skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean this as a particular defence of Binance chain per se - and I realise I'm not directly answering your question either - but pedestrian everyday usage of no special note would, by its very nature, go entirely unremarked, certainly by any 'news' source. It's only ever the dramatic heists, the hackings, thefts, etc, that drive reported media.

Therefore, the fact that "every time [you] read about" it, it involves some dramatic exceptional circumstance, is somewhat par-for-the-course.

By the same standard, the only things that I - as a non-enthusiast - ever read about the art world, is the extreme valuations, the thefts, the rude vandalisms. The only things I ever read about banks are the record profits, the manipulations of finance, the robberies. The only thing I ever read about the Middle East, is war.

The fact that it's mostly filled with decent ordinary people just trying to live their lives, is the boring, the unremarked yet dominant landscape, which somehow gets lost in the loud buzz of persistent drama.
I don't know what LLW means, but you seem fixated on the acronym. It's just first come, first serve transaction ordering from the world I come from.
wow, what a pipe dream! "Arriving summer 2024" and it does laundry. Sorry, but that alone makes me skeptical.
Yeah... in the blog post, they do explicitly mention "cc-by-nc", which I find disappointing.

Anything that Adept is "excited to see what the community builds on top of it" would only serve Adept and no one else! What incentive does the community have to build on top of Fuyu, when the community can't benefit from its own work? If Adept wants to benefit from word-of-mouth discussion of their models and from community contributions that make those models work better, as has happened dramatically with Llama 2, then they need to give the community the opportunity to benefit too.

Also weird: if you look at the tags on Hugging Face, you'll see it is listed as "cc". This comes from the README[0] metadata. "cc" is not really a license.

[0]: https://huggingface.co/adept/fuyu-8b/blob/main/README.md?cod...
Tesla has the weirdest vehicle lineup of any manufacturer.

Throwing all their weight behind everyone wanting a 3 and Y was always going to be a problem.

I don’t think the refresh will help that much either, it will just kill demand in the interim.

They need more vehicles, and variety.
Really? I know lots of people who have used crypto to buy things the government didn’t want them to buy.
My guess would be that very few people are around who ever played physical pinball machines. Can't trade off the nostalgia any more.
As I understood it, it would be perfectly possible to replicate most of the functionality of life (amino acids) by moving down one period in the periodic table. So that would be C->Si, N->P, P->As, etc (with or without O->S substitution [0]). You can't do the same by moving left or right in the periodic table because elements are grouped vertically by their electrochemical properties (electrovalence), so moving left or right gives you a material with wildly different properties.

The problem is that all of the molecules in period 3 are much more massive than their carbon-family counterparts, which means that the energy required to construct said building blocks must be equally higher. If we assume a high-entropy environment exists for these molecules to form, the first obvious question is then: how come carbon-based life didn't appear in that environment as well and outcompeted Si-based life? Would it have to be high-pressure environments like inside gas giant planets, or high-temperature environments on planets much closer to the star? And if the environment is inhospitable to carbon-based life, is there sufficient stability in that environment to produce more than just the functional building blocks of life?

Next, the question of development speed is an interesting one. Of course, evolution isn't linear so everything here is conjecture, but just as a thought experiment: How long would it take for such an environment (inhospitable to carbon-based life, but capable of spawning silicon-based life) to produce single-celled organisms, and then for those organisms to meaningfully alter their biosphere (like Earth's Great Oxidation Event) so that we can detect those changes through our telescopes? Earth is 4.5 billion years old; oxygen started appearing in the atmosphere 2 billion years ago, but didn't appear in meaningful quantities until less than 1 billion years ago. That 3.5 billion years from planet formation to detectable biosphere signature for carbon-based life (n=1, of course). If we take a wild guess that silicon-based life is slower to develop by a factor 2, we'd have to find planets that are at least 7 billion years old (and have been stable for that time). Given that the lower bound for the age of the entire universe is 8 billion years, we're getting close to planets that are as old as the universe itself. Add to that that our telescopes are also looking into the past, the further out we look -- but 100 million years (the Virgo supercluster) seems negligible compared to the supposed 7 billion years projected incubation time: It seems rather optimistic to expect silicon-based life signatures to readily appear on our telescopes.

