skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what negativity in this thread! this is the only tangible, hopeful HSR project in the country right now
>there are sadly a lot of doctors who don't understand science

This is probably partly due to the history of medicine. It's not like engineering, which is fundamentally the practice of applied science. Medicine came from a very different path, basically like voodoo or witchcraft, and has been struggling to become more scientific. Many fields of medicine are fundamentally unscientific, such as chiropractic.

Also, doctors (mostly) aren't scientists or researchers at all: they're basically what non-medical engineers and scientists would consider "technicians". They use tools and knowledge the scientists and engineers have found or made, and apply them to individual problems (i.e. patients).

Of course, it doesn't help at all that the systems doctors work on (human bodies) are ridiculously complex, and themselves not at all a product of engineering. And on top of that, every human is somewhat different, so things that work on one don't work on others.

Personally, I think the entire field of western medicine, though it's still better than the ridiculously unscientific forms of traditional medicine it competes with, needs some work to improve its scientific foundations.
This post also explains what EURISKO does by putting it into the context of the later system Doug Lenat worked on, Cyc https://outsiderart.substack.com/p/cyc-historys-forgotten-ai...
Android is already quite cool compared with what traditional OSes happen to be.

For starters it is what Microsoft has failed to do with Longhorn, because contrary to having internal sabotage from the kernel team, the Android team doubled down on their efforts to make a managed userspace actually work in a mainstream product.

Dalvik sucked balls against Sony and Nokia J2ME implementations, with its DEX interpreter, yet they managed to create ART with quite cool mix of JIT/AOT/PGO, and a very modern GC.

Then it follows up, that for all the praise Plan 9 gets on hacker circles, Android's approach to user space closely follows on Inferno with Limbo, Plan 9's successor that many of its praisers tend to forget.

Followed by being able to encapsulate Linux kernel into a micro-kernel like stack, where most drivers are process based using Android IPC to talk to the kernel, and can be written in a mix of Java, C++, and now Rust.

If only they handn't screw Sun, and stepped away when the ship went down, maybe they could have saved themselves some headaches, however Google isn't really a language designer company, so maybe that was for the greater good nontheless.

Ah, and using AIDL is so much better developer experience than dealing with the primitive COM tooling on Windows.
Here in Germany it seems like people buy a lot of books. Actually people make fun of me for having an ebook reader
more megapixels/better pixels require bigger sensors, thus, the optics have to scale accordingly too.
I remember reading on Charles Stross' blog that the paperback is kind of dead in the US. At least for his niche. I think his last book only went out in hard cover.
trees are not and can not be a very major form of carbon capturing

My god. I may have to leave this website for good.

Just cut down all the forests they said! It'll be better for the environment!
Just make one of the cars a party bus.
The Feminist Botanist
Every couple of years I revisit the FPGA topic, eager to build something exciting. I always end up with a ton of research, where I learn a lot but ultimately shy away from building something.

This is because I cannot find a project that is doable and affordable for a hobbyist but at the same time requires an FPGA in some sense. To put it bluntly: I can blink a LED for a fiver with a micro instead of spending hundreds for an FPGA.

So, assuming I am reasonably experienced in software development and electronics and I have 1000 USD and a week to spend.

What could I build that shows off the capabilities of an FPGA?
The trick is to stop feeding cows chickens.

Its so wrong on many levels!

Cows are vegans not carnivores.

I have never seen a cow chase a chicken across an open field, bring it down, then proceed to tear the flesh off it. I'm thinking a monty python sketch here.

The bloke who caught bird flu from a cow back in early April. I dont belive this for one second.

The individual is being treated with an antiviral drug for a single symptom, eye redness.

Oops, I got a spot on my arse better rush to the doctors and get vaccinated.
Ask HN: How does deploying a fine-tuned model work
If I've managed to build my own model, say a fine-tuned version of Llama and trained it on some GPUs, how do I then deploy it and use it in an app. Does it need to be running on the GPUs all the time or can I host the model on a web server or something. Sorry if this is an obvious/misinformed question, I'm a beginner in this space
There’s a lot more to Vegas than gambling.
Around 2005 I was using deep freeze for 20ish Windows 2000 public computers with only documents folder mutable so people could save stuff in there.
Worked like magic.
I'm not related with the product, just sharing my experience. YMMV.

Edit: link
https://www.faronics.com/es/products/deep-freeze
While it is true that code has built-in fact checking, i would expect AI to actually do the fact checking implicitly. They are all logic in the end.

I often see GPT/Gemini propose code solutions that refer to non-existing libraries or methods inside of these libraries. Perhaps the solution is to use specialized AI for coding is more advised.

And dont use the generic ones. However these hallucinations are still facts. The issue is that humans are also prone to hallucinations; this is perhaps the most challenging aspect to solve in AI. Everything the AI says must be vetted/fact-checked.

