skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mixes up what is significant. The headline refers to an utterly irrelevant result. As others have pointed out, it's just saying that a compression method with a large dictionary can beat a (better) compression method with a small dictionary.

The interesting bit is that it can transfer a dictionary-ish thing from the text to the audio and image domains and it'll work well enough to beat format-specific compression algorithms. Which is surprising.

I'm sure it's only benefiting from a small subset of the 280GB raw text-domain dictionary. But it is surprising that it is not only benefiting, it is benefiting enough to beat the special-purpose compressors.

I'll be sad if this turns out to only be true because of some meaningless category of edge cases.

On a side note, it does make one wonder if we should have a well-known massive image-based dictionary that compression algorithms can assume the existence of (and request ranges of from a server). Or heck, given these results in the article, maybe it would be a dictionary with a mishmash of different domains. Then when encoding for limited devices with network connections, you'd specify the maximum amount of data it could retrieve from the dictionary (perhaps as a percentage of the compressed size?).
> If you assert that 'moral relativism is true' that itself would be a relative claim which would undermine the assertion as a universal position.

Moral relativism means that everyone views the world through the lens of their own experiences. And my statement about moral relativism is also, as you point out, viewed through the lens of my own experiences (with that particular topic). But the second statement does not undermine the first one, instead it sort of "recurses" over it.
Tell it to the right to repair farmer-hackers. Same category of concerns.
> Songtradr is talking up using its licensing prowess to give opportunities to Bandcamp artists — including licensing on Epic games.

So... Epic sells bandcamp, a profitable business unit, to another entity which will then sell bandcamp assets back to ... Epic. ?? And Epic's competitors. Why would Epic go out of its way to support a company that is supporting its competitors?
It will only get worse, smartphones already do more than most people care about.

A large majority only switches their phones when they die, no longer charge, get stolen and such.
Google Shutting Down Jamboard
I don't seem to see any mention of video RAM. How much memory does the GPU have?
It probably got posted because it's today's featured article on Wikipedia.
Amtrak has an auto train route from ~DC to ~Orlando.
My view, for ambitious projects likely to be in a competitive space, is that “right thing” converges in the long term for profit-seeking and non-profit-focused paths.

I.e. aim for maximum growth of happy customers/users in the long term to best grow and thrive in the long term.

Short term worries about quarterly growth can seriously inhibit long term potential. Often without this huge opportunity loss being recognized.

Alternately, a rejection of profit as healthy can limit the ability of a non-profit focused project from achieving more also.

The key is, aim long term, for best positive impact, then work back from that to now, and use all constructive positive-sum tools available.
Not in the US it’s not.

https://rpilocator.com/?country=US&cat=PIZERO2

(Btw I misspoke and said nano when I meant zero)
Yup. If you read Bitcoins white paper again, you realize that it proposes a micro transaction system for the web. And it has failed absolutely as that.
And without a natural demand for it, the speculation around it is gibberish. It is waiting for a future that nobody, not even the people that have bought in, is working for. Since how can people HODL a "currency", and at the same time that currency attain status as a common mean of exchange? And it's usage as a hedge or value conservation is even more laughable. During an economic crisis, people are looking for work, for ways of putting food on the table. Assets like gold maintain their value due to the natural demand from jewelry and industry. Nobody is looking for internet funny money during a crisis. If you look at it's price history graph, it basically follows the stock market hype and fear periods, without any of the fundamentals of companies actually producing value that sustains stocks in the long run.
It creates more problems than it solves for anything but very trivial layouts.

It has no comprehension of the actual components it's placing, or the nets it's routing. So it'll find a physical layout that matches your schematic in a logical sense, but the actual circuit may not work when it's finally assembled (ADC placed next to a switching power supply, for example). Some components have strict tolerances or needs, and some types of designs require special considerations.

So, a newbie will click the button to auto-route and then have the board fabricated and then do the final assembly - then wonder why it doesn't work, or it sometimes works, etc. If you don't have the skills and knowledge to do the layout the "right" way, you likely don't have the skills or knowledge to debug a bad board layout.

PCB layout is not trivial. Some folks spend an entire career doing just PCB layout. For low-speed trivial designs, you can get away with a lot of bad practices, but it's best to invest some small amount of time learning the craft.