[0] and then there's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemi... -- where they suggest NH3 and its ionized counterparts could serve as a replacement for H2O, OH- and H3O+
It feels like damage like that is (speculation from reading about covid effects and causes) often neurological.

Maybe the intense overload of the pain receptors triggered some immune reaction that damaged nerves as collateral damage?
Enhancing Education with Augmented Reality
Ooh, you figured this out early. I had a project back around 1998 where we were using Oracle "because it was there" for a content store... I was doing a performance review and concluded that "we shipped new software more often than we changed any of the data, and should have just compiled it in to the product". (Never did find out if that got done - it was a "we're out of interesting problems" thing and I moved on - but after that it was always my first question when "we need a database" reared its head :-)
Colorado of all places… This is really a shocking ruling. Anything you put into a browser could be used against you now.
https://www.colorado.edu/cs/students/computing-resources-stu...

Refer to the section titled “CSCI JupyterHub Coding Environment”

Alternatively, as another user pointed out: https://tljh.jupyter.org/en/latest/install/custom-server.htm...
I have used the GitLab cloud IDE at work for quick things. Not so much as a primary IDE.
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

sure
> Unless I run out in the field and bite a cow

Oh, how I now want to invent a new fad diet...
Do you actually think most police aren't chasing thieves because they have to go bust some drug dealers in order to steal their cash?

Like, you really believe that? Please tell me you don't. This must be a joke.

SF basically told their police to stop going after small time thieves after 2020. The result has been mass mobs of stores and a huge increase in theft. They voted for these polices to raise the bar at which someone can be prosecuted, so police do nothing.

Jesus, do your research (and not on left wing Twitter lol)
I’m not sure what this means.

Are you agreeing or disagreeing?

Yes, multiple agents with different personas will give different takes and may lead to emergent behaviour, eg. discussing the book.

Yes, they could run in parallel.

No, any single multi agent step will not have any more context than any other single step.

If you believe that the Nth prompt in a chat to a LLM eternal multiple agents has “more context” than a chat between a single agent (and itself) you don’t understand how this works.

…or you are choosing to invent your own definition of “context”.
Yeah. I mean, the headline is just straight up false:

> Whisper Aero unveils ultra-quiet electric leaf blower, powered by aerospace tech
Lol you are a troll account. No other way. Thanks for the laugh!
The first thing I did was start making the word 'FUCK' with the pieces. As soon as others cottoned on and joined in, it was a very heart warming experience.
The majority of the conservatives have long ago made their mind that global warming is a conspiracy and EV buyers are liberal idiots - don't think there's anything Elon can do to change their mind. Those are the type of people who'd never admit there were wrong.
You can probably already find that on TikTok.
Unveiling the General Intelligence Factor in Language Models
Google is tweaking Chrome's search bar to make it easier to navigate the web
Try compiling a small source file that includes a handful of STL headers, and compare to one that doesn’t. Even just including without instantiating any of the templates, the difference is a substantial fraction of a second. That can be a heavy influence, though maybe not in a huge codebase which also has plenty of large headers of its own.
I guess I'll choose my final 3 videos carefully.
Netflix has only offered less and less yet they keep charging more and more.
Their service is increasingly annoying to use and they refuse to address complaints users have had since the streaming service started (for example, the lack of an A-Z listing of all titles, or the countless times the same shows are repeated across the totally random and ever-changing categories they force on us.

Now Netflix seems to be perfectly happy to price out their poorer customers (or sell them out to advertisers) so long as enough people are still willing to pay to get screwed over and over again.

