skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's something magical to concrete mega monuments

Concrete, more specifically brutalism, these buildings tend to be very opinionated. In many of those constructions even tables are made from concrete as part of the building, they enforce a particular function.

In one way its magical, it is shaping you because you have no choice but follow the architects vision and that vision is usually some idealised version of the future - an acquired taste. For example, Barbican Centre in London was supposed to be this utopia about living in the future. I'm big fan of it and because it was close to my office I was frequent visitor, however that vision clearly failed.

It very divisive style, and the division is %90 hate it, %8 feel unsure about it and the %2 love it but when you count the opinion(an opinion made of strong, large concrete pieces) of the building it easily surpasses the %50 love and the building stays.
God this first paragraph made me want to throw my computer across the room:

> Remember when people were furious about kids using ChatGPT to cheat on their homework? If I may be so bold as to psychoanalyze the United States of America, it’s possible the hysteria was not entirely about homework but also the speed with which artificial intelligence was infiltrating our daily lives. How else do you explain so many people defending the sanctity of a thing none of them ever wanted to do?

"When you were 13 years old you wanted to cheat on your homework, did you not? But now that you're 45 and your son is using ChatGPT to cheat on his homework, suddenly you're upset. Curious. Perhaps the issue is your own discomfort with technology your feeble brain can't understand?"
Microservices Reference Architecture from Nginx – Intro
Apple has forked (or something) crossover a while ago and has released their own tooling for playing games on macs. You can use this pretty easily without a lot of config using Whiskey or Heroic Games Launcher.

I've been playing Jagged Alliance 3 the past few days which I bought on GOG.

This is all free btw.
It appears that they are trying to prevent generating accurate images of a real person, because they are worried about deepfakes, and this produces the blurring. While Yennefer is a fictional character she's played by a real actress on Netflix, so maybe that's what is triggering the filter.
This made me think of http://prose.io which I remember was a thing 10 years ago. Pleasantly surprised it still is a website, not sure if it still works. But I remember the basic idea being similar, except Jekyll only.
Building Python for Google Sheets: Traps and Tricks
How does this compare to simply rolling your own OpenAI Assistant (apart from direct integration of Slack etc.)?
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king of the Pixel splash page.
JavaScript Bloat in 2024
The ops team can run the whole company and better without the C-Suite is my impression of modern day SV. Agile stickers on waterfall gates…
Does google have any anonymous feedback channels? That would be useful to facilitate honest feedback from employees who fear getting into trouble, but want to raise concerns to avoid snafus like this one.
Adjusted for inflation a KitchenAid "K" stand mixer (the one everyone thinks about when they think about the "good old kitchenaid"), when bought new in the 1930s and 1940s, cost $1,000.

Today you can buy an Ankarsrum Original Kitchen Machine for $750 and have $250 to buy its high-quality attachments. Hand-assembled in Sweden, all metal including the bits on the inside hidden from view.

Many modern appliances are still built like old ones. They are also priced like old ones.
Does Apple upstream their modifications?
Personal attacks, such as you posted in this thread, aren't allowed on HN and will get you banned here. I don't want to ban you, so please don't do this again. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

It's of course difficult to remain respectful to other people when their views are remote from yours. The temptation is strong to think that they can't possibly be reasonable or fair, they must be in bad faith, etc. But after many years of moderating these disputes I can tell you that most of these perceptions are mistaken—what's really going on is that people have such different backgrounds that it's hard for them to relate to each other.
Good question. What do you “correct” and what not? Where do you draw the line? Isn’t any line arbitrary?

It seems truth is the only line that isn’t arbitrary.
Admittedly, several services that require 2fa phone authentication had to be ditched as well. It was a hard decision, and took months of fighting before I finally just said, "If you require a phone, I don't require you." The choice was hard, but long-term I have much better life.