However, general rule of thumb, if your design works on a breadboard then you can probably make it work on a PCB... probably.
>You're confusing Closure with Clojure

No. Idiomatic Closure code was extremely Java-like. That was the whole point. Google built it to abstract away the nasties of early JS for their huge stable of Java programmers at the time. Dedicated JS engineers weren't really a thing yet.
We've used Poly to prove results about functorial data migration.
And I literally just dropped my album this afternoon. I don't know whether I should be worried now.
That is correct. In this is view, all evils are the result of a lack of knowledge, and so moral progress is achieved through the growth of knowledge. All knowledge is fallible and therefore uncertain, so even if we stumbled on objective truth (the destination which we are error-correcting towards), we could never know it for sure.
Show HN: Generative Fill with AI and 3D
Hey all,

You've probably seen projects that add objects to an image from a style or text prompt, like InteriorAI (levelsio) and Adobe Firefly. The prevalent issue with these diffusion-based inpainting approaches is that they don't yet have great conditioning on lighting, perspective, and structure. You'll often get incorrect or generic shadows; warped-looking objects; and distorted backgrounds.

What is Fill 3D?
Fill 3D is an exploration on doing generative fill in 3D to render ultra-realistic results that harmonize with the background image, using industry-standard path tracing, akin to compositing in Hollywood movies.

How does it work?
1. Deproject: First, deproject an image to a 3D shell using both geometric and photometric cues from the input image.
2. Place: Draw rectangles and describe what you want in them, akin to Photoshop's Generative Fill feature.
3. Render: Use good ol' path tracing to render ultra-realistic results.

Why Fill 3D?
+ The results are insanely realistic (see video in the github repo, or on the website).
+ Fast enough: Currently, generations take 40-80 seconds. Diffusion takes ~10seconds, so we're slower, but for the level of realism, it's pretty good.
+ Potential applications: I'm thinking of virtual staging in real estate media, what do you think?

Check it out at https://fill3d.ai
+ There's API access! :D
+ Right now, you need an image of an empty room. Will loosen this restriction over time.

Fill 3D is built on Function (https://fxn.ai). With Function, I can run the Python functions that do the steps above on powerful GPUs with only code (no Dockerfile, YAML, k8s, etc), and invoke them from just about anywhere. I'm the founder of fxn.

Tell me what you think!!

PS: This is my first Show HN, so please be nice :)
I was puzzled by that as well and was surprised by the employment of the “codegen” terminology here.

Well, it seems it will be another round of terminology abuse.
It's not good at anything. As a currency it's completely broken, who wants a currency that fluctuates to this extent and which may fold overnight? Simultaneously, outside of a couple explosive events which I'd argue will never repeat, it's a terrible investment. That's not even touching the moral ambiguity of a "currency" being used largely by some of the worst state and private actors in the world.
Looking forward to the opening of Amtrak service to Honolulu.
I left that out because the train is also subject to delays, and if you are quick with the pit stops it's no more than the time spent getting in and out of the station (you don't want to arrive at the station the moment it's leaving)
The move to "water proof" phones was in the nick of time.

If the gas station sold batteries for the most common phones the drop would have been way higher.
The debate in question is recorded on video, and I’m sure you can get a transcript.
Ah yes, because anyone not seeing Elon as the guy who's brought an entire decade's of progress with electric cars and space travel and as the guy who's going to save humanity must be deranged, never mind what he says about things he's clueless about and how he treats his employees, those are media lies of haters and jealous people anyway, all hail the almighty Elon with his beautiful face and muscle and tremendeous sexual energy!

And you have a hard-on for him, you do realize that right?
The long distance trains (even things like the Late For Sure Limited) are an anachronism that really doesn’t have support from anyone but railfans and the small numbers who use it.

But they’re incredibly fun to ride but you need to not have to be anywhere anytime.
Nobody actually eats their own dogfood. They ply you with wine while they drink grape juice, waiting to take advantage of the drunk fool.

Fucking Zoom declared mandatory RTO, which says a lot about what they sell the rest of us on.

And Ford...heh. Despite incentives, their own employees refused to buy their cars to such an extent that competitor vehicles were banned or relegated to remote parking lots.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna11057921
Not exactly sure how this is possibly going to go in favor of the plaintiffs here. It's pretty clear these are Level 2 driving techs and the driver is always responsible (which is reiterated constantly when you enable it). The only gotcha is it somehow they convince a jury that Tesla is being grossly negligent ... which would be quite the high bar to cross. Maybe they could argue that specific car was defective in some way, but I doubt it would be applicable to all cars.

My guess is this is going to settle before a verdict and we'll never hear about it again.
I’m surprised they are only claiming 2-3x performance improvements for this vs. the four.

The four was great until I realized that they hung all sorts of stuff off the same bottlenecked USB controller.

I’d think moving them to PCIe would net much more than 2-3x real world improvement.
Math is also composed of arbitrarily chosen axiomatic systems, and yet math is still objective. I'm afraid such trivial arguments aren't much challenge to moral realism, which you'd know if you actually bothered to read anything about it.
Another day, another Google product shut down.
I guess it should really be text generation or something else. Not codegen please, that’s taken.
I'm not worried about convincing you.

