skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super UD and UD have been some of the gold standards in lenses for a long time. Fluorite plays a huge part in it.

Fun further reading: https://www.canon-europe.com/pro/infobank/fluorite-aspherica...
> Autonomous systems need to be held to a higher bar

Why? Won't this lead to a lot of needless deaths at the hands of human drivers while we wait for driverless cars to improve? Why not roll them out once they are safer than human drivers?
True. However, this problem can be formulated in other bases, and yield results of similar (in)significance. For example, for 4-digit numbers in base-9 there are apparently just 2 cycles: 7252 → 5254 → 3076 → 7252 and 7072 → 7432 → 5074 → 7072.
TikTok algo can do it more subtly through prioritizing other people’s media, selectively amplifying legitimately generated content
Sensors can already handle rain. Heating elements are not hard to add (if not present now).
Noble goal and one I considered for a while after Streamus got shut down (https://thenextweb.com/news/how-youtube-killed-an-extension-...). I got to the point where I spoke with UMG on the phone (prick started the call talking about his Porsche) and Monstercat (they're cool in my book) but no further before YouTube's lawyers crushed me.

Yes, sustainable business model is hard. Just look at Spotify's stock - it's basically break even since IPO. The music industry adjusts their fees to keep Spotify alive, but never significantly profitable, and Spotify has little ability to push back on this.

...but there's also soooooooooo much entrenchment going on in this space. There's special contracts written that whitelist which platforms tracks can be played on and tricky "favored nation" clauses (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/25/business/media/sony-terms....) So, if you create a new platform, and it's a real threat to the others, then you just get denied a seat at the table unless you make concessions to the point of impotency... or you only have indie music that struggles to attract masses.

Ultimately I decided that, while I cared a LOT about this sector, that it's just too much of an uphill battle.

Your idea sounds cool though. I wish you luck. Is it your intent to build a music catalog that is entirely unique to your platform, to bring in indie artists, or to try and bring in the big names, too? If you're not trying to bring in the big names... how do you prevent the situation where someone says, "I love this song, but next I want to hear ____.", it's not on your platform, and so they open Spotify/YT, and now suddenly you've lost engagement with your platform. I don't feel that consumers maintain playlists across multiple music services and bounce between them based on their current listening preferences. Do you?
Note that sqlite `.backup` does not back up PRAGMA values. Some people use `PRAGMA user_version` for schema versioning (not a good idea, because of this trap).
If you do:

1. ollama run deepseek-coder:6.7b

2. pip install litellm

3. litellm --model deepseek-coder:6.7b

You will have a local OpenAI compatible API for it.
Where's the binding part of that? In a world where they just remove the language that says they won't work with the military at all, what reassurance should a verbal promise by a VP provide?

Assume that the parenthetical "(... for now)" is implied in all such promises.
https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitl...

They are taking 27%, between that and processing fees you might as well use In App Purchases.