FYI - Slowly I've seen keyfobs with 1 time code generators replace phones as a 2fa system. For instance, etrade and ebay use them now.

https://us.etrade.com/security-center/securityid#tab_1
Same but I'm in the US.
> Even if the hot fuel could not be refined for weapons, it still wouldn't be something you could just buy or get though eh?

Eh. Nuclear reactors are expensive because of regulatory requirements, not physics. It's not that hard to get natural uranium. If you're a criminal who just wants fission byproducts and doesn't care about NRC approval, you could make one without too much trouble. If you had some basic knowledge you might not even kill yourself.

> For instance, can you name a chemical that will be any MORE expensive to clean off something you want to keep than a mixed radionucleotide soup? Even HF or FOOF should be way easier.

HF or FOOF might not be that easy to remove now that the thing you're trying to clean it off of has been dissolved by acid or vaporized in the resulting explosion. It is in general hard to clean something after it has ceased to exist.

> But I'm not sure they would cause less fear than exploding a bunch of mixed 'hot' radionuclides in a crowded area.

I hate to quote FDR so maybe we should use the example of the English during The Troubles.

If you allow yourself to be terrorized, you let the terrorists win. People are afraid because the media and politicians tell them to be afraid because they're manipulating you just as much as the terrorists are, for their own purposes. Anyone caught doing this should be regarded as committing an act of betrayal and condemned as a coward attempting to capitalize on a tragedy.

> Also worth burning various media offices to the ground probably, but good luck getting any group of people to agree on whose eh?

You don't actually have to burn down their offices. Just stop watching them and at scale they'll fail.
But if you are provided the answer, you can work backwards to figure out the technique. There is a large contingent here on HN that learned electronics by taking things apart, not by reading linearly through textbooks.
My parents home is almost directly in the very center of the totality. The kids will miss that day and the next as we drive 10 hours back home. Definitely looking forward to it and glad they are in grade school so there is no concern about the trade offs of their school assignments to the experience.
> These time estimates seem excessive. 8 hours to “set up the environment”?

Likely a windows user /s
The industry tried using AI to help with that last year, and it was quickly shut down[0] after UnitedHealth / Humana were sued for using blatantly flawed AI projections. It could definitely be used to improve aspects of healthcare, but the profit motive will be at odds with this goal in most cases.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/ai-cannot-be-used-to...
Yeah, the APIs aren't great on either Windows or Unix. I'm reminded of a @fasterthanlime tweet:

>Few people know the complete quote:
>"Everything is a file — the worst possible primitive"

Especially in a multi-core world, you need to know a lot of Unix(/Linux) arcana to write a program that ensures ACID-like properties for files. (And this need applies to almost any program that writes to a file.) If filesystem APIs were redesigned tomorrow, they would be quite different from what we have today.
The way the water/gas etc come in through a custom-designed assembly is so cool. Blew my mind.
So is this "SDXL safe" or "SD2.1" safe, cause SDXL safe we can deal with, if it's 2.1 safe it's gonna end up DOA for a large part of the opensource community again
How many tokens/s are we talking for a 70B model?

Last I saw they performed really poorly, like lower single digits t/s. Don't get me wrong they're probably a decent value for experimenting with it, but is flat out pathetic compared to an A100 or H100. And I think useless for training?
From my experience, the thing that makes using AI image gen hard to use is nailing specificity. I often find myself having to resort to generating all of the elements I want out of an image separately and then comp them together with photoshop. This isn't a bad workflow, but it is tedious (I often equate it to putting coins in a slot machine, hoping it 'hits').

Generating good images is easy but generating good images with very specific instructions is not. For example, try getting midjourney to generate a shot of a road from the side (ie standing on the shoulder of a road taking a photo of the shoulder on the other side with the road crossing frame from left to right)...you'll find midjourney only wants to generate images of roads coming at the "camera" from the vanishing point. I even tried feeding an example image with the correct framing for midjourney to analyze to help inform what prompts to use, but this still did not result in the expected output. This is obviously not the only framing + subject combination that model(s) struggle with.

