skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quantum rainbow tables... now in 5D!

Seriously, this is 99.9% hype, probably generated by AI. I'm just waiting until the SEO spam salespeople flood the internet with Mark V. Shaney's that are entirely self-replicating automata of shit.
Still less selfish and destructive to the country than jack welch
Pregnancy's Impact on Maternal Aging
Duolicious: Open-Source Dating App for 4channers
> GPT-4 doesn't seem profitable (if it was, would they need to throttle it?)

Maybe? Hardware supply isn’t perfectly elastic
What does 'any-variate' forecasting mean? Can you use this pre-trained model to produce forecasts when there exists useful covariates/features/predictors?
Is this something the other TS foundation models can/cannot do?
> I was also delighted by the point about how all methods of modulating a wave can be recontextualized as frequency modulation!

That's the classic way to think about it. Another way is to view the input as simply a sequence of voltage readings. Extracting a useful signal from that is an exercise in exploiting redundancy in noisy data. [1] Software defined receivers work that way.

Analog radio (AM, FM, etc.) is a hulking big carrier weakly modulated by the signal. Analog TV, which was AM video with FM audio, had 80% of the power in the carrier. Analog UHF TV stations often had multi-megawatt transmitters to overpower noise by sheer RF output. Digital broadcast TV transmitters output maybe 150KW, because the modulation is more efficient.

Modern modulation techniques are insanely efficient. It's amazing that mobile phones work.

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-450-principles-of-digital-comm...
A mistake, if you ask me. They can't compete with Adobe.
The case seems to be a year old, wonder why it’s making the news now?
This makes me wonder what problem this was a solution to
I will definitely hold my breath until these "patents" are granted. I'm just wondering how fraud and SEO spam are protected as intellectual property.
It’s never been physically measured only indirectly that is to say it’s never been observed by any instrument physically.

It exists only by inference.
Even if the csv isn’t being typed out by hand, when importing into Excel and the delimiter needs to be manually entered, because it isn’t one of the common ones Excel has a radio button for… it is nice to be able to easily type it.
MuiscNN: A transformer-based multimodal model for music
Get chords, beats, lyrics, melody, and tabs for any song.
I don't like the smoking. I don't like they brought over actors from GOT, those casts seem off. It hasn't grabbed me like any of Apple's sci-fi.

It also seems like their 1080p stream is more like 720 upscale, rather than 4k down.

Overall, Netflix has been really excellent for Anime, but meh for live. Will finish the season at some point
Heh, a lot of comments here make it clear they don't understand working at a megacorp, but I can actually believe this one.
Anxiety is an intelligence attenuator. Plenty of people have above-average intelligence but also above-average anxiety for all kinds of reasons, including socio-economic status. Anxious people don't do well in aptitude tests, job interviews, exams, presentations.
The fact that these are fatty tissues in the brain makes me concerned that ozempic might cause long term myelin damage.
CSV can be fine with some well defined datasets. It can get weird in other cases, though.
Galaxy brain business model: shame the app developers and offer a tool to help them fix their mistakes.
The way I see, NVidia only has a few advantages ordered from most important to least:

1. Reserved fab space.

2. Highly integrated software.

3. Hardware architecture that exists today.

4. Customer relationships.

but all of these aspects are weak in one way or another:

For #1, fab space is tight, and NVidia can strangle its consumer GPU market if it means selling more AI chips at a higher price. This advantage is gone if a competitor makes big bets years in advance, or another company that has a lot of fab space (intel?) is willing to change priorities.

2. Life is good when your proprietary software is the industry standard. Whether this actually matters will depend on the use case heavily.

3. A benefit now, but not for long. It's my estimation that the hardware design for TPUs is fundamentally much simpler than for GPUs. No need for raytracing, texture samplers, or rasterization. Mostly just needs lots of matrix multiplication and memory. Others moving into the space will be able to catch up quickly.

