skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those things are binary.
You have them or mot.
Theres no: 'mostly'.

If you have more than two hosts, you have P.

If you have delay to sync, you have C.

If you send inaccurate data instead of waiting you have A.

Theres no 'mostly'
I'm still tryna understand the difference between multimodal models like Llava and projects like JARVIS that connect LLMs to other huggingface models (including object detection models) or clip. Is a multimodal model doing this under the hood?
The error correction is funny. If you don't use it, your message takes up less space, and the QR is smaller. If you have a fixed space to fit it in (e.g. printing to a sticker), that means your pixels can be physically bigger. For reliable reading, I found that physically bigger pixels helped more than the error correction itself.

Depending on the length of your message, sometimes you can turn up the error correction level without impacting the final QR dimensions, and in those cases it's a win/win.
The point is that you will still not win the lottery if you buy two tickets.
This happens to a human in Dune.
which is the downside of living in a country without good social support and also not having any family support.

i have been though this. in the early years when my parents didn't have the support they would have needed (or didn't want to accept it) we experienced years of instability. once that support arrived (or my parents figured out what they needed to do to get it), things stabilized. but the damage was already done. in my case it affected my ability to make friends which didn't get better until university where i was at least able to meet some like-minded people, which helped.
The real work is integrating info from the book into life, not reading it.
It is very disappointing that I was prepared to write off a pretty interesting article because of their decision to do this.

I do agree with your second point though, especially when this is proven by the prevalence of the holy "algorithm".
Ask them to critique the code. Own up or fail.
Humans are apes, we're members of the hominidae family along with gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos.
No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software
> only focuses on the negatives

You are probably right.
Hierarchy could result from self-organization, too. How many small, informal groups have you been in that have done just that? The opposite of hierarchy is flat organization.

Anarchy's opposite is authoritarianism.
I had this hope when the energy companies in France installed the national "smart meter" (Linky). It was a fun story because it was linked to spying you at home, 5G, COVID and radiation.

Unfortunately this is a closed system where the energy company will not let you access the data outside of their own dashboard. I would like to think that this is against the national trend toward Open Data but it is what it is.

There are some funky solutions where you connect a board to an input of the meter and somehow get the data in Home Assistant but it is like I said "funky" (completely guerilla style, without any backing of the power company and if you have a problem it will probably be your fault).
> Joe Blow wants to download the app, click the button, and make it work. This is 99.999% of the users that buy something off the shelf at the big box store.

And I don't dispute that, this option should remain available. What I dispute is the idea that the lack of local control is somehow beneficial to the end user by "protecting" them from vulnerabilities.

The only thing such arrangement is protecting is the manufacturer's bottom line, by allowing them to 1. harvest and sell data, 2. take away features or start pushing upsells when they need to boost their quarterly profits.

> Asking why a Haier dishwasher doesn't have a local API is like asking why a Toyota Sienna doesn't have configurable launch control, power-take-off, or a fifth-wheel.

Well that's just ridiculous, all of those features have significant per-unit cost to implement. Exposing some form of local control would take, if we're being generous, a couple of person-weeks of effort and it would cover the entire product line with a marginal per-unit cost of a single switch.
I think this becomes less and less true given how ridiculous are the social inequalities and how much are they a result of internal contradictions of capitalism and artificial scarcity that is an inherent part of this system.
So what was the result w.r.t. SEO?
Slightly off topic: One day in the late 90s or early 2000s, I wanted to transfer the contents of my Atari 8-bit disks to my PC. I did know about SIO2PC, a cable that converts between Atari's SIO port and the PC's serial port and a piece of software to go with it. But I didn't have the electronics skills to build one (even though it is actually very easy).

So I ended up writing a Basic program on the Atari to read data from the disk sector by sector and paint it on the screen (with the large 4-color pixels of graphics mode 3). The Atari was connected to the TV card of my PC and a Delphi program I wrote was running on the PC that kept taking screen shots and trying to decode the data from there. I quickly learned that empty sectors threw off my pixel position calibration so I added a mask pattern and a checksum. The sector address was also included. With that, I was able to transfer all my disk contents to my PC. To this day I consider it my greatest engineering achievement :)

Some ten years later, I went on to build an SIO2PC program called AspeQt. A more up-to-date community fork called RespeQt is still the most popular tool in that category used by the community. It even has its own subforum on AtariAge[1].

[1] https://forums.atariage.com/forum/184-respeqt-sio2pc-softwar...
I have a feeling that Microsoft has “let go” of Windows. It has expanded far beyond it and no longer even needs to depend on it as a separate revenue stream.
Haier was a state controlled/ran company founded by the Chinese gov. Someone/team in their organization certainly still remember the days of being an untouchable. I'm glad that they regretted their wrong decisions and trying to hide it by walking away from it.

