skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In our system already the poorest pay no income tax.

If their father gives them a piece of land, now they have to “pay to own” it, what about the recipients who are barely making it?

Agreed that income tax is bad, but not just for the poor; but also land tax is bad. Tariffs or some sort of luxury sales tax would be better. Also reducing the size and scope of govt, but that’s another can of worms. In any case, it’s been nice but I’ll leave the last word to you.
Great work! I am a bit confused with the comparison with nougat throughout the repo. Nougat was specifically trained for academic documents, and I don't think anyone ever claimed Nougat was the best OCR model out there. That's kinda clear in your benchmark too where you mention that nougat has higher accuracy on arxiv documents. You also mention that marker will convert fewer equations when compared to nougat, and yet compare with nougat in terms of speed? (again, only complaining because it's a model designed for academic documents).

For anyone trying to do OCR on any pdf with math in it, definitely do try nougat. It's very easy to install (just a python package), and extracts the math, text, tables and beyond (in a .mmd file) with a single command line command. It also runs reasonably fast for personal uses - it takes about 30 seconds to convert a 6 page document using CPU only on my 4 year old i5 laptop.
To my taste, the Pirx stories read as some of (if not the) most fiction-y Lem in existence. As opposed to the rest: thinly disguised philosophical studies. Sometimes really thinly, as in Golem XIV, or completely naked in Summa Tecnologiae. Other times, the fiction plot is laid thicker, as in Katar (The Chain of Chance), pretending to be a pulpy detective story.

Now, Pirx tales felt less cerebral, and much more human. Full of really tight action, too. Great gateway into Lem, overall.

Protip: check out Cyberiada, philosophy masquerading as a parody, and at the same time a book for children.
That’s because you’re comparing it against the supercrew model… the model that sacrifices bed for cab…
Source for calling it "almost unknown"?

I'm from Europe and this game is totally known. I had a university project to program one in C. The bot especially was fun to implement.
My avocado pet peeve are the ones with long strands of fiber in them. Not sure why they develop or how to avoid them.
I don’t think many drivers drag race routinely. I’d like to see the cybertruck beat a 911 — or a Camry — doing a few thousand miles of normal driving. It only has to not break down, not have pieces fall off, not crash itself, not kill anyone.

This spectacle video seems to demonstrate something meaningful, but it doesn’t.
I've been somewhat disappointed with the performance of the open models.

The claims of certain models outperforming GPT-3.5-Turbo and approaching GPT-4 fail to hold up to their benchmark results in real-world scenarios, potentially due to data contamination in assessments, based on my testing.

As noted in the linked survey paper, some models may outperform 3.5-Turbo in specific, narrow areas, depending on the model. Yet, we still lack a general model that definitively exceeds 3.5-Turbo in all respects.

I'm concerned that while we're still striving to reach 3.5-Turbo's performance level, OpenAI may unveil a new next-generation model, further widening the performance gap! Back in the summer, I had higher hopes that we would have surpassed the 3.5 threshold by now.

The performance gap has been surprisingly large. It is especially noticeable in areas requiring consistent structured output or tool use from the LLM. This is where open models particularly falter.
> Wavelength-accurate nonlinear conversion through wavenumber selectivity in photonic crystal resonators

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-023-01326-6
What's the point of your pedantry? Does it aggravate you to see people have the opinion that markets don't always reflect what is best for society?
Touch it with your elbow. And don't walk around with your hands in your pockets near traffic, it's bad risk management.
I'm familiar with the issues, I used to work in an academic library where we were preserving material of roughly that era. If I close my eyes, I can still smell the vinegary scent of our cold vault. They kept the material well enough but I have an appallingly keen sense of smell.

Meanwhile, in private life, I am considering how to transfer some rare materials from laserdisc ... later, perhaps, but also unpopular.