4. Useful to stay in the conversation, but in a field hungry for any advantage, the hardware vendor with the highest FLOPS (or equivalent) per dollar is going to win enough customers to saturate their manufacturing ability.

So overall, I give them a few years, and then the competition is going to be real quite fast.
The first attack was a secretive Buddhist assassination organization called Amida Tong. Not ninja.

Ninjas will appear later in an even more stupid way and I hope they heavily diverge from the book there.
I also find value in parts of the Internet Archive's mission, but I refuse to donate to them because of their flagrant copyright violations. It's on the Aaron Swartz road to martyrdom.
> source?

Search up neuroplasticity.

> there's nothing that can improve intelligence..

Maybe in other mamals and animals in general, lol.
But with humans it's a slightly different story. Our brain stays plastic for quite a while, and said plasticity declines into our "elderhood". However, we can still retain plasticity as long as we maintain intensive learning throughout our lives.

Intelligence in humans isn't static, much like ourselves. If it were static, there would be a hard cutoff point where you no longer can/would be extremely hard to learn new things (and it is indeed the case, but much, much later in life), similar to aforementioned non-human mamals and animals.

Learning is a process that can be understood and improved upon through self-reflection. Including the process of understanding itself. The way we learn and hence understand can be improved and hence elevate intelligence (granted you fulfil the requirement for being able to reflect on and compress things, much like healthy human beings can).

Also, what do YOU mean by intelligence?
Ancient Plagiarism? An Analysis of Claudius Ptolemy's Star Catalog
It’s required for messaging on a mobile phone. And probably other user hostile patterns.
That's actually a great suggestion, thanks! We're also still working on improving the readability/usability of the codebase too
Re the monolith vs micro service problem; this is why I love elixir and Phoenix.
It is appropriate in ML and computer science. It’s not in pure math.

There are many terms in math and science where the definition changes based on the context.
Hospitals Are Adding Billions in 'Facility' Fees for Routine Care
https://archive.ph/bp2Mc
Technically correct, but only because TPUs aren't for sale. H100s cost like 30,000 USD, if you can even get one.
Could've bought $QQQ unless you expected one of the components to do especially badly.
Meta has already been forced to offer non-ad access to Facebook. I assume that is tied to a privacy guarantee (or it wouldn't make much sense - ads can be obnoxious but it is the unconsented surveillance that needs to be reigned in).
Has anyone modded the inkjet into a cutter (like cricut)?

I'd like to know about any projects because a cutter is quite a lot expensive although it seems like the same tech as an inkjet printer.
When you are poor you spend the majority of your brain cycles dealing with your situation.

What can I afford to eat today? How am I gonna pay the electricity bill? How am I gonna fix my broken 20yo car? Which grocery has the cheapest diapers? Should I switch on the heating today or are there colder days coming this month?

If you are well off none of the above is even a thing.
>sep=;

Thank you! This is a game changer. As I was reading through these comments I was thinking how much better it would be if the separator could be specified in the file, but it would only be useful for my own stuff, if I was to do that on my own.

I’ll be trying this first thing tomorrow at work. I don’t do as much with CSVs as I used to, but am currently working with them a lot, and have a single entry that always throws the resulting Excel file off, and I can’t be bothered to figure out how to escape it (I spent too much time in the past messing with that and got nowhere). This sep= lines will hopefully solve my issues.
Always was. Fisker got its start by stealing the original design for Tesla
When we deal with many different multivariate time series, each time series can have a different number of variates. So "any-variate" means that the model is able to take as inputs multivariate time series with arbitrary number of variates, and model the interactions with the Transformer's attention mechanism. This is something that many other TS foundation models do not consider yet - they convert all multivariate time series into multiple univariate time series.

Whether or not the forecasts improves as a result of the additional covariates is still an open question which needs to be studied more -- we need to build better evaluations and benchmarks for this.
Yeah, as someone that's been very happy with the Affinity Suite and am scared of any major changes to them, this is pretty scary to me, as well. Reminds me of when Jasc was bought by Corel waaaay back in the day.

