skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That only works if you don’t have targeted defunding of regulatory bodies - that’s what a lot of these come down to in many countries now. People vote for laws that protect them, then anti-actual-person politicians vote to defund the agencies enforcing those regulations. It’s win win for them: they get to give their friends and employers tax cuts and lower operating costs (by socializing the downstream costs), and because the agencies are under funded they slow down which feeds into “these agencies are bad because they’re slow and inefficient, so we should end them completely”
when there is no logic behind such "dislike".

people are into programming because things can be reasoned, there is logic behind everything. yet there are non-senses that just try to waste people's time & energy by introducing some of their personal briefs backed by no logic into the whole thing.

cross-compiling regular c projects like sqlite should never be an excuse, I don't believe there is anything that can't be scripted when it come to cross-compiling sqlite.
I guess this now makes it a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37754973
Interesting - especially if it can produce ready-to-use charts according to the IBCS standards. Are you selling it as a tool or a service? What's the business model for consultants?
It's slower. But wazero is developing an optimizing compiler for amd64/arm64 (the current one is very naive) which I hope will close the gap on those platforms.
Good content is rare to find on Twitter these days, so not much is lost from not being able to link to it anymore.
US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells
The housing theory of everything (2021)
Would not a persons specific setup have significant effect on the interference situation, - The radio would be in a completely shielded metal box? - so no interference that way directly , not via the antenna input. Outside antenna , with a shielded feed in cable would also reduce interference from these devices like small power supplies that just produce interfearance to a few meters distance ???
Kurzweil argues that in 2029, a computer will pass the Turing test. His arguments:

Hardware: Moore's law. It might come to three-dimensional computing.

Software: Interestingly, he sees this as more difficult.

> It is correct to point out that achieving the "software" of human intelligence is the more salient, and more difficult, challenge.

Currently, if a LLM will pass the Turing test, it would actually be the case that the software is actually very simple.

Kapor's argument against that are basically that he thinks it's just too difficult to imagine:

> it becomes extremely difficult even to imagine what it would mean for a computer to perform a successful impersonation, much less to believe that its achievement is within our lifespan.
There are those who "have tasted your waters of truth."

Those are your friends of intellect, not addressed in the linked document.

We choose our friends. They are not our obligations, but our blessings.
The wiki page says he drowned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippasus
I was in the same boat and opted to use this moment to make the switch to an iPhone 15P. It's an interesting transition, haven't fully bought in yet.

If I stayed on Android I would probably be looking at an Asus Zenfone 10. Similar form factor and battery life to Pixel 5. Pretty good reviews. Check it out as an option.
The paper title itself could pass as-is an Buzzfeed.
Is it? New generations are not released every year. It takes 5-8 years to show something new. In the middle of it there is facelifting (sometimes smaller, sometimes bigger). But I wouldn't say that one, particular model of car have new version each year.

There is no reason to release flagship phones each year.
This is a low content post meant to inflame. Please respect the HN guidelines.
Honestly this single image does a better job of explaining transformers than anything else I've ever seen:

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/fastweights754x288.png

It's pretty damn simple: a linearized transformer is a "slow" neural net whose outputs determine the weights of another ("fast") neural net.

It's a NN that can use tools, subject to one major restriction: the tool must be another NN. The restriction is is "the trick" that lets you backpropagate gradients through both NNs so you can train the slow NN based on an error function of the fast NN's outputs.

The only difference between linearized transformers and the kind that OpenAI uses is adding a softmax operation in one place.
The problem is that "what it's worth" can only be determined via "what you can get". Flat fees are just operational costs + capped profit. And the next question would be, where do you place that cap and why there?
How is this different from seeing a fuzzy video of some lights in the sky and then coming to the conclusion that it is definitely a UFO? If you're so convinced that this carving definitely proves that the carver was intending to express the Pythagorean formula, then what is the evidence?

Some people's definition of "evidence" is different from my own. If somebody really wants to believe something, then just about anything qualifies as evidence. This is why UFO people consider literally every single fuzzy video as undeniable proof that aliens exist.
This month. Android 14 is one of the last updates it will get IIRC.
Techno-Optimist vs. AI Doomer: Social Fabric and Media
> There is literally no audible difference between MP3 320kbps, which covers the complete range of human hearing up to 22kHz

Although MP3 does have some fundamental limitations that cannot be fixed no matter how much bitrate you throw at them (referring especially to the "Inoptimal window sizes" from https://web.archive.org/web/20120222124415/http://www.mp3-te...). They're not dramatic issues, to be fair, but as long as you go for lossly compression, using a somewhat more modern codec like AAC or Opus would be preferable, unless you absolutely need the maximum compatibility afforded by MP3 (though these days at least AAC support should be pretty widespread, too, plus the patents on regular ["low complexity"] AAC have expired as well).
They certainly do after having read that script.
I hear Musk has been working on that. (j/k, 40 min ping time...)
Yes. While it presents itself as a Blog (says: Entorii Blog), I think this is intended as and on-ramp / marketing collateral / link page promoting the Entorii app. Which appears to be some sort of travel planning app for Apple ecosystem.

