skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Sure, completely get this.

2. This might be the case for most people, but I have heard people did or do switch obly due to iMessage. To be clear I don't think there would be a huge exodus, but it is a major lock-in feature in the US. Or at least that is what I have read.
There’s a lot of compliance work involved in getting government contracts.

Also, there’s usually 2-3 layers of pimps (prime and subcontractors) who take a vig at each layer. Total comp for the contractor is usually rate divided by 3 or 4.
Using HF to clean glassware is a bad idea. And as long as you're doing that, you might as well toss some antimony pentafluoride in the mix.
Remember his initial experiment was only 40 people, so we’re talking 6 individuals who could very easily been outliers.

And I have my doubts that any of those 6 actually completey believed that a Yale psychology experiment was allowed to dangerously shock students, or that the student actors were all that believable.
I clearly have "non-educated eyes" as I can't see any meaningful differences personally.
Priced in on the stock yet? Looks like team red starting to nip at Nvidia’s heels again
> The users are already on the website, and on twitter, YouTube and tiktok.

There is a non-negligible number of people who are leaving Twitter and are trying to get rid of Youtube.

> worse experience

Why? Don't give me arguments based on circumstances. Mastodon is not the endgame here. The apps can be improved and content discovery mechanisms can be implemented. What is "fundamentally worse" about federated social media?
TOP500 has had all sorts of "odd" systems near the top. Unusual or custom architectures and fabrics are far more viable for "this is our nation's nukeputer" or "this is going to run the nation's weather forecasting model" type of systems compared to e.g. a commercial HPC system where you wanna run all sorts of commercial/proprietary software. AMD being successful in the former niche doesn't mean their software stack is viable for the latter niche.
This is also totally unusable for me on Chrome on M1 Pro.

It makes all Chrome windows unusable, when the tab with this page is displayed.
Maybe this tweet by John Carmack can help you:

This is a great little book to take you from “vaguely understand neural networks” to the modern broad state of practice. I saw very little to quibble with. https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html
Doesn't that assume that you will sell or trade in that vehicle after some years? If you drive it until you can't maintain it, the 15% seems less relevant.
the fact that it probably will not is actually the problem
How to Create a Zero-Revenue Product in One Year
For most items you don’t need to do anything beyond a scrub and rinse. Others have pointed out that glassware is expensive and sometimes unique. Additionally, if you don’t need much product (eg. you’re screening reaction conditions), you can work with small disposable vials or even plates.
It's such a shame Google decided to block adoption of JPEG XL: it's a strict improvement over classic JPEG (you can losslessly reencode JPEG to JXL and reduce the size, due to a better entropy coder in JXL!) and JXL has various other upgrades compared to 'classic' JPEG.

In the meantime, let's hope AVIF or whatever manages to pick up the slack, and/or other browsers decide en masse to support JPEG XL anyway; that would be a bad look for Google, especially if even Apple decides to join in on the JXL party.
Need to learn the many different kinds of greed, in order to understand this “American Greed”.
The key difference may be in the volume. Old pictures are more important to a family because there are so few of them. I only have one picture of my grandfather because it was taken when cameras were rarer than hen's teeth and 35mm film hadn't been invented yet. Now we have hundreds of thousands of pictures between the family members. Every vacation, every meal, every unimportant moment in time. I don't have time to look at my own pictures and I don't expect anyone else ever will.

Digital assets are a lot more perishable that physical ones. Cloud accounts will expire and be purged before anyone has the chance to retrieve them. Nobody will do "storage wars" with your pictures. Your local storage will fail or become incompatible with future tech before anyone has a chance to care about it.

We generate information at an ever increasing rate so whatever digital collections we have now will probably never be "dug up" by our descendants for a deeper look.

I'm trying to leave a "curated" collection with a few memories in such a way that it's immediately available to my family after I'm no longer around. Some moments in time that were important to my life, and had an influence on theirs.
>Copilot for Sales will be available in the first quarter of 2024.

I dread to think how that is going to turn out for the rest of us.
Microsoft Word now scolds you if you use words that aren't "inclusive"
Lets learn a bit about array with JavaScript
You're one of today's lucky 10000 to learn about German customer service. They are arrogant, rude, useless, and expensive. There is no plot twist or hidden joke, it is what it is.
I opened the first two pictures in separate tabs and switched quickly between them. There is zero difference. Tried it on two different monitors, Chrome and Firefox. Same with the pictures of the guy at the end.

EDIT: The last comparison is webp twice, he linked it wrong. Here is the jpg one, still no difference:

https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/20...
I also find their usage of the word neural very confusing but this is how they explain it.

A Gaussian Splat, instead, is a neural representation unit that is not limited in this way – not only can it be assigned anywhere in XYZ/3D space, but it can as necessary multiply and subdivide into additional splats, as coverage requires.*

And the asterisk leads to the following explaination.

