skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a fantastic mission and amazing execution. With 70% of those deliveries happening in the last 2 years, they are really ‘taking off!’ (Sorry…)
This is like complaining about having to type `sudo`.
No analogy between online and offline worlds is particularly exact, but I prefer analogies about window shades, maybe including whether you can make window shades out of materials that block more and more of the electromagnetic spectrum (if you learn that your old window shades were transparent to infrared, for example).
Not "always on" but if you enable a recording with us, it's all searchable and even attempts to write a doc of what you were talking about to scan or answer questions about later: https://augmend.com. We do screen + audio, but audio alone does work.
I do not look down upon Chinese society, or their technological achievements. Even making a derivative chip is a achievement in itself.

However by all analysis, the chip is a derivative of TSMC technology. If TSMC and SMIC are not collaborating, then Occam's Razor leads us to the tech/process being stolen.
> Just lie.

Yes, the liars should consolidate with the idiots at the dysfunctional companies, and leave the rest of us alone. :)
$100 is floor?! Here I am at $36 in Socal! I'm in the wrong line of work...
Incident: Swiss A333 at New York, rejected takeoff due to traffic on runway
And when it doesn't harken well move on to some other hyperbolic doomsday, this has literally been going on for thousands of years. Humans have constantly, hubristically , predicting the end of the planet and humanity based on the existence of humanity for millennia. They are selling, always selling.
What happened to Hong Kong?!
A tool to describe or summarize the image
Hello there!

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There are quite a few potential applications for image descriptions. Combined with TTS (Text-to-Speech), image descriptions can help visually impaired individuals "see" the world by interpreting images; when sharing images on social media, using automatically generated image descriptions as precise hashtag tags can enhance visibility; and with the help of description generators, we can further utilize tools like Midjourney to create new images with similar themes. Of course, there are likely many more uses waiting to be discovered.

To explore these possibilities, I've created a website called ImageDescriber (https://imagedescriber.online/). Currently, it offers the most basic functionality: describing image content and supporting additional input to generate more accurate descriptions.

I invite you to try out ImageDescriber and share your valuable feedback with me. I will carefully consider your input and continuously improve the website to make it more practical and engaging.

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Why did his site get taken down??

This was really popular a few months ago but unfortunately it's nearly impossible to find SXM4 A100 40g gpus on eBay for anything less than their retail price nowadays.
He's obviously not closing Jira tickets at Meta, but that doesn't mean he's not an engineer. As an example of the positive impact that the Llama releases have had, this post from him has been doing the rounds lately in response to criticsm like yours:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/775294156352065/
The pay isn't great, but there are other structural issues when dealing with the federal government.
If it's so easy, you should easily be able to pay off any loans you take out to switch to teaching.
Tangentially related: We like to imagine cyborg metal bodies, but we don't always appreciate all the features of our standard nanotech. From an old post:

________

When it comes to the bio-engineering of the human limbs, just remember that you're sacrificing raw force/speed for a system with a great deal of other trade-offs which would be difficult for modern science to replicate.

1. Supports a very large number of individual movements and articulations

2. Meets certain weight-restrictions (overall system must be near-buoyant in water)

3. Supports a wide variety of automatic self-repair techniques, many of which can occur without ceasing operation

4. Is entirely produced and usually maintained by unskilled (unconscious?) labor from common raw materials

5. Contains a comprehensive suite of sensors

6. Not too brittle, flexes to store and release mechanical energy from certain impacts

7. Selectively reinforces itself when strain is detected

8. Has areas for the storage of long-term energy reserves, which double as an impact cushion

9. Houses small fabricators to replenish some of its own operating fluids

10. Subsystems for thermal management (evaporative cooling, automatic micro-activation)
… unless the price of properties goes … down
That’s 150-200k on the earning side. In most European countries this has a bunch of social security pay-in, pension pay-in, employer-side employee tax etc. already paid for via the employer. The “real” wage is often close to double, so 300k-400k vs 500k-700k, which doesn’t sound nearly as grim once you factor in the much better quality of life.
"You can't improve(manage) that which you can't measure."

In practice, all government departments in all countries have databases with primary key identifiers in them.

We can do this accurately and efficiently, or we can continue to insist on doing it inaccurately and inefficiently because of "Red Scare" propaganda.

You are proposing that you prefer your government to be slow, inefficient, inept, and vulnerable to fraud and corruption.

I prefer my government agencies to not waste my time, not confuse me with similarly named people, etc...

This is a real problem that occurs every day, versus the slippery-slope arguments that derive from anti-communist hysteria.

Here's a real situation: Identical twins with the same name, because "John Sr is the son of John Sr for ten generations, and he didn't want to give up the tradition just because he had twins." That's a real story from a public school system where the kids were living at the same address, attending the same school, were born on the same day, in the same hospital, etc...

