skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, 16 years ago CUDA was the cheap option, compared to other HPC offerings.

And there wasn't a parts shortage (modulo some cryptocurrency mining, but that impacted both GPU vendors)

And ML models weren't so large as to make 8GB of vram sound meagre.

And there weren't a bunch of venture capitalists throwing money at the work, because the state of the art models were doing uninspiring things. Like trying to tag your holiday photos, but doing it wrong because they couldn't tell a bicycle helmet and a bicycle apart.
It is pretty funny. That said, if it's just a personal project then sometimes it's more about the journey -- smelling every flower is the enjoyable part of the journey. Sometimes.

I mentioned smelling the flowers because I look to young kids for reminders about the little things we sometimes forget to enjoy along the way, even if it's just the short journey from the car to the house. When you're not in a hurry, remember to enjoy the wonderful things that lie in your path.
Because HNers are confusing Drug Regulation, Food Regulation, and Biologics Regulation, here's the FDA's Organizational Chart [0]

If you aren't a drug or biologic, you will be regulated by the "Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition", which regulates food, ingredients, supplements, cosmetics, additives, etc.

It is also the least funded part of the FDA.

Drug and Biologics regulation is much stricter due to the aftermath of the Ranbaxy Scandal.

Ranbaxy was one of the largest generic manufacturers in the world, and a major Japanese pharma company invested billions in them in the 2000s. It turns out Ranbaxy had been fudging numbers since the 2000s, and they faced serious DoJ charges in 2013 [1] where they had to pay almost 15% of their entire capital on hand in fines. This whole scandal also lead the US FDA's Drug Division to begin on site testing in India and China.

Ranbaxy was always a shitshow, given their origins [2]

[0] - https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-organization/fda-organizat...

[1] - https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/generic-drug-manufacturer-ran...

[2] - https://www.cnbctv18.com/business/companies/backstory-bhai-m...
Yeah, I can't do it, as well.
Riding the Storm Out
Ha ha no, much earlier than that. The Greeks had the Caduceus, a clear representation of kundalini rising up the spine to the brain, so it's obvious they knew how to awaken it. I'm just surprised to find passages that could describe Taoist practices attributed to them. It shows how geographically widespread these esoteric practices were throughout history.

What I found really interesting the first time I learned about this stuff was how all the symbology we take for granted points towards this experience. Kings and Queens, thrones, wearing crowns on their heads, the orb and sceptre, fairy tales, the eye of providence on dollar bills, all of it has esoteric interpretations.
You can download any number of models that will be freely racist for you.

Queries powered by Microsoft servers will be filtered.

Similarly, businesses are free to create their downloadable models however they so choose, and you are free to not use that model, preferring another one instead.

Frankly, it says a lot about the commenters here that the very first thing they test and judge a model on is whether or not they can force models to perform sensitive results.
Emotional looking at those pics and descriptions. Damn.
You can see it here on this discussion, or even in general on HN. It is taken as a given that men are hard wired to optimize for getting laid and all their behaviors follow from that. It's like culture is irrelevant and humans are resigned to act out their genetics.
You are in error, ed(1) is the standard Unix text editor.

But seriously, you fell for an April Fools' joke.
Or annoyingly, the GUI is the only way.

Case in point, if you are using Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online, you can do a lot of administrative tasks via PowerShell modules. But if you want to run a report on how many emails a set of mailboxes have received in the past 30 days, the message trace PowerShell command can only do up to the past 10 days. Anything beyond 10 days requires going into the Exchange Online admin portal and requesting a report that Microsoft will generate for you several hours later.
I'm gonna bet that many Azure customers had no such thing as "provisioning code".
In 2026
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The answer is always "No it doesn't need all those nodes", but we do it that way because it makes doing the math easier. I bet they just removed a bunch of edge weights to nodes, but used the same matrices for calculating output.

I wish arbitrary topology networks were scalable (I love NEAT) but bipartide graphs crunch good in GPUs.
How much of that imagination is real? For example, can you intersect two dodecahedrons at some random angle and see the outline of the polygon where they intersect?
When doing personal projects I have to constantly be reeling myself back in from doing x thing "The Right Way", because I end up doing a bunch of useless crap and not actually making progress on the personal project.

Easy to fall into that trap when 1) it's just you and 2) there is little accountability because it's just you!
RIP.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vera-molnar-venice-biennal...
"While arranging to visit Vera Molnár, heralded as a pioneer of early computer art, at her nursing home in central Paris, I was warned that the interview might have to be brief. Having recently turned 98, the artist gets tired easily.

