skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one."

That's why it's harder to write a fully typed program in TypesScript than just hack it JavaScript.

A static type system will show you edge cases; probably more than you encounter in practice, but also the few that you will.
Multimodal Large Language Model
I have heard of that one, and I guess to be fair looking at the list again I've heard of OpenSea a few times too as an NFT marketplace. Just not the target customer I guess, I am not a developer (or into NFTs).
I can recommend Aran Sweater Market. I like their modern (softer feel) wool, but their Donegal wool products are made from yarn from of the last remaining traditional wool producers in Ireland. The "soft" wool thing I previously purchased only lasted about 10 years. The Donegal one is a tank in comparison. Ask me again in a decade:

- https://www.aran.com/search.php?search_query=Donegal&Search=...

- https://donegalyarns.com/our-history/

and Darn Tough. I've been abusing the crap out of their socks (walking outside on mud, burrs, etc) and they're still like new. They offer an unconditional lifetime guarantee that they apparently actually honor:

- https://darntough.com/pages/our-unconditional-lifetime-guara...
The obvious rebuttal is that when people talk about “misinformation” colloquially, they’re talking about _deliberate_ misinformation.
> Including deliberately ensuring that their messaging systems are not compatible with Android.

That's not anticompetitive, messaging systems are not entitled/obligated to be interoperable in US.

Apple is within its right to set standards for its networks/services that are restricted to their customers. That means they can restrict access all they want.

That's why Twitter and Reddit is getting away with all the BS they've done in the past year or so by restricting APIs and charging high prices for them.

If we want all services to be interoperable, then we have to start by passing regulations just like EU just did with DMA (without small company restrictions since Messages is likely to be exempt due to low usage in EU).
Wow. You could use this exact argument to justify naziism for space program progress. Pretty appalling to write off such crimes in the name of “economic progress”, gains that are by and large siphoned out of the country to the portfolios of the global elite. You do not need to abuse human rights to make economic progress and those who chose to do so should be vilified forever for making these choices. Not seen as some morally ambiguous figure but a morally decrepit one. Concerned probably much more with enrichment of an inner circle than the overall betterment of the people they might decide to now put to the death penalty.
Ah…
The practice of art and music is much more conducive to a classroom setting and peer group experimentation & discussion than the practice of operating mining equipment, yes. Though a degree has never been a requirement for being a practitioner in those fields, and much of the study focuses on the theory. Universities also welcome many people interested in studying the theory of heavy machinery, and award them engineering degrees.
Apple encourages you to use Swift with Playgrounds on macOS and iPadOS.
Ah yes, I'd love to get more familiar with AssemblyScript too. One thing I like about the afore-mentioned WAT compiler though, is that it's simple to run in the browser, which the AssemblyScript compiler doesn't support, if I understand correctly. That characteristic of the compiler would be useful if I want to build a higher-level language on top of it, for example with a web playground (code editor and runtime).
Yeah, as a general rule, fewer moving parts makes a tool cheaper, and lathes are at one end while CNC mills are at the other.
It doesn't appear that the abstract makes any claims about LK-99 superconductivity at all. Unless there's something in the inaccessible full article that contradicts the abstract, I think the submitter misread "semiconductor" as "superconductor".
Good advice for 1985:

Allocate four digits for the year part of a date: a new millennium is coming.

David Martin

Norristown, Pennsylvania
Stubble here, no? (Literally “season” but used as metonym for “crop”)
The first two is where most people stumble. Before I started to read communications books, I (as with many others) would focus on improving my wording. How did they not understand? Let me be precise and concise so there is no room for confusion. That didn't improve things. Let me be verbose and say the same thing 3 times in different ways. Nope.

Coworkers would do something different from what I requested, and then claim I had asked them to do it. I would go to them in frustration, have them to pull up my email, and ask them to point to the line where I made the request they claimed I had made. I was that guy.

Finally, after reading the books, I understood that you can say things perfectly but should not expect the other party to understand! The only solution is to ask the other person to reflect back what you said. And to do likewise when they speak to you.

