skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's an interesting set of conflicting forces where people are tempted through selfish interests to be lazy interacting with humans and prefer to stay home connected while also craving intimate human interaction.

Counterpoint: when genuine human interaction does start to happen online, there's often an incentive to monetize it. It's the monetization that turns it into junk food. Spam, clickbait, infinite algorithmic feeds - they're all symptoms of the need to make money. I wonder if a true public space will ever emerge online.

See also this post that makes roughly the same point: https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other...
The movie “Ready Player One”, despite trying to end on a forced positive note, was/is prophetic. It was a very sad and disconnected world there, and we’re slowly moving that way here.
Do you know, why they use both ANTLR and Truffle?
The author is attempting to build an explicit mental model of what a bunch of weights are "doing". It's not really the same thing. They are minimizing the loss function.

People try to (and often do) generate intuition for architectures that will work given the lay out of data. But, the reason models are so big now is that trying to understand what the model is "doing" in a way humans understand didn't work out so well.
https://archive.is/32EEI
>What's the point of rewarding or punishing a soul that had no agency in life?

So we're to assume that the sensibleness of doctrine is what determines the underpinnings of reality, that some kind of Just World force makes the world work in a way to minimize the injustice resulting from it? That makes even less sense. And anyways, the evidence suggests that such a force is not dominating the other fundamental forces.
You are using the age old argument of “I wouldn’t have bought it anyway, so they won’t get anything from me either way”

This is just a roundabout way of excusing stealing. If the creator of something says “if you want to view my work, you must pay me a dollar”, then yes it is stealing (immoral) if you view it without paying. The context around it as to whether you would’ve watched it anyway is irrelevant.

Apply the same logic to literally any other item and your argument falls apart (I wouldn’t have bought that chocolate bar anyway so they’re not really losing money from me)
With global markets what will end happening is that 4-day work jobs will not be able to compete with 5-day work jobs. The consumers will buy the things that are cheaper.

And besides, why do you need a government to mandate that and force people to do it? They aren't any laws forbidding working less and both parties can decide that a particular contract covers a 4-day work week.

It's a bad idea to regulate something that don't need regulation.
We already have that with video calls. The headset adds a sense of depth, but since you're wearing it on your face, any visual of you is going to be artificially constructed (i.e. there's a rubber gasket over important facial muscles, so no camera could hope to capture them).

I have much more hope for someone like Starline, though it seems they've gone the AI route to cut down on the number of cameras and hardware for blending them together.
https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline-pro...
i've just noticed the truly teeny tiny size that you can buy as a pair of earrings!
Makes me think of Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash and when Da5id views the scroll with the meta virus and ends up "crashing" (that's the snow crash!).

The analog here would be a if you looked at the "wrong" thing (image, or a "malicious" QR code!) with Vision Pro and it contained the 0-day and then you were hacked!
I’m VERY interested in this vim for designers idea. Have any resources available to learn more?
I've googled for about 5 minutes trying to understand ....is the "reverse sprinkler" just a device that has been impossible to build so it was a strictly theoretical problem? "We found that the reverse sprinkler spins in the ‘reverse’ or opposite direction when taking in water" - really, this was that impossible to build that nobody knew what it would do? weird
Small Business and Mid Market Is Not Easier Than Enterprise
I’ve been running Plex since probably 2010, maybe earlier. It just works… once you set it up… and until something needs to change. The concept of running a server is lost on most people. I’ve set it up for some others, and they don’t get it. They just plug a laptop into their TV or use AirPlay instead, because the idea of a server and client (in whatever terminology one wants to use) doesn’t really click. Most people aren’t a custom leaving their computer on all the time in the name of having a server running either.

There is also a matter of getting the content. If they are going to rip DVDs, now they have to use something like Handbrake. But that’s not all, they also need to spend time learning how Plex reads folder and file names to scan the media to lookup metadata. Doing that manually sucks, so then that might lead them to have to search for something like Filebot, where they need to use Filebot’s naming syntax to align its actions with what Plex wants. Then if they get a new computer, there is the issue of migration to the new system. I eventually got a NAS, which meant moving to Docker, which would be a whole new can of worms for them.

And all this just assumes it’s all on the local network. Plex might do some router magic today, I can’t remember, but for a long time I remember setting up port forwarding so I could get at my library from my phone.

I don’t think anything of most of this, and I assume you don’t either, but it’s a lot for someone who doesn’t have any kind of background in this stuff or interest in heading down a rabbit hole with it.

