skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To their credit they seem to have deranked or removed a lot of StackOverflow and GitHub clones from search results. I don't remember the last time I saw one. I used to see them in most of the results for my software-related searches.
Here, the institution has approved a couple Alzheimers drugs and an ALS drug that do nothing-- overcome by both things mentioned above that should not have the power to approve a drug -- "greed from the drug manufacturer and wishful thinking from the afflicted" -- indeed, the exact purpose of drug regulators is to safeguard is from those things.

So: there's a purpose in complaining about it and hoping that regulator and regulation can be improved.
Download Insomnia 2023.5.8 and disable automatic updates.

Though Insomnia doesn't work with streaming responses at all, which is a bit of a non-starter in the age of AI. Anyone know a good streaming HTTP UI?
phone rings

"Sir, its The Fallacies of Distributed Computing for you, on line 1!"
I missed where the microphone is used, it looks like it's only using the output pipeline?
Figure 3 is intriguing to me: I thought GPU's where order of magnitude faster than CPU (because of parallelism) and although the chart is log-scale, I don't see that. I wonder why...
In the absence of infinite money to actively maintain all libraries, there is no alternative.

The core of the problem is that libraries and even the language itself have to make non backwards compatible changes over time. No system can fix this.
> one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time

> a hidden mathematical pattern in language that large language models somehow come to exploit... the fact that these things model language is probably one of the biggest discoveries in history

Is it? Excuse my ignorance. If we were talking about simple Markov chains, aren't these just stationary distributions?
You may be thinking of https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint
All the counter-examples to knowledge being justified true belief I have seen so far use coincidences.

I got the impression that these philosophers were missing how the construction of knowledge (should ?) involve repetition, so one-offs coincidences should be given low probability ?

(Ditto about "cheating" using tricksters, and even worse if they are godlike.)
No, I read it as son as it got posted, before it was removed and there was nothing about "crapple" in it or anything objectively ofensive or that broke HN rules.

The removed comment was basically along the lines of "when people say the word computer, they generally don't think of Apple" referring in this context to the fact that the app written by OP said it requires a "computer", giving the impression it's cross platform on all computers specifically, PCs which are still the majority marketshare in the computer space, yet it only works on macs, therefore it should be more specific about that restriction, which OP later corrected in the readme.

That's why I asked, since it seemed like he brought up a fair point that got unnecessarily attacked by someone going off topic and attacking him with false accusations about some imaginary crapple joke, plus a mob flagging it for no reason, which made me disappointed to see on this community.

Sometimes I feel like posts that are even remotely critical about Apple or Macs Apple on HN, get flagged and generally attacked in replies with hateful comments. I keep hoping people would be more objective and moderate here and less defensive about a favorite brand.
NIST: Everyday Plastic Products Release Trillions of Microscopic Particles -2022
That's ultimately a losing battle, detecting AI-genersted content is going to be a back and forth battle similar to SEO, only likely harder to pull off.

Google could still detect what content gets the most engagement and try to guess at why, but they'll never be able to detect and filter out content simply because it was AI-generated.
If you use VS Code REST Client is awesome
https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient
Lol this is great. Just asked it a vague coding question and gave me back working code.
Nobody uses these algorithms. It’s of a purely academic interest. The only fancy algebra that is actually used in AI (for convolution) is the Winograd transform. Some recent stuff uses FFT or similar approaches. Dense matmul however is very hard to beat, when implemented well, and billions of dollars have already been spent to make it go as fast as possible
Yes, it's different. See https://wow.groq.com/hey-elon-its-time-to-cease-de-grok/

(I work for Groq)
What? It got approved, on dubious evidence from a dubious phase II, against the original advisory committee's recommendation.

The manufacturer had agreed to conduct a phase III and remove it from the marketplace if it failed the next trial.

It has now failed that trial.
Hey there, this is Anoop - creator of Bruno.