But, I suspect that this whole event might go differently if the community response was slightly weaker. I'd rather thank the community, not Haier.

Haier should probably start handing out real money to those independent devs who's still willing to work on their appliances after this.
We're not just apes, we're great apes!
That's why I ignore phys.org they often have sensationalist headlines. They've cried wolf too many times for my liking. The only reason I am typing this is I clicked to see comments by mistake.
Thanks, interesting read (it was a while ago I looked into this). I think the point still remains though - a self driving car doesn't have any general knowledge which can be applied to other areas, e.g. what a pedestrian is, or why a pedestrian who sees you is unlikely to step out in front of you. And similarly, the ordered tokens that an LLM outputs sometimes appear "stupid" because it has no "common sense".
How so? There were no Eulers in Eastern Europe except for Russia, which had a prestigious science academy. No Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, etc. had that.
There is no leader per se, but there's always that one person who convinces everybody else to do something, and that one person who must be there every time the group meets else most members don't feel like going... etc
> Is it your extensive research into anthropology that leads you to call this a "garbage essay"?

No, it is the shift from theory to assumed fact which makes me call it garbage.

If the essay said:
"What this new evidence shows is that a surprising number of the world’s earliest cities were likely organized"

Instead of:
"What this new evidence shows is that a surprising number of the world’s earliest cities were organized"

I would not have the same objection. The addition of the word "likely" makes a world of difference.
We have talked, and we're currently freshly broken up. It's killing me. I've had breakups before, but this feels like I'm mourning a happy future with children where she would be a great mother. We both want kids.

We really bond over home repair and long bike rides and walks, but due to a language barrier, we struggle to convey complex topics to one another. It constantly feels like we're babying each other. When I speak with my colleagues who have better English, I constantly feel like I learn more from them than I ever will from her, and that makes me sad.

> You should want to stay because you love her and want a future with her.

Genuinely, I thought love was enough. I do want a future with her, but I also want her to be a little smarter and more perceptive and more interested in things around her. She's made great strides in the years we've been together; using wikipedia to learn the context of things, asking follow up questions to topics I bring up, she really tries... I'm just not sure if she will get there.

> Here's a curveball question: have you ever considered that you might be autistic?

Apparently I'm low on the spectrum according to an online quiz I just took

> Another curveball question: do you want kids generally, or do you specifically want kids with her?

I want to have kids, and I want her to have kids because she'd be a wonderful mother. It doesn't have to be with me, but I feel this sense of guilt that I'm robbing her of this future
I agree that people are bad with probability like you explain

However, I think the issue with the 737 MAX is that it's been involved in several high profile catastrophic mistakes while only being in service for a few years. It's expected that a page in service for 20 years might have wear and tear that leads to issues... But brand new planes crashing back to back shortly after being released..

The stats on the Wikipedia page state that the MAX has 4 fatalities per 1 million flights, while the prior generation has 0.2 fatalities per million flights [1]. Of course, some if this is due to the two crashes right out the door, and if excluded, perhaps they are similar... But then this new door blowout issue occured... And after investigation multiple planes had the same issue (so it likely is a production issue, not an individual worker screwing up one time).

Overall I agree plane model should mean little to travelers... But the MAX is trying very hard to prove it's a lemon.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX
LLM as a Judge: Numeric Score Evals Are Broken
A nice work. I’m thinking it could even be tinkered further by incorporating location information, date and time, and even people (facial recognition) data from the photos, and have an LLM write one “metadata text” for every photo.
This way one can query “ person X traveling with Y to Norway about 7 years ago” and quickly get useful results.
Stupid 'trivia' question, but could someone generate the 'darkest' (most black pixels) and 'brightest (most white pixels) QR codes possible?
Brian Kernighan's "Unix: A History and a Memoir" is an excellent read on the computer systems achievements of the labs through the eyes of someone who was at the center of it all.
GCHQ document showing internal plans for hacking Juniper Networks appliances [video]
This was said on aviation forums after the whole MCAS situation, with the grounding and the checks.

Yet here we are due to a door that just flown out.
If they ever want to not live alone they'll still want a TV.
I'm sure they didn't connect to it via the internet to send keystrokes.
Was the title automatically editorialized? The article clearly says it's "The" man who coined the word "Robot"
This is grep++ right?