I’d also argue that as Plex became more platform agnostic with its web UI, it became harder for the average user to understand. The first versions, based on XBMC, were just apps. Stick out media in there and it plays it. Then they made PMS with the client/server architecture, but the server still had a really nice GUI on the Mac where things made sense. Now the server launches the browser when opened, so people kind of need to understand the idea that this server is hosting a website to manage the media, which is another layer for someone to get lost in. And now, I go to plex.tv, login there, and it loads the server running off my NAS, which will be even more confusing for people, especially if/when something goes wrong or isn’t working. They also need to keep up with the changes, not of just the UI they use, but the architecture of the backend, to some degree. It’s changed a lot over the years I’ve been using it.

As for subtitles. I typically trash them and don’t care, as 99.9% of the time I don’t want subtitles. But the 1 time I tried to download the subtitles and use them, it didn’t work and I gave up. I watched on a streaming service instead.
It comes down to the same thing at the end of the day. You gotta pay for quality (be it quality contributors, or simply quality fact checkers to properly moderate information) and no one wants to pay. Not the users, not the webmasters. So the best way is to leave it to the users to sort out. We know that is error prone, but at least works some of the time.
I see. Then I was wrong when I said key strength was maintained due to unfounded assumptions.
Safety is paramount for experts. Those who disregard the importance of safety are likely not experts in their field.

If the "console" analogy doesn't resonate, think of Apple as NASCAR. NASCAR has created a private ecosystem. Participating in NASCAR as a team or a driver is a choice, contingent upon meeting their requirements and paying entry fees. NASCAR implements numerous safety measures — SAFER barriers, catch fencing, HANS devices, etc. — to protect everyone involved, whether spectators (users) or drivers and teams (developers and vendors).

NASCAR prioritizes the ecosystem first, then spectators, then teams and drivers — in that order. It doesn’t compromise the ecosystem or spectator safety to accommodate individual teams or drivers. Driver safety is crucial, not just because NASCAR values them, but because incidents involving drivers can negatively impact the ecosystem and spectators.

Those wishing for NASCAR to resemble the Baja 1000 are tilting at windmills. Similarly, people who want iOS to be like Android aren't just wasting their time, but also disregarding the preferences of users who prioritize platform safety.
Tell that to your ancestors... "No I refuse to go hunting, I want to paint my cave". :)
> I thought it was free money because it doesn't put a disincentive on productive work

There are 2 major and unrelated effects to taxes that are discussed in any basic economics 101 theory that I am happen to explain to you.

Sorry, I take a lot of basic econ theory for granted, even though I am sure most people haven't taken an introductory economics class. Thus leading to confusion.

effect 1: Changes to behavior/Disincentives on work. IE deadweight loss.

effect 2: the redistributionary effects of the taxes. IE does it harm poor people or not.

These are unrelated effects and are separate effects/downsides/benefits.

Do you understand how there can be 2 effects to a thing that happens, effect 1 which is bad, and that there can be a different effect 2 which is also bad in a different way?

You saying "Well what about this policy B that doesn't have downside number 1?!? Are you saying that there is nothing bad to policy B?!? Because you said that policy A was fine because it doesn't have downside 1? Therefore it must be that policy B is good because it also doesn't have downside 1."

The completely obvious counter response to this bad point is that policy B, which is different than policy A, has an additional downside which is downside number 2.

And policy A is good because it has neither downside 1 or downside 2.

Does that explain the misunderstanding that is apparent from your comment?

The fact that you brought up a head tax also betrays the point. Because you know that a head tax is bad, otherwise you wouldn't have used it as an example.

You know that it isn't the same. Although it still confuses me that you would bring it up, because you didn't jump to step 2 which is to explain the difference between the 2 policies.

And the next question, that actually matters, is the clear different between a head tax and a land tax. Which is explainable via basic economic theory.
I dont use google, that's how it works on ddg and kagi
There was also a quote about chlorine trifluoride in Ignition!

”It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.”

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-yo...
Cover your sensors! They've got corruption armor /s
True. At the same time, VR could afford richer interactions with those who live far away from you. For example, about 30% of older adults in the US live alone. Of course, it would be better to visit or live with them, but that is often impossible.
Data corruption issue in restic 0.16.3 with max compression
There's a data corruption issue in restic 0.16.3, caused by one of the libraries restic uses for compression, when you use the max compression level (which is not the default). If you're a restic user and you use max compression, it would pay to check all your backed up repos using check --read-data to ensure you're not affected, and to upgrade to 0.16.4 which fixes the issue.
How long until Robert Scoble ruins it for everyone by posting a photo of himself naked in the shower wearing nothing but an Apple Vision Pro?
It's a pretty great redundancy design though. Imagine someone driving or doing a life-critical task (augmented surgery?) on the Vision Pro and losing passthrough at a critical moment. And yes, there are already videos of people driving their car while wearing their headset (https://twitter.com/lentinidante/status/1753549370568368224_).
There’s also cases where by far and away the best version of a given piece of media is the recording of an HDTV broadcast from somewhere in southeast Asia or something because the rightsholders never bothered to produce a physical release in anything better than VHS or badly mastered DVD.