Communications is lossy. At the first level they may not have heard (e.g. noisy environment). At the next level they may not have processed it (e.g. zoned out because of some personal problems they are dealing with). At the next level, they may have processed everything, but interpreted the words very differently from what you meant. You cannot change any of these things. Don't (overly) focus on how you said it. Focus on getting them to reflect it back to you.
Galaxy-scale winds spotted in the distant Universe
40 is for Win95. Around 20+ for Warp 4.
I think they are saying that belief in repressed memories, to the current extent, are a result of the pendulum swinging too far in the opposite direction of Freuds skepticism and denial.
Hbomberguy didn't want to make that 4-hour plagiarism video
Xmas.c (1988)
This version shouldn't be linked, even though it's the canonical one everyone links, because it's bad. If you check it against the original paper (https://gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/1982-perlis.pdf) you can see it has transcription errors and omits a bunch - it just drops the last 10! Perlis goes to 130, not 120!
I actually love games with weird mechanics, but I see this problem a lot when I try to teach certain games to friends and family. Even if they're sober and used to playing board games. Some that take at least one playthrough for us are usually: Terraforming Mars, Terra Mystica, Gloomhaven.
This is even more true now that SSDs have give any old laptop levels of IOPS that would've only been possible with a RAID 5 array of 10,000 RPM SCSI drives 20 years ago.
OK, so? You are not familiar with the state of Amazon delivery in the Bay Area.
Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims
Has this been made by subcontinent people? "Suno" in Hindi/Urdu means "Listen!"
Why shouldn't interoperability be free for messages? It is free for email. AIM was free, IRC was free, MSN Messenger was free, Pidgin offered a free product for years that let me talk to everyone.

Then a bunch of assholes hired some awful people to make the world a worse place and constructed barriers to communication, so they could make money.
Funny, for me it's the opposite, I hardly ever set foot outside of my subcriptions page except for searching, which is how I find new channels to add to subs.
I came to post this article when I heard of it. This would be a pretty big shake-up in EDA. Interestingly, I don't think there's too much overlap in the two companies. Ansys has a SPICE simulator, but I don't believe it's nearly as popular as Synopsys HSPICE
This is impressive. One UI thing on iOS Safari:

In custom generation at least, when you tap Create, the button does not change or disable. So it's easy to use up credits on the same thing thinking that nothing ever happened.

Meanwhile, they all do get created on each tap and appear in your library.

There are some click artifacts, but this came out pretty well:

> The endless dark winter

> Icelandic choir dark electronica slow

https://app.suno.ai/song/a5c8e0c1-d4a0-42f2-8c7b-252b36f11d0...
He means they come pre-wrapped in plastic. Like a shrink wrapped box would in the electronics department. Not raw veggies you put into a bag yourself.
Do normal mufflers/scarves that people wear in winter help?
I'm not referring to the plastic bags that you put your own vegetables in, I mean that at many groceries, including the one near me, these vegetables come prepackaged by the store/distributor and you don't have a choice to buy 10 loose raw potatoes or a whole corn-on-the-cob in a raw husk.

Of course it depends on the store - but then do I drive an extra 15 mins (and emit all that carbon...) just to go to a different store with some loose veggies?
Yes. Great language, relatively fast, surprisingly modern (at the time - came out in 1986), lots of fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFA_BASIC
I will often do the reverse, especially when they've repeated the same opposition point more than once or I'm feeling unheard - 'I'm worried I've miscommunicated, can you paraphrase back what you've heard my point is and I'll clear up any nuance?'. It does wonders when someone is being territorial or arguing in bad faith to watch their gears turn on how to respond while maintaining their arguments.
To your first point I find in these discussions the “just buy a bigger server” crowd massively underestimate the operational problems with giant db servers. They are no fun to babysit, and change gets really hard and tedious to not accidentally bring the whole thing down. It becomes a massive drain on the velocity and agility of the business.
The cucumber plastic is really helpfull to not loose too much cucumber, it prevent dehydratation, this way it can last almost a month. And losing cucumber mean you are wasting fuel on all the "processing" and transport.

That said, a change in the process is possible, which prove your point of "individual change is near-impossible and pointless".
Yes, thanks. I do know about it and I am moving that part as a subfolder soon
Bridson's course notes also cover most of this https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/fluidsimulation/fluids_notes... There's a second part by Muller, who's also very active in the area: https://matthias-research.github.io/pages/tenMinutePhysics/i...

It became a book, now in 2ed: Fluid Simulation for Computer Graphics
BASIC is smarter than Python, don't need :, and it can work out the difference between = and == by itself
I dont think they are saying it is a superconductor. Conclusion from abstract:

>> These findings are important in understanding LK-99’s structural and electronic properties and provide a strategic compass for the development of high-TC superconductors.
My eyes roll over whenever people argue about what is and is not "true socialism". Now we're arguing for socialism with Scandinavian characteristics, but guess what, these are also among the most market friendly and economically freest countries in the world.
That vocational school sounds really cool though!
I mean, from the universe's perspective, the whole of Earth is a quite small thing
Can you cite examples? Its also impossible to know if such gains would have simply been inevitable, or even further if policies focused on social good over establishing profitable industries for global traders to engage with. For example I think the nationalization of the oil industry in Norway has lead to much better outcomes for the average Norwegian than if they simply granted extraction rights to BP perhaps.
What I found surprising was how militant and extreme so many in the venture capital community were about Israel. The vast majority of people I know are very pro-Palestinan and see Israel as an oppressive cold war relic that needs to go the way of South Africa. On October 7th we woke up to an industry where the financiers were very much at odds with the market, staff, world population... and it seems like they've done nothing but double down since then. It's really upsetting, especially since we've seen 20k civilians killed and vcs are still cheering on Israel.
Doh. Yep. Clearly I need coffee.
That's funny -- when my familiy was planning to move to a home that was being built, my Dad got out there before they put the drywall up and ran telephone and cable television to every bedroom. I followed in behind him with my punch down tool and put a shiny, new Ethernet port in every room, too.