I've had an account from their early days mailing DVDs, and I loved supporting them when they were ad free, but at this point if it weren't for the others who still depend on my account, I'd have canceled already.
This is a ridiculous assertion. Developers still support the Apple ecosystem because they have no choice. They want a still Unix experience but their companies require remote management software that isn't available for Linux for security compliance. So we're stuck with Mac. We're not talking about developers targeting Mac as a platform. Just regular software targeting servers. A customer needed me to figure out how to install and use rsql, Amazon's official client for Redshift, to see if it would be feasible for their researchers to use. Not to mention, you know, awscli itself. AWS packages nothing whatsoever through third-party repositories. They won't even put botocore in PyPi any more. Not only do you need to get the client from Amazon's website (also their VPN client), but it requires openssl 1 because Amazon is too lazy to keep stuff up to date. Does Apple even have library packages at all in its app stores? Libraries aren't an "app." They certainly aren't going to carry long-obsolete old libraries.

If Apple ever stopped letting you install arbitrary CLI tools, they'd lose every software company issuing their developers Macs. Yeah, they'd keep the solos actually targeting Mac itself as a platform, but that is not going to be anywhere near the plurality of people using it.

iOS is the way it is because, for better or worse, Apple sees it as an appliance, not a general purpose computer. That has never been true for their PCs. It isn't true for any PCs at all. Microsoft will never do this with Windows, either. It doesn't matter how little you think of them. You people on Hacker News are way too cynical about this stuff to be realistic. The business cases alone make no sense. Plenty of companies need to be able to install their own software that they write for internal use only. They're not going to put that in a public app store or through any kind of external review process. Those customers might even still want central control, but through their own app store, not Microsoft's or Apple's. That's why SCCM and JAMF exist. They not only allow third-party app stores, but you can get the third party app store from the official app store!
Add llava to Mac right-click for image captioning with llama.cpp and Automator
I'm going to guess dboreham is Canadian?
Thank you for the release!

What can you tell us about this:

> Our internal models (based on Fuyu) have extra capabilities related to our product. In particular,

> 1. They can reliably perform OCR on high-resolution images

> 2. They can do fine-grained localization of text and UI elements within those images

> 3. They can answer questions about images of UIs

Is this just a matter of additional fine tuning, or are there architectural differences?
I don't really trust the whole Node Package Manager ecosystem and will happily use a prophylactic like Codesandbox on my work computer where possible.

Also I have to upskill some colleagues and what better way to do that than share a demo in Codesandbox that they can fork and play with, rather than an email with 20 step instructions on installing node (on Windows)

For actual development I can't work with a thin client, it's too slow.
Does this give me the code and all the stuff I need to run the app? Can I write an open source app with this?
> 1st generation Chinese immigrants easily take #1 for the most hours put in.

My experience echoes this. I worked with a guy who basically built every important thing the company depended on and he seemed to be available 24/7. I’d get on calls with him at 12am and then hear he’d been on with someone the following morning at 7am. He was also notoriously prickly (possible bc he was working so damn much!). I distinctly remember him screaming at me, in his broken English, “WHO HERE IS THE ENGINEER!?”* when I had the temerity to question a minor technical decision of his. Nevertheless, I walked away respecting the hell out that guy and still get a chuckle out of the memories.

*I was a mere data analyst at the time and thus a barely functioning human in his eyes.
Most people buying them don't buy it for work and maybe use it to move a couch once a year. So I guess shitty EV pickup from overhyped brand might sell there...
Great, I'll stop heating my home with a heat pump, electric water heater and dryer, driving a Tesla and Energica, and working from home and replace all that with propane appliances, the Dodge Challenger and Yamahas I've always wanted, and start commuting to an office. Because it would be cheaper.

I use almost double the electricity of the average household right now, but I pay zero dollars towards fossil fuel energy and I pay extra for my energy to come from solar and wind. There are four adults under my roof. By all metrics, we're the "greenest" household in the neighborhood. If we switched to propane and gasoline, we'd have one of the largest carbon footprints instead.