A blog with substance might have done a better job, at that.
Oh, I'm so glad I didn't use Unreal Engine for my metaverse client.
Flush AI, a toolbox for devs to easily deploy Stable Diffusion in their apps
Flush simplifies the process of building, fine tuning, and managing stable diffusion models. Developers can use Flush’s platform to easily create and deploy powerful stable diffusion workflows in their apps with our SDK and web UI.

We have a wide host of base models to choose from, and users can also upload and deploy ANY CIVITAI MODEL (only checkpoints supported currently, adding more soon) within their code.Currently we’ve released Flush for free w/ limited usage - users can generate up to 200 images and upload 3 Civitai models.

Our end goal is to create a full end-to-end toolbox for stable diffusion with our open-source SDK, while easily managing such powerful stable diffusion workflows on our web UI. Our team is hard at work and we’ll be releasing our SDK in the next week or so along with several other features such as Dreambooth finetuning, image upscaling, DALLE-3/GPT integrations, third-party database integrations, and more.
> initiated into every mystery cult he could

And in turn, his followers created a strange cult after him! [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoreanism
I don't think that statement makes sense here. In what way is the user of 1.1.1.1 the product? And for cloud services in general, they mostly tend to be subscription or usage based. In both cases, the user is clearly the customer.

I get the "you're the product, not the customer" for social networks or ad-based search engines, but certainly not for cloud products.
While I don't think the rich text thing is particularly useful, I'm very impressed by the approach, especially how it manages to change the resulting image in a way you can control (that is, without regenerating the whole thing and ending up with something with random undesirable changes).

The stability of the overall image during local changes makes me think that maybe this could be a key to video generation (because the biggest problem with existing diffusion-based approach for video is their instability from frame to frame).
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They might know who supplied them and when.
Speaking from the clinician side insurance cos often make joining the network difficult and slow. It can take months. They very rarely reach out to get new providers to joint their networks when their subscribers are struggling to find clinicians. I’m pretty sure they just don’t tbh but I don’t know that definitively

Additionally certain insurers may pay terribly. Most insurers in my area pay about the same but one pays about 65% less than the average. It works out to less than minimum wage after I pay my overhead. No thanks, not joining that network.
I do that too, recently for the first time enabled cloud sync (had a 1 TB of OneDrive storage sitting unused anyway), so most photos delete themselves from the phone eventually. But that's compensating for tech deficiency, though.

What is the point of me having 256 GB of storage on the phone, if the phone starts slowing down wholesale once I take 50% of it? I get that there needs to be some buffer for swap and flash magic and whatnot, but I'd thought it would be closer to PC / Windows, where everything is fine until ~90% storage being used.

That's on top of bloated software doing background magic. Can't speak for other phones and brands, but my experience with Samsung flagships (S4, S7, wife's S9, now S22) is that the camera and gallery app are bloated, and their performance degrades rapidly with the amount of photos you take - around 50% worth of storage is when camera starts having delays on the order of seconds, interfering with its core purpose of taking photos.

(And it's not that it couldn't be better - Samsung just isn't investing effort in making core system apps performant enough. It's hard to find efficient apps these days on the Play Store, but there are rare exceptions, like e.g. Aves gallery, which is FLOSS and manages to be leaner, faster and significantly more feature-full than just about anything else, stock or third-party.)
Well, MP3 does have some fundamental limitations that were only fixed with subsequent codec generations, like AAC or Opus.
In Re Google Play Store Antitrust Litigation List of Claims for Trial [pdf]
People read headlines and form an opinion without going any further - we can see this play out across all media, social and traditional, every day.

If a lack of common sense leads to an alternative then all well and good.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Left around at home to indoctrinate me into "stuff" at age 8. Ended up being the first sparkle of my rebellion against "stuff".
'I was kidnapped by my runaway electric car'-Car wouldn't decelerate below 48kph
I love the visualisations. It's really hard to make visualisations that are easy to read, look pretty and are still technically accurate. Cloudflare really excels at that.
have you had any luck with old Akkadian scripts?
Who talked about subversive war?
So the fact that Russia is under sanctions and cannot legally get spare parts for its fleet is a conspiracy now?
> This is often overlooked by those computer scientists who correctly point out that it is not impossible for computers to demonstrate creativity. Not impossible, yes. Likely enough to warrant belief in a computer can pass the Turing Test? In my opinion, no.

