skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Open-source multimodal multitool written by A.I
Sharing an open-source project written by A.I. towards the end of making it easier to quickly experiment with multimodal vision models on mobile devices.

Any thoughts/contributions are welcome!

Additional info and screenshots are available via https://www.crayeye.com/

You can read more about the process of making this app via https://www.alexandriaredmon.com/blog/the-app-that-ai-made

iOS and Android platforms are supported:

- iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crayeye/id6480090992
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crayeye.ap...
I did the same, but i still use Cryptomator for stuff like sensitive documents and the sorts, much like i would have used an encrypted image before using cryptomator.

iCloud works great, and even if you trust Apple (which i do to some extent), your data is still only safe as long as nobody gains access to your devices. Once somebody has access to your devices, files are no longer encrypted.

The choice of Cryptomator was a convenience choice. I could have just as easliy encrypted files using GPG, LUKS, encrypted disk images or similar, but i would not have been able to access those directly from my phone/tablet in their cloud location, which is something i can do with Cryptomator.

For reference, i have about 4TB data in the cloud (~3.5TB photo library), and a 2GB Cryptomator vault, so it's not exactly the main driver of the operation :)
How Ukraine Broke Russia's Grip in the Black Sea
Yes, it is possible. This is a good criticism :)

I somehow think the downvotes may be related to something else, though.
The year is... He posted it yesterday lol.
> This type of treatment sounds amazing, and I know mRNA vaccines were in development for a long time before COVID, but I have to wonder if this research would have taken a lot longer to happen had COVID not happened.

At least BioNTech was able to take the billions they made from pivoting into COVID vaccines and use the money to speed up their cancer-related pipelines. Running clinical studies is expensive and difficult to do if you have to beg for money for an unproven platform.
No, it's just typical GNOME-ness. Having to deal with that while being paid for open source work does not make it any less insufferable.
> public, general purpose venue like Mastodon.

I guess that's what's wrong with Twitter, and what Mastodon unfortunately copied. The discussion dynamics roughly corresponds to shouting your opinions on a town square - and getting comments from passerbys.

There is little expectation of privacy, and few means to create it (banning indiscreet commenters being one of them). That's why Mastodon is great for niche interests - the town in this case is small, and its inhabitants are well-aligned, but might get frustrating as you touch topics where many people can feel they are entitled to having an opinion about.
Blue – ChatGPT for Mac
I say its simple only because, at least today, it is a settled question and social media sites are not legally considered publishers. It would really only be an unsettled, difficult question if the law wasn't clear and we didn't have an answer on whether they are or aren't liable. That's not where we are though, we have a clear law on the books we just have a question of whether people still agree with it.

I actually think they should be and have thought that for years. Curating content should be enough to remove those liability protections in my opinion, they just didn't consider that 25 years ago when writing those online liability laws.
Far outpaces? https://www.treasurydirect.gov/marketable-securities/tips/
Yes, but it is a tiny fraction of "general education in math", and there is no causal connection between performance in those two.

You'll be able to improve your mental arithmetic performance by orders of magnitude from pure memorization + practice alone, but this is not how people typically learn math in general, and rote memorization will not make you a good mathematician in the long run (it's probably not even good enough to get you past university-level exams).
https://archive.ph/d0hvk
If I remember correctly they are also by far the biggest poster child for OCaml, right? Blub Paradox at play here?
More complex structures are built from that input by macros and compiler machinery. Nothing says compiler has to stick to it.

Nanopass shows an example of using "rewriting" while keeping to pretty much same structure for AST till you end up with native code.
Yes, I meant move materials and parts between g-force specific equipment.

If entire factories needed to "move" up and down in g-forces, they should be in their own variable spin bowls! Not sure what kind of factory that would be.
Model testing is a critical aspect of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) development, ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and effectiveness of models. In this article, we explore the importance of model testing, best practices, and strategies for optimizing testing processes to achieve superior model performance.
Understanding Model Testing
Model testing involves evaluating the performance of ML and AI models using various datasets and metrics. It helps assess how well a model generalizes to new, unseen data and identifies potential issues such as overfitting, underfitting, and bias.
Importance of Model Testing
Effective model testing is essential for several reasons:
Quality Assurance: It ensures that models meet performance standards and deliver accurate predictions or classifications.
Risk Mitigation: Thorough testing helps identify and mitigate risks associated with model deployment, such as incorrect predictions or biased outcomes.
Decision Making: Reliable models are crucial for informed decision-making in various domains, including healthcare, finance, and marketing.
Best Practices for Model Testing
To optimize model testing processes, consider the following best practices:
Data Preparation: Ensure high-quality, diverse datasets for training, validation, and testing to represent real-world scenarios accurately.
Cross-Validation: Use techniques like k-fold cross-validation to assess model performance across multiple subsets of data, reducing the risk of overfitting.
Performance Metrics: Choose appropriate evaluation metrics based on the nature of the problem, such as accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, or area under the curve (AUC).
Bias Detection: Analyze model predictions for potential biases based on factors like race, gender, or socioeconomic status, and implement measures to mitigate bias.
Automation: Utilize automation tools and frameworks for continuous integration and testing (CI/CD) to streamline testing workflows and ensure consistency.
Model testing is a crucial step in ML and AI development, ensuring that models perform as intended and meet quality standards. By following best practices and implementing optimization strategies, organizations can enhance the performance, reliability, and effectiveness of their models. Explore more about implementing optimization strategies for model testing here.
You cannot use pocket calculators in IQ tests though.
The Lisp compiler will need to figure it out and complain about various problems: undefined function/variable/tag/..., argument list mismatch, type mismatch, etc.

