skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it complicated the display UI, when the trend was toward fewer and more virtualized controls. It wasn't really easy to use.

You just want the hard inputs? what about the built in tuner? where and how does the sound mix? Output ch2 sound to a different external speaker and use the internal for ch1? etc.

Nobody really wanted it to the point of figuring out how to use it, or coming up with a control convention that spread to other users. For so many uses where "PIP" is useful, a 2nd display is much more useful, easier to set up and use, and more likely to be replaceable.

Next question is "What about 3D TV?" ... Many mature industries go through these cycles of marketing bullshit.
Smartphones are sort of the ultimate mind-occupier in terms of portability, but it seems like for long drives lots of people have just taken to listening to audiobooks and podcasts.

It seems like we’re at a state of FOMO where every moment has to be optimized for stimulation, whether for “unproductive” entertainment or for “productive” learning. If our eyes are too focused on driving then we let our ears instead be our means to become busy away from our present surroundings.
I'm not sure it's a win to be mentioned, given I failed to successfully raise the alarm over the impact of the OSB. All very frustrating and depressing.
Yes, as it's based on WASIX, the superset of WASI created by Wasmer, that is (and probably will be) the only runtime that will run WinterJS.
Teens make their own third spaces unless actively chased away, which happens much more now for various reasons.

In low crime/low vandalism areas there’s less chasing away.
> create a better tomorrow by fixing yesterday’s problems today

This is exactly the kind of tag line an evil corporation in a sci-fi movie would brand this product with.
I'm commenting on the comment up one level from mine.

They said they are for adversity but then said X and Y deaths are down. BuBut might that be from a lack of adversity?

(Hint: I bet it is. It makes perfect sense.)
>Doesn't matter either way. Can't wait for AI-powered ad blocking.

It would seem that it is just as likely that browser producers would add AI "watchers" to the browser to make sure you are not using any ad blocking! AI doesn't see any ads or marketing copy for 30 mins, sorry browser temporarily unusable ... unless you have a business account, then no ads for 8 hours.
Which is also surprising, because Whisper is an incredibly robust ASR system.
Honestly, I miss having a dedicated music player some days. They were so simple. They had one job, and most of them did it very well.

I love the streaming era and Apple Music, so no way I'm going back to that, but the thought comes up sometimes.
I disagree. It just says that the essay author thinks there was an opportunity for the book author to do a real act of activism. Yet, they still chose emptiness. It is just there, in my view, to strengthen the argument that it was not the context that made it empty, it was a choice.

It doesn’t frame the controversy as about free speech at all, in my opinion.
I really hate using earbuds and will never use them. I use over ear real headphones.
Curvature Filtrations for Graph Generative Model Evaluation
It won't work as long as you have HTTPS preventing any large scale interception and analysis of traffic. This is why Google was so quick to promote and switch to HTTPS. I bet you my left nut right now there is some random ex Googler with an NDA and interesting story to tell about this topic.

It pretty much means you have to detect the ad locally. And by then you've already lost and transferred it down at least.
Is supervised learning dead for computer vision?
Hey Everyone,

I’ve been diving deep into the world of computer vision recently, and I’ve gotta say, things are getting pretty exciting! I stumbled upon this vision-language model called LLaVA (https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA), and it’s been nothing short of impressive.

In the past, if you wanted to teach a model to recognize the color of your car in an image, you’d have to go through the tedious process of training it from scratch. But now, with models like LLaVA, all you need to do is prompt it with a question like “What’s the color of the car?” and bam – you get your answer, zero-shot style.

It’s kind of like what we’ve seen in the NLP world. People aren’t training language models from the ground up anymore; they’re taking pre-trained models and fine-tuning them for their specific needs. And it looks like we’re headed in the same direction with computer vision.

Imagine being able to extract insights from images with just a simple text prompt. Need to step it up a notch? A bit of fine-tuning can do wonders, and from my experiments, it can even outperform models trained from scratch. It’s like getting the best of both worlds!

But here’s the real kicker: these foundational models, thanks to their extensive training on massive datasets, have an incredible grasp of image representations. This means you can fine-tune them with just a handful of examples, saving you the trouble of collecting thousands of images. Indeed, they can even learn with a single example (https://www.fast.ai/posts/2023-09-04-learning-jumps)
And let’s talk about development speed. By using text prompts to interact with your images, you can whip up a computer vision prototype in seconds. It’s fast, it’s efficient, and it’s changing the game.

So, what do you all think? Are we moving towards a future where foundational models take the lead in computer vision, or is there still a place for training models from scratch?