"Apple’s commission will be 27% on proceeds you earn from sales (“transactions“) to the user for digital goods or services on your website after a link out (i.e., they tap “Continue” on the system disclosure sheet), provided that the sale was initiated within seven days and the digital goods or services can be used in an app. This includes (a) any applicable taxes and (b) any adjustments for refunds, reversals and chargebacks. For auto-renewing subscriptions, (i) a sale initiated, including with a free trial or offer, within seven days after a link out is a transaction; and (ii) each subsequent auto-renewal after the subscription is initiated is also a transaction.]
If you’re a participant in the Small Business Program, or if the transaction is an auto-renewal in the second year or later of an auto-renewing subscription, the commission will be 12%.
These commission rates apply to all amounts paid by each user net of transaction taxes charged by you. You will be responsible for the collection and remittance of any applicable taxes for sales processed by a third-party payment provider.
If you adopt this entitlement, you will be required to provide transaction reports within 15 calendar days following the end of each calendar month. Even if there were no transactions, you’re required to provide a report stating that is the case. If the cadence changes, we will update this page. To learn about the details that will need to be included in the report, view example reports. In the future, if Apple develops an API to facilitate reporting, you will be required to adopt such API within 30 days with an update of your app and follow the timing and requirements provided."
Your comment really moved me, what a beautiful story about your father! Thank you!
Devs just won't add links when informing their users that it's cheaper on their website and Apple can't do anything about it. They are not allowed to ban it according to this ruling.
This is in response to them losing that part of the Epic lawsuit and exhausting all appeals (SCOTUS denied cert yesterday). It's not a voluntary decision.
Avoiding doing anything that might antagonize the bad guys isn't a particularly effective strategy for maintaining a stable and peaceful world. The lesson of Poland in WW2 is that when evil dictators get what they want, they don't calmly stop doing bad things.
Cruise’s teleoperators cannot perform any safety critical interventions like preventing a crash in a fraction of a second, which Tesla drivers can and do. If you remove the driver from Tesla, their intervention rate would be even worse. No matter how you slice it, a driverless car is more capable than one that requires a driver.
to be bought by meta
The involuntary signup for two factor you didn't want is incredibly annoying. Especially when initiated by a bank or similar financial institution with no warning.

"BTW, for your own safety, we implemented two factor on your account, and tied it to your old phone. Wait, you don't have that phone anymore, cause it was something like a 10 yr old retirement that you never obsessively check? And we didn't give you the option for an email? Or even warn you? Too bad. We now no longer accept logins for your own money."
Contractually, developers are still required to pay 27% commission to Apple (or 12% for the small business programme). i.e. Apple are only removing a 3% payment processing fee here.

They say it'll be hard to actually audit this, and it will, and many developers may manage to get around it, but technically that's a breach of contract and they could be removed from the store for it, so I'm sure many won't risk it.
I didn't think it was possible to only buy a single core outside of an edge function.
> Or because those two companies created those platform

This is completely irrelevant if they are a monopoly and subject to anti trust laws.

> I don't see why they owe it to other companies

That owe it to the countries that they are based in to follow the law, or move their entire company else where, if that's what they choose.
And that is a good thing we should all celebrate.
Technically there are games on Steam that don't require the Steam client to be running in order for you to play them. If you google 'Steam DRM-free games' on DuckDuckGo you'll easily find a list.
Create-react-app has a whole bunch of extra stuff, like a testing library, various styling engines, HMR and other build tools that aren't included in your deployed code anyway.

Production React, on the other hand, appears to only have 2 deps: js-tokens and loose-envify
That's right, I just meant they have control over it and could theoretically exert that somehow.
Any time a woman gives birth, there is a potential that her life could be at risk. I very recently had a friend who was expecting, but the baby didn't have a brain stem. Doctors couldn't abort the pregnancy within the State without fear of legal action, so they carried the baby to term only to have it die merely minutes after birth.

That is not the life I would want for a child, nor expecting parents. To live with the notion that your baby will die as soon as it exits the womb for months is completely unbearable, let alone just the loss of the child. Months and months of anticipating death. My friends found solace in their religion, and thought the best thing for the child was to be blessed by a religious leader after birth, but not everyone has the mental strength or willpower to do what they did.

This Texas law is an abomination to unborn children and women.
Don't compare yourself to others on a single variable, like hobby time, when you'll never know what all the other variables look like. They may spend less time with kids, put more of the parenting on partners/childcare, have more money, work less, do fewer chores, etc. I personally don't know any dads with kids under 5 that have time for hobbies.
Their platform is just so badly designed once you do pay them as a musician. I signed up for an electronic project I was working on and I found the entire thing incredibly confusing. The design, the naming of things, the way some things connected with other things and not others, it all felt like a mishmash.

The last straw for me was when I couldn’t master a track. The plan included IIRC three masters per month. After working on a new track and uploading it, I was unable to find any way to master it. The buttons just weren’t there. The only reason I could come up with was that it had been flagged for a copyright violation, which ostensibly disables mastering. But it wasn’t yet public, and it was entirely original content, and there was no visible explanation. I was left mystified and frustrated and I canceled.