The compiler will expand the macros at compile time and the generated source code then is checked.

One thing this macro system enables are macros which can implement relatively arbitrary syntactical extensions, not restricted by a particular syntax. That can be seen as useful&flexibility or as potential problem (-> needs knowledge and discipline while implementing macros, with the goal of ensuring the maintainability of the code).
Me too, but I'm not hopeful for any meaningful change.

Labour will win landslide the next election, but won't undo much of the damage from the last decade.

No loan forgiveness, no new housing, no proportional voting system.

I hate that "tactical voting" is all we have.
It like if the gaz compagny billed you for more gaz your pipe can physically take. No amount of fine print can change physics. If they bill for some opaque internal metric they need to change the wording to reflect this on all documentation: "we will bill you for whatever we please, you can't audit and we won't explain how it works".
PG does a simple mathematical analysis of long term outcome from wealth tax: https://paulgraham.com/wtax.html discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198172
Some of Denett's works have been very influential in shaping my ideas about the world. Being a physicist by training, I did not (could not because of lack of exposure?) appreciate the concept of natural selection till I read his Darwin's Dangerous Idea. That book completely transformed my way of looking at principle of natural selection. The Mind's I anthology was another one which blew me away as a youngster. Finally his ideas on religion/atheism as presented in Breaking the Spell contributed to making sense of unorganised thoughts I had.
Google most definitely had input in the creation of the format, but from all I can research, only at an early stage. As the project grew away from Pik they seem to have dropped interest and moved away from it.

I have updated the article with more details about their involvement for transparency.

If you have any information you can share with further information regarding Google's input, I'd open to hear it as evidence of their input as a company beyond preliminary stages has been difficult to find.

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Regarding JPEG XL's mobile support, it makes sense it would see limited development if the company that manages one of the biggest mobile players has been the greatest restriction on their success. The lack of support also disincentivises manufacturers to prioritise support.
Show HN: The Rusty Search Engine
Glad to hear you had a good experience with Prosody! We're currently preparing a new major release.

There's plenty of fun and cool stuff going on around XMPP, it's funny to see the comments from folk surprised whenever they hear snippets of news about it.

I join several Matrix rooms via the Bifrost XMPP<>Matrix bridge (there is an instance run by matrix.org, and another by an XMPP community member which has some additional patches for various things at archon.im). Alternatively, Slidge (a self-hostable XMPP bridging project) now has support for connecting to a Matrix account via XMPP (what the Matrix folk would call "puppet bridging"). I haven't tried that one myself yet.
Let's say I create another website that allows people to share things and other people to comment on those things, pray do tell how do I prevent ignorant comments?
Should only people who have Mensa certification be allowed to comment? Does Mensa alone rule out all cases of error possible in human brain? Does any metric in fact? How about the other way, how does having 87IQ prove that this person cannot say something profound sometimes?
Out of curiosity, why pay so much less for Canadian talent?
There was no war in Crimea from 2014 to 2022 and even today it's mostly spared. Some other parts of Ukraine has went through a meat grinder, which reinforces the opinion that overrunning and firewalling it was a good idea.

The Russian attitude is that if a third party makes some offer to any post-Soviet country, they should match it with an offer to Russia itself that is same or better, and are eventually ready to go to war over that.
Even so, probably not nearly as much as McKinsey
Difficulties of Test Environments
They had influenza and MRSA and developed pneumonia. It would be news if they survived.
I didn't downvote you myself (I don't care much about the topic), just my hunch as to why you got downvoted.
Agreed. It would be nice if more apps would build scripting in.