For people who use image generation as a tool within a larger project's workflow, this hurdle makes the tool swing back and forth from "game changing technology" to "major time sink".

If this example prompt/output is an honest demonstration of SD3's attention to specificity, especially as it pertains to framing and composition of objects + subjects, then I think its definitely impressive.

For context, I've used SD (via comfyUI), midjourney, and Dalle. All of these models + UIs have shared this issue in varying degrees.
A Stuxnet redux.
I usually just say, sometimes earlier in the week, or often the day of, that I'm going to use my personal leave for the afternoon or day, and my supervisor says okay (I've never once been turned down in the almost 8 years I've been here). It's very much emphasized(I've had 3 bosses say this) that my personal leave is for me to use as I see fit, so long as it's done responsibly. For example, if I were taking a week off, I'd let them know probably a month or two in advance, when I started planning. I also have major medical leave separate from my personal leave. I once had to use an entire month(bedridden for 26 days) and it wasn't a problem; I just had to send my doctor's notes to my supervisor once a week while I recovered.
The Risks of the Wim Hof Method: Read Before You Breathe
They might also have just been bored.
Pretty cheeky of Columbia to sponsor this. They couldn't even make the shoes I bought that were 'absolutely waterproof' actually waterproof. A super light rain would result in wet feet. This didn't even happen in normal sneakers.

But it is all about image I guess.
I deleted TikTok and Instagram, and my screen time dropped by 4 hours a day. That's 28 hours a week. I didn't realize how much time I spent on it, but it makes sense because I would watch it as soon as I woke up and before I went to sleep. I was gobsmacked at how much time I saved.

Now I spend all that time playing Baldur's Gate 3.
> It is what it is sadly.

This is what I mean -- previously I built a similar search engine on top of slack, notion, etc., but didn't launch the product because I thought that requiring users to constantly add bots to private channels would be a subpar experience. I thought this would be a blocker for good UX, so didn't go further, but maybe you'll find a nice solution!

Searching over public internal data is addressed by a few existing tools, but it's the private aspect which is pretty difficult to handle and disastrous to get wrong when managed ad-hoc - e.g. someone accidentally adds the bot to a private slack group called #layoffs :) so you'd want this handled properly and centrally.

I guess you'll also need to handle privacy well, ~maybe it's OK when run as a SaaS for db admins to have access to ingested data, but if it's OSS then the people that run it probably shouldn't be able to read the private data that's ingested, so now you need to handle search over encrypted data, which is a fun problem :D
This reminds me of one of my weekend projects from a couple of years ago: a blog based on GitHub issues.

https://github.com/louismerlin/blissue
Oh yeah, I loved Development Seed (the team that created prose.io) back in the day. They went on to create Mapbox.
(Downvoting with no rebuttal is another of their hallmarks)
For people interested in eating at fermentation-focused modern restaurants -

- Noma is the obvious (expensive) choice and the author of an eponymous fermentation book.

- Silo in London is a lesser-known restaurant that does a lot of in-house lacto fermentation and garums

If you have any other to add, please to comment.

(I specify "modern" because a lot of traditional cuisines incorporate fermentation, such as kimchi, sauerkraut or even koji in soy sauce)
Even the documentation that is still around is disorganized and useless. I want a linear path I can follow to learn something, not some random collection of hyperlinks to more information.
The known lower bound for self attention is n^(2-epislon)

PH, or the polynomial hierarchy is the collapse I was talking about, but note I was talking about global and not individual or families of instances.

Schaefer's Dichotomy Theorem shows that HORNSAT is solvable, given those constraints.

I found this paper useful as it reframes it as topology which is helpful to build it intuitions, at least me.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03446

Of the proposed linear self attention like solutions I have seen, they tend to approach it more from what can be reduced the clustering problem.

A lens for that is FTA vs FMEA, being thought of as top down vs bottom up.

Top down is cheaper but may miss things, bottom up doesn't miss things but can result in combinatorial explosion.

This paper covers some optimization problems that are NP-hard to approximate to within a given approximation ratio.