But overall, I can forgive some of the older material but even the newer business just seems to vanish!
Oh of course they’re all terrible, I’m just blown away that they’d actually make the front end _sharp_
Current ~70B models like LLAMA 2 70B are on par wih ChatGPT 3.5. The best smaller models can appear on par at first glance, but they hallucinate at a much higher rate and lack knowledge of the world. GPT 4 ‘gets’ things at a deeper level and no open source model is even close.

A year is a good timeframe to evaluate things: the rest of the world seems to lag behind OpenAI by around 12-18 months, at least with LLMs and image generation.

On the other hand open source tech usually has additional features for controlling output that OpenAI never bothers to implement, like llama.cpp’s grammars or ControlNet. So in that sense open source is usually ahead of OpenAI in terms of customizability.
Exactly - one of the important things about actually testing the average rate is that different cars will have very different charging curves. Over a 30 minute charge, one car may have a high peak rate but will taper off quicker leaving a slower overall charge.
Linear Algebra Through Computer Science Applications
First bits of a Haiku compatibility layer
Cool! Reminds me of Fractal Database, https://github.com/fractalnetworksco/fractal-database

PoC Django ORM replication engine that supports master-master replication in a decentralized context. With a Django based solution you can sync between any DB Django supports so MySQL <-> Postrgres <-> SQLite is easy peasy.

Disclaimer: I am the author and haven't written the README yet, but cool to see similar stuff nonetheless.
That one was quite fun, thanks
2 mirrors, 3 differnt arm poses. "Photos" are not really any more, the seem to be few second clips, and yea the processing merged 3 differnt poses.
images like this would easily be torn apart by experts brought in to testify against it. then again, for something this obvious, it probably wouldn't need an expert.
SQLSync: Collaborative Offline-First SQLite
Open access (i.e., academic jargon for non-paywall'ed articles).
I heard mention on a podcast recently [0] that if you hold down the button in the iPhone camera app it will capture a set of photos and then mark the one that it thinks is the 'best' (based on, for example, the photo where everyone has their eyes open). Not the same as what happened here of course.
(I keep forgetting to try this, not least because I always try to get the people out of my photos!)

[0] This one, I think: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-talk-show-with-joh...
This is an awesome project, really great work. Also, how dare you omit Pluto!
But your fine with a human that might spend 5 minutes looking at your chart after a heavy day of drinking/pills/10,000 other things to do?

The problem with 'Doctor AI' isn't that it's going to make mistakes, we already have doctors doing that and killing 100s of thousand per year. It's that we'll only have 1 doctor AI everywhere and there won't be a thing as a second opinion because "Computer Don't Argue"
You can't explain prisms without understanding springs [video]
When I was that age I was pretty sensitive about my glasses. Kids will find anything different to pick on you for, and at that age you're much less ecure in yourself.

I can understand why a 10 year old would feel this way, and it is kinda weird tbh that the emoji looks the way it does. Feels like the only reason to have it that way is for negative reasons.

I mean, that's fine, but for all the censorship and sensitivity that goes into emoji, why this one that seems so wholly negative?
pedestrian safety isn’t an arcane science. Here’s some info on how car shape affects pedestrian safety: https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/vehicles-with-higher-more-v...
Soon to be moog
You use a Mac.

You search for java.

You click the first result and go to java.com.

You click Download Java.

You are given Java 8.

You are now somehow a mystery.
Unfortunately, it’s kind of crazy to use anything better, since — as you pointed out — most people won’t even care.
1/2 of all Australian employees are getting made redundant, and it looks like 100% of new Zealand employees are out. Several office locations in Oceania are gone.
Tomcat is underrated as a web server. One of the most reliable I’ve ever used. one relatively low traffic tomcat instance has been up for over three years consecutively
not made up as in generated. it was sampled from different instances of time. This is the article's explanation

> Coates was moving when the photo was taken, so when the shutter was pressed, many differing images were captured in that instant.