Happy to see Bruno at the top of HN

We will never take VC funding. We received around 10 inbound reach outs from VCs till date and have denied funding from all of them.

We will remain independent and I have written about it in detail here https://www.usebruno.com/blog/bootstrapping
Focusing on solving hard problems, like in programming, is a good option too. Because when we solve something we keep our minds in motion on fixed tracks.
The problem is that spam detection like that falls into the "I know it when I see it" category. Google can, and certainly must, use a blocklist for already discovered spam domains, but how could the reliably detect it automatically?
Yeah, I know this is gonna sound pretty obvious, but you don’t get to the endpoint without a lot of bumps along the way. It’s a bit of chicken and egg problem.
Technology and infrastructure just doesn’t appear magically.

But the good news is, China started a decade ago and we’re well on our way

Electric vehicles will soon be cheaper than ICE vehicles. That’ll accelerate the snowball
Obviously, IMO, it should be possible to disable aliasing and term-guessing account-wide. Then, I propose supporting a leading "?" that lets you reenable fuzzy/loose matching. Something like: "?robert jenkins park" (without quotes).
> And if they support external RAM, its MCU-protocols like SPI-RAM (which rarely goes much further than 1MB)

That's not generally true. A lot of higher-end STM32 MCUs have support for external SRAM/SDRAM -- I have a STM32H7 board on my desk with 32 MB, for instance. (Support for memory-mapped SPI/QSPI/OSPI RAM is actually less common.)

You're correct that internal SRAM is typically no more than 1-2 MB on even the largest parts, though.
Thank you so much for Monodraw! I've used it on and off for _years_.
Looks like an ancient implementation of an AI programming assistant?
Unfortunately, yeah 99.9% of images you're going to see generated from stable diffusion models are going to be either selfies, portraits, or porn.

What's you're not going to see is things like "a divine gigantic textile loom sewing together a white horse and a black horse in an interlaced pattern to create a zebra." for example.
Then update the copyright laws? A book itself is an experience but we have no such illusions that they’ll fade away and become inaccessible because of the publishing house, why the change in attitude here?
SimplyNUC Introduces Onyx Pro: Featuring 10GbE SFP+ Fiber and Dual 2.5GbE Ports
That's the whole point. Facebook was so toxic they needed to dump the branding
Adderall and Dexedrine are already amphetamine salts. Vyvanse has an extra delayed release mechanism beyond that.
The link is a forum post with barely any info, followed by a hundreds people commenting. They didn't technically say the experiment occurred in space (it didn't). But the gist is accurate. Here's a better sourced photo with a detailed caption for a very similar experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-gas_gun#/media/File:SDIO...
Back in the day, I could get pure MDMA and several cathinones. I preferred methylone over MDMA
This looks amazing. Postman is a great tool overall, but definitely seems to have gotten clunky and overly engineered. I don't need so many damn features. 99% of use cases are just hit an api. Will be trying this out immediately!
A transformative hermeneutic approach would transgress the boundaries!
This is using differences in the audio processing pipeline of the browser, they just use some input sound which could be taken from a file. The fingerprint is the slightly different output signal when applying filters to the input signal.
I'll never understand willingly restricting yourself to one desktop platform. Especially with a paid app. Oh well. Looks nice
Millions of people listen to podcasts every week.
Error correction doesn’t insure truth. At least in communication, it insures that the final version matches the original version.

For AI, you wouldn’t be doing EC to make sure the AI was saying truth, you would be doing EC to ensure that the AI hasn’t drifted due to the 1% error rate.

Of course I have no idea how to actually do it - if it isn’t being done now, it is probably hard or impossible.
Interesting times. It sounds as though schools have totally failed to reckon with the reality if this, at least in this case. A 10 day suspension is a pretty wild punishment for what amounts to sexually harassing pre-teen girls.