Post-cancellation, I thought maybe there’d be some follow up to find out why. A survey or something. Nope. Not a peep.

The whole enterprise gives the impression that it’s from ten or fifteen years ago. I still use it everyday. But the fact it’s struggling is not surprising at all.
The alternative to NATO expansion was transferring European defense to the EU.

Or having a bunch of EU nations extremely vulnerable to Russian influence.

I’m very glad it’s NATO, and not the “EU Supreme Command” defending the Continent. Russia and Ukraine probably are too.
It took Google a decade or (overly generously) two to give up all moral principles. OAI did a speed run.
I wonder if there’s many other spots where time is being read multiple times instead of reading it once and caching it. All that being said, it’s also surprising how relatively expensive reading time is. Even rdtsc is 50-100ns if I recall correctly, but to put that in perspective that’s basically the performance of a 10-20Mhz chip to do an operation that should be a simple register read of a latch that’s incremented on every clock cycle. yes yes - I know in reality it’s a heck of a lot more complex for lots of reasons, but still, given how frequently we want to time things or obtain a timestamp, it’s surprising to me we don’t have a faster instruction and we have to do a bunch of caching (eg you’d not likely bother caching just the addition of two variables because addition is so fast)
The Collapse of Conversational Communication
RFID tags are ~10c (Impinj) and are getting cheaper each year. they're widely used in apparel stores. think it'd be tough to justify attaching them to low value items in a grocery store. self checkout prob more effective using computer vision
Is it as good as Perplexity though? I use ChatGPT for different purposes, I just thought that if Kagi would ally with Perplexity and benefit from its index (I'm not sure what Perplexity uses), it could get really good. I've only recently tried using Perplexity and I get more use out of it than I would with Kagi, it doesn't just do summarization, but I haven't seen what Kagi does with research assistance.
Haha I have the exact same experience as you except swap the languages...that one feeling you get when you are reading a newspaper article you are expert on and suddenly realize how inaccurate everything is.
I think "in a row" is the important part of that sentence.

A single crash of a 737 Max 8 is not an outlier, but two crashes in a row of the same model of an airplane definitely is.
Waymo and Tesla are the only real competition left in the U.S. The deciding factor is how fast Waymo can roll out to more locales before Tesla gets closer to level 5 over the next 3-5 years.

After that, vehicle production and operations cost will be the main factor in the race to $0
Substack openly hosts unambiguous medical misinformation that can result in harm. It's reasonable to not want to support that, indirectly or otherwise.
Because society can't handle that.

And I think that's a fine reason. Even if you don't think it's a fine reason, it's not going to change.
x = x * 69069 + 1;
I’m dying to build a new music app and it’s something I spend all my time thinking about. I have so many ideas wrt stems and lyrics but I’m personally not willing to take the risk of angering WMG or RIAA.

Would love to have a discussion, email is in my bio.
Nah, it's failure mode is to slow down and pull over. It would be amazing if drunk humans did the same.
> The Berlin-founded company has maintained its relevance by embracing a simple ethos: come as you are. That’s made SoundCloud the for-everybody platform—one that embraces all genres, sexualities, religions, and definitions of music and art. By setting itself up as a hub for community-oriented music streaming, it’s become a kind of incubator for avant-garde sounds. SoundCloud is everybody’s underground.

I find this kind of politicised editorialising from publications like Wired quite tiring. I have many acquaintances who produce EDM and I was on Soundcloud from 2012 or so. They never saw it in these terms. Of _course_ a platform for hosting your music tracks isn’t exclusive to a particular race, religion or ethnicity. Can anyone name a counter-example in music for whom that’s not the case, outside of obscurity? Or indeed any comparable tech platform?