Not so for her groundbreaking work, produced from algorithms written in the primordial programming language of Fortran, which seems only to be gaining new relevance as the world catches up with her enthusiasm for creative coding."
Jet fuel (plus misc office combustibles) burns hot enough to turn airplanes (aluminum) into thermite, which is certainly hot enough to melt steel.
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We're lucky that we can look at other primates and mammals and see the same patterns.
Thanks to insightface anyone can already deep fake any video with a single input image in a few seconds.
You should start it. Accept more pics from the public as it goes.
The frustrating thing is that there are people who will simultaneously be skeptical that oil and coal companies have worked to downplay the risks of global warming and slow the adoption of green energy, while believing that a car engine that runs on pure water was invented in the 70s but suppressed.
I rarely remember them. But they are visual and often of places I have been together with persons I know. So the information is in my head. I just cannot access it while being awake. Which sucks.
Addendum:

Tried it with a Windows laptop connected to a Samsung LS32A800 32" 4k display. Laptop has factory default settings. Chrome 120. The monitor is pretty low end for a 4k model.

Monitor's picture settings: Custom, brightness 81, contrast 75, sharpness 60, gamma mode1 and response time fastest.

Switched between those three "Edit 2" images blindly, yet the issues are obvious also on this combination.

The JPEG version looks better compared to WebP ones. (Also, this goes against my prior general assumptions about JPEG vs WebP quality.)
> But depleting immune cells comes with a host of side effects. Risk of infection, even diseases that you’d otherwise easily fight off

Some people with autoimmune disorders have to take immunosuppressors so they already have that risk of infection.
Oh this makes a lot of sense! Combined with the discussion elsewhere about lead making cinnamon cost more by weight means this would be doubly attractive if you weren't too bothered by the sanctity of human life.
Even if you never need to scale it's cheaper to not have to physically maintain your own data center. If all the broken server, building power, building internet, access control, real estate costs... are all handled in the cloud there's savings there as well.
This is more like MP3 versus one of those random codecs available for Windows 3.1 that had some big company behind it that one day got bored with codecs and now makes industrial pizza ovens. As google is a major proponent of WebP and Google is known for dropping projects and services with no notice, and the fact that webp gives very little value on the server side and webp creates objectively worse visual presentation, it would be best to consider WebP as deprecated for any new development.

edit: I would also like to note that there is no technical reason to use WebP. The only reason it is used because Google is literally bribing you with "better rankings" for using webp. In other words, it is strictly marketing-driven.
I would contend the contrary. Our company consistently runs GoAccess because we are primarily concerned with unusual traffic patterns. This involves monitoring for potential attacks or abnormal bot traffic that might impact our servers, etc.

While JS analytics tools might be of more interest to the marketing team, they are not as crucial for the devops team.
Oh maybe I'm mixing up their products.

They've gone full Microsoft with the naming. Next release will be called Cloud.BEEP Core
I edited my comment thanks to you. If you have refutations or other arguments - feel free to write about them in LONG detail and I'll do my best to get back to you. Otherwise the explanation I provided above is the best I could do given the circumstances.
> They may use absorbing substrate, or may add a backside coating.

Yup, since the optic is planar it can integrate with backend coating processes

> Contact image sensors ... No clue how this relates to meta-lenses.

I'm also not sure how "contact" got into the copy

> I suspect it's just a bad diagram. Their barrel design is impossible to manufacture.

Yea, the barrels end up looking like more traditional barrels

Source: Metalenz CTO
I would think there are may reasons Google might do this; One may be if you have to download the data, they get to collect that data for use. Data for them is a commodity and being able to know who/when/where specific map data is being downloaded might be valuable. All hypothetical of course..
I have worked on internals of databases for a few years. WLB is just fine, we have oncall rotations same as everyone else. They are deep and complex systems, but mostly what that means is just that average tenure is very high as it takes forever to get up to speed and people generally don't get bored and leave, unless you give them good reasons to.

Overall I enjoy it a lot and would generally recommend it as a good field to get into if you want to tackle hard problems.

Edit: people seem to be conflating DBAs with engineers working on database internals. Those are very different jobs and I'm only talking about the second one.
SSNs shouldn’t have to be kept any more secret than your name. The fact that somehow they started being used as passwords is the insane thing.
I (as someone who didn't know any of the details about WTC7 previously) found this (debunk) video very informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP3TNHPCIVU
Linter rules can rely on the type system
I'm the de facto DB guy at work, WLB is fine... it's very rare that I have to work after-hours. The main reason for this is that our DBs are basically exclusively used during business hours, and if you set things up right it's rare that you'll get anything breaking on its own after-hours.