P.S. Shameless plug: I’ve been working on this open-source platform called Datasaurus https://github.com/datasaurus-ai/datasaurus) that taps into the power of vision-language models. It’s all about helping engineers get the insights they need from images, fast. Just wanted to share some thoughts and start a conversation. Let’s talk about the future of computer vision!
protocols like quic and srt (used for video) are great, forward error/erasure correction is something I would also mention as a large part of the rise of UDP over TCP based transfer/protocols.
I think it’s very common to have uninspiring math teachers, but it’s not uniformly the case across the United States. That site, for example, is at Caltech. The math teachers I had in suburban Chicago in public schools were superlative.
Plenty of usecases left, even if it won't be suitable for spicy political dialog. Slap Whisper and some TTS model on a local model and you can have an unfiltered experience.
Call me a smart, informed shopper but I don't consider $700 "low cost" for this laptop.
Because you're missing the context of what's actually happening in the UK such as ULEZ making travel more expensive (thus monetarily restricting your movement) and councils implementing 15-minute city-aligned schemes which also limit movement.
I don’t think that it is technically impossible and I don’t think that’s what most people have a problem with. It might be possible, just very high effort, for in most cases (e.g. Wikipedia) very little gain.

I think the problem is exactly that one possible solution is a third party that everyone has to trust with their personal data.

The way thinks work in this country that might mean that a friend of an influential MP sets up a new company as we speak that then will be chosen as the one and only service provider for this verification. For a considerable fee of course. This friend will then find an acquaintance who has worked for a consultancy at some point who will then hire a (maybe British) company to implement the service, they will outsource it to a much cheaper (probably not British) company to implement it. Provided that no one except for the outsourcing company has any idea what they are doing and the money is siphoned off to the Virgin Islands already it might take a while to get the service started and then it does not work.

At this time the government will notice that not only their money is gone, they have to pay more to even get it started and from then on the long chain of contractors need a lot of money on a yearly basis to keep it running.

This is the moment where they turn and explain to the public that from now on they have to pay to use the internet.

Remind you this is a country that only since one year requires identification to vote in elections. But everyone is now supposed to register with a third party probably non government institution to access the internet.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They only consolation is that they probably won’t get it off the ground in the foreseeable future.
Donations are voluntary.
"A composable build system for reproducible environments"

Is there another meaning of kurtosis that is applicable to this product? Kurtosis is used to describe aspects of probability distributions' tails/flatness.

Is this a pun on "distributed" systems?
Yep, seen this on several occasions.
> but alas the market has spoken and I'm stuck with....

I keep seeing this phrase again and again on HN. "The market has
spoken".

Here's the context to which I responded to it earlier [0].

I literally don't think "The Market" exists in the same way that
Margaret Thatcher said "There's no such thing as Society".

"The Market" has come to represent a conveinient abstraction if you
want people to stop thinking and asking deeper questions.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38048995
There are billions of people and thousands of supercomputers working ceaselessly and communicating instantaneously to filter through modern literature to find a kernel in the chaff.
In the past there were only a few thousand people in a few small cities filter through a few hundred books to find the classics.
Depends on your definition of success. It only doesnt work if you care about infrastructure. It will work if Israel aims to flatten Gaza into the ground.
Quic = TCP inside UDP and its great for e.g. streaming, instead of sending a bunch of Acks all the time it tells the other side which packet to resend in case of loss. Great for a buffered Video stream.
Error rates are still high. You quickly find that if you have latency sensitive information that you need to ship over the public internet, like live video.
The ability to communicate math this way is honestly rare. It comes from a combination of deep understanding, long experience in communicating math, and a certain level of "culturing" that is specific to the academic experience.

Among the best, Feynman was singular in his ability to communicate math and physics.

In other words, don't be so hard on the teachers who were disappointing in comparison to the stellar examples you see from top mathematical communicators. What you're reading is quite rare and, while education quality could certainly improve, its not fair to expect this of a 5th grade teacher who covers 5 topics in a day. Even for the best, developing this type of material takes time and thought that a school teacher probably does not have.
Pretty confusing to call their target a "service worker" when that is also the name of an in browser platform. Kind of a mess of a post.
>translation the same

What? between what languages?
Wait till they find out about Miku.sh
The "smart guy" assessment was made by looking at accomplishments rather than sitting in a room with the guy.

And with regards to the accomplishments the judge is still out on each and everyone of Musk companies which up to now have succedeed solely in moving vast amounts of cash from other stakeholders into the pockets of mr. Musk, without any practical improvement in the quality of life of consumers.

At least Amazon, Facebook, Google, Mircosoft and Apple (each spearheaded by their own "smart guy" and hence subject to smart guy fallacy of deeming somebody smart without sitting in a room with them) already had a trajectory where there is conclusive evidence that consumers had their quality of life improved in some way or had novel experiences thanks to such companies.
I see; I didn't realize they weren't actually OpenBSD developers. That completely changes things.