The mention at the end that this carries a heftier punishment than revenge porn is pretty interesting. It really does make you think. And the fact that it was Taylor Swift AI images that got lawmakers moving on this is kinda insane. But maybe that's not actually the case, and just a connection being drawn by media outlets who wants Taylor Swift mentioned somewhere in their article for SEO.
Contra the ACMG on Polygenic Embryo Screening
The feature pitch is one long case of loltears. I needed the chuckle

"Kids , get off my lawn."
I did the same switch. Then went to the Chrome extension YARC https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/yet-another-rest-c... which I like for the simplicity. It does remember past queries.
Legal row could force mystery artist Banksy to reveal his real name
Probably implementation details and compiler optimizations, float addition is not commutative for example. Implementing the same algorithm with the same formulas correctly can still lead to slightly different results
It made it to phase III: fine, there was enough evidence in the dubious phase II to perhaps justify a further trial.

But selling it to patients as an ALS therapy in the meantime outside of that trial, when it looked very dubious that it did anything-- that was a little questionable. The FDA overruling their own advisory committee to make this possible looks like a regulatory failure.
Contributors don't magically appear. Maintaining a community, reviewing changes, steering, etc. all take time and energy. Again, contributors don't magically appear who can do those things, who are aligned with the creator.

Licenses don't magically stop bad actors.

Both statements by the author are correct.
That was already the case for anything non-trivial in dependencies and language feature adoption.

And it was never the case (and still isn't) for projects relying on the standard library and a few popular stalwars (requests, psycopg, pandas, and so on), with conservative adoption of new language features.

There's also the fact that 2.7 and before Python seldom added new language systax, whereas 3+ is hell-bent on doing that with every release.
https://www.germannames.de/wiki/Meta
There’s a sign-up process required.
Meta-everything i think was the point. They want to be the extra layer on top of literally everything that exists.
Sure, if you sell a phone with unofficial modifications, without disclosing that it's been been modified, I could see that being a problem. But not a blanket ban.
This was my first thought too, and they cover it in more detail here https://fingerprint.com/blog/audio-fingerprinting/#why-the-a...

TL;DR different codepaths even within the same codebase (e.g. SIMD variants) can result in subtly different floating point results (iiuc, likely related to to the fact that floating point math is unexpectedly sensitive to order of operations etc.)
Ha. I tapped a suggested item -- some Sony headphones that are selling for $149.99 -- and asked the LLM:

> How much should I expect to spend on Sony WH-CH270N headphones?

Response:

> Price Range: The WH-CH270N typically retail for $79-99 USD. This puts them in the mid-range for Sony's headphone offerings.
I just finished watching the introductory video and found the whole concept of PostMan and Bruno disappointing. It's baffling that one has to dive into the code to unearth the appropriate routes—a completely unnecessary and time-consuming endeavour. This process should be automated, ensuring that documentation and code are always perfectly aligned, eliminating any out of sync issues. The endpoints themselves should be directly accessible from automatically generated documentation using tools like Swagger. This isn't just a convenience; it's a necessity for efficient and effective development.

So, what is the utility of tools like PostMan, Bruno and others when one has automatically generated docs with Swagger with which one can interact? As an example, you can check my current project where I have set docs like that (still need to add an endpoint field): https://peacefounder.org/PeaceFounder.jl/dev/schema
It's ironic that they cite Millers work, but don't address the main conclusions from that work, i.e. that optical computing is horribly inefficient. Photons are bosons and therefore are very reluctant to interact, essentially requiring nonlinearities. The issue with nonlinearities is that they fundamentally require comparatively high optical intensities.