The economics of what you're suggesting just don't make sense. Despite our high usage, our carbon footprint is far lower. As a society we want people to use more electricity. There's no such thing as clean energy when you get it from fossil fuels. The idea that we'd incentivize people to use dirtier energy instead of spending money to improve our electric infrastructure is wild.
Plenty of large companies are using them (I'm talking Google/FB/Microsoft and the like). You may not have heard of it because they run these systems in-house vs using a commercial service.

My company switched to 100% remote dev envs a couple years ago. When you cut a branch it spins up a VM and you can connect to it from VS Code (native or browser based) or just plain SSH. It works great. The lag is not noticeable at all. Dev envs are fully provisioned and up to date with all tooling and dependencies so you don't need to bother with managing any of it locally. Given a choice I don't think any dev at my company would go back.
I mean, the people whose data was sold did consent, and doing this was always 23&Me's mission. With the exception that the results have been less than stellar, I've generally thought having large-scale genomics data from consenting patients to work on human health problems is a generally good idea.
“I am always doing what I can’t do yet in order to learn how to do it.”

--Van Gogh
23andMe shows up to 1500 DNA Relatives for each user (outside of subscription features).

What we know thus far is that the malicious persons who compiled these datasets are scraping user profiles of DNA Relative matches who are related to the accounts which they were able to directly compromise (likely as a result of password reuse). The posters claim to have accessed around ~7M profiles, which means the lower limit for directly compromised accounts is ~4700, although likely much higher (maybe a factor of 10?), given the overlap in match lists, and provided that their boasts are true. So that's potentially ~5000-50000 profiles.

For those directly compromised accounts raw data could be downloaded. For profiles scraped, it would not be feasible to obtain raw data. However it is possible that partial genetic sequences might be assembled for matches. This was at the core of security researchers' investigations into GEDmatch a few years ago [0]. 23andMe does not face the same vulnerability, however with enough compromised accounts it is likely possible to infer a modest proportion of the DNA sequences of profiles which are known to match.

[0] https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/10/29/genetic-genealogy...
Yes in general.

It makes nonlinear relationships linear. Makes the model less sensitive, too. For instance if the data spans several OoM, adding or removing one datapoint in one of those orders can generate a lot of skew before the log-linearization.

It's easy to cast the log back to the original distribution by taking the exponent afterwards.
I feel like with Tesla's build quality and after purchase service being "polarizing", that may be easier said than done.
https://archive.ph/G03UM
I'm pretty happy with my jellyfin solution. It's not perfect, but I have a pretty good workflow that works well for me.

Anime support could be a bit better. But oh well.
latency on controls would be a real killer. I suppose you could stuff the director in the frunk, a la Mechanical Turk, to solve that problem.
Every kind of food processing has trade offs including cooking which destroys vitamin C among other things.

White rice was historically missing thiamine (B1) found in brown/hole which was killing off a surprisingly large number of people in Asia as it became popular. Now days foods are often fortified with various things to cover the most common and severe issues, but that’s probably not enough on its own.

In terms of highly processed foods you run into various additives. There’s a long list of minimally studied additives/dyes/preservatives/etc being used only for them to later be recalled and replaced with some other poorly studied substances. Ignorance may be a legal defense for Nabisco adding X to their products, but it’s not going to protect your health.