How would you disambiguate them? You would start with... assigning... a... unique... number perhaps?
JS is used for fast page transitions and stuff like that, but funny enough I'm pretty sure I end up shipping less JS overall by running server-side JS.

Last I checked, a Tweet embed alone was several mbs of JS, and it causes a bunch of layout shift and loads third party resources. On my blog they're pre-rerendered and shipped statically[1]

Probably the strongest reason though is to not set a 'power cap' on your project unnecessarily. It'd suck to have to rewrite a project because you got trapped in a local maxima, which is why i always share you can have your 100 lighthouse cake & eat it too.

[1] https://rauchg.com/2021/making-the-web-faster#next-momentum
Angular is the most productive platform I've worked with. I'm finishing projects in half the time it took before adopting angular. I highly recommend pairing Angular with Akita or Elf for state management.
Teaching AI to 2nd Graders – My most challenging audience yet
I spent most of the past year presenting AI topics to executives, engineers and data scientists from companies that are Google Cloud customers. Last week was a new type of challenging audience: 2nd graders.

I spoke to three different 2nd grade classes at my 7 year old daughter’s elementary school. For the event I created a presentation and an AI powered website for the kids to create their own stories in a safe manner. The kids seemed to have a great time, with one kid even shouting out “I love AI!”

In the end, I directed students interested in AI to first focus on education and computer fundamentals: reading, writing, math, critical thinking and using computers to create things (but without using AI). This, along with getting the kids excited about technology in general, is the most important takeaway.

I have included a link to the presentation and code for the kids storytelling website within the article.
Yeah the way it rhymes with an apocalypse cult is pretty interesting.

(Not asserting that it is an apocalypse cult of course)
Europe plans to build 100-qubit quantum computer by 2026
They're a non profit that appears to be funded by various types of donations.

- initially funded via crowdfunding

- individual donations

- a few big partner/company donations

- occasional fundraising campaigns for donations

- occasional awards

- a while back they made fancy sunglasses from the plastic they removed, and sold those. Not sure if that's still a thing though.

Wikipedia has a good summary: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ocean_Cleanup#Funding
Reddit refugees. The downvote has become the new "disagree/disapprove" button, post-exodus.
Because it may be cheap, available, and gasp aligning with China might not be so bad overall compared to alternatives.
> There are plenty of 15 hour jobs out there. You can get one right now!

Try talking to recruiters and tell them you want to work 2 days a week as a software developer and see how far you get.
I read about this on Bob Loblaw's Law Blog.
It's simply absurd that most calculator apps just mimic the functionality and UI of a 1$ handheld calculator with a one-line, 15 digits screen.
Extremely cool read, thank you for sharing this. The author's other posts are interesting too. I learned they disabled collision for resource harvesting units so they could smoothly fly through each other on the way to/from the base and resources.
Walmart joins other big retailers in scaling back on self-checkout
Something like 6-8 hours on weekdays, and like 4 on weekends. I count coding as having the editor open and I'm either actively writing/reading code, or researching something that will help me write code.

I used to be closer to 2 hours/day, early in my career, and it definitely held me back. I was told that meetings and talking to people counted as work, which is true - but they don't make me a better programmer. The act of just writing code constantly has made me advance tremendously in the last couple of years.
If it goes to zero, it is almost equivalent to have payed rent for 30 years! ;)

If it becomes half, you still have a home to live in rent free.

More likely it doubles every 10-15 years.
Do they validate that email? Strange to come across someone with no email address, not even an anonymous one.
I'm not sure it's working correctly, I entered the word "what" and it says "4 characters, 3 tokens", I type a space and it says "4 tokens" - shouldn't it just be 1 token? and the space shouldn't count in this case?

Also occasionally a space appears as a capital G (in Chrome)

Probably a minor issue. Question: Is there a special ruleset that llama3 follows that other LMs don't as far as what qualifies as a token?
That makes sense. I'd never thought about it. You've saved me the disappointment of visiting Antarctica to realize that David Attenborough's voice doesn't just chime in whenever you look at something.
What Controls the Price of Gas in the US?
This again? Last time this came up, it was calculated that in order to get to the levels (mg/kg body weight) found to affect fertility in study rats and pigs, you’d have to eat something like between 2/3 and 2x your body weight/day, every day (because it’s easily excreted), of chlormequat-contaminated oats. The studies on rats and pigs used much higher concentrations than are found in oats.
Many-Shot In-Context Learning
Solid is good.
The ID standardization parts mostly happened. The parts where the underlying State databases are shared with a central Federal government database did not.
The mystery isn't how to lose weight but why weight increases despite no change in activity and diet.
> Something like Waymo also has humans constantly monitoring and helping, but I don't see much discussion about that being "controlled by humans".

