skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice job!

Balance bikes aren't even all that necessary and a lot of them are so poorly made that they aren't doing much of anything. Get a decent real bike of the appropriate size and take the pedals off of it (lower the seat so they can sit while both feet are flat on the ground).

Teach the kids to glide. That's it. Start with gliding a few centimeters and work up to gliding multiple meters/feet. Go at whatever pace is comfortable. It could take months or minutes. You'll know when the time is right to put the pedals back on and raise the seat. At that point, you are 5-10 minutes max from riding a bike like a pro.

For my oldest kid, I paid $50 for a "we will teach your kid to ride in ONE HOUR" class and watched them teach it (my kid took 45 minutes). Since then, I've taught little kids, older kids, adults. This stuff really works. It is seriously hard to believe that the old way of teaching people to ride bikes ever existed.
Yea, it's very much bagging + top layer (router) for the importance score!
FWIW there's https://www.synology.com/en-us/form/security (the title says the form is for "security-related questions", but weirdly it requires a PoC, so not sure whether that form would be appropriate). I don't have a direct line either.

Most likely explanation IMO: Badly secured access like usually...
> Trying to buy something locally made in the US with the same amount of sugar is impossible.

I avoid processed foods whenever practical, added sugar among the reasons. Sugar (and too much of it) is added to a ridiculous % of products, for no good reason.

In your example: try dried (white) beans. Soak overnight, cook ~1 hour until the beans are soft, steep or add eg. potato starch to bind leftover liquid, and then: add tomato paste & salt to taste. Just concentrated tomato, not ketchup / pasta sauce! Personally I add some chili paste as well, various herbs / spices could also go in but are really not needed.

Tastes waaay better than the canned stuff from supermarket. Practically 0 sugar in it, and not as much water as in the canned stuff.
They were a tyranny in our house too! I bought a Sodastream, HobbyBrew CO₂ cannister and an adapter to join the two together. For the cost of like 30 bottles of Diet Coke I now have cheap fizzy water and the kids can add squash to it.
Uncommon Knowledge or Tyler Cowen
End stage enshittification
The hand movement controls what is being showed in the projector, which are inputs of the computation it does.

You speak with such confidence. Always a reliable red flag that you don’t know what you are talking about.
I don’t see people burning witches as part of their daily routines in 2024.
Lantern seems really cool! Interestingly we did try CLIP (openclip) image embeddings but the results were poor for 24px by 24px icons. Any ideas?

Charlie @ v0.app
It’s explained in detail here:

https://kolinko.github.io/effort/equations.html

Long story short - I kind of sort them and pick only the top % that would give a highest result.

One part is choosing them though - I think this was done before in some papers. But the second part was an implementation of multiplication that is efficient on both gpus and cpus when choosing weights almost at will.

All explained on the site, but I just got feedback that it may not be easy enough to read, so I’ll push it through gpt for grmamar fixes soon :) It’s also a bit complicated as an algorithm.
What I like:
The splash page for your website is fun and engaging.

Additional feature requests:
A way to quit the app. I'd like to right click on it to quit it.
The stop start button doesn't change state when it's clicked on which confuses me.
Seems like clicking the stop / start button multiple times breaks the app.

What I don't like:
The download process feels unsafe. Going to a google drive folder and then manually installing feels a bit strange. That said it works.

Good luck on the launch :)
They haven't responded yet, but I'd wager they're referring to the idea that the Ultra Wealthy are all leftists.
This is an unreasonable comment even for an American. But in other countries it's especially not a concern. You might have to report it to a different government agency (like an archaeologist or animal control) but you are supposed to report it to someone.

The other reddit category of things you should report to the police (or someone else) is of course people who find old grenades in their house.

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/4x9u4p/unc...
It fingerprinted you based on <canvas> profiling. Your browser updated during the restart. (Hope I'm wrong)
I'm more interested in how they're automating the manufacturing of their robots. Robots making robots driving the learning curve.
If you are ever in NYC, the present-day patron saint of gypsy jazz (Stephane Wrembel) has a residency at Barbes in Park Slope. He plays every Sunday at 8, and hosts an annual festival "Django a Gogo" coming up on the first weekend in May.

It's a super good time.
Andreessen Horowitz raises $7.2B and sets sights on AI startups
The way I describe Reddit to people is that you have zero clue if you’re arguing with a 13 year old who discovered $x concept this week.

(Or a bot)

If you move through the site with that understanding - and personally, using the old interface - it can still be bearable.

I’m not the biggest fan of the company itself these days and I hold out hope that something else can take off, but I’ve not been impressed so far.
I was surprised to note that this is actually on par with most juices - 10% difference give or take.
Show HN: Highlights of RisingWave v1.8: The Open-Source Streaming Database
Anyone know if crypto proof of work solving is being lumped in with “AI”?
The CSA and CSRA were both implemented to put a stop to the spoils system for executive offices that existed previously.