Canva, if you're on HN, seeing how we're going to respond, please don't take away the stand-alone, non-subscription-based, affordable system that Affinity's products are. I love their products. I don't want to have to find alternatives.
On the other hand, this sort of nonsense is why some places just have an AP and give the wifi password and you can just connect.

(instead of visiting a page, setting a bunch of cookies and tracking you all over the universe)
Interesting, but I'm very skeptical. There are over a dozen transformers-based foundation time series model released in the past year and without fail, every one of them claims to be at or near SOTA. For example:

- Time-LLM (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01728)

- Lag-Llama (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08278)

- UniTime (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09751)

- TEMPO (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04948)

- TimeGPT (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03589)

- TimesFM (https://arxiv.org/html/2310.10688v2)

- GPT4TS (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.08469.pdf)

Yet not a SINGLE transformer-based model I've managed to successfully run has beaten gradient boosted tree models on my use case (economic forecasting). To be honest I believe these foundational models are all vastly overfit. There's basically only 2 benchmarking sets that are ever used in time series (the Monash set and the M-competition set), so it'd be easy to overtune a model just to perform well on these.

I would love to see someone make a broader set of varied benchmarks and have an independent third party do these evaluations like with LLM leaderboards. Otherwise I assume all published benchmarks are 100% meaningless and gamed.
Chess puzzle, but you are what you capture
I've heard that DDR2 is immune to rowhammer. Is that actually the case, or is it just because nobody's looked at it? Is SRAM the only thing that's truly immune?
Pretty cool! A nice addition would be an in-browser runtime!
I think his arguments apply more closely to SQLite databases. They're not directly human readable, but boy are there a lot of tools for working with them.
Bob – cross-platform peer-to-peer file-transfer tool in OCaml
"maximize profits" and "best product for customer" are dual. you specifically want small chip features - or don't you like speed, power efficiency, and low cost?
and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is unlikely too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_in_the_Sky_with_Diamonds

you can't help wondering though...
> bits flipping in DRAM will not go away unless the economics in DRAM manufacturing change

This seems like all the argument necessary to require all computers - and I do mean all computers - to require ECC memory. The security risk is simply too great, and everything is too integrated not to make this change. Even a "gamer" on a pure gaming computer will have some crucial information on that machine, so I simply do not see how we've gone this far without making this change.
I enjoy Serif products but have always wondered how it would survive. Pixelmator stayed a family-run bootstrapped operation while Serif scaled a company in the EU around the Affinity Suite.
Monetizing timac.org app analyses is developer catnip

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=timac.org&next=175530...
I wish this bill was more accurately explained

The path to TikTok not existing in the US is basically nonexistent

It’s court challenges after court challenges, and then an asset sale, and then…. The same service until it’s new stewards mess it up with changes years later.

It only goes away if the asset sale doesn’t occur.

And either way it’s just a protectionist bill towards US enterprises. Or meeting parity with China who didn’t let US social media enterprises operate in China, not even this ignorance weaponized version of TikTok.
Understood, thank you. There are certainly applications in demand sensing/demand forecasting where things like recent order information, recent sales, CRM inputs are quite predictive of near-term outcomes, but become useless for longer horizon forecasts.
In my experience, when information like this is available, no time-series technique that is unable to leverage this information would beat even simple regressions for short term horizon forecasts.
I enjoyed it. I followed it way easier then the books and that was a positive for me.
Why would you expect anything to work well for economic forecasting :p
Would be interested to see this compared to IPOPT.

https://coin-or.github.io/Ipopt/

IPOPT isn't tailored to NLEs specifically, but it does solve NLPs well. It also uses some amazing Fortran linear algebra routines from Harwell (MA57).
Two questions I have - which may not have answers as of now:

1. Will new app stores be able to sell iPad and Vision apps too? I.e. or just iPhone apps? Apple would obviously restrict this to iPhone apps if it can. But given apps can be cross platform/device, new app stores and their developers are going to want to sell to all devices.