Constantly doesn't really make sense, riders can call for support and get a near instant response, but it's pretty obvious from some of the mistakes that humans aren't watching every ride in real time. There's video from inside a Waymo which is stuck in a lot repeatedly looping, discovering the exit it wants to use is blocked and then just driving to another exit before deciding hey, perhaps the exit I want to use is open (nope, it isn't) and returning again, and again, and again for example.

All the humans involved can see what's wrong here, but the Waymo driver software doesn't get it and so I think eventually a human (Waymo employee) has to drive the car out.

And yeah, there's definitely in San Francisco for example some people who believe it's all a Mechanical Turk again, even though that doesn't make any sense. In their heads, driving is another of those "uniquely human" abilities and so the only way to have AI cars would be fully general AI, and the real explanation has to be off-shore remote driving.
There's a few "-" there ... do they actually sell a couple items at a loss?
If Amazon would offer a part-time shift option where it was 1 day a week, I'd probably do it, mostly for the excercise, and partly for the extra money.
(November 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38294849
Bluntly frankly, it really doesn't matter how or why China has 7nm process nodes. What matters is they do, and that arguably makes them superior to Intel and thusly the USA; remember that Intel 7 is 10nm, for whatever value "nm" still holds.

This fact should fucking terrify all Americans, and indeed the west at large.
AIUI, HarmonyOS is a microkernel, multiserver OS developed by a team in Europe which includes developers who were or are still involved in HelenOS.

Such a system would be, at a fundamental level, better than Android and IOS.
For the same reasons anyone buys anything: it does what they need/want for cheap enough and good enough.
Tesla's Q&A with investors rips open Musk anguish
Nowhere in the linked article does it say that his identity was censored or revoked by any government.

He's a dual-citizen and presumably has his identifying papers on hand.

To quote Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Shvidler#Sanctions

Shvidler's sanctions take the form of a worldwide asset freeze,
and transport sanctions; they do not affect his British citizenship.

Painting a free billionaire oligarch living the high life abroad from Russia as a victim is not a very convincing example.
Their analysis puts earth-based solar in the most ideal locations on earth, namely North Africa and the Mojave desert, but then they assume a literal 0% cost in transmitting that power to where it needs to be used.

Their analysis also completely ignores any cost and complexity involved with batteries / energy storage for earth-based solar.

Yeah, I think any conclusion they've come to is pretty baseless considering the sloppiness of their calculations.
I've definitely waxed & waned a number of times through jq familiarity. And sometimes it is a bit of a stress.

But this feels like a vastly unfair basis for comparison. None of the old tools do 1/1000th what jq does. Arbitrary structure data in, a whole pipe of simple or complex commands, structured data out. Jq is complex maybe sure yeah, but it replaces some really gnarly inefficient awful zsh scripts I'd have to cobble together with something that, in the end, is sensible & clear & direct. That other people would probably also write the same way I did.

Living in the structures data world is so much better than arbitrary text-line oriented systems. They may individually be better, but the utter lack of consistency in the old world meant reinventing too much, each time you want to do a task. Jq effectively is a mini shell, full of shell like concepts (operators, variables, pipes,...), and on those grounds, it's not like zsh has any shortage of capabilities most people don't know about & use well. Most of our shell scripting is beating on the same 10% and having to go hunt around through the other 90% on demand too.
If there's a central revocation list, then it's a centralised identity with a centralised authority.

That's the opposite if the "distributed" in DID, at least in the sense that the pro-Web-3.0 crypto fans are claiming.
So? UBI isn’t about making sure people aren’t lazy. It’s about making sure no one slips between the cracks, and can at least afford the basics.
> Usually it’s just a matter of installing the build deps in apt

I expect to clone, build, run.

In practice it’s: clone, build, read compile error, google the dependency, install the dependency, build again, see new error, repeat 10 times.

That is of course just a small percentage of the pain.

You’ll notice that the most reliable Linux API for playing games is… Win32 via Proton. build-essentials doesn’t provide a way to target an arbitrarily old version of glibc because the way shared libraries are linked is ass backwards and ./configure is a terrible design.
I'm not sure what a good solution to this problem would be though.

I do not expect my congressperson to be an expert in every issue. So they should go to the experts. What do you do when the experts have a vested interest in one narrative?
better in what way?
Doing it many times tend to be much cleaner than trying to get it right the first time. So fast -> clean, slow -> ugly code, as long as you use the speed to redo and clean things up.
This has the potential to greatly extend the reach of drone clouds in this rapidly evolving field of modern warfare. For example, such clouds could extend the Ukraine-Russia battlefield deep into Russia, threatening Russian logistics. Long distances within Russia have always been a key part of Russia's defense against invasion.
This something I’ve thought about in the past, since I messed around with trying to add monads to JAX - I think you made the right call with effect handlers. You might want to take a look at what Koka does, that was the best implementation of effect handlers the last time I checked.
I agree with you, however: The WaPo has a veeeeery wide variety of endpoint devices. If they stuck to HTML + CSS it would mean an imperfect output on things like kiosk panels, public news stand displays, ebook readers etc. or needing to maintain multiple output services server side, with potentially different authoring considerations.