The authors mainly address the issue of integration density (which is also an issue), but not in sufficient detail the problem of efficiency. They handwavy this away by referring to 2d materials, but 2d are not a pancea. It's true that they exhibit very strong nonlinear coefficients (although I'm unsure if even that would be sufficient to overcome the efficiency challenges), however the overlap between the optical field and the 2d material is fundamentally very small (a single sheet of 2d material in the plane of propagation), so the observed enhancements have been very modest.
Yeah well and I run pip under a different user if I must run it… better keep the irresponsible package maintainers away from my real data.
thers not so mucha worry of wolves as much as feral dog packs, bears are a concern, and it becomes an issue when winter kills thaw out and they are too close, they have to be buried or trucked out away from homes.

we even try to salvage meat, from roadkills but thats often futile if its been too long or the digestive organs are damaged.
How is it possible that this produces enough variations to be usable without sampling some sort of audio source? The entire pipeline is digital, there is not any room for interference.
I use ZAP [1] with the OAST add-on for this at the moment. I admit the UX isn't perfect, but it serves my purpose.

If I also want control over the responses (e.g. return a 401 status code for every fifth request), I have a custom extender script [2] for that.

[1]: https://www.zaproxy.org/

[2]: https://www.zaproxy.org/blog/2022-09-13-zap-extender-scripts...
Yeah you're right, there isn't really any anti-aliasing in the world-space pass. I made sure the text and UI have AA since that would be really bad without it. But the tanks and the terrain don't have it, because it looks weird after the palettization happens.
The outlines could also be tweaked to have AA on the "inner" side, however that makes things look pretty blurry...
I might look into it again, but I feel like it's not _that_ much of an issue on modern highres displays
That's not going to happen, for the same reason there aren't 30 different mobile operating systems to choose from when you buy a phone
Fracturing happens for any popular, long-lived programming language. It's really no worse than C++, JavaScript, or Java which all have their own idiosyncracies you have to learn if you want to use the language.

Use cases evolve over time. "System Python" is a great example. One of the primary Python use cases in its 2.7 days was sysadmin scripts. For that, it made sense to have a "python" command that Just Worked that sysadmins could expect to be on any box when they SSH'd into it. These days, I suspect Python for sysadmin uses is significantly smaller than Python usage in web applications or Python for Jupyter notebooks. Those are two very different use cases, and that's why things like virtual environments, pip, poetry, conda, etc. got created.
Ever read a transcript of a real dialog? They're loooooong.
Sometimes I'd be happy to just be able to give key functions in my code a 2D position in a zoomable map to aid code navigation. Maybe even just the title of the object could be helpful.
Why am I supposed to want any website I visit to be able to render audio offline anyway?
"we will be implementing a 2-bit variant of SUBLEQ for demonstration purposes"

What they actually built was a 2-bit wide machine with one instruction. No, they can't run Doom, which they mention a lot.

There's a lot of hand-waving about memory, around page 10. They seem to have used a delay line, which is very slow; you have to wait for the bits you want to come around. That's been a classic problem with photonics. You can build gates, which is nice for switching packets, but how do you store data?

Much of the architectural discussion is about what you can do if memory is mostly ROM. They talk about fast-read, really slow write memory. Here's an article about building something like that.[2] It's a clunky technology. Writing involves on-chip heaters and switching memory cells back and forth from amorphous to crystalline. There's a long history of forgotten devices like that - photochromic memory, UV-erasable EEPROMS, rewritable DVDs, Ovonics, etc. All were superseded by something with better read-write properties.

The underlying device technology is not theirs. It's from the Cornerstone project.[1]

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/22/8201

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-023-01213-3
Nice post to see. Some friends like the game SET, but I am unable to play more than one game because I get distracted with the discrete math question that Jeremy mentions - how many cards assure a Set exists? And analogous things, like, if a Set was just claimed, what are the odds of the next draw forming a new Set?