Also - maybe this is specific to me, but most emergencies I deal with are of my own creation. It's rare to have a DB spontaniously corrupt a page. Most emergency issues I deal with are performance-related (this used to take 2s, now it's taking 200s) and you can mitigate those ahead of time if you're thoughtful (breaking code up so you lean less on the query optimizer, automatic index maintenance, consistent and well-indexed join paths).

Depends what you mean on major impacts. A potentially breaking upgrade is a total nightmare, and never a fun process. But most (almost all?) of the things you do are much lower stakes, and definitely do not take a few quarters.
I removed most of the syllables from English and it's 30% faster now [video]
Pyramid is still the best web framework
Compute is at a premium, but you can shift opex/capex around which might be more suitable. It can also be cheaper in headcount since you need fewer operators and less expertise in datacenter operations.
A better title might be "Apple fixes iOS bug that would let a single Flipper Zero perform Denial of Service attacks against every iPhone in it's radius."
It's at least more predictable. You don't pay for staff with datacenter skills (sort of in short supply) and you don't need to make large investments early on to build the datacenter and you don't have a huge headache if you need to scale up or down operations.
Sounds like something California could make excellent use of. Of course, they won't.
There are a few factors here.

Men can father more babies than women. Which means that a male who sacrifices himself for the community indirect ensures his siblings survive, via brothers and sisters (cousins...) while a female who sacrifices herself ensures less children for the community - not a big deal now, when when infant mortality was high all women needed to be pregnant or nursing a baby from the teens until menopause or the population would shrink enough to kill the village off.

Men can father babies with many women, which means women can select the best male. A man who does something stupid and survives often gets the attention of the women and thus is allowed to pass his genes on. (woman can have more than one partner for their babies, but only one at a time will get her pregnant). Some stupid things are useful for the village as well - if you destroy a different village that is land you can then take for your own village, if you succeed in killing the lion you ensure that lion won't attack the village. Thus for a women encouraging men to try stupid things is a good reproductive strategy by rewarding them with babies is a smart move (as a bonus the man who succeeds may have better genetics that caused the success)

There are probably more. And this deserve real study as opposed to people like me on a forum making logical things up. I'm not sure how to do such a study though.
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Sure, many more people want to play games than read hallucinations of 7B models.
Here's a pretty good lecture on exactly that subject:
https://www.rose-hulman.edu/~bryan/invprobs/jpegtalk2.pdf

Honestly though, the Fourier transform is useful anywhere that it's easy to think in terms of frequency instead of time. 90% of use cases in the real world come about from trying to do something that's that's easy to express in terms of signal frequency and difficult to express in terms of signal time/space. You can just use the Fourier transform to convert between them efficiently.

To give a morbid, but non-obvious example, I once did some work with a charity that was concerned with migrant deaths. They wanted to figure out where the migrants most at risk were working to approach the farmers hiring them directly. We got a dataset of when migrant bodies were found and did an FFT (among other processing) to find the periodicity of the crops that they were coming to harvest. There's only a few major crops and they tend to have distinct growing periods, so this is enough information to pinpoint certain crops like strawberries.
But 1988 is officially The Past, ask any millennial, my self image can’t deal with the fact that our anecdotes objectively belong side-by-side.
I just found the company that I was thinking of, they still exist but only in b2b, but only in a very specific niche. They have scaled way back from their original ambition. They seem to have had consumer tech already,[0] and rolled it back for reasons which I do not understand.

> Our patented solution combines two integrated technological components, the revolutionary SCiO Sensor, and our powerful cloud. Together these disruptive technologies provide a comprehensive end to end solution that gives you everything your business needs for instant material analysis.[1]

A consumer product no longer exists, even though one was originally delivered. This could be an issue of going up-market first, scaling issues, or if I believed in conspiracies like "killer acquisitions,"[2] then I might imagine that this technology would be inconvenient for many industries if end consumers had the spectrographic data in hand. This inconvenience might be a bunch of people complaining about compounds which were not dangerous, or it might democratize the testing that the FDA should be doing, and show dangerous contamination in many consumer products, especially in the food category.

[0] https://theindexproject.org/post/scio

[1] https://www.consumerphysics.com/

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22killer+acquisition%22

https://www.timesofisrael.com/scanner-identifyng-foods-calor...
The article is about the background banding.
Wonder if you'd still feel that way if "our opinions" could put you in jail for 6 years
It may not impress women, but there are lots of studies which show that men expand a lot more energy in engaging risk-related behavior when other females are around. Whether this is biologically adaptable or not may be a question which needs to be probed further, but risk-related behavior and competition have been closely linked in humans...
"...all human knowledge..."