Back to coding with AI: i noticed AI, as described by the original author, is perhaps best integrated as an assistant. It works well when given enough context and a simple task that could otherwise take hours to complete but is now in seconds. So think of:

- given this function: …

- write test cases that covers the most common inputs.

LLM’s are still long way to go to replace programmers. But at the pace it’s going, it feels scary sometimes.
The amount of utter dismissal of forest ecology and timber industry propaganda is sickening.
Regardless of them struggling in the future, publishing books that sell is clearly superior to publishing one's that don't.
I would love to learn more what can be done! (And especially for projects in Southern Germany where I am based).

Apparently, a huge part of the opportunities are in embedded computing. One observation I have that there is an AI hype now, but very few people in that area realize how much can be achieved with "conventional" methods like classical signal processing strategies, for example predictive filtering. A huge part of embedded computing is just concerned with getting a board running, at which point you are not farther than when you have powered on a PC and finished to log in.
500GB/s is going to limit it to at best 1/4 the DL performance of an nvidia gpu. I’m not sure what the floating point perf of these FPGAs are but I imagine that also might set a fundamental performance limit at a small fraction of a GPU.
Looks like a good and useful benchmark.
Put them on Apple gear, seriously.

Lifelong Android user, and I know nothing about Apple, but when it came time for them to upgrade from their OG Razr's last year, I was at a crossroads. These people are tech illiterate. I ended up telling them to buy IPhone.

Believe it or not, they mostly figured it all out pretty easily. They still get confused and scared by FB video calls coming in, but otherwise are able to talk, text, use social media, etc. So much so they even bought an iPad.

It seems the reason I like Android - tons of options and customizability, are the exact opposite of what an older user wants from their device.
It means an author whose books do well. Examples given in the essay include Tom Clancy and Stephen King.
Yes, you can disable Passcode in Apple Configurator, which uses a Mac to create the XML policy profile.

There's also an OSS project for iOS/macOS configuration profiles.

https://github.com/ProfileCreator/ProfileCreator/wiki

https://github.com/ProfileCreator/ProfileCreator

https://github.com/ProfileCreator/ProfileManifests
I buy books of all kinds. Paperback, hard cover, audio (rarely), e-book prefer non DRM. In fact, the number of books I buy has not really changed much. I just end up reading more books!

People trade or loan me books. I get electronic ones via many means too.

Many people I know buy books.

Who does not buy books?
I do not see how the final keyword would make a difference in performance at all in this case. The compiler should be able to build an inheritance tree and determine by itself which classes are to be treated as final.

Now for libraries, this is a different story. There I can imagine final keyword could have an impact.
Must be difficult debugging a system with a 45 hour round trip each step of the way. And here I thought debugging a system on customer premises was tough. Hats off!
it happens to me a little bit too, but I am low on RAM, so I suspect is a performance issue
Actually some of the Open Group standards, are pay to play, they are open in the sense they are available, in some form.
Looks like you don't read books for entertainment?

I believe the original article wasn't about technical/self improvement etc books.
>At one minute per container in the 150hrs it took the ship to arrive you could have delivered 140*60 = 8400 containers to the other side.

If you're considering a case of 3000 miles, that's not a canal anymore and can use the full size ships that carry 18,000 containers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_E-class_container_ship?...
Reading about brain waves makes me think analog computing could be the way to go.
It lost $192 million in the first 9 months of 2023. $201 million same period of 2022. It also lowered its passenger forecast to Orlando from 7 to 5.5 million.

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2024/03/08/brightli...
Hm, roundabout 84 authors of one "scientific" paper. I wonder if this says something about (a) the quality of its content, (b) the path were academic (?) paper publishing goes to, (c) nothing at all, or (d), something entirely else.
Um, no? The actual problem is that most FPGAs already have DPUs for machine learning integrated on them. Some Xilinx FPGAs have 400 "AI Engines" which provide significantly more compute than the programmable logic, the almost 2000 DSP slices or the ARM cores. This means that the problem with FPGAs is primarily lack of SRAM and limited memory bandwidth.

https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/vck190.html
Updated the article. Thanks for the context
Most Kindle books are not sold with DRM, for many years now. I don't know about other platforms. Readers yelled at publishers until they stopped enabling it, and turned out it didn't make enough difference to keep annoying their core customer base.
It’s amazing how much simping for corporations that goes on here. I almost have to believe it’s just paid PR people from those corporations, because I don’t know what else would motivate such defending. Do you really think that if you praise Company X on HN that they will suddenly hire you? Or that they’ll give you a bonus if you’re already employed there? Good grief!
Interesting idea.

The main question for me is if it will be efficient, in the sense that you need program/models that can be binpacked into the size of your design and need data all at the same time in various stages otherwise a lot of your silicon will be under-utilized (since you don't have memory, you can't trade between compute and RAM to efficiently use your silicon die size).