See this legal take (scenario B), rejecting your over-general claims on freelancer's rights over "raw" work product. [0]

In your interest, I strongly recommend reviewing your form engagement contracts with an attorney.

[0] https://www.owe.com/resources/legalities/legalities-33-do-yo...
I'm sure one would have been riding shotgun instead.
If you look at criticism from the early days of bitcoin, the economic perspective was their model would instantly breed deflation. That's essentially what's happened. A currency that massively increases in value is the exact opposite of what you ever want to happen to a currency.
We managed to move almost the entire shadow-development from our organization into a low code platform.

It works great. The systems already starts in a usable format, and when they need intervention, they are in a very standard format that is easy to start working with. Besides, today we also send applications back to shadow-development, and they are able to maintain them until something big changes.

Shadow-development isn't very shady around here anymore.
Yes, "saying" is the more appropriate word here. I sent that comment off in a hurry.
Most of the railways lines are used for freight.

https://www.aar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/US-Freight-Ra...
Yes, it's like you've never had a serious discussion on any issue before. If you can't in good faith defend the opposing position in the manner in which your opponents themselves view the issue then you'll never be convincing. It is the only way you won't be arguing against a straw man. You'll notice that my point is symmetric and makes reference to which side might be an orthodoxy. This doesn't mean you have to both-sides yourself; you don't have to take the "what if some races are just superior" position unless you're arguing with someone who believes that.

When you explain why you think color blindness isn't the right approach you start by saying why it is good, the benefits, why it's reasonable for someone to believe it to be the right way forward and then talk about its flaws.
https://dvc.org/

https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

https://www.pachyderm.com/
Universal Wall Sockets
Took an airline that required an app to pay to connect… but also opened up a window of a few minutes of open access to let you download said app from the iStore.

I always wondered if there was a way to further exploit that.
I haven’t heard of this, this is good news! Crypto is such a scam on its face.

Can you share the jurisdictions that are starting to regulate it?
> "it depends, nothing good"

Fun anecdote from the early 2000's re: duplicate MACs:

Embedded IP time clock kept intermittently barfing out frames with the source MAC addresses of other devices on the network. The switch would update its MAC table and direct packets to this device. The Customer's AS/400 would kill all remote terminal sessions when the clock ended up w/ the AS/400's MAC. (They were doing a layer 2-based connection to the AS/400-- APPN, I believe it was called... Ugh, it was temperamental and didn't like any layer 2 "hiccups".)

MAC addresses flapping between ports is one of those "breaking the laws of physics" kind of problems that teaches you to question your assumptions. Gear with a crazy brain can do anything it wants to and it doesn't care about your assumptions.
The time it takes isn't that bad. It's a relaxed and more comfortable experience. You are experiencing parts of the us you normally wouldn't see.

17 hours is fairly quick. But the timing is fantastic. Amtrak leaves after work in Chicago and arrives at hotel check-in time in DC the next day
No code is great for an experiment - I’ll throw together a zap or two to test something and if it sticks I’ll then port it to code and properly integrate it into the system.

It’s not a case of “redoing all the work” it’s about helping to know we are doing the right work.
What crypto people want to mean by "regulate it", and what everyone else means, are unrelated.

Crypto people want it to mean, "We continue to do what we want to do, but claim to follow regulations." Meanwhile everyone else means, "You follow KYC and AML regulations properly. So you shut down criminals. Can reverse transactions when ordered by a bank. And have sufficient knowledge of who you're dealing with to help law enforcement in a practical manner."

Crypto people respond, "But once it is cryptographically signed on the blockchain, it is final! And wallets are designed to be anonymous! We want to be regulated, with regulations that make sense for crypto!"

Sorry crypto. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Right now you're an attractive nuisance for criminal enterprises. There is no particular reason why society should want crypto to be part of the financial system. There are good reasons to shut down crimes like ransomware.
> The fact that they made a ridiculous cartoon Metaverse first does not detract from the coolness of this photorealistic thing.

I agree with you on the coolness of this demo. I disagree that the cartoon demo does not detract.

I suspect a large majority of users and advertisers assumed Zuckerberg went off-piste completely. This interview with Lex is much more aligned with what should have been their first public demo of a Metaverse 'vision'.
Do others agree with you?

Let me quote [1]: "An array language is a programming language that supports the manipulation of entire arrays – or portions of arrays – as a basic unit of operation."

[1] https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-0-3...