I am assuming in practice it was not trained on "ALL human knowledge", particularly in the case of our private company knowledgebase.
I think he was complaining specifically about the background banding.
A square orbit would require infinite acceleration. Specifically, a dirac delta.
If you die but protect your brothers offspring that makes your bother more fit. You share a lot of DNA with your brother so even though you (presumably) don't have kids, your death ensured your DNA survived.
> Are you sure?

No. But from a quick search, it sounds like there are ~~100 different genes believed to be involved in risk tolerance. Vs. the extremely simple A/B/O inheritance of blood types.
Assembly is not trivial lol. The instruction set is easy to learn yes, but the kind of bit manipulations that occur at ASM are not easy or simple. Look at optimized division sometime. Try reverse engineering, it's an art that takes decades to learn. I do agree with "Anyone who can learn CSS can learn assembly" though, anyone can learn pretty much anything with enough time and effort.
One of my favorite jokes from Futurama is when they're at a horse race.

Announcer: "And it's a dead heat! They're checking the electron microscope ... and the winner is, number 3, in a quantum finish!"

Professor: "No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!"
> But ask an ordinary person under the age of 40 what exactly IBM does (or did), and the responses will be vague at best. “Something to do with computers, right?” was the best the Gen Zers I queried could come up with. If a Millennial knows anything about IBM, it’s Watson, the company’s prototype AI system that prevailed on Jeopardy in 2011.

I find this attitude to be fairly trite and disingenuous. Maybe we should ask millennials and zoomers what exactly it is that Goldman Sachs does or Dow or Cisco or any other large company that doesn't sell majority direct to consumer and see if we get a more intelligible answer. Just because a company isn't selling to you specifically doesn't mean it's a failure. I'm happy to criticize IBM, but let's do it for legitimate reasons (trend chasing, perhaps?) and not "my 16 year old doesn't know what they do so they must not be relevant"
Can you elaborate what you mean by "edge weights to nodes, but used the same matrices"?
One important consideration is that many of the larger countries are technically unified entities, but in reality they consist of many smaller governments with significant power (eg states in the US, Canada and India). They are tolerable because ultimately they still mostly recognize that people would rather be governed by an entity that has your local interests in mind, with the role of higher levels being to manage interactions between them.

Thus, I don't see a world government happening until we're so well into colonizing other worlds that it's more practical to deal in terms of planets than with individual countries. Even at that point though, I'd expect something similar to countries to continue to exist.

Put differently, I think a single entity with governance over the entirety of humanity is never going to happen (assuming we don't suffer some sort of near extinction level collapse).
It is not obvious to me why word2vec's training objective yields this. word2vec ensures similarity of related words, but why can you then perform linear algebra on unrelated words?
I'm quite surprised so much was retained; many presentations on convolutional networks suggest adding a lot of features, but prune most in a post learning step. Supposedly lots of features, which are initialized randomly, just raise the probability of being close to the real answer (the concept being learned). Once it's found, most of features typically go unused or are reduntant.
its important to make the distinction between questioning and undermining.
This video disproves that conspiracy theory, and with just the right amount of "WTF-you-truthers-are-idiots" attitude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzF1KySHmUA
Of course Valisure isn't a drug. Valisure is the lab that tested the drug. What does that have to do wit- what I said?
Probably getting downvoted for relativism. Tragedies are always complicated. The "if this is bad then that's equally bad" never really holds up.
To be fair, AWS also used the exact term when we moved a project out of a tiny expensive to operate (though lack of scale) datacenter that only hadn't been retired because we had a 30+ year old COBOL app suite on a z system.
True, but missing the point as you would not normally refer to the identity matrix as a projection.
We're falling into a trap of using subjective definitions the term "wealthy".

$2000-$3000/person/year [1] on top of regular insurance is a more than most people can afford, especially in a country where a large percentage of the population has little in terms of savings [2], and 60% live paycheck-to-paycheck [3].

But you certainly don't have to be a billionaire or even a deca-millionaire to afford it. You just need to be in the higher percentiles of your local income/wealth distribution.

1. https://www.partnermd.com/blog/concierge-medicine-costs-fact...

2. https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/emergency-savings-r...

3. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/27/60percent-of-americans-are-s...
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> It's always circular, too

Well it sure as hell ain't spherical. :-)