Rather than our current breed of neural network architectures and models, you'd probably need to look into alternatives like spiking neural network and see if they can store data as frequency and activation patterns.
Brightline already spent $6 billion in private funds building functional passenger rail from Miami to Orlando [1].

I’m not in support of private companies receiving subsidies, but at least do some research before reacting..

1- https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/08/04/how-brightline-is-changi...
Meanwhile others are trying to bring back analog CPUs for similar kinds of workloads, it is going to be interesting which ones end up winning in the long run.

For example, https://mythic.ai/products/m1076-analog-matrix-processor/
> Most Americans

I would suggest an edit: Most humans
Its usefulness is rivaled only by HS2.

Honestly LA to LV is probably not bad it’s the right distance, it’s mostly desert so most of the HS2 issues will be avoided. If it’s actually high speed eg 200mph+ then I could see it working.

Edit: oh it’s 100mph, and it stops 37 miles outside of LA. Should rename it HS3
> What is developer support?

Not sure if that's the proper title, but it's just support for other developers (like if you work at a SaaS company or on a lib/SDK type thing, where your customers are also developers, as opposed to tech support for general computer users who aren't coders).

It's not really DevRel because I'm not schmoozing them or trying to manage community functions. I just answer their emails and Slacks and provide help on our APIs, look at some of their code, try to help optimize their queries and components, etc.

It feels a lot like what mentoring newer devs in a regular team would be like, except they're customers and not coworkers.

> That sounds great, but why did you leave.

TLDR there was a change in management halfway through my stint there and our dev process completely changed. They added so many new layers of bureaucracy, doubling down on dogmatic, obsessive Agile and hiring a consultant to teach us all the ceremonies. I couldn't get anything done anymore and it felt like I was suffocating. My mental health was deteriorating and I started to resent going to work to attend yet another useless meeting to discuss how the last meeting went.

Before that change, I had an awesome team and awesome managers and we all worked together really well, did great work (by the company's own measurements), and did it all with no meaningless bullshit and micromanagement. After the change, it was the opposite: way too much fluff and ceremony and too little actual work. Before the change, we delivered good software. After the change, we mostly delivered inflated story points. Looked good on paper but less actual output was produced.

I complained, they told me to provide feedback to the VP, I wrote a detailed 3-page report with examples and suggestions, and the VP just told me to hide the report so nobody else could see it. I quit soon after (and am much happier now, thankfully).
> That's a bold statement due to the way it heavily contrasts with reality.

I'm ready to back this up. And no, I'm not confusing things - I work in HPC (realtime computer vision) and in reality the only thing we'd use C++ for is "glue", i.e. binding implementations of the actual algorithms implemented in other languages together.

Implementations could be e.g. in CUDA, ISPC, neural-inference via TensorRT, etc.
You still can't turn off the light on a Kindle completely can you? Always felt like a waste of battery on a beach...
I have an extract out of it bookmarked, ready to be sent to unruly product managers, sales people and ux designers: https://www.youtube.com/embed/y8OnoxKotPQ?start=138&end=148
For what, the pure joy of burning money?
Nah, they're probably trying to attach themselves to all the AI hype with e.g. devices capable of doing local inference (like cameras).
Then why even bother with SF?
Might want to take a look at Uxn &c. to get a feel for the kind of technology Devine and friends are developing.

https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
What is the scientific argument pro-straw beyond "yeah sure it doesn't make any difference, but it sure raised awareness of the plastics in the oceans issue! Don't forget the turtle!"
Worse than the round-trip is that there's no second chances in some scenarios. If you mess up the wrong part(s) of the system, it's bricked with no way to recover it.
I started with Mandrake (ironically for the game ban, I bought a retail version that came bundled with a copy of The Sims that had been rigged to run with wine), then tried Linux From Scratch (very educational), then a brief spell on Gentoo (because my Dell laptop needed some extra config to get the wifi working anyway, so I figured why not compile all the packages - then I figured out why). Then I liked KDE so moved to openSUSE, but then I stopped liking KDE when 4 came out and broke everything, so I moved to Ubuntu. Then I stopped liking GNOME when 3 broke everything, and at any rate I didn’t have so much time to fiddle any more, so I moved to Xubuntu, and there I remain.
Florida already exists as a "demonstration" project. Regardless, spending $12B just to prove a point is not a wise use of those funds.
> who benefits from illiteracy?

Those already on top.

They can afford to educate their own line and hoard resources across generations doing so. They can fail as many times as it takes before they finally succeed because of this. They throw the bodies of the world at their problems until they are solved, which necessitates an uneducated populace that doesn't realize they're chattel and canon fodder to this purpose. A populace that fear collective power, that fears community beyond immediate family, that shies away from actions that would better the world in favor of actions that are less risky personally.
Thanks for the anecdote. I've included it in the article.
If you had read it, you would know it has nothing to do with content moderation but with the rewards-based activity system.
Web Game Engines and Libraries
OverDrive (and Libby) were acquired by KKR, the behemoth PE firm responsible for bankrupting Toys R Us. KKR also acquired one of the Big Five publishing houses last year. I'm worried about public library funds being squeezed by an extractive PE playbook.