> Apple's algorithm stitches the photos together, choosing the best versions for saturation, contrast, detail, and lack of blur.
This feels like a fuckup. The acquisition should have been blocked for the same reason Nov 2017 takeover of Qualcomm was blocked.
> (and i still don't understand how ChatGtp is able to respond to metaprompts like 'be brief', i mean if it is a model that is selecting the next most likely word, then it should not be able to control its own style of output.)

"Be brief" may just be associated with the speech patterns accociated with a shorter way to say stuff. So it's still the same autocomplete, just steered in another direction.
What the comment you're replying to is saying could absolutely have happened. Imagine a "Han shot first" sort of situation: two people with guns, one shoots the other. The shooter claims it was self-defense, as the other guy went to fire first but was just slower. An iPhone picture captures the moment, but has the shooter firing, and the other guy's gun still at his side.

This is perfectly analogous to TFA--notice that the woman has enough time to move her arms into very different positions in the same composited moment.
I have no objection with what we have today either but it does feel slippery slope-y, especially in the AI era. Before we know it our cameras won’t just be picking the best frame for each person, it’ll be picking the best eye, tweaking their symmetry, making the skin tone as aesthetically pleasing as possible, etc etc etc. It was always this way to an extent but now that we’ve given up the pretence of photos being “real” it feels inevitable to me.

I’m reminded of that scene in WALL-E where it shows the captain portraits as people get fatter and fatter. It’s clearly inaccurate: over time the photos should show ever more attractive, chisled captains. They’d still be obese in real life though.
When I'm in a truck, I'm more concerned about braking than acceleration.
(Probably obvious, but the exact same reduction to a system of linear equations can solve this.)
I actually love that you included a "Why" section in your readme, very few projects do that and I think it's extremely useful. So props for that.

I think some specific questions that would be nice to address:

1. I would recommend writing out Capture The Flag, CTF may not be as widely known as you imagine (I had to google it). Having unfamiliar jargon at the top of the readme might turn off prospective users who could benefit from your features.
2. How does this compare to some of the alternatives that others have mentioned, and why / how does this solve the problems differently?

Of course it's totally great to make software just for fun, but I get the sense this project serves a specific purpose. Good luck to you!
Is there any way to get the noisy version? Or is that all forced by the hardware.
Exposures Photo Essay: Japan, Ancient Modernity
I actually prefer using .NET Framework for even fresh projects of mine if they are going to run on Windows anyways: Microsoft provides security fixes for new .NET LTS versions for only three years, so your application bitrots rapidly.

Meanwhile, .NET Framework 4.8 is several years old and will almost certainly still be getting security updates ten years from today. To be clear, Microsoft provides better support today for Visual Basic 6 than it does many versions of the modern .NET.
Still have the manuals at home on my bookshelf. Great examples of technical writing and explaining how the world is changing.
The source for the Flip game in Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection is available: https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/puzzles.git;a=blob;f=flip....

It’s fairly well commented C code, but I admit that I don’t fully understand how the game generation or solver work. It’s definitely an interesting game!
Java has the Java native interface where you can interface with c/c++ written code
Thanks for the recommendation. I find myself ruminating on things that are years separated from me, on a daily basis, so maybe this will be helpful.
Cybertruck does the pack splitting thing like the GM Ultium vehicles:

https://twitter.com/baglino/status/1730391023799386480

It will be interesting to see Tesla's rollout of 800V stations, so far they don't have any within their own network.
THIS is the real problem. For _most_ projects upgrading from 8 to 9 meant just adding a few packages that were removed from default JDK with Jigsaw. That part is generally fine, even with OSGi hell.