Do you think that was better?

And if not, how would you propose re-politicizing civil service positions without falling victim to spoils again?
Also on supabase!
"everything is possible" except for a synthesized instrument that actually has the expressive range of a real violin or saxophone. Even a synthesized piano is noticeably lifeless compared to the real thing (synthesized piano bass notes are especially thin).
Considering that Google is a direct competitor with Tuta in the context of email I don't see how this isn't illegal, anti-competitive behavior. Google would be stupid to blame this on their algo because that has second order consequences which would cost them more than paying a settlement to Tuta and knocking this nonsense off.
Very nice! love that it is all in swift, will give a closer look later but looks beautiful.

Recently went through this with a react native app with a ton of old dependencies and it was fairly painful. Wrote a couple not quite as beautiful scripts to help so I wish I had this before.

Tangential rant: I am all for privacy but find it really obnoxious that the most profitable company in the world is giving open source contributors to their ecosystem work on a deadline. Case in point: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/10325
Or something that's never happened can continue never happening. People have found hominid fossils out in public before and it's been obvious they were fossils. The worst that's happened is they're returned to native tribes who then keep them.
If all data sources indicate that domestic culture is the single biggest differentiator to educational attainment, who are you suggesting we blame besides the stewards of said domestic culture?

Go to school, get good grades, don't borrow money, look after your health, get a job, be polite, pay your taxes - these are all the fundamentals of a good culture and are massively predictive of success. Lots of this advice is millennia old. It's not the role of a liberal government to culturally indoctrinate its people.
Apologies!

Here's a good primer on embeddings from openai:
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings
The regions you mention are also very much ruled by money, just like everywhere else. The only difference is the demographic of the people calling the shots. Old oil money/railroad money/ranch money billionaires will put any costal startup founder to shame with their power and antics.
Yup. I was just playing around with this in Javascript yesterday and with ChatGPT's help it was surprisingly simple to go from text => embedding (via. `openai.embeddings.create`) and then to compare the embedding similarity with the cosine distance (which ChatGPT wrote for me): https://gist.github.com/christiangenco/3e23925885e3127f2c177...

Seems like the next standard feature in every app is going to be natural language search powered by embeddings.
> Probably so. At least more day-to-day.

What's an example of a race-based policy that has been or you think can be realistically enacted that has had or should/will have material benefits?

> From being put up for adoption because my birth-moms family didn't want her to have a black child (I have this directly from my birth grandmother), to being picked on as the only black kid in my class, to having my fiancée say that her family won't come to our wedding due to race (never got married, so won't know if they'd follow through or not -- but it put an extra strain on the relationship that didn't help).

That all sucks and I don't at all doubt that such people still exist, but I'm confused how you think race-based politics would help. To recap, you said that race issues are #2 in your political priorities after material/economic issues, ostensibly because of experiences like this, so what sort of municipal, state or federal policies or laws could be enacted that would help?

> But you're ignoring the fact that real politics have been used against the out-groups.

If identity politics have been used against out-groups, I'm skeptical that you can fix it by doubling down on identity politics in some "opposite" direction.

> And I'm unclear if you're saying it should be ignored or that the advantage gained doesn't exist.

Depends what you mean by "ignored", but to be clear I've been saying a few things:

1. identity politics is a pseudo-zero sum game and divides people who should unite against the people with the actual power.

2. class politics is materially more important than identity politics.

3. groups that have been disproportionately disadvantaged by identity politics, as you point out, are also disproportionately advantaged by a focus on class politics, and this has been born out by studies on the economic impacts of class-focused policies vs. identity-focused policies.

You don't have to ignore history to ally with someone against a common foe.
Often the activities to monetize something have little overlap with the activity itself or they change the way you do something so it’s no longer enjoyable.
> Mostly because the rancher / local types would rather spit in their eyes just to make a point that not everything can be bought. Kudos to them.

I think the point here is they are all rich a-holes.

Guy wants to build a home on land that he owns? Hard for me to fault the guy. Stupid he has to take it this far.

After awhile though, I don't know whether to be amused by rich people pissing on each other, or disgusted.
I think Magic Leap is probably a better comparison. Unlike with Theranos the tech does work, there just isn't really a market for it.
Ask HN: On a scale of 1 to 100, how do you qualify your passion for programming?
I'm curious to know this from you.
People don’t learn based on the action they just did, they learn based on the universe’s response to that action. It seems like an expected result that if the model is just learning by inserting it’s outputs into the training data somehow, that it will fail, in the same way that a person who never receives feedback will go in really weird directions.