I wonder what kind of negotiating power a regional library has in that situation. Do state library agencies have more leverage than regional libraries? Do large states like California have more leverage in negotiating digital licenses than smaller states? Would a national library system have even more leverage? I'll ask a librarian tomorrow and report back.
Did this, but with Linux Mint, and had the same experience. If one only needs a browser and word processor, many Linux distros seem perfect.
Safeway was always the go to bathroom spot over there. Dunno if it still is, but if it’s any consolation, the Panera is dead.
At my workplace, we are now completing the multiscale simulation of a full mouse brain (neuron/synaptic activity, cellular metabolism, etc). It fits into our small supercomputer first deployed in 2019, and there's a large potential for simplification not yet realized.

I believe that a supercomputer from the top 5 can already simulate a human brain. But we don't have the data and the theory yet. We are developing it, though.
> the only bathrooms within walking distance were "customers only"

They don't want homeless people using them.
Nobody cries about the poor movie industry only making money from superhero movies, do they?
I would recommend not calling such things invariants and not thinking about them in the same way you think about invariants. If you would allow a comparison to physics then you would call such things assumptions: frictionless pulleys, small angle deflections, much slower than light speed, less than nuclear density. The physical theory developed is then correct while the assumptions hold. If you are making such an assumption and your language supports it, add a debug assertion if possible.

For me, invariants are constructs of the design of an algorithm. A list doesn't change while iterating over it-by construction, not because someone else owns the reference and promises not to change it concurrently. This structure can only be instantiated via this function which ensures that that string field can always contains only numeric digits. Those are invariants, thing you enforce by design so you can rely on that later. Assumptions instead are things you do not enforce but rely on anyways.

Back to physics, an invariant would generally be something like conservation of energy or the speed of light being universal. Both of these things are only invariant in certain physical theories which enforce them by construction.
Almost this same exact thing happened with my parents last week. The only thing is that MacOS' remote desktop seems to work inconsistently. Sometimes it sends the permissions request immediately and sometimes it takes a while. Or the person on the other end says OK but the approval never goes through.

When it works it's fantastic though. Ditto for FaceTime screen sharing.
Yeah.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US9883333B2/en

I think it’s also a good example of increasing computer dependency by ‘human centric’ design: I can quickly and manually sort through a bunch of packages with coordinates or pluscodes written on them with some sense of locality. What3Words is designed to give a sense of familiarity but require an API lookup for every single address.

Letters and numbers also translate directly in most languages, words don’t (take bow as an example. Is it when someone leans over, an archer’s weapon of choice, or a cutesy headpiece?), so the familiarity aspect is limited to people with a good grasp of English.

Its main feature is that it can be commercialized, unlike regular coordinate systems.
This video goes into that a bit by studying Florida: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmpyV4Yf8b0

The regulations of rail in the US are slightly perverted (freight rail interests dominate the discussion, usually). The economics of passenger rail in the western US are also difficult when large densities of people are so spread out and the only "primary" reasons for going from A to B are for recreation, not work/industry.
> I've had to explain to my dad that eventually the software on the phone will be so old that new apps can't go on it. He looks at me in confusion and aggression and asks why

I’m with dad on this one! I have so much perfectly good hardware that becomes increasingly useless because Apple stopped providing updates, and 3rd party software developers insist that I’m running the absolute latest OS. I’m at that point yet again with an iPhone 7 that works flawlessly but when I go to get new apps, “SORRY LOSER. You need bleeding edge iOS for your bank’s stupid app!”

I’ll channel your dad’s aggression if I ever meet a Schwab software engineer in person. I complain to every Apple employee I know, too, but they all look at me like I’m crazy for not just buying a new phone every year.
Rancho C. famously has a train station, now metrolink to downtown. From Union Station everywhere.
>Why not go the extra mile, and make each tile a small CPU?

Xilinx AI Engine and Ryzen AI is exactly that.
Years ago I worked support at an ISP who had usernames which was a 12 digit number. Most regular users and 1st level support do no know the NATO phonetic alphabet. An easy trick is trick is then to read back the number for confirmation but use another grouping of digits. Most users read 1 digit at a time so I would read back 2. One-Two becomes twelve. If they used 2 digits I would for ease use 3 rather then 1. This is a very easy way to do a fake "checksumming" regular people.

Tangent: All number started with 12 which in effect made them 10 digits. They worked together with a banking system and the bank folks thought 10 digits was not secure enough so they complied and added 12 in front of everything.