropping my project, maybe I need to revisit and check if docs improved now TipTap has funding.

Please consider my plea for a keeping a free tier for unfunded startups? Thanks.
Uber will be fine. The HMRC is pretty disfunctional, and usually chases contractors and their IR35 status. Easier to intimidate actual honest, hard working people, than a large corpo. A pathetic institution.
I would guess this is not an emerging driver but rather an artificial driver because that is their primary value proposition.
Wrapping up round 9 of Folfirinox chemo protocol, hopefully the last round of my life. This shit is nasty. I hope in the coming decades we can look back and realize how barbaric it is to poison your body and hope for the best.

However, this is just a puff piece, not news at all. Not a single citation etc etc. Cancers are hard, I just hope if I ever have children the science will have advanced beyond what I'm dealing with.
Can you elaborate on the pricing difference?
Not really. Take away their license, impound their vehicle if they continue to drive it, and then sell it to pay their fines if they fail to do so.
Ah, I relate with some of these. Though, most of it has just been intermittent annoyances. There are things I've been able to do with X and xdotool I wouldn't have been able to do on Windows. GUI conventions have all been sane, but most things I use were things I ran on Windows (Krita, Insomnia, Discord, Obsidian, etc).

Honestly, no more or less problems than Windows. But I've found it so much easier to debug by having readily available logs and man pages. I think this might just be my use cases though.
Outcry Against AI Companies Grows over Who Controls Internet’s Content
"Chief Zero Knowledge Officer" as job description is assured to do great at parties.
And musk wasn’t mainstream popular until after he sold the world Tesla.
Sounds like a good argument for prison reforms, not making dangerous driving a consequence free crime.
Full article without login wall: https://archive.is/7JxMZ
Hardening Workers KV
Legacy Admissions in the US happen at most Private Universities and a decent number of Public Universities as well.

This isn't just an Ivy League problem - this is a problem that has an effect on the entire college admissions pipeline in the US (plenty of Ivy/UMich/UVA caliber students took seats at top public+private programs, students meant for top public+private programs ended up at regional flagships, etc). As the number of seats is finite, this leads to a massive misallocation across the board.

That said, the same kind of elitist sorting still happens in Europe - it's just done at the grade school level instead
ss, lsof, ifconfig, ip, tshark, mitmproxy, socat?
Our society has been totally captured by corporations.

Employees need corporations to generate profits, otherwise there are layoffs or closures and people lose their jobs. This is bad for the people because we have limited social safety nets and joblessness can devastate people.

People who hope to ever retire need corporations to generate profits, otherwise their 401ks can never grow. This is bad for the people because without investment growth it is unreasonable for a most people to generate the sums needed to retire with dignity.

We've generated a system where the people will complain when corporations are held to any account. We've tied ourselves to the success of big business and can't get off the ride.
The serviXes will be represented by iconsX carefully placed on a grid with twiXer in the center. The users starts there and gradually gains access to services in a larger ring around, the range is called the chain range. Each user is assigned an AI handler (the decider) who will decide which action the user is to take next in order to lengthen their primary chain. Secondary chains will lengthen based on net worth, education, popularity and making innovative claims thereby creating co-hord venn-diagrams.
Try this it has a gui its called sophia app.
https://github.com/Sophia-Community/SophiApp
It also removes the Video player which is odd because like, I feel like that kinda should be built into an OS?
It’s wishful thinking
Nvidia proposes a new method to teach text to image models a new subject
Physicists were by no means holding the chemists back. Condensed matter is full of chemists, it's the point at which the two subjects meet.
> Congress has literally already authorized the money to be spent

If you were a business or a family, you'd talk about how you plan to agree to finance any serious purchase before (or at the very least in parallel ) with agreeing the purchase itself.
If you're interested in more Kentucky cave stuff, Internet Historian on YouTube made this great video about a man getting stuck in the cave he was trying to develop for tourism. https://youtu.be/nnI_oZKxzl0
My years doing the digital nomad thing were pretty slow. 3 months in a foreign country is subjectively way longer than 3 months at home (approx. 2x longer). A change of career/vocation should work the same.
What part of Europe? Don't most of the Tory leadership in the UK come from the same few schools? What is the status of the grands écoles in France?
Ask HN: Is Public/Private Content Creation with Wysisig Still Challenging?
I have been considering developing this idea, but after past experiences of building things that didn't gain interest, I decided to seek feedback on HN. The issue I encountered (which remains relevant) is as follows: I can create content using platforms like Notion, GitBook, or Coda.io. However, my specific use case requires embedding this content seamlessly within my SaaS product, as well as possibly for public documentation. I realized that there is no straightforward way to iFrame the content. I could redirect, but don't want thirdparty headers. While I can export the content as HTML and use it elsewhere, managing versions and exporting every change becomes cumbersome and inefficient. I am also not sure analytics around page views etc from these vendors.