The Javax -> Jakarta changes for validation, EE, XML, etc. are a damn nightmare!
FWIW if you're looking for book recommendations this is similar to the thesis of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
If this phenomenon is so obvious, why is this story the top post on HN? And why did it take a picture of the mirror scenario to make people aware of this issue? Hell, the article even implies that this an issue only with images of mirrors when that is of course completely false.
This implies you know how the human creative process works. I doubt you do: it's an unsolved problem, like most things in this category (intelligence, creativity) dealing with how our brains function.
The arms are in three different positions with the processing composing three different frames based on which frame/composite it thought that “person” looked best.
It was painful, but most of the community doesn't consider it a mistake.
I just want feedback from the road, wires don't give me that
Like Oil Leads to Global Warming, Data Leads to Social Cooling
The traction control is also significantly better on EVs because you have much quicker response times. I've made it up to ski fields in a RWD Tesla Model 3 with summer tires easily.
I tried to view the article. First, I got a certificate error. I tried again, and I got a proxy error. I tried again, and then I got a "WebCommand Error". So, then I tried again, and this time the connection timed out.
There are bands that change their sound so much from one song/album to the next that this is sure to be hit and miss for a lot of artists.
Google and Meta and all the funded companies also are not even close to GPT 4, so I doubt cost is the biggest factor. Claude is the only model that is decent other than OpenAI's.
No, its the same direction again. The 3.99 achieved by car and driver is for the dual motor mid range car, which tesla quote at 4.2. Tesla quote the top spec Performance at 3.1 seconds to 60 with roll out subtraction only on the fastest car again.

Car and Driver however also subtract rollout in their tests, so again its not a valid comparison to the 4.2 figure from Tesla with rollout included, making things even more confusing here.
I don't disagree with you at all. He has hired very brilliant people and it is easy to list a dozen things that would have taken decades or more to happen if he hadn't gone full nerd-billionaire and thrown gobs of money at his passions. Whether or not Musk himself is smart is besides the point: he took his childhood dreams and spent big money to make them happen. Who wouldn't do that?

That being said I think he's an evil POS, and I think the biggest struggle popular culture is having is that of simple naratives: people are all-or-nothing, black-or-white. It's possible someone can be a crapoid earthling and still cause beneficial things to happen in spite of who they are. That's a hard pill to swallow from either direction, and I have a very tough time with it! I personally don't think the ends justify the means here, but that's because of where I set my bar. Other bars may vary.
Have you ever written a file system? Most of the work is conforming to the semantics of the interface to the kernel/programs calling it. Very little of that requires unsafe code, and the bulk of the provably unsafe stuff (physically writing to memory/disk) is very simple.

The complex stuff can and should be written at a higher level than C.
As far back as May they were already figuring out which teams would eat each other up.
I feel for Java. Everytime I've used it, I've been pleasantly surprised by the language. It has some truly amazing features (steams where very cool).

Then I get to the tooling and it's just such a pain, if it's working we don't touch it. Our repository was checked in "eclipse format". Tried to move it to jetbrains. No dice. it too, me a few days to get it so i could compile and run under eclipse. I'm not an expert but I don't want to touch it for fear of breaking. New projects aren't done in Java. Php perl and python have a better dependency story, though slower.
> Anecdotal factoid is a bit of an oxymoron

Obnoxious pedant mode: it's actually not, because GP misused the word "factoid".

From Wikipedia[1]: "A factoid is either an invented or assumed statement presented as a fact,[1][2] or a true but brief or trivial item of news or information."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
Then the Prius would win hands-down since it can fill up it's tiny hybrid battery in like 30 seconds on a downhill.
"Mistake"? There was 2to3, a clear timeline, and a migration path. Compatibility forever drags along tech debt the way Microsoft did. On the other extreme, Apple is guilty of breaking things too aggressively without enduring compatibility. Major version incompatibilities with clear advantages is righteous churn, so it's a narrow path that must balance competing concerns.