My guess is that it's aimed more at the humanities. Hence the GUI. My experience: in the world of humanities text analysis, there are just a ton of Java programs which were funded by some academic grant. Mostly they are closed source, not updated, might have a horrible GUI, and the website is always written in 8 point font.... Don't hate them for what they are....
This is not a hierarchy if that person doesn't command other people and has to convince them. Being charismatic is not bad.
I probably should have added “in a very long time” :-)

I love the exotic tech in those. Mainframes represent a different branch in the evolution of computers, very much unlike the machines on our hands and desks.
Considering the state of the average docs, I usually prefer code.
I mean, I assume the passengers of Ethiopian flight 302 would have an opinion on this.
From a Firebase perspective they might think that they never should have documented their concepts and APIs in the first place... :)

So a bit of the right words to the matching user base and with good points. Just that you always need to draw your own conclusion from your unique position.

Kudos for the the nicely adapted Jurassic Park scene.
It boggles my mind that the easiest way to send a picture from my phone to a notebook sitting next to it is to bounce it over servers on the other side of the world trough whatsapp/mail instead of some kind of 2 second discovery/highest speed negotiation/transfer over whatever hardware/protocol those devices dynamically agree upon..
I wouldn't say scam, but it is more of a money grab than crypto currencies where miners get 100% of supply.
So MYC is involved in DNA transcription but they don't say for sure that it's abnormally over active in cancers. They've found a way to slow it down though.

Sounds like something that will need to be targeted at the cancer specifically because MYC needs to be active in every cell. So to me this just looks like interesting cell biology more than cancer cure.
Tell my kids that
You may choose to not fly on a boeing plane for political reasons. But if you are concerned about risk, it’s not about comparing the risk of a flight in Max vs riding a bicycle. It’s about a flight in Max vs say, an A320.

What I am saying is that those respective risks are so tiny that they are immaterial, and not worth worrying about. If you want to spend energy making your trip safer, you should worry much more about what car model will drive you to or from the airport, or level of crime in public transports, etc.
It’s of course possible, but the spec is trying to avoid this. There are multiple “masking patterns”, and the algorithm should choose one that gives fewest “penalty points”. Large single color areas are a lot of penalty points, so QR algorithm is trying to avoid them.
Link doesn't seem to work; but here is an archived one: https://web.archive.org/web/20240112204129/https://www.nomod...
I'm not a biomedical scientist but I do software / analysis to support drug discovery groups.

>Is oncology moving by continuous small steps or via leaps after these major findings are put in production, so to speak?

Regarding this question, I think it is a different type of 'breakthrough' in that it can lead to direct target discovery for drug development, which is very close to the end of approval and clinical trials. My research institute has its strenghth in small molecule drugs but there is a much bigger world for therapeutics. In that sense I think it is closer to 'production'.
When it was just the customer phoning the restaurant and making an order.
I absolutely agree. I was also very disappointed by the many far-right statements and symbols I saw on signs. Sure, it might not have been the majority, but I can't understand how you're able to join these protests if you don't agree with the others' statements.
I rarely comment on the illusion of free will because doing so often results in individuals spouting the same anti-intellectual drivel and canned responses that fail to highlight the main point. They would likely need to pause and read my comment multiple times to realize they are behaving like uneducated individuals over a belief unsupported by evidence. Additionally, they seldom exhibit such behavior when reflecting on how they decide upon something or consider factors influencing their decisions on a particular subject. Nevertheless, I still believe it is worthwhile to engage in discussions claiming free will when it is brought up in debates concerning societal issues. This pattern has persisted throughout history, where humans have previously held misconceptions about various topics.
I used to fly a lot for work. I think I encountered "equipment change"[0] maybe once a month. The idea that an airline would do it as some sort of ploy to attract passengers afraid of a particular airframe seems...unlikely.

0 - the airline term of art for this.
On the matter of the British Library cyber incident
EnOcean Energy Harvesting
Not only that but the crew is much more informed and qualified to make a decision and it's their life on the line as well.

There will always be incidents no matter how rare, investigations will always show that the something could have been done better because nothing can be done perfect, the press will always inflame the public and the public will want to have an opinion/decision no matter how out uninformed.
We govt and ozempic are the same drug, semaglutide, made by the same manufacturer, Novo Nordisk.

Wegovy is not new, it was approved by the FDA for weight loss in 2021. And Ozempic was used off label for weight loss for many years before then.

So Ozempic is approved for use by the obese for weight loss.
that is exactly what I wanted to do for my Apple Photos lib but have not yet got the time to spend on it. Apple Photos search is just bad, very bad.
It’s because of that type of sentiment that Boeing has been doing what they have been doing.

Until one day you close the bedroom door 5% harder than usual and the whole house collapses.
I think you may be underselling :)

I agree, they have remote drivers waiting to take over, but I think that the current SOA is delivering a very high % of autonomy. Is this viable? Dunno... Will it creep up? Dunno...
Sure, living under an autocratic invasion and having your internet access tightened is very "fortunate".