I never understand this creativity argument against AI. How is creativity different than adding some randomness to the answer generating? I would say that computers are perfectly capable of that.
Unless the story has some transcendental meaning ...
> The only modern language that gets it right is Swift

The only modern language ((he knows of)) that gets it right to be precise. Ruby also gets it right.

```
[1] pry(main)> "".size
=> 1
```
Well, not exactly. Mandatory cash payments imply more oppportunities for robbers, thus increasing crime and chaos, which is presumably what “they” want
Feel like the traceability of those things would be really good. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit.
> It becomes a theorem when you prove (i.e. explain why) this relationship always holds, based on more evident things. [...] whereas the Greeks definitely did (we don't know whether Pythagoras himself did it

Wait, really? I thought the proofs back then were geometric, so only proved specific instances. And so it wasn't until algebra, maybe trig, was discovered it was properly proven?
How I stay motivated as a solo creator
> we haven’t even come close to pretending to try to make a difference

This is what scares me the most. Obviously reach +1.5C is terrifying but what’s worse is the complete inaction of governments (and their citizens) around the world to make a dent in this.

Here in the UK our government are just a joke. The prime minister recently pushed back plans to ban sales of ICE vehicles. We are sleeping walking into a catastrophe and it’s depressing.

Apart from vote for green parties that never have a chance of getting into power what can I do?
Also an interesting introduction piece also from Wired on this topic from 2 weeks ago here https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-...
was drowned was the version I heard in school.
Car ownership being deceptively cheap forces poor people in places like Texas to spend a large chunk of their meager income on a car so they can continue working, instead of having enough riders to resurrect the bus systems they had in the 1930s-60s, or better yet, motivate intercity trains and suburban rail. My mother was able to take the train from Lubbock to College Station in the early 60s to visit her boyfriend. There's not been a practical way to travel between those cities without a car in my lifetime - Greyhound outside of a few city pairs is very, very theoretical.
> and have codified a huge body of knowledge which helps systems with producing outputs from input strings

That is specifically what the programmers have not done.
Stigler's law of eponymy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy
It also says “one writer even has Pythagoras himself "to his eternal shame" sentencing Hippasus to death by drowning, for showing "that
2√2 is an irrational number”.”
Generative AI in Africa: How African startups are building for the AI revolution
It's a shame when content is posted to hn that I can't read without some sort of sign up. It's rare that I'm prepared to do that for some random story on an aggregator.

There doesn't seem to be anything in the guidelines about avoiding pay walled or sign in walled content in submissions, but it does make hn less valuable as a resource when a high proportion of links require more investment than is reasonable to read.
The policy of the conference is to blame too. Up to 2021, it was a women-only event. Then in 2022 the organizers decided to open it to people who call themselves 'non-binary' as well, therefore implicitly making the event about 'gender identity' rather than sex. As anyone can claim any 'gender identity', they effectively changed the conference to include men, instead of being exclusively for women. They also said that men who were 'allies' could attend, and then of course found that the men did not behave like allies at all.

This policy change was a huge departure from the original mission back in the 1990s, which was to have a conference by and for female computer scientists, who every day have to endure the effects of working in a field that is very heavily male-dominated.

I hope that this year's influx of insolent men calling themselves 'non-binary' has reminded the organizers of the extent to which males will dominate given the opportunity, and why their change of policy last year was so absurd and harmful to women. By trying to be more 'inclusive', the end result was female exclusion.

That said, there has been a lot of ideological pressure to center 'gender identity' in recent years, so I can understand why the organizers may have felt the need to go along with this. But redefining 'woman' to be some unfalsifiable inner abstract feeling of femininity doesn't work in reality, given that this is not the basis on which women are discriminated against in tech or anywhere else.
Maybe. Also concerning
I think some anthropomorphizing is apt. It is trained on anthropic data from the anthropocene after all.
they probably needed something reliable
It depends on the maturity of the field. In the 1800s? Absolutely. Animal rights are behind that of humans in the 1800s (yes I know human slavery was common at that time, and that’s my point, humans were treated as property and not as people with rights, which is how our legal frameworks view non-human animals now)
Ah, I see. Thanks for some background!
> “If you want to split hairs,” a former employee tells WIRED, “the implant itself did not cause death. We sacrificed her to end her suffering.”

What an awfully stupid way to think. "I didn't kill her your honor, I sacrificed her to prevent her suffering from the bullet wound."

> As it is a public records law that UC Davis is fighting, its arguments against greater transparency are centered around what’s best for the public. According to the school's attorneys, that means the public should not see images of Neuralink’s work.

"What we did is so horrific that we can't tell you, because you might get violent about it. So don't worry about it, don't ask, and keep giving us money."
A possible application of this would be backup power for fuel based heating, so that as long as you have fuel, you can get enough power to run the fans and controls.