Piracy works around negligence on the part of publishers like this.
Parts of the images recorded by such systems can usually be retained 'for improving tracking quality'.

Also the user can obviously activate recording whenever they want. I would not be happy to see vision pro users in a coffee shop I visit and would petition to ban them just like Google glass was.

I had a Google glass myself I used at work and I always had a big sticker over the camera.

But on the vision pro it has too many cameras to block and obviously it won't work anymore then.
A fair bit of litter I see (on roadtrips at least) is from overflowing bins at rest areas where the council is using poorly designed bins, people are over-stuffing them, animals are pulling things out looking for scraps, etc.

The small amount of local litter appears to come from rubbish trucks tipping bins into the trucks on windy days.
Did I miss something? The title and article are mostly about JPEG XL. What's the "both" in this? JPEG XL is the newest and has poor support. AVIF is mentioned offhandedly in that article, but it's a little older and still doesn't have great support. WebP is even older and also has occasional issues.

The image formats past WebP offer very minor improvements but have big potentials for new zero-days. I don't think it's wrong to play it safe and/or just don't implement them.
I believe they charge per GB-month. The $6/TB is just a human relatable interpretation of that rate.
Precisely. My deviated septum had a 90% occlusion to the right nostril.

No diet is fixing that cartilage.
Car accident, holding steering wheel, airbag goes off and hyperextends my wrist way back. Thankfully, no tears. But ER does their thing, and I follow up with PCP the next morning, both recommending, and PCP referring me to PT "to start immediately", because I have barely any grip strength in what was my dominant hand.

I couldn't find a PT within 30 miles that could see me within "12-14 weeks".
We can see the long range content of these jets when they are pointed directly at us as "blazars" which do produce positrons.

"Gas, dust and the occasional star are captured and spiral into this central black hole, creating a hot accretion disk which generates enormous amounts of energy in the form of photons, electrons, positrons and other elementary particles."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazar

The general discussion of astrophysical jets describe them as formed from regular matter. There would be some quantity of antimatter initially, but it would quickly be consumed and converted to gamma rays.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysical_jet
Fortunately, difference in length of an american football field and FIFA recommended soccer field is only 5 meters, and basically can be rounded to 100 m.
I would normally agree with your assessment, but the problem is that the browser vendors often revoke APIs, and destroy good popular extensions.
Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks (and diff'rent use cases)...

For me, the panacea is to be able to easily do both. I want to be able to use an application as a library from a repl or script by "configuring" it via dataclasses. And I want to be able to run the same application from a cli in different configurations in different production environments by checking in sets of config files that I know are more constrained in what they can do than a generic python runtime.

There's no fundamental reason it is hard to expose both of these interfaces without repeating yourself a bunch!
Funny, in the US it's the opposite. Styrofoam still used for store-prepackaged meat, but I don't think I've seen it used for takeout in over a decade.
The rest of this thread is some anecdotal evidence of a backlash, if nothing else.
Understanding how the machine plays or how you should play? They aren't the same thing. And that is the point - trying to analogize to some explicit, concrete function you can describe is backwards. These models are gigantic (even the 'small' ones), they are looking to minimize a loss function by looking in multi thousand dimensional space. It is the very opposite of something that fits in a human brain in any explicit fashion.
Much of the sales hype and other literature surrounding LLMs specifically obfuscates the role that training data plays in the model. Training data is "learned from", but that's implying the data goes away after the training process ends and you have a model that's solely composed of uncopyrightable knowledge about how to write or draw. If the models are actually retaining training data, and we have a way to extract that data, then the models didn't learn - legally speaking[0], they copied training set data.

The idea I had wasn't "LLMs are based on probabilities", it was "what if you benchmarked an LLM against a traditional search index over the training corpus". The linked blog post doesn't completely rip out the LLMs entirely, just the feed-forward layer, but the result is what I thought would happen: an attention-augmented search index that is producing nearly identical probability distributions to the 66% of the model that was removed.