I had assumed you needed permission or else you'd be blocked for posting on a mailing thread, or something like that, so I perceived everyone there except the asker of the question as an OpenBSD developers.

I'm sorry; I didn't realize I was spreading borderline libel.
It really limits the value of a stolen or leaked key. Similarly it limits the amount of trust you need in the key holder.

If the NSA could steal a debian key (or coerce a packager), without deterministic builds, they could put a backdoor in a popular Debian package with barely any chance of getting caught.

Deterministic builds make it much easier to detect this. That makes the value of such a stolen/coerced key much lower. Making it much less likely this gets attempted, and likely stopping anyone who used to try this attack.
It's a nickname, and I certainly didn't make it up. It's widely used.
Boeing's now lost more than $2B on the new Air Force One planes
Startups developing AI-powered Virtual Assistants
>special military operation

Are you confusing Israel with russia? Afaik they declared proper war and are abiding to Geneva convention.

Israel formally declares war against Hamas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/08/israel-hamas...
Maybe it's more than you want, but "Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach" from Hennessy and Patterson is a very good reference.

If your main interest is CPU cores even a relatively old version will be enough. From memory recent versions (5 and 6, 6 being the latest) have mostly added content on GPU and data center computing, but the sections on CPU architecture are rather stable.
Didn’t know there was a financial company named after the financial data exchange standard OFX. Weird

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Financial_Exchange
It doesn't have to be purely about reactive measures to mental health problems. It can also be that a better social safety net means less people need mental health support to begin with.
The ones that were lead by Andy Grove wasn't there at Intel.
Until they run out of electricity. :)
First, I would suggest you select an idea which is not a verbatim copy of a tech giant of today. Do the due diligence and ask yourself: what is your unique value proposition? What are you gonna compete on? How are you gonna differentiate? How are you gonna reach your prospective customers?

Then how are you gonna use the money I give you in your business to grow it 10x in an about 5-10 years time frame so I can get my investment back? Put together a plan. Call it a "business plan" and put it in writing.

Jeff Bezos had to answer these kinds of questions (and many, harder ones) before he got his first investment. What seems to you as an obvious, trivial idea today was a novel, risky approach 30 years ago.

He did the work and that is why he's rich. We are here commenting on an investor's forum instead and that is why we are... what we are.
They are meant to detect issuers misbehaving, not individual SSL certs leaking.

It lets issuers show they are trustworthy.
In Firefox on Android, I can use the demo if I use the link in github https://susam.net/cfrs.html, but I don't see the graphics if I use the examples like https://susam.net/cfrs.html#1 I tried looking for difference in the domain like www, but I can't find any.
Motorcycles are more likely to have you killed by someone else.

Most small aircraft deaths are directly or indirectly pilot fault.
It's crazy how X4 has almost caught up to M2 / A16 in most raw performance metrics.
Sounds very much like zazen.
Apple has made opening non-notarized apps a huge pain.

First, it was a setting in system preferences to allow unsigned apps.

Then, that option was removed and it was the a are-you-sure-you-want-to-open-this dialog on every first run of a new or updated app.

Then the "Open" button on the dialog was removed and put in the Security preferences pane.

When System Preferences became System Settings a couple releases ago, that button got moved below the fold in the Privacy and Security prefpane. This is the current state today and is infuriating for some OSS apps, especially niche ones.

At one point, there was a command-line way to clear the xattr 'com.apple.quarantine' on the .app, but that also got nuked in a recent update.
Not to defend the original argument (because comparing the difference between people, belonging to the exact same animal specie, and difference between radically different model architecture make zero sense).

> Small average variation overall, but some outliers are dramatically better and dramatically worse. Some brains produce fields medals, some can barely count change. Unfortunate but true.

We don't actually know which part of the “can barely count change” situation comes from the “brain” compared to the situation people were raises in. Sure you'd always have outliers (good or bad) for purely genetic reasons, but if you looked at sport performance for instance you'd find that the theoretical difference between people is much lower than the practical one for many environmental reasons: in theory, once you factor in rare medical conditions, almost every human between 18 and 40 should be able to run a marathon. The reason why most people cannot is entirely environmental (not enough physical activity, overweight, work related health issues, etc.).

And it's also true in terms of performance: almost any human ought to be able to run a 100m in less than 14 seconds, which is only 30% slower than the world record. Yet, for purely environmental reasons, only a small fraction of the population is actually able to do it.

I suspect that in terms of intelligence the results would be roughly in the same ballpark: almost everyone, except rare mental development disorders, ought to be 70% as intelligent as the most intelligent person in history (and the enormous majority fitting in a much narrower band), but most end up far worse for environmental reasons alone.