Some seem to have decided that being neither sexist, racist nor homophobic in your banal business offerings is a revolutionary development from the past decade or two.
Multiple stores I shop out provide me with a hand scanner that I can use to scan my groceries either as I shop or at the checkout stand. This is my preferred checkout experience. I'll be bummed if it goes away.
It's also not a concession in any way.

Depending on the payment method used, they might just make a profit on this (e.g. some cards charge more than 3% of interchange alone, and there's other fees on top).
Hell of a dataset, but less of the talent. Takes a very specific type of person to get to the front of the AI field, then take a government salary using your knowledge for (what could be) war and surveillance, likely against any public interest in alignment.
What does "pathological" mean in this context?
I don't think that probability theory provides a useful framework for decision making.

Let's say I, a dictator, interrogate the casino manager on the suspicion that the dice are rigged. I flip 100 times I get all 6's. Do I kill the guy or not? Probability cannot help. I need to measure the dice weights myself.

As an insurance should I insure a house for $1000? Again probability cannot help when an earthquake demolishes the entire state and I have to write a check for every damn house I Insure. I actually need to keep in the bank amount equal to the price of each house

I am now inclined to believe that probability is a nerdy way of lying to our educated selves.
oh damn, i thought it was just chrome not being on par anymore, didn't even think my adblock extension could play a part!!
agreed. i've found CVS self-checkout to be the best of all retail stores i go to
Recent and related:

OpenAI deletes ban on using ChatGPT for "military and warfare" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38972735 - Jan 2024 (260 comments)
> A Walmart I visited recently had a camera at ankle level specially to show the bottom of your cart for the cashier to see.

I've seen that, now that you mention it. It must have been on a trip. None nearby have it.

> Another store (I forget which) had a full cart camera and prompted me to check my cart for remaining items because I had unused reusable bags in it.

That's a new one. I'm not sure if getting flagged would be more annoying than having to go back.
Plenty of people would disagree so clearly this is not a settled matter
Seems like the standard open-core playbook:

> This model is included in our new Stability AI Membership. Visit our Membership page to take advantage of our commercial Core Model offerings, including SDXL Turbo & Stable Video Diffusion.

A hypothetical Stable Code 13B/70B could be hosted only, with more languages or specialized use-cases (Stable Code 3B iOS-Swift-Turbo)
Yes, Google is getting worse, and was already abysmal, from some years back.

In longitude, latitude, and by many other measures :)

Plenty of earlier posts and comments about that on HN, for many years now. What's so surprising or new about that, then?

As the saying goes, it's news if a man bites a dog, but not the other way around - doggone it if I know why, man ...
That's what I was referring to, yes. I could see how it could be taken to be mistaken about the main records being talked about.
Which set? In the comments?
I don't understand the significance of this at all other than its the coolest thing I've seen on HN in a while.

I couldn't be farther from a math nerd.... I avoided it as much as I could throughout school.... but things like that are just so interesting and weird. How on earth (and for what reason) did they find this out? The properties of this number are interesting enough but the process to discover it is just so crazy.
Ask HN: LLMs and Linux are just tools. Why one must be "safe" and restricted?
Karapathy's tweet [0] made me think about this question. If LLMs and Linux are both tools to let humans do more with their computers, why is there so much rage about "safety" concerns of LLMs? Linux can be as dangerous as you want it to be. Why is it that people think of it as a tool but then when it comes to LLMs they suddenly say "it can be dangerous". I mean, more dangerous than Linux?

[0]: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1746609206889951642?s=20
Not sure how strong your metaphor is:

If you are going to buy drinkable water, you either "value" it at or above the price you pay, or you don't buy it. Why is healthcare different?
How does frequentist deal with the same problem (a possible lab leak of virus)?
Apple filed a bad-faith "compliance" plan for the District Court's injunction
> The end result is likely going to be if the attacker has enough power and knowledge, a backdoor attack will be successful.