[0] Programmers talking about copyright usually get tripped up on this, so I'll spell it out: copyright is a matter of data provenance, not bit-exactness. Just because the weights are harder to inspect does not mean no copyright infringement has occurred. Compression does not launder copyright.
I’m writing this post right now from the Vision Pro I find it truly amazing. You have to see it to believe it.
damn, thanks for this comment. I didn't go to their website, but I opened the comments fully expecting the vector design program built this especially with that title.
Glad to hear there’s interest! Right now it’s still a small side project, but I could probably toss up a prototype to play around with.

I was working on a programming language for designers, and have recently been thinking that it just works better if you build against an AST directly instead of text.

The language is called Matry:

https://matry.design/
I don't have a strong opinion either way, but I'll play devil's advocate here...

> Lossless JPEG recompression (20% on average)

Lossless JPEG recompression isn't that valuable because it's a "tweener" solution. If you mainly just care about image size, you can live with some loss and can recompress jpegs using existing formats. Or if you care about size and quality, you can recompress from high-quality sources using existing formats. lossless jpeg recompression kind of fits in the middle somewhere... you care enough about size to go through the trouble to recompress, but you don't care so much that you will use high-quality sources and you care about quality enough that you don't want to lose quality when recompressing, but again not so much that you will use high-quality sources. So it's not nothing, but not great either.

> Progressive decoding

A solution to a vanishing edge case.

> Lossless compression performance

Explains why you might want to use jxl in your workflow but that's not a browser concern.

> Lossy compression performance

This sounds good, but is it enough better over existing formats to justify a new one in the browser? I don't think it's clear cut.

> Deployable encoder

Obviously, existing formats have deployed encoders.

> Works across the workflow

Not a browser concern. Note that even if you use jxl across your entire workflow, you're still going very typically have a publishing step for images where you find and use a level of compression/quality appropriate for your project. There's not really any particular difference if the general image format type has changes at this step or not.
Also many places charge restocking fees too. So we aren’t that entitled.
> Turn any book into an audiobook

English book.
You mean like in the United States v. Aaron Swartz case?

I'm sorry, but accessing non-publicly available data in a way that violates the T&C of a site (which you agreed to, in order to be granted the registration), is well-established to be illegal and, if you are prosecuted, you can face serious penalties.

People should not be encouraged to do things that can land them in jail.
Except that, as the author of TFA, I would say that the answer is closer to "yes" than it is to "no" ...

I don't write for traffic, I make a living from writing software.
Not really. It is an important question whether we also have more of quality years or we just have more years of fighting some sort of illness.
I am chris@disputingtaste.com

At some point in life one realizes that there is important stuff in good taste. “I just couldn’t call a bad book good.” To quote Dorothy Sayers.
The last readiness inspection document of the Moskva was leaked. To put it short, none of the defensive weaponry was working properly, none of it had worked properly for a decade, and no-one was doing anything about it.
Sounds like free labor to fix someone’s LLM
How about "no longer runs on the current version of macOS, and your macbook just died".
I'd like to compare yours to all streaming sites I've used, which are riddled with ads and deceptive clicks.
Why aren't buildings constructed this way?

You could have the whole thing made in a factory which just weaves steel cable onto the ends of rods, and then pack the whole thing in a truck and on site just attach a winch to tighten the cables and your building self assembles itself.
Yes, true (for now) — which language(s) are you looking for?

The APIs I'm using are mostly multilingual so it'd be doable to extend to other languages.
Sure, it doesn't allow side effects, but what can it depend on? If a file defines a language that downloads a dependency from a URL, does that count? How about if it's automatically cached?

Once you start getting dependencies from others, it seems like a configuration language could drift into package management.
Sadly, Alpine is already taken
That final paragraph is an excellent redux of what I was trying to say in TFA. It misses a bit of nuance, and all reduxes do, but ... great, thanks!
The "inside out" rocket engine is a great explanation.
It's big (well, was big) in the "Americans react to weird stuff elsewhere" genre.

Lot's of US wannabe sports youtube influencers react to Gaelic football, soccer, and Aussie Rules.

Close to practically no one, but they do fall outside of the regular AFL fan domain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJo199LD0Fk
It's implied
"sub-90 IQ", when interpreted literally, means the dumbest 25% of the population. I think it's awfully important to remember not to ignore 1/4 of the population.
Oh, I'm using that!
Read the article maybe

> At 23, Nabatanzi already had 25 children and said she begged doctors to help her stop from having any more.

> But yet again she was told to keep getting pregnant because her ovary count was so high, the Mirror reported.
I’ve never equated “hacker == free” ever. In that save vein, no, all information should NOT be free.

I sincerely reject your entire premise.
I like to imagine a possible future where Vision Pro can help you see your blind spots while driving a vehicle.

No shiny AR or "spatial computing" distractions. Just visibility.

That would be incredibly useful, and cool.