Being able to do so would show P=NP

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/321958.321975

But that is under the assumption that increasing the self attention window was to improve accuracy, not to trade accuracy for efficiency.

While this paper is about casual inference and not PAC learning, it is the reason most 'causal AI' is just stocastic search and event trees.

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/halpern/papers/newcause.pdf
google image search "Chief Diversity Officer" and you'll see an extremely un-diverse group of people.
That's just people trying to figure out if their service has been disconnected rather than it being a network outage
It’s mysterious only if you subscribe to some myth of capitalist supremacy, that is that nothing starts without capital. Everyone is powerless because they lack the levers of capital.

When in fact many starts are without capital, outside of it, in cheap spaces and without any permission. There is a bootstrapping that happens to develop the idea or product.

Capital can be then dragged in to finance the growth necessary to reach the goal of the organization. Capital is shy, a risk averse creature that must be coaxed into supporting the next important boom.
> Anglosphere/commonwealth

India, Nigeria and Guayana move as one?
Show HN: Convviz – A small visualization of neural network convolution
Inspired by https://github.com/vdumoulin/conv_arithmetic and https://animatedai.github.io/ I created a small tool that visualizes neural network convolutions. It allows changing some parameters such as input size, padding and stride. I thought it might be helpful for some people. Let me know what you think!
> Of that total debt, credit card balances are growing the fastest. Americans owe a record-high $1.13 trillion on their credit cards. That total increased by 4.6% in the third quarter of 2023 — the ninth straight quarter with a rise — even before the holidays, and faster than the overall debt growth rate of 1.2% in that period.

Given that inflation was 4.9% during that quarter, credit debt grew less than inflation and overall debt increase was well below inflation. Nothing here really screams a "crisis" any more than usual.
They already have a simple web app hugeicons.pro, you can choose any icon you want or collect many in a collection and download them all as SVG or React components.
> Go away, libertarian. I am not one of you.

A little bit less anger is called for here. I'm not an American voter but this sort of thing is just a turn-off and pushes people away into the extremes.

Wanting lower taxes and more individual freedom != Randian libertarianism, in much the same way as wanting a better safety net != Marxism.

You complain about both abortion rights and paying 40% tax. Well, the state is spending some of those taxes to police your abortion rights. You can get two birds with one stone - either lower taxes or more spending on other things, and also stronger individual rights.
Your comment was about the treatment of women, though, not infrastructure. You probably know that Florida and Alabama are not in the western half of the US. Texas is so big it's often considered its own place, but much of Texas is considered part of the American South in culture and geography. Did you visit Texas? If so, which parts? Much of Europe can fit comfortably within the landmass of Texas, so maybe you just don't have an appreciation of the scale of the U.S. and what that means for politics, infrastructure, culture, etc... Having lived in France, Italy, and the UK for extended periods, I can say that your comments about Europe's superiority don't resonate.
This is best icon library ever, suitable for every projects. Great resources for both designers and developers.
We are new to the market and we already have a big todo list we area already working on, we now supports React and React native beside the SVG download and copy from our web app, and also we already have our Figma plugin.

we may got some issues, but our development team is dedicated to solve them asap.

and for the package you mentioned, I think you are talking about our react-pro package that is mainly for react/next js and we are going to support all other frameworks in the near future.
Pension funding in the US is something of a joke anyways. Is this the icing on the cake?
Hm. Y'know what... I regret my comment. It felt ungenerous and obnoxious to write, and I tried to change the tone in edits, but it still feels gross.

Maybe just consider my comment self-talk. I guess your comment hit a nerve with familiarity, and I ended up talking to myself more than speaking to you. I apologize for that. And thanks for the original sincere comment. I'm sure others have seen it and at least some of them felt a little less alone in the weird world of our own brains <3
Is your workplace built on "me" or "we"?
Is relentless competition the key to success, or is there a better way?
Find out the answer below:
See also https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/us-nears-attempt-fi...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39468115, but no comments there)
lol! midjourney had a big issue where it couldn't generate rich black people donating food to white people. old midjourney couldn't generate certain proffesions like doctors as black. They were all mostly white.