But the paper is nice to have in case anyone is suggesting such a scheme. Is anyone? Hopefully not…
Getting invested doesn’t mean your interests align. What’s best for your or the product can be different than what’s good for your boss, your company, your customers, or your teammates.

I used to document things in a way that would quickly get people up to speed, but was generally useless to current team members. Very useful if you where new or hadn’t touched the project in 3+ years, but no so helpful if you’ve been working on it for the last few months.
Sure, the scaling is definitely better with the goto approach. Goto will probably codegen better too (consider the destructors being inlined). Separating allocation from whatever one is doing with the resources is usually still a win though - it decouples the cases you're checking when looking through the code.
Sometimes laws preserve apartheid.

In those cases, it is better to violate the law than to preserve apartheid.

Just like Rosa Parks.
Sorry but this is a lie. I don’t have bots and I don’t do crypto.

Think before you make public accusations.
I agree that personal responsibility is important and both things can be true. I also think anyone who believes our taxes are going to go down if we don’t bail students out is delusional. With that belief, I’d rather my taxes directly improve the lives of tens of thousands of people than funnel more money into defense contractors, poorly run construction companies that can’t build infrastructure, and other already wealthy people’s pockets who aren’t actually returning what I think is enough value to the country for what we’re paying.
I think our government (USA), whether full of political appointees or "civil servants" aka bureaucracy, has grown far too large and should be scaled back tremendously. Further, the USA is a Republic of Sovereign States with the Federal Government for protection of borders and interstate commerce as outlined in the Constitution.

For instance, something like the Department of Education, is overstepping the role of Federal Government, and I think the statistics prove me correct. I also believe that FBI/CIA has been weaponized in favor of what would historically been perceived as Un-American activities across the globe. Let's start with the Iran-Contra affair and the very well known fact of cocaine running ruining the mostly black inner cities of the 1980's. This in my opinion is something heads should roll for, and those involved should be held accountable and thrown in jail. I think these people are POS, and frankly if you disagree with my statement, I think you are too. It's inhumane and disgusting.
Fun fact, their internal slogan was (is?)

> Von der Wiege bis ins Kästle – alles Nestlé!

which roughly translates to

> From the cradle to the casket - everything Nestle!
Haha halfwit! I’m waiting for such a fork.

As for predicting the weights - not necessarily so. It seems most weights are being used, just not all the time. Kind of like that saying that humans are using just 5% of their brain - perhaps they are, but it’s various parts of the 5%.

Interestingly, Effort works just as well on MoE, if not better. I did most of the development on Mixtral and I think it go even to 15-20% effort before losing quality, but there is some sort of a bug right now that prevents the inference on Mixtral.

It’s on a todo to fix, but I didn’t want to delay the release because of it.
> That was done specifically for SEO purposes.

As a human I also like it when I can see what topic a URL points to (eg. when it's being shared on HN, or pasted into source code, etc). URLs that just have an opaque ID or terse filename are not very user-friendly.
That bad artificial sweetener aftertaste is way less pronounced if you are making a Rum and Coke though, so I always use Coke Zero for my adult beverages. Can't let the sugar kill me when I'm having several cups of vodka!
It's not that they are fine with charging, it's that they have no choice, they are charging the bare minimum to cover the new Apple fees.

Sure they could create a paid appstore option only in the EU (if that's not against the appstore guidelines somehow, I don't know) but that might not align well with their strategy.

Additionally I also feel it would kind of be a bad PR on their side as well to charge more on the appstore in the EU.
> The default subreddits are ultra-useless, ultra-high noise

I have a really, really, really hard time believing that the ultra-uselessness of the default subreddits is anything other than a _deliberate_ attempt on the part of the reddit admins to make them that way.

Or, to be more direct - I do not believe at _all_ that the political slant of reddit's main subs is organic.
Look for usernames that look like 2 words from a dictionary, then hyphen, then 4 digits.

Almost always, it's a ragebait post that looks like it could be written by a specialized AI. Or some low-brow high-upvote take.
Why Boeing chief's $33M pay is hard to justify
Does anyone know the provenance for when vectors started to be called embeddings?
Building a Local LLM Agent with Speech Recognition and TTS Support
It is. Low household income correlates with obesity.
The dynamic does seem to be different with the newer systems. Larger more general systems are better than small specialized models.

GPT-4 is SOTA at OCR and sentiment classification, for example.
Let me ask this:

Do you agree that a work environment/culture is defined by the people who are a part of it?

Do you think that during the interview stage, an employer can characterize the work environment as different than it is in reality?

If you say yes to both of these, then I don't understand the disconnect.

Maybe I can summarize another way:

- It's not possible to really know what a work environment is like until you actually start working there. To deny this is to deny that other people at the company play a role in the work environment. Since you don't have control over other people, you don't have control over the work environment.