2. If alternate app stores can sell to all Apple devices, will that mean as a practical matter, that the memory allocation/permissions API used for JIT on Macs, and by Apple on its other devices, will now be available to developers for all Apple ecosystem devices?

Among other things, JIT API availability is required for alternate web browser, Javascript, and WebAssembly implementations.

If JIT access becomes universal on iOS devices, then more serious development tools, as well as development friendly interfaces, and third party APIs, are going to be possible. Lots of barriers to serious computing on other devices will be gone.

I am particularly interested in this in terms of Vision Pro + keyboard + trackpad/mouse as a complete Mac replacement for serious work. As apposed to requiring a Mac as it does today.
And for those even deeper into the theory, one question you might ask is, if we can divide spectrum and time to get some bandwidth B per channel, how many bits can we send/receive over a distinct channel?

The answer is C = Blog2(1 + S/N) where B is the bandwidth and S/N is the signal to noise ratio determined by the environment (how much noise is present relative to the signal being transmitted). The crazy thing is this was proven in the 1940s and everyone interested should go read The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon. This is referred to as the Shannon-Hartley theorem, and it determines the channel capacity (C, in bits/second) of any communication channel in the presence of noise.

The math concepts might seem heady, but it's actually fairly approachable and available online. It's fascinating that the fundamentals were proven out in one work nearly 80 years ago by a handful of people, and the math is not that bad.

The thing that makes this nuts is that if an engineer picks some target bitrate for a device, say a cellphone watching video, they can work backwards to determine the channel capacity they need, do some experiments to figure out noise, and then determine what the target their modem protocol needs to reach to be suitable. And this is how we get 5G and fiber or whatever comes next.
This is how you characterized my views:

> the person above made its point that the christians only eradicated other cultures/religions, when they were cruel and sacrificing humans

I have two objections to this.

1. I am not an "it".

2. The inclusion of the word "only" fundamentally changes the point to something completely different from what I said.
Miguel de Icaza: Swift Godot: Fixing the Multi-million dollar mistake [video]
Only about two of the cast can act, Pryce can't do an American accent, the pacing is all over the place, and honestly if it wasn't for _that_ scene I think it would be a solid thumbs-down.

Station Eleven remains my favourite recent sci-fi (ish). 3BP seems amateur-ish in comparison.
How I Journal, 1000 Days In
What Google really needs to do is get into the 2nm EUV space and go sub 2nm. When they have the electro lithography (or whatever tech ASML has that prints on the chips) then you have something really dangerous. Probably a hardcore Google X moonshot type project. Or maybe they have 500mm sitting around to just buy one of the machines. If their tpu are really that good - maybe it is a good business - especially if they can integrate all the way to having their own fab with their own tech
These were neat. I had the 50-in-1 from Radio Shack. I would play with it before school in the mornings. Definitely the thing to pique a kid's interest in electronics easily and safely.
> when I request data through FOIA

Fascinating. Can you share any details? Did you ever think to share some of your interesting finds here on HN as a submission?
Look I’m not trying to exclude groups of people with this observation

But it seems like people avoid this observation based on the idea that whoever makes it is going to use it to exclude people

How is every trait simply genetic with both humans, and other species, even our pets! but when it comes to cognitive function - in humans - it has to be socioeconomic mish mash that can’t be quantified so don’t ask or do that research. But even with our pets we’re like just kidding I picked this breed because they’re smart.

Is it because we’ve proved humans are all too similar? Is it because we’ve annihilated the ones that weren’t similar already? Isn’t that how we got to this point if that’s the case?
Yeah, personally I wouldn't develop on a different ISA than what I deployed to in production.
Ah nice.

Btw, some alternative GlobalAllocs:

https://github.com/lemonrock/context-allocator

https://github.com/gnzlbg/jemallocator

https://github.com/raviqqe/bdwgc-alloc

https://github.com/jmcomets/tcmalloc-rs

https://github.com/sunjay/mgc
> The concept of thread vs process is mainly a userspace detail for Linux. We arbitrarily decided that the set of clone() parameters from fork() create a process, while the set of clone() parameters through pthread_create() create a thread. If you start tweaking the clone() parameters yourself, then the two become indistinguishable.