Now Google has the opposite problem.

The irony of that makes me chuckle.

The latest Midjourney is very thirsty. You ask it to generate spiderwoman and it's a half naked woman with a spider suit bikini.

Whenever AI grows up and understands reality without being fine tuned, it will chuckle at the fine tuning data.
People would misunderstand you less if you made yourself better understood.

Like using a hyperlink to code example.
Worth noting that GPS does not rely on cell service.
Related ongoing thread:

Private company landing on the moon today - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465230 - Feb 2024 (143 comments)
YouTube's excessive ads (disabling adblock serves as a forcing function) and them no longer recommending stuff with the right settings applied solved the YT problem for me. While I've never shared OP's state, I too sunk too much time and attention on that platform.

It is still there for those rare occasions I need it. But I no longer get pulled in.
Health insurance coupled to employment is one hell of systematic advantage for large companies when competing for labor. Bigger company = bigger risk pool.
Another RAG chat bot ... YC is pretty unoriginal huh
> How is it that this was somehow approved?

If the tweets can be believed, Gemini's product lead (Jack Krawzczyk) is very, shall we say, "passionate" about this type of social justice belief. So would not be a surprise if he's in charge of this.
Innovation has never been part of Microsoft's strategy, but believe whatever makes you happy.
Owning neither of these I don't see why the KitchenAid would be better as a multi-tool. Based on photos it looks like the Kenwood has the exact same shaft hookup for a meat grinder or pasta maker.

Coming only stainless being a drawback and the KitchenAid looking better are completely subjective.

I can totally buy it being heavier, but why would it be less approachable? It's a wheel versus a selector knob.

I wonder how the 1.7kW would handle mixing pasta dough.
I suspect they didn't say "you're SOL", they probably said "file a warranty claim".

Retail stores aren't usually on the hook for items that arrive non-functioning from the manufacturer -- the manufacturer is.
>It seems there's no concrete example of where unstarred LET would be better.

The unstarred let is a destructuring bind of an entire tuple.

For example (let ((x 1) (y 2) (z 3)) ...) does the entirety of x := 1, y := 2, z := 3 at once, the right hand sides in the old frame and the left hand sides in the new frame.

So let introduces a new frame BUT only after all three substitutions are done.

For example in order to rotate x y z (from the surrounding frame) to the right:

(let ((y x) (z y) (x z))
...)

means:

((lambda (y z x)
...)
x y z)

For example:

(let ((x 1) (y 2) (z 3))
(let ((y x) (z y) (x z))
(list x y z)))
=> (3 1 2)

The starred let is the weird form. It's shorthand for having another let in the tail each time: With A, B, C each standing for a form:

(let* (A B C) ...) is defined to be (let (A) (let* (B C) ...). And so on. (let* (C) ...) is (let (C) ...), the base case.

(let* (A B C) ...) is (let (A) (let (B) (let (C) ...)))). Does that look natural to you?

(let (_) 5) is valid too.

>If a programmer ever falls in the habit of sometimes using unstarred LET, then it's likely he'll make a mistake by using it where starred LET* was the right thing.

Never happened to me so far and I'm using Lisp for 8 years now.

>It seems reasonable that when I write code, I shouldn't have to stop and worry about which of the gazillion different LET forms is appropriate

You do you, but you seem to think that this is an aesthetic choice rather than what the mathematics automatically gives. Lisp was not really designed, it was discovered. As long as you don't break any of the mathematical properties, go ahead and make it like you want it to be.

One thing you could safely do is remove the automatic tuple destructuring on let, basically removing the ability to have parallel-track bindings. Then you'd end up with something like Haskell:

main = let x = 1
y = 2
z = 3
in let y = x
z = y
x = z
in x
=> <<loop>>
Gemini Has a Diversity Problem
I can't think of something more American than this