Ah sorry, maybe I should clarify: the above is sarcasm.
This. The heat won't be an issue if you do it at night.
It's just slowly rotating billboards with cloud textures. Effective, but more of an animation illusion than anything approaching any type of cloud simulation.
My Ruby compiler project has unfortunately been languishing for years due to lack of time. I keep hoping to do some more on it as I got it to the point where it was self-compiling, but it's not very high on my list at the moment (my list is long)

That said, lrama is "just" the parser generator, is it not? As far as I understand, the Prism parser built using Lrama still produces a C library, and requires Ruby's parse.y as input, and parse.y alone is twice the size of my entire compiler...

Both Lrama and Prism are great projects, and I might've be tempted if that was a "missing piece" to turn the compiler into something production-ready, but frankly updating the parser to handle more modern syntax is the easiest bit of what remains. The really big pieces are supporting Regex's and floats (Ruby's regexp implementation is roughly the size of my entire current compiler...), and a bunch of bug fixing. Whether I'll ever find time to get it there or not, we'll see.
This conversation started with someone saying that despite LLMs having a theoretical basis for how they could emulate human intelligence, they won't actually reach that point because the existing scaling laws won't hold. I am pointing out that we don't know that at all, scaling laws are so far fantastically accurate, and there is no sign of undershooting existing those laws so far. Therefore, it's very premature to declare that LLMs will be unable to reach any given milestone because scaling laws will hit a discontinuity before we get there. Basically:

"There isn't even a theoretical basis for how LLMs could achieve human level intelligence"

"There is, a neural network trained to predict the next token isn't restricted in the algorithms it can implement internally to achieve that goal, and eventually for loss to be low enough you need to successfully emulate human minds. We have reason to believe loss will continue to go lower because we have very accurate scaling laws which predict that & haven't been wrong so far."

"But an LLM won't be able to reach that point because the scaling laws will break down."

"Maybe, there's no evidence for that yet but we should scale them up if we want to find out for sure."

You are here -> "But in the physical extreme LLMs will break down as an architecture."

To which my response is: Yes, of course this specific architecture will break down in the physical extreme. By the time something is building computronium to run the next AI I strongly doubt it will be running matrix multiplication, let alone LLMs specifically. There is no guarantee or reason to believe that we will hit those limits before we are able to achieve human level intelligence or more; the only reason to believe it will happen is an empirically observed trend which could totally break down, so I wouldn't bet the house on it happening, but it's wrong to just rule out the outcome.
In the U.S., organizing to get one's congressman to take action.

It's probably a big uphill battle due to industry lobbying, but I expect it's possible if there were enough popular support.
Everything we know is matter and time. No one is immune.
And of course hahaha, hehehe, or wakakak
There are actual benefits to a product like Supabase being opensource, some are:
1- Peace of mind. You might not choose to host it now, but you have one more way out, if you don't like their service (of course they also should provide access to your raw data)
2- Quality of code. If you have ever dealt with really bad code that works apparently well, you know how important it is to have code that you can proudly release to public.
3- Possibility of contribution. This is something I dismissed until it happened to me, in multiple occasions: you have a problem (missing feature, bug, performance problem, etc), you request it, or even contribute it. For most closed source projects, you're lucky if there is a transparent channel to request features.
That's because MSVC had basically abandondend C in favour of C++. In recent years they reverted that stance again though.
This happens very rarely, and is usually of the same family. You replace an Airbus 320 with another airbus, not a boeing. Simply because those airlines don't have both on them in their portfolio.

Now if its specifically to avoid a certain type of Boeing 737 max when the airline already flies boeing, yeah thay might happen indeed.

The only cases of switching families is long haul, like Emirates replaced an Airbus a380 with a 777 once on a trip I took. Still caused massive issues because the boeing is smaller, so they don't like doing this.
For indexing images is probably convenient to directly calculate the embeddings using CLIP image encoder and retrieve them using the CLIP text encoder.
Supabase is just getting started... in 10 years, what do you think are the chances they'll follow the exact path of those other companies which have been around much longer? To be honest, I think that's actually the only path to a sustainable company. Start open source so you can get a good name and free contributions from the community, and then when you've got a foothold on the market, change your license so you can stop other companies from exploiting your work (and the work of your contributors) at your expense.
I think being unreasonably pissed about certain things is good because it provides some randomness/wildcard behavior for those who enjoy modeling the masses behavior for profit, and think making mistakes is only about the numbers. Some things should have a high cost just because.
wordpress has a horrible reputation in software/plugin quality, so you pay someone else to run it for you.
You know, in Germany we have a few articles in our constitution to prevent history from happening again. You might have learned in school that we had some bad experiences not so long ago. There's no article that requires institutions to "maintain neo-liberal world order".
Lesson 4: No honor among thieves;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38430831