For an energy storage system, though, 40% makes little sense.
They didn't kill any cats but also as a long term and very loving cohabiter with multiple cats, they are just cats.

Animal cruelty is a serious problem because it makes some people miserable to see them suffer and the ones it doesn't make miserable are possibly dangerously psychotic.

This isn't that.
There are fully general and valid geometric proofs, eg http://mathandmultimedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/pyth...
Twitter Is at Death’s Door, One Year After Elon Musk’s Takeover
I’m going to add a counter argument to all the cgo views raised:

Personally I’ve had much more portability problems with a lot of the native Go ports of sqlite than I have with mattn’s cgo library.

I author a shell that targets most of the architectures and platforms supported by Go. At the request of some users, I added support for a Go native library because they didn’t want to install a C compilers as well as a Go compiler. I tried a few different sqlite ports (though off hand cannot recall which ones) and they all had massive limitations, like only compiling on Windows and Linux (in one example).

In the end, I gave up and reverted back to the cgo version with the option for other libraries hidden behind a compiler flag.

I found my build pipeline manages just fine with cross compiling and haven’t had any complaints (thus far) with the binaries bar one individual running an ancient version of CentOS.

Maybe I’ve been trying the wrong sqlite ports. But here lies the problem: with cgo I know I’m getting a stable, tested, library. With other ports it’s entirely a lottery with regards to how well maintained and tested it might be. For personal projects that’s a fine risk to take but for any larger open source (or even commercial) projects, that additional uncertainty is a risk that distracts me and the other contributors from working on the core part of the project. And thus defeats the connivance of using 3rd party libraries.
> Do you believe that matter is composed of atoms, or that stars are distant suns, or that black holes exist, or that the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s?

Not particularly. I don’t actively disbelieve them either. But whether or not any of those are true has zero measurable impact on my life, so it is of no consequence.

I do however believe that exciting electricity in a periodic manner will cause a wave to emit that travels “really fucking fast” and can be received by a similar device a great distance away.

And that such excitations can be received by antennae I have constructed which communicate with satellites in a precise manner that can allow me to locate myself on a coordinate plane. And that those calculations depend on the speed of light being as you say. So sure, it is likely to be as you say. Or at least isomorphic to that, for my purposes.

How has your blind acceptance of these various other non-observed phenomena benefited you?
web3 gold rush was way better imho, at least it was more useful and unique. but here are just a wrappers done in a few hours and that’s it
We’re at a moment in history where AI companies (especially ones with proven cashflow like this) are getting almost all the VC money and wild multiples.

It seems like the smart move to spin it out to access this money.
World’s dogs going vegan ‘would save more emissions than UK produces’
They absolutely know who supplied them and when, there is certificates for all hardware on these planes.
It says he drowned... assumed because of the reason OP gave. Besides, moot point giving you're referencing Wikipedia to begin with.

> Hippasus is sometimes credited with the discovery of the existence of irrational numbers, following which he was drowned at sea. Pythagoreans preached that all numbers could be expressed as the ratio of integers, and the discovery of irrational numbers is said to have shocked them. However, the evidence linking the discovery to Hippasus is unclear.

> Pappus merely says that the knowledge of irrational numbers originated in the Pythagorean school, and that the member who first divulged the secret perished by drowning.
Jokes on you, you built something for the metaverse.
Correct. But then again, you don't know the power of the government. Media is paid for and controlled by them to a much wider and expansive degree that they can essentially spin any feel good patriotic story to drum up support.

India is HUGE and as they say "ya Sab chalta hai" or in english "everything works here".

If some airline bought 50 year old planes and started flying them, people will use it because it would be cheaper.
This is big, like people involved need to go to prison big.
I don’t know of any ancient sources claiming that Pythagoras killed Hippasus. Seems unlikely to me! In any case, Hippasus was a fascinating figure:

“Aristoxenus (Fr. 90 Wehrli = DK I 109. 31 ff.) reports that Hippasus prepared four bronze disks of equal diameters, whose thicknesses were in the given ratios, and it is true that, if free hanging disks of equal diameter are struck, the sound produced by, e.g., a disk half as thick as another will be an octave apart from the sound produced by the other disk (Burkert 1972a, 377). Hippasus, thus, may be the first person to devise an experiment to show that a physical law can be expressed mathematically (Zhmud 2012a, 310).” [1]

Also in [2] this experiment is claimed to be the first documented scientific experiment in history. After all, Hippasus took a mathematical model for a physical phenomenon (how consonance relates to the mathematical ratios of a musical string) and tests the generalization of that model in a another physical medium (viz. bronze chimes with the same ratios 1:2 and 2:3 make the octave and fifth).

I wish they’d put this stuff in elementary math books when kids learn about Pythagoras.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoreanism/#hippasus

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240587262...