Perl 5 -> Perl 6 is the oddball without a migration path because they're totally different.
I do think the raw metal color of the truck looks better on mars background than typical black tar roadways.
The difference is in what some photographers call “editorial integrity”. There’s nothing wrong with any kind of image manipulation, as long as it’s done knowingly and deliberately, and as long as the nature of the manipulation is known to the audience. But the typical iphone consumer is just taking snaps and sharing them around, and almost no one knows what’s really happening. It’s creepy and unethical.
Well, the Rittenhouse case had a very important moment when the victim admitted that, while looking at a freeze-frame view of a video taken when he was shot, he had raised his pistol which was pointed at Rittenhouse only a fraction of a second before. [0]

That photo was critical for the defense getting him to say that.

There were also concerns over wether or not zooming in on an iPad should be allowed in that case--like if a red pixel next to a blue could create a purple one, etc.

[0] https://www.denverpost.com/2021/11/08/shooting-victim-says-h...
Subtracting rollout times from one car, but not all cars, presented in the same page as comparisons is inherently dishonest.
More like fire expensive developers and hire cheaper somewhere else
Azul Zulu. Much lower probability of GC pauses. :]
You sound like a peach.

I’d love to know if you’ve actually ever created something novel that was good. Not code. Not math. Something uniquely original with no foundational basis.
I'm skeptical too. Her arms look so stiff so I would exepct her to have been moving slowly.
> it takes up 64 square feet of yard space!

Not saying what should or shouldn’t be done, but the implication here seems to be that that’s a lot of yard space. Depending on yard size, that could be a crippling amount of space to lose, or just a drop in the bucket.

I don’t know anything about Seattle yards. I’d kind of expect them to be on the small side, but maybe his wasn’t? He obviously had some amount of land, but from his post I really can’t tell how much.
The concern is that it’s a bullshit distraction that doesn’t do anything. It’s like farting into a hurricane to reduce how far it goes inland.

EVs and thermostats make complete sense because they dominate energy consumption.

I think 10 minutes less of air conditioning will probably offset the entire lifetime of my iPhone’s energy consumption.

We are in an attention constrained world and people focusing on shit like this to make themselves feel like they are helping when they should be replacing insulation in homes or building solar is a real issue.

It’s the same thing as making restaurants ask before providing water to “solve the drought”.
To play devil's advocate:

The idea being that if we prevent people from doing specific math on specific numbers, the more proficient number-discoverers will have greater incentive to discover more of those pleasing numbers, and we all benefit.

... Which to me sounds wishful, given the reality of the system as implemented today.

Perhaps someone can help me understand the appeals to creative sanctity. Does making my own fan fiction cheapen the original work? Why is it immoral to change a fiction to suit my own preferences, as long as original authorship is not implied? I mod my single player video games all the time to enjoy them more. I have no qualms about patching out a tech tree if the grinding isn't too my taste, is this an affront? How about covering my favorite song? Making a custom cover for a special book in my collection? Skipping the scariest part of a horror movie? Singing a new jazz song imitating Armstrong's style? Help me understand.
Inverse kinematics have been solving most of the animation blending you're describing here for years.
Not to dismiss completely the potential of this, but there already pretty good, reliable ways to solve these issues.
I believe the person you answered to to be correct in most cases, there is a lot of nuance lost if done by text.
Its not just one script that you're curling and execing. That scripts curls and execs some other scripts. And those others. You're pretty much auditing a whole codebase at that point, for better or worse.
It is from the same author. He semi-retired pyephem with the release of this project¹: "The Skyfield astronomy library should be preferred over PyEphem for new projects. Its modern design encourages better Python code, and uses NumPy to accelerate its calculations."

I switched a few toys I'd written from pyephem to skyfield, and it felt like a large improvement. (Must note that they really were toys though, so the amount of work wasn't huge in my case).

¹ https://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/
Interesting.

Explains the cyclical visits from Amazon recruiters on LinkedIn.
I wonder what the purpose served is though. One if the nice things about Haiku is that it's not POSIX based. One thing I was annoyed about was the porting of POSIX. Although that bringing WINE to Haiku might make it worth it. But the disruption this causes to the core aims of the project, as the thread states. Haiku is about having a tightly integrated OS API experience, the opposite of the *nix philosophy.