Is this a problem for anyone else ? Just trying to gauge if it's a problem worth solving for.
Not at all. The problem was that the crypto for the same library on two different OSes was implemented differently, which lead to an error encrypting on Linux and decrypting on Solaris. Ironically, this would have been avoided if they had rolled their own.

It is an instance of "make sure you have backups when deploying to production"
In Chile, El Niño is mostly associated to increased rainfall, though.
Sorry to hear, wishing you the best outcome. The future can't come fast enough.
I heard the same.
I also asked someone who is in management. They said that they were getting a lot of feedback from exit interviews from employees with > one year of tenure who left. Many complain of feeling disconnected from their team or not know what to do.
I read that whole homepage and I'm still not sure what this actually is, or is for?

Not throwing shade here, the headline did make me interested, but maybe I'm just not the target audience at all?
No, no it shouldn't.
My friend trained his own gpt2 because it is faster and cheaper to tune it.
I actually researched VTL penalties; speeding under 10 MPH over is a $45 minimum to $150 maximum fine (before the ~$85 surcharge) and/or up to 15 days imprisonment, anything 11+ can be up to 30 days.

It's gonna be unpopular, but maybe they need to see a couple days on a weekend behind bars as a sobering reminder.
Would you mind elaborating on Lexical? Which parts did you find buggy?
relevant https://blog.frantovo.cz/s/1576/Niklaus%20Wirth%20-%20A%20Pl...
In case anyone is interested: websites like this, that do not show any way for me, as a developer, to get started with the development make me skeptical that the people in charge of advertising said product or service are aligned with the needs of developers they are trying to provide products or services to. Further, the requirement of an email in order to access the whitepaper makes this seem like a data harvesting endeavor, rather than a true advertisement of a useful service.

To be clear: that's just one perspective. I'm sure the more crypto-focused devs will find this to be more informative than me. But the point is, if you're trying to recruit a web and application developer, like me, to use your product, I'm going to need to see how I can go from what I am doing to what you are proposing. Usually, that involves some code samples that look familiar to me, and some that look new and highlight how your API is used.

Put more simply: people trying to sell me a useful service are usually right out front trying to put me in the driver's seat. Anytime I see more of a pitch than a demonstration, I think I'm looking at a prospect (value-potential), rather than a product (value-add).

Again, just my two cents. Sorry if it is abrasive. Just trying to give the feedback I would want to get.
It’s an interesting read but the author really takes way too negative a view about using things for other than their intended purposes. That’s literally what we do here. Finding new uses for the things we already have is how so much real progress is made.

The tone of the writing is very distracting.
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Indeed. The separation between "Chemistry" and "Physics" completely breaks down when you start dealing with electron behaviours.

I've actually got a little tin-foil-hat pet theory that Chemistry is slowly dying as it approaches "completion" of its roots (macroscopic phenomena of matter), and is gradually being subsumed by Physics. To at least a silly layman like me, lots of bleeding-edge Chemistry nowadays reads like your average Physics, e.g. doing quantum simulations for protein folding, superconductors, etc.

I'm probably just being silly though, right?
I think that as a rule of thumb we should flag this kind of articles to try to avoid making the front page.
Some bad advice in there...

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force

Should be:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope Process

Turning off that feature permanently is a bad idea.
https://archive.li/2023.07.30-104710/https://www.wsj.com/amp...
> How are land owners kept out of the voting & policy loop, to simply remove those annoying impediments?

Vienna has been a social democrat (SPÖ) stronghold ever since the first democratic elections in the 1910s (called "Rotes Wien" for that reason), interrupted only during the association of Austria to Nazi Germany, and the Viennese population is proud of having their Gemeindewohnungen - calls to sell them off would probably lead to political obliviation of the idiot dumb enough to call for it. Even the far-right FPÖ didn't dare to go that far, all they attempted to want was a requirement to speak German (2011, [1]) or prioritise ethnic Austrians (2018, [2]).

[1] https://www.derstandard.at/story/1297818846747/fpoe-nennt-de...

[2] https://www.vienna.at/fpoe-wien-will-vorteil-fuer-oesterreic...
it's a dystopia that only the rich would love
I use Sledgehammer to control when Windows Update runs and which updates it installs.
Deceptive billboards trying to steer tourists away from the actual Mammoth Cave National Park have continued up until recent times. I'm not saying there aren't other caves worth exploring, but when there's a giant "Welcome to Mammoth Cave" billboard with an arrow pointing to an exit that only leads to an independent gift shop, well...
Roads are engineered for a particular speed and flow of traffic. If you exceed the design limits of the road, you may feel very unsafe and be quite inclined to slow down again. This applies even to large, wide, noticeable emergency vehicles. Residential streets often participate in noticeable "traffic calming" measures, like roundabouts, speed humps, wasp waist narrowing, landscaping and trees, signage, etc.