Let us look at Wikipedia [2], where Ada is considered an array language.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array_programming#Ada

I may cautiously conclude that your view is not common and Haskell is, indeed, an array language. As is Python, by itself and (faster) through numpy.
Or respond to this similar complaint on this article's Talk from 2007:

> The article describes prophetic perfect tense as "a literary technique", yet categorizes it as a grammatical tense. It seems to me that the categorization does not apply as there is not indication that "prophetic perfect" exists as a discrete tense; rather, it's a particular application of tenses described elsewhere. Any objection to removing the categorization as grammatical tense? -- Shunpiker 15:53, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
One of the most significant living physicists, and the only one to have won a Fields Medal (arguably the most prestigious award in mathematics). Known for Chern-Simons theory, contributions to AdS/CFT, and of course M-theory, among many other things. Physicists breaking out into mainstream culture for anything other than popsci is not really a thing that happens anymore, but he's extremely well-known among academics.
This has nothing to do with the Winklebros who were born rich.
> I mean, your consumption is on the scale of people’s whole livelihoods.

No, and particularly not my "conspicuous consumption" which is what I said.

> this “anyone who has more than me is necessarily evil” mentality.

That's not my mentality. I didn't say necessarily evil or even evil.

I'm postulating on the motivations of people who have access to every material comfort they could ever want, but still want 1000x that because someone else has 100x that. I'm nothing like them, nor the people in my wealth range that seem to have similar motivations --splurging on status signaling, doing anything to get more. It's irrelevant that I am richer than 3rd world people.
"Data, there are times when I envy you"
Understanding source maps and their types in JavaScript
A breakdown of JavaScript source maps, their types, and practical applications for developers. Explore the purpose of source maps in mapping transpiled or minified code back to its original form, learn about different source map types and their comparative analysis, and discover how to generate and integrate source maps with popular developer tools.
I don't know what "absolute semantics" means. If you mean "objective semantics", then yes that's already objective. If you mean "universal semantics", well there's rarely universal agreement on anything, so I'm not sure why I should find the existence of a few contrarians persuasive.
It was (and may still be) Amtraks only profitable long distance line.
”…the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.“ Ada Lovelace

Edit: this quote is written numerous years ahead of any sort of implementation of Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
Endgame I suppose is to forbid IP-IP communications and allow only gated platform to gated platform communications.
Well, I have extensive OSHA training and a couple certifications, and I've worked in manufacturing companies (if not directly in the plants, but the awareness trainings were required).
Even in math, axioms are kinda arbitrary. They are mostly defined because they can be used to prove stuff that are perhaps useful, in this sense, they aren't arbitrary. But there are infinite sets of axioms out there for the same branch of math, which makes them rather arbitrary.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/327201/are-there-in...
My first iPhone was an iPhone 6. No iPhone since then has added any feature appealing enough for me to upgrade unwillingly.

Whenever it's time to put my old phone out to pasture because (and only because) it's at a point that it's too broken to use or be reliable: I let my wife get whatever the latest iPhone is and I take her old one which lasts me a few years easily.
Turing award winner Dana Scott already mentions categories in his work on models for the untyped lambda-calculus, for example in his 1971 monograph on Continuous Lattices, which set the foundations of domain theory. Moggi monads came about, in parts, as a way of understanding domain theoretic constructins better.
This is a product idea I've been prototyping. In SPI mode, it's a breakout board for the Sharp Memory LCD (160x68, 1.1") with a built-in 50% duty cycle oscillator (needed by the LCD as an external component), and runs at about 55uA. In SSD1306 emulator mode it presents a normaly I2C interface and uses between 1 and 2 mA. Viable product or oddball idea?
Emma Thompson Is Right: The Word ‘Content’ Is Rude
> But what you are saying is just that the “range” of morality is handed down by nature.

Yes, but for the generous interpretation of what I wrote.

E.g., you can't build a moral system that requires cordoning children off in individual stalls (one child per stall, no direct contact with other humans), feeds and virtually teaches them the rules of the society, then when they reach the age of 18 and pass a test get released into the wild to socialize with other humans for the first time. What we know about child development tells us that this system will be an utter failure.

If you can imagine accepting at least some version of that paragraph as supported by the scientific evidence for how humans socialize, then you agree there are some hard limits on what kind of moral systems humans can thrive under.

If you don't accept there are any limits whatsoever, then you fall into self-contradiction and incoherence which AFAICT is all Chomsky is pointing out.

Edit: clarification. I don't think it's necessary to use the "most generous" interpretation of what I wrote, just a stock generous one.
The argument that companies must focus on profit and expansion to remain competitive is rooted in the principles of free markets and competition. In a capitalist system, businesses operate in an environment where they are constantly vying for customers and market share. If a company fails to prioritize profit and growth, it risks being out-competed by more aggressive and efficient competitors.