- Therefore, characterizing a decision to accept employment at a particular employer, as evidence of one's own superior ability to predict what the work environment is like is... misguided?

Job hopping until you find a work environment that fits is a good idea. But this is trial and error. It's not the result of a superior ability to sniff out work cultures before accepting employment.

My last question is: how did this line of reasoning offend you so deeply to suggest that I'm projecting insecurity?
What's the best (non-tablet) software for kids?
I'm setting up a computer for my 6-year-old and would like to put good software on it. It can be a Mac or PC as I haven't bought it yet.
I'm going to install Microsoft Word because I think it's fun to just type random stuff and mess around with fonts, I remember doing that a lot as a kid.

I'm looking for a good turtle LOGO program that isn't too complicated.

I think I'll install SimCity 2000 as the first game and show him how to use it.

I'll install Google Earth because it's mindboggling how much information is in there.

Any other ideas?
What if we converted some of these office buildings into housing? (Along with dying ng/dead shopping malls?)
Super Mario is such a fun example. Well chosen.
There was a LOT of discussion of this in the Q&A after the talk. Currently we have 4 main approaches:

(1) There's some stuff that's pretty much a bug for every program. If it segfaults, exits with a nonzero code, OOMs, triggers a TSAN error, fills the disk with fatal error messages, etc., etc., that's pretty easy to qualify.

(2) You can use our SDK to define additional custom test properties. Think like a normal assertions library, but you can also do existential quantification ("this code is reachable/this situation can happen") and soon temporal assertions ("this should never happen without this other thing happening first, possibly on a different node").

(3) We store all the output of your system in every timeline in a giant analytic database and support ad-hoc querying against it. Think "pre-observability", observability but for mirror universes. You can then do all the spelunking and analysis you would do with your production traces, but before your real customers are exposed to any issue.

(4) We have some very cool ML approaches in the pipeline that I can't talk about quite yet.
This is a good call out. OpenAI embeddings were simple to stand up, pretty good, cheap at this scale, and accessible to everyone. I think that makes them a good starting point for many people. That said, they're closed-source, and there are open-source embeddings you can run on your infrastructure to reduce external dependencies.
Science can never prove that it has reached the bottom, but it could hypothetically yield a model that makes predictions that always match the universe to within all relevant margins of error. It could be that that model is itself a simulation or that there are yet deeper layers we just can't see, whatever, you know, all that jazz. But if there was a complete model, with no internal contradictions, that matched everything we could see, then at least when someone said "in light of this theory, gravity is X", we would be making a coherent statement.

Right now we can't say what gravity is. We know we don't have a complete description of it, because the contradictions between QM and relativity are something explainable to a motivated high school student, as they are pretty fundamental. You don't need to deeply understand either theory to understand enough of the conflict to know we don't have an answer.

This isn't a criticism of either theory per se or the scientists involved. They're the best we've got and they're each on their own pretty good. But we are as justified in saying "gravity is definitely a curvature of spacetime because Relativity says so" as we are justified in saying "gravity doesn't exist because it doesn't appear in the standard model at all". Both are basically the same statement relative to the theory they relate to, it is just more obvious the latter is wrong.
That's a hard pill to swallow after years and years of the same routine 'unsuccesses' , and it relies on the personal belief that A decent life cannot be lead without success in finance and business; I believe that's simply not the case.
I assume by "draw a picture in crayon", you mean provide a very simple explanation. You seem to be confusing the fact that children generally draw simple things, and also draw with crayons commonly. But there is nothing about crayons intrinsically that means a crayon drawings must be simple.
>children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries

The children in higher-income countries were already spoken for by much more well-established multinationals.

It started centuries ago after moving tonnes of raw cargo from plantations in tropical agricultural colonies.

The crop was not commercialized internationally like the crystals were. The syrup was extracted, crystallized, and accumulated for most efficient transportation as a fungible commodity in bulk. The highly concentrated active ingredient of an agricultural product, at a landed cost very low among the digestible alternatives in so many markets. Tropical oils come to mind as another concentrated active ingredient from other crops.

Low cost alone can make some things fly off the shelf by themselves, but when you've got bulk, and trading, you get more surplus than lots of other times. And when the cost of some parcel of excess drops to effectively zero or even negative, it can fly off the shelf with much greater momentum, even if it is temporary while it lasts. But occasional stimulus effects like that over the centuries could outlast a market upset like few other things, sugar (and fat) are widely regarded as habit-forming. No stronger supply-chain to support the habit than to deal with the pure material.

Looks like Nestle is a multinational re-exporting a highly value-added commodity in bulk (at its own scale), and to some tropical countries which have great agricultural potential themselves. No wonder it seems to have been accomplished in a deceptive way.
I seem to recall Steam publishing something like that a while back. A huge fraction of their user base was born on January 1st ;)