For some reason (mostly politico-philosophical), most people in the “nature” camp of the “nature vs nurture” debate are completely oblivious to the evidence for this.
You need a gyrocopter. Not quite a plane, but not a helicopter either.
I don't think skipping the handshake is much of a benefit to QUIC. TCP was designed to have long-lived connections. Mobile networks are moving toward keeping your external IP consistent between handoffs, handling the routing internally. Fixed networks will connect to servers once every couple of minutes at most. QUIC mostly affects time-to-first-paint, which is mostly of interest for the slowest connections, which is nice, but becoming less and less relevant over time. It's not like speeding up the connectivity time is going to matter when all gains in connectivity time will be used for additional advertising and tracking against the end-user.

The main value propositions of QUIC for me are in the encryption earlier in the connection and in the reduced infrastructure usage on the server side.
you can measure negative pressure, negative acceleration
Here's hoping that the resulting dumpster fire will at least serve as a deterrent to others.
So you can measure the past, but not change it?
Unused land is fenced off and teens are chased away when they congregate now.

Actually, nevermind teens, even adults can't find third spaces now. There's vanishingly few places you can comfortably exist without being expected to pay something. The library might be the final remaining space like that, and my local one is sadly closing down.
> Imagine how much an advertiser would pay for knowing what their advert did to viewers heart rates.

It might be a rhetorical question but do someone in the industry has any idea? It has some value, like most metrics but my suspicion is that it is relatively low.

It is a proxy for a secondary metric. The reason people put up ads is to drive up sales, so that's the important metric. A secondary metric is engagement it can be directly measured by click through, time watching, etc... And then you have heart rate, which may indicate an emotional response, but it can be anything else. For example I am pretty sure that on average the heart rate goes up when TV ads show, but it may just be because of the physical effort of standing up and walking to the bathroom. Which is probably more significant than the emotional response caused by ads most people are desensitized about.
> moral highground

I doubt that any nation has an unchallengeable claim to "moral highground".

However, if the UK had any plausible claim to leadership in democracy, education, or public policy, we can consider the Online Safety Act to be the formal end.
As I recall, Wikipedia insisted on HTTPS for all access well before it was fashionable precisely so that governments couldn't decide which knowledge was OK and which was forbidden (and hence the whole site used to get regularly blocked by China because of e.g. the Tiananmen Square article).

It doesn't take much effort to find things the British establishment won't want kids seeing even though kids talk about them in school playgrounds (or at least we did when I was last in a school a bit over 23 years ago).

For example, I was given a summary of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre by some girl in the same class as me when I was 8 or 9.

And even as an adult, you really don't want to see a real photograph of a newborn with anencephaly, which Wikipedia did have when I was first looking up the condition.

The point of Wikipedia — that it can be edited at any time — absolutely makes it impossible to survive any age rating system other than "adults only".
I want to try write the underlying code myself, but thanks!
That's why all the researches from the Attention is all you need paper not longer work at Google. /s

Food for thought: https://www.aichat.blog/google-exodus-where-are-the-authors-...

Each of the co-authors who spoke to the FT said they wanted to discover what the toolbox they had created was capable of. “The years after the transformer were some of the most fertile years in research. It became apparent . . . the models would get smarter with more feedback,” Vaswani says. “It was too compelling not to pursue this.” [2]

[2] - https://www.ft.com/content/37bb01af-ee46-4483-982f-ef3921436...
If you want to learn calculus the way Feynman did, seek out "Calculus for the Practical Man"[1], which is the textbook he used to learn. Fair to say it's nowhere near as good as say Stewart or Spivak, which are the ones I have.

https://archive.org/details/j.e.thompsoncalculusforthepracti...
Google is trying that and it’s not working out so well.
> Is your point that you alone can stare down medical science and proclaim that congenital adrenal hyperplasia and aromatase deficiency don't exist?

That's not what she is saying at all.
In Wise I can have a personal and business account with a single login, how does this work with Bunq? What documentation are they asking for business accounts?
I don't know where you live, pal, but in my country, it's the extreme left that one that's rewriting History and censoring books and media. So yes, Internet Archive is the very important but not because of what you said but because of the opposite.
I don't think the discussion is about the truth or untruth of the motivations behind "15 minute cities", but the fact the author of the article clearly believes that disagreement with the policy is disinformation and should be made illegal. The author is not writing in good faith in the first place by taking the weakest and most conspiratorial arguments and holding them up as "the" opposition, and they think it is a shame this Online Safety Act did not make disagreeing with them illegal.

I caveat this with the statement that, were I dictator, all cities would be 15 minute cities, and I would bulldoze all subdivisions and American-style suburbs, which I regard as ridiculous encroachments on my preferred rural home.
Is this a recent thing? Many many years ago I did work for a NIH funded study and we had no issues buying machines, with the stipulation that the servers have to be Sun Ultras for some reason.