Oh, that solves the problem that some governments have with backdoors: just sponsor AI copilots, and that's it \o/.
People are less fine with risk if it's less controllable by themselves. Every mode of transport where people don't directly control their fate is held to a much higher safety standard (and partially as a result) much safer. Aviation, Trains, Busses, ... .
I suspect that single case will catch all of them
This would be awesome. I wish it at least worked on Safari iOS. (Firefox seems unlikely: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553738)

We have a web app that does QR scanning for event badges, using a JS library, but it's painfully slow compared to the camera app.
> So Apple will be collecting 27% (instead of 30%) for... what exactly?

Off the top of my head...

- Bandwidth

- Running the App Store for users

- Marketing the App Store

- App review

- Security efforts to keep malware off the store

- Making App Store optimisation tools for developers

There's a lot of moving parts to this. You could argue that none of this is necessary if you sideload, but distribution is worth a lot in general to businesses, and I think it's clear that the App Store is a good distribution channel in many ways – easy to use for sellers (vs via traditional publishers, or physical retail), and easy to use for buyers.
Tesla is legally Level 2, but has done 500 million miles of driving, with the 'driver' acting as supervisor.

The race is on, and if Tesla can fix a large number of small issue, they'll be able to do a massive global rollout fairly rapidly.
> But one of the best ways to prevent China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, etc from saying “might make right, let’s take this land and these resources from our neighbors, since no one can stop us”...

... Is not antagonizing them when they were reaching out to build a partnership, which is exactly what was happening with Russia in the 90s. If you're wondering how Putin happened, that's the decade that you want to be looking at.

Instead, the US figured that since the Cold War, round I went so well, why not do it again, and oh hey, Russian revanchism is on the rise and now Ukraine is dealing with the consequences, but hey, we're giving Russia their very own second Vietnam, so I guess that's nice. Maybe not very nice in Ukraine, but they are, after all, a buffer state...
I’d say talent? Outside of OpenAI no team has been able to release a model as capable as GPT-4, and I’m unsure if the CIA has been prioritizing LLM experts in their hiring.
which makes sense, because this Anil Seth guy sounds really aloof and seems to have no problem making grandiose statements. Reads like a tabloid that's desperately trying to keep your attention by saying big things.
Right, they'd have to add more clerks to compensate. I prefer self checkout, but their implementation is horrible.
This seems obviously related to the standard manual accounting trick employed when isolating an error in a double ledger - the first thing you do is look to see if the error is evenly divisible by 9. If it is, you've transposed 2 or more numbers somewhere.

To prove why this is so:

For any numbers x and y:
The correct value is 10x + y
The transposed value is x + 10y
The difference is (10x - x) + (y - 10y)
Reduces to 9x - 9y
Factors to 9(x - y)
I don’t know where this idea that driving in SF is easy mode comes from. No one who has actually driven in SF would say that. Yes it doesn’t have snow, but it has rain, zero-visibility fog, lots of pedestrians and cyclists, heavy traffic, narrow roads, steep grades, bus-only lanes, lots of cars parked on the street and double parked. Self-driving companies don’t pick SF because it’s easy, they pick it because it’s the most challenging city that’s close to their engineers.
What Karellen said, but also ArianeSpace (Prometheus) and Landspace (TQ-12).

It is very hard for a hydrogen-fueled rocket to be cost-competitive against a methane-fueled one. Not strictly because of the cost of the fuel, but because of the cost of everything else that LH requires that LCH4 doesn't.
My feeling is that this is a half measure and any half measure allow for the "freedom of interpretations". AAPL will put a lot of road blocks around external purchase links (result of recent ruling). I expect apps that will use external purchase links to be scrutinize a lot more, unexpectedly take off from the AAPL app store for made-up reasons and myriad of other road blocks around the ruling. You know, AAPL needs it's 30% cut.
How did you mistake it for Bloomberg when the logo on top was clearly different?
Maybe, maybe not ... we'll live and see. I think things are far from certain to any direction at this point. But saying outright Israel "can't afford to pay for the war" is bullshit.
Funny because Karl Jobst posted a video titled "Billy Mitchell Lost His Lawsuit" but it sounds like he actually won?