This was 1993. There was no broadband. We almost went 10-BASE2 due to cost. I remember we had a Netware server and two computers. It was kind of overkill but it was fun!
I imagine it comes down to costs either way. If it was quick and easy companies would have done it. And that willingless is partially based on if more buyers come in from it. They wouldn't do it for the most dedicated buyers nor for the ones who think it's too expensive.

>you can look at Spotify as a success story of coordination.

By basically giving the record labels all the money and make the actual artists not really make money on their craft. I guess nothing can be perfect.

But music is realtively cheap to produce (but not cheap at the top, of course). There is also a reason Netflix has been price hiking and still bleeding content and customers as everyone rolls their own. You simply want more control when each episode of content is 7 figures.
I've driven near Waymo vehicles, which are distinctive. Their behavior is quite a bit from the norm, and I'll make more room for them if they signal a lane change, because they wait for an engraved invitation before coming over. And if behind one, I know they won't use the shoulder to get to an offramp, so I'll need to be more patient, if we're both heading to the same exit on a congested freeway. Etc.

Being able to distinguish between a mercedes driven by a mercedes driver and one driven by a mercedes automation is going to help predict behavior of the car. Of course, one needs to be ready for anything, but when I can predict behavior of other cars, it increases my planning window.
Protobuf seems to use a very similar encoding.
> the level of "entanglement" into our daily life with massive core-AI systems, such as the capabilities of GPT-'N' has, cannot be understated.

Entanglement of big business and government is not new. Yes, we should be very concerned, but the solution is not to worship idols like business leaders or politicians. They will not solve that problem for us. You have to think carefully before handing more authority to individuals who've already been ascribed far more than is due.

> from a security guy just saying he doesnt care who runs the black box, is weird

One cannot select the "right" person to run that black box. We're all biased, flawed, etc. So yes, you should be concerned. But use that concern to drive your actions towards distributing authority– not centralizing it through more idol worship.

In response to your edit:

> I do not "worship" or "idolize" SA, and especially Thiel - I am terrified of them.

This is idol worship. You're ascribing a power to Altman and Thiel that they do not have. Bad behavior has consequences that are beyond what even the government can impose. If Altman or Thiel were to make a habit of targeting people, he or his adherents/descendants would eventually find themselves friendless in a house built on sand. Altman almost lost his job that way. The fact that consequences may play out slowly in some cases doesn't make it less true. Nobody can infinitely violate the golden rule without eventually facing consequences.
Vimeo is not a viable alternative for creators who are trying to make monetize their content.

With very limited exception, Vimeo imposes a 2TB/month bandwidth limit [0] on all accounts. If you exceed that limit and don’t agree to pay for your excess usage, Vimeo will shut you down.

[0] https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/12426275404305-Band...
Bare metal, doubling the amount of RAM and using a more powerful CPU is cheaper than adding a whole server that needs space, network, its own Motherboard, case, power supplies etc. This makes vertical scaling much more cost effective (up to a point, which is currently at about 2TB RAM).

At AWS's data center AWS also buys big servers. But their advantage is that they only have big servers, and then rent it out in pieces. They don't care whether they rent you 2 48 core 96GB instances or one 96 core 192GB instances. Both options run as VMs on much larger servers and take the same resources, so both are priced the same (a machine of the same category with twice the resources costs exactly twice as much). Thus there's a much smaller benefit to vertical scaling.

If you compare actual prices on large-ish instance types between AWS and regular dedicated servers (rented in a DC, not doing your own thing) then AWS is very expensive. And the hopes of paying less due to better utilization somehow never pan out. AWS has lots of advantages, but price isn't one of them; and their price structure will influence the architecture you choose.
Some people can roll their tongue like a tube and some can't. Some people can wiggle their ears and some people can't.

And some people can't really understand or perceive other people's intentions and motivations... and some people can do it but not in real time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%E2%80%93Anne_test

Some people are good at following other people's eye gaze, some are not.

And then there is Machiavellian intelligence, which roughly scales with (real) intelligence -- but some people aren't good at it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavellian_intelligence
Gambas very much fits that bill, as the other reply mentioned. If you want to pay for something, Xojo (formerly known as RealBASIC) does too: https://www.xojo.com
Ask HN: Why do major operating system installs default to HTTP instead of HTTPS
I've noticed this lately and never really paid attention before, but fresh installs of Debian use ftp or http for the package repos, and when doing a full reinstall of macOS, the initial recovery image, and then the full install image, are both pulled from a http endpoint.