That's from Plan 9. There, you can fork, with various calls, sharing or not sharing code, data, stack, environment variables, and file descriptors.[1] Now that's in Linux. It leads to a model where programs are divided into connected processes with some shared memory. Android does things that way, I think.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=863939
I'm genuinely curious what things you feel like you have to hide. I'm fortunate enough to come from a decent socioeconomic situation, but I still feel like I'm not my "full self" (whatever that even means) at work in interest of team cohesion.
I wish we had the modern equivalent of Forrest Mims notebooks! Those went a little bit into the theory, and had schematics from which you could derive a BOM, all of which were also available from Radio Shack. Definitely a step up from the project kits. There were also kits that let you build things like a multimeter or a radio, good things to help build skills like soldering, even if they were light on info as to how the circuit worked.
And the sad part now is that HP Color LaserJets are hampered by such godawful software and design that I wish I had bought a Brother color laser printer. I will never make that mistake again.

I have a beautiful HP Color LaserJet MFP 4301dfw that constantly loses connection to the WiFi access point and requires a reboot and/or logging into the incredibly shitty HP Smart software. I really wish HP had enterprise-grade or at least prosumer software instead of this fucking awful consumer shit. A $599 printer should have a solid software stack, and HP even markets it to small office consumers.

The machine has a beautifully designed exterior and solid internals that are plagued with an absolute shit software stack. Bill Hewlett and David Packard are probably rolling over in their grave at how fucking far their laser printer division has fallen.
This app is legit. I married Taylor Swift from it and we have threesomes with Sydney Sweeney.
Japan approves plan to sell fighter jets in break from pacifist principles
> Nothing important can happen.

wouldn't it be a wake up call? wouldn't things of real importance start to happen?

we're insanely capable creatures, but most of our energy is wasted on in-fighting and getting in our way.
Hate to say it, but a subscription model is coming. Canva is making money hands over fist by doing that, and I can't imagine they are going to part from what has been so lucrative
xsv? I never heard of it. This one? https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

If yes, looks very cool. Plus, bonus HN/Internet points for being written in Rust!
Two scenarios:

- condom breaks, she refuses to abort

- condom does its job, she uses the sample to artificially inseminate

Does Bob still have the same obligation?

If yes, that’s batshit crazy. If no, it does seem like Bob’s consent is pretty important.
I did RV life during covid for almost two years, and it became very apparent that the government is just not able to handle the kind of arrangement where you are constantly moving.

First of all, every state requires you to order a new drivers license within 30 days of moving. So now you’re breaking the law if you don’t order 12 licenses a year. Next, if the address is wrong, there go your voting rights. Don’t forget that if the IRS sends you a notice, or the state sends you a jury summons, you’ll never get it. Oh and also you need to update all bank addresses immediately, because of KYC AML laws.
If you move states often, yeah you’re pretty much screwed.

It’s a rather sad state of affairs.

What needs to happen is the USPS needs to manage identity, preferably using wallets of some kind, like DID wallets. Then you could just log into USPS and tell them where you want your mail delivered.

Won’t happen though, because the government is too inept and has no incentive to make people’s lives easier. Maybe someday it’ll get better.
I’ve been in Clavell’s house in West Vancouver. My old professor bought it (a long time ago). It’s a rad mid-century place with Japanese elements. Truly one of a kind.
How did we not have that feature in, like... 1993?
I made the conscious choice not to read the novels until after I watched the TV, as the novels are almost always better than movie/TV adaptations and I didn't want to ruin the TV.

I'm right in the middle of the Chinese version[1] (just watched episode 17 of 30), and am enjoying it, although it is dragging a bit.

Once I'm done with that, I'll watch the Netflix version -- then I'll read the first novel.