Technically it’s a rasterization unit rather than a neural unit, but in all current Splat implementations that are of any power or interest to the synthesis community, it ends up as a neural unit, passed through standard training processes.

Amended Friday, December 15, 2023 13:33:47 EET to clarify ‘neural unit’

But even with this I am not sure that I understand what they want to say.
Our paper was an analysis of an already established technique used nearly identically by a number of previous papers. We dug up about a dozen IIRC, including the seminal ones, but we missed his. He didn't go after us for not citing him (which he had divined). He went after us for not acknowledging that he invented it (which he did not).
Talk to a.. well you know the drill anon.
Video is getting a lot of direct ASIC blocks (look at the latest VPE block in AMD GPUs).

I guess those chips are for the movies/video industry, online or not. Because for the "consumer", the CPU is already very efficient, and I don't think we would save interesting about of battery usage in a "real usage" perspective. I may be very wrong, but I don't watch hours and hours in a row of ultra high quality videos on a small screen, that off the AC plug, the battery is unusable in a matter of a few years anyway... it not less.
Apple already has! Safari has Jpeg XL enabled by default.
I know this is not constructive and I'm sorry, but I just can't read the text with those st and ct ligatures. It makes me feel like the author is trolling with them and I shouldn't take the text seriously. I know that's an exaggeration but that's what the design makes me feel.
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China's DF-17 Hypersonic Missile Can Hit U.S. Bases and Aircraft Carriers
They used to be the nicest looking things in the rack:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xserve_G5.jpg
Tailscale is a huge step forward here: it makes creating a secure IPv6+Wireguard network for accessibg your home devices from anywhere genuinely easy.
Wait, I thought Israel is the main sponsor of Hamas. These guys should get public so we can get a shareholder list.
I think you’re giving them too much credit.

More likely they have some PR think-tank that came up with the idea to tweet like the cool kids in an attempt to rebrand the company

>Hey look, we’re not really corporate pirate lawyers! We tweet just like you, fellow kids! on god we deadass bussin fr no cap
Probably because it's a CICS program written in Cobol running on a mainframe.
Show HN: Go from Idea to Prototype under 20 seconds
Catalan is not Castilian.

(and Castilian exists)
I must admit, I'm not sure why JPEG XL is viewed so favourably on HN, it's not something I know a ton about, but my understanding is that the big advantage of AVIF is that you can reuse hardware decoders built into devices for AV1 for the images.

It being a strict improvement over JPEG is nice for the developers not having to go back to the source image for an upgrade, but that seems like a pretty small benefit that only matters during the transitional period.

Meanwhile, if you are getting better battery life every time someone views an AVIF image, that's a huge benefit for the entire lifetime of the format, it seems to massively outweigh any advantage JXL has, to me.
I would love some feedback for my custom GPTs that is powered by data scraped from openai's website for writing really good prompts.
The problem is that while al jazeera can be balanced about certain topics, fact is it is entirely government funded by an authoritarian undemocratic state and on this topic in particular it seeks to purposefully take a prejudiced anti Israeli stance. It has also been criticised for biased to the Syrian dictator, and takes various stances according to the foreign ministry. We therefore cannot be certain if the claims are true.
Unfortunately as history has repeatedly proven, propaganda works. At the very least maybe source should include Government funded?
Microsoft releases Phi-2, a small language model
It does really mess up the typography
When will we get thick spectacles in impressively thin format?
Maybe you don't "understand what's going on in the news".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdkkTV3pIa0
Same here. Especially considering the ones supposedly "look like shit".

The whole thing reads like a no-so-subtle brag about how his mighty photographer's eye can spot details that mere mortals can't.
> Should Nvidia be afraid of Apple?

Depends on what you think about how technologies become successful.

Some people would say the foundation of nvidia's current dominance is their mass-market gaming GPUs. While every other High Performance Computing technology wanted you to call their enterprise sales team and pay a big markup, any academic or open source developer could get their hands on an nvidia GPU - and that lead to a huge academic and open source ecosystem.

In recent years, nvidia has decided if you want more than 24GB of vram, you've got to call their enterprise sales team and pay a big markup. And a lot of people working on LLMs want more than 24GB of vram.

On the other hand, nvidia do have a lot of momentum. And of course cloud options are available these days.
It's like that tiktok voice when used in technical demos. Just can't focus on anything else.
I dont get it.

The author seems to care highly about image quality, but also wants to squeeze out as many bytes as possible?

Bandwidth is cheap. If we are talking about photography as art, why would you be trying to scrap a few kb off in the first place?
Nitrile is a fine default at home and in the lab if you make sure to change your gloves when they are contaminated. You can also double glove.
How to Build Yocto with Apple Silicon
Luckily Reader Mode or disabling CSS takes care of the oddity.
Thanks! Purchased a copy for myself and a friend.