With their current approach, they can share one content authoring environment over an API that splits all render concerns to the consuming client.

Sounds a lot like what HTML was supposed to do in the first place doesn’t it… but not all devices support arbitrary html web browsing, nor would you want to serve a full page to most
, so the next best option (according to some) is API plus javascript client for the web side of things.

While I don’t think this path is correct, given the tools we have I do see why it is used so frequently.
A sewerage company sounds perfectly qualified to operate modern internet infrastructure, they deal with much the same material
Yup. Go to Japan and there are entire sections of electronics stores dedicated to Huawei phones.

What about the Japanese manufacturers, you might ask? Well apparently there's so much Sony Xperia smartphone stock that NTT DOCOMO is selling them for just 10 yen each with the purchase of a new contract.

I'd say the only reason we don't see Huawei in English-West is because we were more preemptive in kicking them out of our markets.
Are you average?
That wasn't the case for a long time, and good lenses are extremely expensive, in the 1000+ euro range. Laowa / 7Artisans etc were not a thing until a few years ago. Plus bokeh quality is subjective and not just about blurring the background.

Not saying you can't enjoy an MFT system. My 20mm/1.7 Lumix took great pictures. Truth is the original premise has not held. The best MFT setups are just as heavy as APS-C while having slightly worse specs due to the smaller sensor, and at the same time a higher price tag.

These are very real limitations and much more than "dismissed by armchair photographers in the early years".
Sounds like a new thing for Vavilovian mimicry.

> [A] form of mimicry in plants where a weed evolves to share one or more characteristics with a domesticated plant through generations of artificial selection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vavilovian_mimicry
Dify, an end-to-end, visualized workflow to build/test LLM applications
The 'plastic problem' seems like it could be easily solved with a weight-based deposit system. Start paying people $1/lb for plastic rubbish and you won't be able to find any laying around. Plastic isn't very dense, so you might need to up the price per lb, but paying people for their waste means municipalities don't have to send people around to collect it in the first place and you don't have to fund cleanup efforts.
Reporting on lobbying is also legal in the US ;)
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common serious heart arrthymia, affecting around 30 million people worldwide. People with AF have a 4 times higher risk of mortality and 5 times higher risk of stroke than the normal population.

I've implementated a widely-cited CNN architecture for ECG-based AF classifcation. Classification can be run directly off a 60 second recording from a Polar H10 Heart rate monitor.
Code is run more than it is read especially if you count users. And so-called "clean" code is a performance disaster[0]. It's also, if that link is an accurate representation of what "clean" code is, a readability disaster. The more readable code, in my opinion anyway, is the version that is also an order of magnitude faster.

[0]: https://www.computerenhance.com/p/clean-code-horrible-perfor...
Formation of memory assemblies through the DNA-sensing TLR9
Having not read the original story, this makes more sense.

"1000 Indians that were watching people shop at the Amazon Go stores" ...

Conjured up picture in my head of an Indian man inside an Amazon Go store sitting behind a registerless counter. What his purpose would be, I don't know.
Opposite for me. Much rather code an abomination than hash out the abomination in meetings all day with scrum “masters”, product “owners”, and software “engineers”.
It has the word “microkernel” in it and that sounds cool.
I've liked Xperia and wanted to buy them in the US for years. My last Android phone was an Xperia ion. The lack of software and carrier support and the fact that they have you send stuff to the same S Texas based service center that does Playstations doesn't bode well.
Looks like promotional pricing or some other sort of deep discount, unless it's common to have typos in the pricing system. The original list price for those items looks wrong.
If so, you don't seem to understand why the DoD is failing to pass one, but are very well versed in the outrage you're supposed to feel when it does.
That's 100mm/f2.4 equivalent, of course you get razor thin DoF - even on a 100mm/f4 that's a handful cm at portrait distances.

Maybe I shouldn't have said 'hard to get', cause you certainly can get decent DoF like that, but it's a real physical limitation. You won't get it that easily with classic 28mm/35mm/50mm focal lengths. And there will never be a practical f0.6 lens.
The Future of Game Development [video]
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I was interning at a small startup and made some financial models in Excel (using functions like index and match together).

At the time, I told a programmer at the company that I wanted to learn programming. He looked at my work and told me that I was already doing it. I didn't believe him because I didn't think it was "real coding". I thought he was just being nice.

My first "real coding" was a year later. I modified a few of the example apps from "Head First PHP & MySQL" (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-php/97805961...).