Most of the time when I see emergency vehicles plowing down the street, they are pretty much going at the limit, but they look faster, because all the traffic signals favor them, and all the other motorists have pulled out of the way. But a fire truck has still gotta slow down or stop at a busy intersection or just a turn. Pedestrians are a thing. And scooters, and cyclists wearing headphones...
A gentle reminder to everyone - we don't have to be passive observers of the unfolding global climate catastrophe. We can pretend that we are intelligent, responsible grownups and go do something about it.
Oh, right, sorry! But unfortunately too late to edit my comment :(
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My mistake, I wish I could edit the title!
Not as long as VLC exists.
The Perfect Linux Distribution
Intent is less clear, and even if prisons in the US were much more humane, addicted people would need extra resources (including human effort) to break the addiction and hopefully prevent further incidents. Really, addicted people are a liability because they'll do pretty much anything to get more of their drugs (and they're often violent); it's just a matter of how prevalent this has to be to be a serious issue. Of course, they're not solely responsible for pervasive drug usage.
Humans are the universe. It’s not surprising the universe uses available metaphors to explain to itself why it might exist.
Hey folks! I'm a motivated, generalist full stack software developer that builds on strong, practical fundamentals. I'm always looking to learn something new and expand my knowledge. I write software for more than 2 decades now, and currently focus on sustainable and accessible web development.

I'd love to find a remote position with a positive impact on the world, and a place where I can build awesome stuff with awesome people. I'd welcome a part-time position as well, if possible.

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I know how this works: I give a list of programs, and someone comes and says "half of those run more or less well on wine, and then the other half have native alternatives that work more or less well".
The person said "People without shame are mentally unwell."

You said "How do you expect to treat mental illness through shaming?"

My interpretation of the first statement is that lack of shame is a characteristic that is present in some mental illnesses.

My interpretation of your reply is that you were portraying the original statement as saying that people that are mentally ill should be shamed in order to get well. Which I thought was very far from my own interpretation.

Due to this I went to google and searched for lack of shame as a trait of mental illnesses to check if there were any, and NPD came up as one example. So it seemed like the original statement was correct while saying nothing about how to treat people which is what you implied.
>They show that assuming some adversary can read Threema messages would entail that the Gap-Diffie-Hellman problem can be solved in polynomial time. Since this is something no efficient adversary is believed to be able to do, no adversary can read Threema messages. Hence, Ibex provides provable security, and confidentiality is guaranteed.

The whole point of the movie Sneakers was to remind the world that if someone does solve P = NP Hard problem they wouldn't tell anyone about it for the exact reason Threema is promoting it's secure methods. Not that anyone has solved the problem, but who really knows.
‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless
It's called "virtual test drive" but is it really just a turntable of a car?

I tried a bunch of keyboard commands and nothing happened. Can I test drive the car?
These are indeed significant problems, but on urban streets, speed, in itself, is a significant risk multiplier.
Tired of Dating Apps, Some Turn to Google Docs
Yes and while you're at it why not make all prison sentences for life?! That would definitely keep even more asocial people off a lot of roads...

But seriously, what happened to that quaint old concept that "the punishment should fit the crime"? In a country where public transport sucks, losing your driver's license is a rather small step up from house arrest.

And 11 points in NY, which is how most people would run afoul of this wonderful new law, is not at all hard to get. Heck, I once got 6 points in upstate NY because the cop was waiting at the bottom of a steep hill in the middle of nowhere. Fortunately he didn't find anything improper about me using my phone for GPS, or I would have hit 11 points instantly.
Come to think of it, I think it was John Wick 2.

Bonus site: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/
It might not be in vain, but it can often be a poor balancing of priorities. The last 10% can easily require as much work as the first 90% - perfection is expensive.

If your reason to perfect something is internal (high personal standards and taking pride in your work) then great - take the opportunity cost in stride and finish something you'll be satisfied with. But if it's external (eg. making it just that bit more impressive to others) I'd say usually your time would be better spent moving on to the next thing.
LTSC versions of Windows are literally missing major features and APIs, you should not be surprised if certain apps don't work on this version of Windows. It's designed for kiosk applications, not general purpose computers.
Mostly because it is a thing that affects them (the employees).
The only problems a company faces from RTO is employee dissatisfaction.

Same as saying that you need to argue why a pay raise is good for your company. I mean, it mostly doesn't. All it does is that it makes the employees happier.
there's a really easy way to remove edge, just install Ubuntu!
Stable APIs Are a Pipe Dream
Tell that to the people who subscribe to the simulation hypothesis.
A Composable Just-in-Time Programming Framework with LLMs and FBP
> electrified roadways could power electric cars as they drive

Here we go again, SolarRoads…