I did not know he had other content about the game. Maybe it answers some of my questions - it’ll still be impossible to actually play the game though.
This was actually a political campaign point at the end of the cold war. Congress considered funding low mass by very high speed kinetic weapons in orbit called "rods from God" and "brilliant pebbles".
Someone didn't consume at some point and invested that foregone consumption wisely to get that billion plus dollars, at least in North America. There are still a few left over [hereditary dictatorships] monarchies in Europe that still keep their wealth accumulated through [straight theft] taxation. You're really obsessed with wealth passing from parents to kids and that really isn't the problem. Eventually kids do something dumb enough to dissipate that wealth if they don't have sure thing companies with monopoly power to abuse to shore up their wealth, it just takes a few generations. Go look at where the wealth is from the gilded age families who were mostly broken up by antitrust law for example. There are still a bunch with 5-15 billion in wealth but it's spread out among several hundred families with only a few of them still having real wealth (usually from a later generation descedent making wise business choices for themselves for a long time). They overwhelmingly give it away to charity, drink it, put it up their noise, waste it in other fashions and that's way better to me than the government ruining any incentive to try to become the next rockefeller or gates because it doesnt' involve coercion and confiscation by the government.

I think increasing antitrust enforcement and breaking up obviously monopolies/oligopolies is the actual thing we should be doing, it will b far better for society with far more immediate effect and without the outside profits from the private coercion that is an oligopoly it will alleviate some of that large profit you are complaining about being concentrated in a few hands.
The browser's Audio API.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_A...
It's similar to a lot of pricing plans out there. For example I purchased Home Designer Pro 2022 a couple years ago for $450 and I can use the HDP 2022 forever. They have, of course, HDP 2024 but I can't use that one. I can upgrade for an upgrade price. However I don't need to upgrade and am happy to just use 2022 for the rest of time.
Technical ones? Please. It’s a particularly poor medium for anything technical and aimed at people who spend their entire days navigating text as quickly as humanly possible
Do you happen to know its etymology?
The essence seems to be that the web audio API has a lot of algorithms that do a lot of math, and every browser has a slightly different implementation, and the exact results depend on the operating system and cpu too. So if you use the web audio API to generate a small signal all browsers will generate something that's really close, but the tiny differences can be used to help tell them apart.
> It's just a press release [and seemingly not] beyond what was published in December

Stock spike on Thru but not Dec (to <$10/share). The 6 mos trend might support what you're saying tho. Also, me ! a $ wonk.

ref:https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mindmeds-stock-jumps-24-af...
Three Components of Social Order
Often atrributed to Asimov, but it doesn't seem to have been him: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/02/eureka-funny/?amp=1
> Meta what?

Metaverse. Zuckerberg’s obsession with the concept (and that being the origin of the chosen name) is well documented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms#2021:_Rebrand_a...

> Based on Facebook's PR campaign, the name change reflects the company's shifting long term focus of building the metaverse, a digital extension of the physical world by social media, virtual reality and augmented reality features.
Games are basically:

1) A game engine (code, that usually runs on end-user's device). This can be preserved / run / reverse engineered / re-written / bugfixed etc for all eternity as long as anyone cares. On original hardware or emulators.

2) Data: maps, graphics, sounds, etc. Same as 1) but (mostly) platform independent.

3) Online services like game servers that connect players online, maintain the state of a shared 'world', player stats etc.

Games of old don't have 3), so that's just a matter of preserving code & data.

Later games have 3) without depending on it. Bonus points if 3) can be provided by 3rd party like players hosting their own game server.

For such games, "purchase" means exactly that (or at least it should).

Some % of recent games depend on 3) to the point that game becomes worthless if vendor pulls the plug. With no option to have 3rd party run a game server.

Such games are better regarded as "online service", and lend themselves more to a subscription model imho. With the understanding that service (and thus, the game) will disappear at some point.

Developing a game can cost serious $$. But running server(s)? Easily covered as long as there's a paying userbase. So it's beyond me why a vendor would pull the plug as long as paying userbase exists.
Many of us can read faster than they speak. We can also skim across the conversation for its highlights. Then, dig into what matters to us.

It’s an advantage to have transcripts.
100 Years of Rent Control in Sweden
Now all China needs to do is stop burning so much coal.