So, the advice is basically to have the absolute minimum amount of processing steps which is a surprisingly useful heuristic alongside having a varied diet including lots of different plants.
Saying it’s not an institution ignores all the gating rules which make it harder for any but the two parties (and sometimes one party) to offer candidates; or for candidates other than those supported by an often remote party core vs more locally favored candidates.
The situation is pretty bad. Some students don’t know how to Google properly because they know they can always reach out to TAs/CAs during office hours

But at the same time if everyone moves to devcontainers, will this skill even matter for the most part? Because the people who want to learn how to do something are going to do it regardless, and those who don’t might not need to worry about it
Why does a monolith imply one massive build? Pretty much every compiled language has some concept of pre-compiled modules. Java has class files, C/C++ has shared/static object files, Rust has rlibs, Golang has internal object files, and so on. Caching them in a CI/CD pipeline is one of the first steps in the DevOps checklist for reducing build times.
"Not admitting they are wrong" is not unique to them, happens to every extreme equally.
YavaScript: Write shell scripts in JavaScript/TS instead of bash
I've been working on this project for a while, and it's still early days, but I've made a tiny (~3MB) custom cross-platform JavaScript runtime (not Node.js) which excels in places where you might normally use bash scripts (dev tooling, CI, etc).

It's good at:

- Manipulating files and data

- Manipulating path strings

- Running child processes and getting their stdout/stderr/etc

- Fetching data over http(s)

- Expanding globs

- Working with environment variables

- Printing styled text

And it also has builtin bindings for common low-level POSIX C APIs like fputs, sprintf, isatty, strftime, etc.

It's written in a combination of C and TypeScript, and targets Linux (both gnu and musl), macOS, and Windows. arm64 is supported on Linux and macOS.

Your shell scripts can be written in JavaScript, JSX, TypeScript, TSX, CoffeeScript, or Civet. It's published on npm, Docker Hub, and GitHub releases.

It supports the ES2020 standard with some newer ECMAScript features too, and a couple proposals (like String.dedent). It has native ESM/CommonJS interop without .mjs, can fetch packages from npm via the `npm:` package prefix, and the pragmas for its builtin JSX syntax parsing can be reconfigured on-the-fly. You can register your own import extension handlers and import resolver logic, and you can also mix and match ESM-isms (like import, import.meta.url, import.meta.resolve) with CJS-isms (require, __filename, require.resolve) in the same file with no problems.

What do you think?
> Generally the goal there is to equal out by increasing volume.

The economics are a bit trickier: For any good or service, the demand curve is curved; it's not x * y = R, where R is some fixed revenue number. If you think about it, of course you can affect revenue by changing the price. Otherwise Tesla could charge $1 or $1,000,000 per car and bring in the same revenue and profit.

On the curve there's an optimal point where volume * price = maximum marginal profit. The Tesla VP of sales chose the best point that they thought was possible, and it turned out to not work. Now they have shifted to a less potentially profitable point.

To sum up: Tesla probably is less profitable at this price point than they planned on for the former price point.
Er, it doesn't? `.get()` (or `[]` in the original) doesn't change the object, and `obj =` only changes which object the local variable refers to?

This isn't like C++ with its intrusive `=`.
Have you tried using a broom?
Such a great post on how people are blind to their blindspots - and even when trying to think critically still have trouble seeing the water they swim in.
I'm halfway through Walter Issacson's bio on him and I don't get the impression he cares about liberals. He seems to view his companies as something closer to an e/acc vision of saving the world through better technology.
If they don’t want to play in that space why do they own Zoox?
I thought the deposits were refundable?
The majority of top level athletes are doping and not getting caught. You're delusional if you believe otherwise. There are even approved medical doping practices in sports, where athletes are given legal consent to use steroids and PEDs. As an example, note the uptick in football (soccer) players being asthmatic? Why? Because the asthma medications increase performance on the field. It's everywhere! Those that believe athletes aren't cheating are only people not involved in sports and unaware of the realities it takes to achieve those levels of performance. If you're not doping, you're not winning, whether it's drug tested or not. There's literally drug test avoidance coaches all over. Entire industries for it. Common knowledge isn't the same as truth.
Thank you to the amazing team at Adept.ai for making this available!

For anyone interested in contributing to a fully open source alternative, join us at https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt

Lots of interesting work to be done, including integrating with Fuyu-8B!