Wouldn't these things be the most crucial endpoints to secure with SSL? Why are they not done so by default? I know you can tell Debian to use https, and I'm sure apple has certs on those os image servers, but of all things to leave open to easily being MITM'd, it should not be the install image on your device. That makes everything after that completely untrustworthy imo. If I was served a rooted mac recovery image, I'm fucked from the get go, and it is weird that https isn't required. I know root trust on a bare install is probably a pain in the ass, but it's apple, they can and should do something here. Supply chain security starts with the base OS.
I find the writing style of pieces like this insufferable. Tell us the point you are trying to make!

I read the whole thing (albeit i did skim parts), and i really don't know what point that the author is trying to make. That it is possible to use sock puppets on wikipedia to try to manipulate wikipedia? Yes, to a certain extent, but also not as much as people often imagine it is.
Oh ok. It looks like as a small business we use Gusto, so that's been useful for us. But it's kind of strange to me they had such a string of big B2C successes early on and then that side evaporated entirely.

The B2B stuff seems like things YC companies can just sell each other and make startup pain points easier, like pick axe stuff that doesn't require as much original vision or as much risk.
Bioplastic is still plastic...
> Making Messages+iMessage the default on their platform whilst also prohibiting competitor apps to serve as the SMS/MMS/RCS client feels like anti-trust to me. Especially as their market share among some demographics approaches 90%.

I agree with that part, no company should be allowed to set defaults without the ability to change the defaults.

That's not related to SMS though, that's a much larger problem that Apple (and MS) should be forced to change. I also think platform vendors should not be allowed to spam users about the said defaults either like how MS is forcing users to go through ads and so on whenever they search for Chrome to install and change to it as default.
This is why I'm a big fan of having developers write out a spec, even it only a simple one pager, to make sure they actually understood the requirements/design.
Zero-waste is a guilting and fetishization of packaging waste at the expensive of other problems. I've seen people fret over recycling yogurt lids, but have zero concern when a cosmetic kitchen remodel generates an entire dumpster full of waste. Throwing things away is only a tragedy in that it is a representation of the shame of how many resources we needlessly wrest from the Earth in the first place.
Is a color named by the gemstone called turquoise. A particular shade of blue-green provided by copper. Can vary from light blue with a hint of green to jade green mixed with blue. Easily recognizable once you see it.

In this context it means basically light cyan. A much less marketable name.
I don't think his personality was really that much of an outlier when his music first became popular, so I'd argue that empirically the answer is yes. From looking at Wikipedia, his first album was released in 2004 and charted at number 2, with his first single hitting 15 on the charts and his follow-up being number 1. I don't think you can argue that he was famous enough for anyone to be listening to the music because they knew who he was rather than because of the music itself.
Isn’t it more “I scratch your back, you scratch mine”?
Maybe the abstract of the paper is a better introduction to what this is:

> We introduce Ferret, a new Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) capable of understanding spatial referring of any shape or granularity within an image and accurately grounding open-vocabulary descriptions. To unify referring and grounding in the LLM paradigm, Ferret employs a novel and powerful hybrid region representation that integrates discrete coordinates and continuous features jointly to represent a region in the image. To extract the continuous features of versatile regions, we propose a spatial-aware visual sampler, adept at handling varying sparsity across different shapes. Consequently, Ferret can accept diverse region inputs, such as points, bounding boxes, and free-form shapes. To bolster the desired capability of Ferret, we curate GRIT, a comprehensive refer-and-ground instruction tuning dataset including 1.1M samples that contain rich hierarchical spatial knowledge, with 95K hard negative data to promote model robustness. The resulting model not only achieves superior performance in classical referring and grounding tasks, but also greatly outperforms existing MLLMs in region-based and localization-demanded multimodal chatting. Our evaluations also reveal a significantly improved capability of describing image details and a remarkable alleviation in object hallucination.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07704
This is really good! Generated a song about eating ramen and then made some custom songs for friends.

One issue I encountered was this song: https://app.suno.ai/song/f128bc8e-a328-467d-9c3b-b2208acca2b...

Which generated lyrics but doesn’t actually sing it, oddly enough!
> Usage and License Notices: The data, and code is intended and licensed for research use only. They are also restricted to uses that follow the license agreement of LLaMA, Vicuna and GPT-4. The dataset is CC BY NC 4.0 (allowing only non-commercial use) and models trained using the dataset should not be used outside of research purposes.

Wait, how did "GPT-4" get in there?
Any “eco business” strategy is mere greenwashing of their real strategy: keep making money however they can. Not one manufacturer gives two shits about the environment, beyond how it directly impacts their bottom line. All EVs to date are a farce at being good for the environment by nearly any metric.