And, Francois could easily report the unauthorized seller to Amazon, or send S&D letter, suing not required.
Yes, there is some banding, because it's a web format designed for small file size. 10-bit AVIF has smooth gradients in smaller size, thought not as well supported yet.
Here is the diff:
https://imgur.com/a/QT8oNqj

>> To the non-educated eye, this might look ok, but for a photographer it’s not, and for several reasons.

webp is a banding nightmare.
At first I thought I had an unusual amount of very small hair on my display.
Isn't this like anything else? No one size solution typically works for everything. If you are a photographer/artist and true close to perfect rendering is for you... don't use WebP as the format to present your images.
webp should have been skipped entirely.

Let's focus on AVIF.
Until you commented...
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Always had the impression that same could be said about solving math problems at school/uni. Some planning, knowing the right algo or tools, some creative thinking, many ways to get the desired output. Linear algebra was particularly fun when approached this way.
First, I think you got it right already. The "person" pulling the strings is the same "person" pulling the strings at every other quasi-monopolist multinational. Just another Senior VP, likely Ivy League MBA doing whatever they can to ensure they hit this quarter's financial goals.

Second, I just stop engaging when someone says a company/org is run by a right-wing nut/left-wing Communist
The Year of Ozempic
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/the-year-of...
This is emphasized in every "What is Copilot?" article or video I've seen.

The not so fine print is Copilot may return garbage and it's up to you to confirm the results.
There is xwayland, yes.
I'm a white person who is unaffected by these issues in a direct way but I've heard from people who do feel affected by it that it can be harmful. Their perspective is one I can't live, so I can only listen. It's surprising for me that others would not be open to listening and I find it depressing that their feelings on this are villainized and dismissed here as being part of a "culture war."

Of course it's easy to categorically deny with what they say if you refuse to listen, and I'm sure everything seems like a war when you start putting people into factions that can inherently not agree and are inherently unable to talk through issues with a mutual openness.
I used the same type of deck in Yu-Gi-Oh a few years ago. Something with fusion summoning elemental heroes which banished everything before bringing everything back. Wasn't all that good, but was somewhat fun to watch opponents realize the loop :)
> There is zero difference.

There is a clear difference though, I can see it in all my monitors, from desktop to laptop and even mobile. It's especially visible in the top right quarter.

That being said if you're not into photography you might just not care enough to see it
It's wild that in this thread we're still falling victim to the McNamara fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
I checked those images on a Macbook 16 M2 Max (standard P3-1600 nits preset), Chrome 120.0.6099.109. All of the WebP images had pretty bad posterization, while JPEG examples did not.

Edit: You have to actually click for a full size image to see the truth. Those inline images had pretty bad compression artefacts, even the supposed lossless versions.

So https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/20... (full size lossless WebP image) looks fine, but inline version of the same image https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/20... looks terrible.

Edit 2: The difference between...

https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/20... lossy-noise.jpg (216 kB JPEG)

https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/20... (150 kB WebP)

https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/20... (301 kB WebP)

... is pretty obvious. Both of the WebP examples, even that 301 kB version, show clearly visible posterization.

I wonder if there's some issue with the WebP encoder (or the settings) he is using?

Edit 3:

It should be noted that monitor gamma and color profile might affect gradient posterization visibility.
Sure, but it seems this is unphysical if this passage occurs after essentially an infinite time for an outside observer. Before crossing the event horizon, the infalling person sees the whole history of the universe. But the problem is, if crossing the horizon takes infinitely long, how could the horizon form in the first place? That's what I've never seen addressed to a satisfactory degree.
I've never heard of those, what model was he using?
Unless the OP is using a 8K monitor with professional color grading, I don't understand how he can say that some of these pictures are "looking like shit". They all look exactly the same to me on my regular 27" 1080p, on my 27" 2K or on my iPhone.
Hey, imho best overall technical intro to LLMs (I guess that´s your main interest as you mentioned qlora + llama) is by Simon Willis [1]. Additionally or if you prefer videos, the recent 1h "busy persons intro" by Andrei Karpathy is great + dense as well [2].

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/3/weird-world-of-llms/
[2] https://youtu.be/zjkBMFhNj_g?si=M6pRX66NrRyPM8x-

EDIT: Maybe I misunderstood as you asked about papers, not general intros.
I don´t think that reading papers is the best way to "catch up" as the pace is rapid and knowledge very decentralized. I can confirm what Andrej recently wrote on X [3]:

"Unknown to many people, a growing amount of alpha is now outside of Arxiv, sources include but are not limited to:

- https://github.com/trending

- HN

- that niche Discord server

- anime profile picture anons on X

- reddit"

[3] https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1733968385472704548
Apple has on occasion done out-of-band patches for older devices to fix serious security issues, so it doesn't seem too unrealistic.
SMS is not reliable. Messages are routinely lost.
Yes. This same phenomenon is how we study gamma ray bursts. The neutrinos are detected early enough that the gamma ray detecting satellites have time to be pointed at the source. Otherwise they would be far too brief to observe!
It could be partially placebo affect. Its not like he is doing a blinded test.
I have been working with parcel delivery for years now (with approx 20 carriers) - and building on top of tracking data is trickier than it appear. "Let's show a timeline of the package delivery status, how hard can it be??".

Well, often the carrier itself does not have an accurate picture of what is going on. Mistakes happen on the ground, and result in all kinds of gap between what is shown on the tracking page and what happened in reality.
Part 2 of the fast.ai course might be a good start: https://course.fast.ai/Lessons/part2.html
Yeah, but the hot brick in front of my eyes looks similar.

Don't get me wrong, I'm enthusiastic about that tech, but let's not get the overhype kill it. If they integrate some variant of a well performing 3d reconstruction (such as guassian splatting), it has a potential to impress.

Still, In "professional photography" it won't make any dent.
Contact Greg Lyda at UsenetExpress. You can also reach him on reddit (https://old.reddit.com/user/greglyda).

UsenetExpress is the second-biggest provider of binary news (outside of Omicron, which owns Eweka, Newshosting, UsenetServer & Tweaknews)
But why to draw hairs between all 'ct' and 'st'? As a non-native speaker, is that some English weirdness that I have yet to learn about?
I'd call it a puzzle more than a game. But yeah
Yeah, that's certainly an odd feature to have spent time adding.
One Android user means you can no longer send images, video, gifs, or emoji. You can’t react to messages. Sending and receiving no longer works on wifi, so it doesn’t work well in many workplaces.

SMS is a disaster, so it’s best just to leave out the green bubbles.
Currently I'm only using Copilot for OneDrive as a super grep for all my programming notes and gists.
apple did initially want to build on what they saw as the best fab - Intel. unlock the power Intel would bring for their phone. But they had some design objectives focused on user experience (power/cost) and Intel didn't see the value. Intel then scrambled to try and build what apple had asked for but without the software.

Nokia kept doing crazy hardware to show off on hardware side. But these old companies can't stop nickle and dimeing - so you'd get stuff w crazy drm etc. And software wasn't there or invested in fully.
I've heard this enough times that I'm becoming convinced there's a lot of 'reinventing the wheel' busywork going on in the industry.

And not even superior wheels, lower quality, more fragile wheels by clumsier wheel designers.
This seems to be in the same spirit as audiophiles claiming they can hear the difference between various speaker cables, or the "hints of dark chocolate" in wine tasting.

Personally I see zero differences in the images on that page and unless the author has some really super-human vision abilities (possible! but unlikely) my guess is he doesn't either. WebP looks perfectly fine to me.
This is a nice and thoughtful post and I agree mostly. I'd like to add that my use of the word "Castilian" reflects my experience of usage of the term here in Barcelona (when speaking "Spanish", Catalan, and English). It's not a hard rule of course, but people are especially likely to refer to Castille over Hispania when distinguishing from other languages spoken historically within the country.

The term also usefully refers to the prestige dialect of Spanish, as might be spoken in Madrid. This is useful to distinguish from e.g. the "al-andalus" (Andalusian) spoken in the south which is more treated as a dialect than a separate language (though the distinction is of course fuzzy).

(On the other hand Barcelona in particular has a significant population of sudamericanos who will usually say "español", certainly that term is well used and understood.)
pipx
It's how English was written in the "olden times". At that time, little flairs (such as ligatures) were pretty common, and were very fanciful. Some simpler ligatures (like ff) survive today, but embellished ones (like ct) were toned down. It's just a stylistic choice to draw them one way or another, but it's jarring to see the fancier ones in "modern" texts because we're used to the simpler styles.

Fun fact: The German "eszsett" (ß; U+00DF) is a ligature for "ss" (specifically the "long s"[0] and a normal "s") that evolved over time to be one "letter".[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sz_modern.svg
It seems I have an uneducated eye by their standards, because I barely see any difference, which I'm happy to admit, but I think the author misses the point of webp completely.

The format is intended to bring down the file size of graphics in general, not high-level photography which accounts for probably 0.5% of the images on the internet.

This is a case of the best daily driver car won't be good enough for a race car driver.
Because not all countries have cheap or unlimited bandwidth
Other vendors have Copilots too which muddy the waters even more

AWS Copilot

Command line interface for containerized applications

https://aws.amazon.com/containers/copilot/
So yes, literally incredible - not credible.
Vivaldi is many good things but lightweight is not one of them.