Krita has: https://scripting.krita.org/lessons/introduction

while for Inkscape there is: https://inkscape.org/~pakin/%E2%98%85simple-inkscape-scripti...
I’m not sure how this works under the hood. My initial observation is it does not work.
Normally the Hacker News thread has higher quality posts than Reddit but I thought this reddit thread has good comments including from someone on the Immich team

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1chmz2p/the_imm...
If you are a business and need to borrow money to fund production or expansion, it costs a lot more to borrow that money than it did two years ago. That means your cost of production is higher and you will seek to raise prices. I’m not saying that’s the only reason inflation remains high (greed-flation, shrink-flation, etc. are also factors), but it seems reasonable that this is having an effect.
Did my use of that quote harm the incentive of OpenAI to produce it in the first place? No of course not.

Contrast with the entire value prop of LLMs being that you can utilize the knowledge in them without paying any time or credit toward the source, which does indeed destroy all commercial and most non-commercial incentives of producing and sharing such information.

The entire point of copyright law is to protect the incentives to produce work. The models are certainly doing something of value that also should be protected (and surely they’ll utilize law to do so), but ultimately a system that sucks up all prior works and obviates the need to view/buy them and destroys almost all incentive to produce new ones will not stand.

Of course this will boil down to model creators saying it doesn’t create incentive (except for “possibly capturing all future value of the light cone,” when talking amongst themselves) and original creators claiming that it does.
Retirement age minus 4 would be reasonable compromise for me. So you would not be allowed to run if you would hit retirement age during term.
“To generate each vaccine RNA was first extracted from each patient’s own surgically removed tumor…”

Wait!? It can be any tumor right or do they have to open my skull and take a sample of the actual tumor they want to get rid of.
Uno Platform maintainer here - Uno is compatible with both WinAppSDK/WinUI and UWP API sets. Our default project templates have been on WinUI for two years now, UWP mainly being supported for temporary upgrade scenarios to WinUI.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230790 (14 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233213 (48 comments)
The article is badly written if the author's intent is to communicate their ideas to other people.
SBF got his start there right?
Thanks. @weaigc

Demo: https://fritx.me/silentpress/

Admin: https://fritx.me/silentpress/admin (user: `admin`, pass: `SilentPress`)

-- on the tenth anniversary of silent. (celebrating the birthday of my own open-source project)
They're more than a poster child, they made a lot of contributions to the ecosystem. OCaml would be different without them.
A Synology/QNAP/TrueNAS NAS is a far better solution, with no restriction.
I feel like elite universities are on a downward slide. Things just aren't what they once were, as far as prestige goes.

I suspect Harvard, Yale, etc. will always carry some cachet. But the days of the elite, universally recognized golden ticket are probably gone forever.
Not really.

I too am a maths graduate.

My peak mental arithmetic was about age 11 by then I had learned times tables etc by rote and could deal with money - being the UK this was LSD so had to convert between 20 and 12s as well as decimal. Then in the next few years we want decimal so no need for that daily task of converting and we got calculators if we needed figures so little practice - I could still keep track of what the total amount I would pay in a supermarket and calculate change quicker than the assistant using the till but even that has gone as you just pay by card.

Nowadays do you need to be good at mental arithmetic, probably for doing quick estimates but I don't know if educators think that getting mental arithmetic working well is needed.
Sales pitches based on shitting on the main article get downvoted.

Complaining about downvotes gets downvoted.

Pity parties get downvoted.

It’s not a mystery.
I don’t see what either of these points add to the conversation. I didn’t accuse them of theft, nor did I claim all exclusivity is always in the public interest.
It is news, just not hacker news. Flag it and move on.
So 'vivianite', or hydrated iron (II) phosphate - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivianite - which apparently undergoes 'internal oxidation' interestingly.
There should be a huge investigation, but since the last death was self-inflicted, and this one was due to some mysterious illness, I’m not holding my breath. I wonder if the bank accounts of coroners ever get audited.
> Tesla will claim that the intern should have got something temporary (hotel, motel, airbnb) until he was actually working on the internship.

Any reasonable court should throw this argument away in an instant. It's one thing to expect temporary accomodation for a 2 week internship, but for anything longer than that, moving and housing expenses should have to be covered by the employer if they renege on the contract in bad faith.
Influenza B is mysterious?
I'm in the camp of having 18months of non painful survival being a massive change, because it buys you time to wait for another therapy later.
The movie Michael Clayton springs to mind for some reason.
I would love have this in my messaging apps.
What's "mysterious" about the flu and MRSA?
You're behind the times, China is the bogeyman du jour.
> Side glass that can withstand a steel bearing is fluff.

Quite the reverse, actually—it's an anti-safety feature.
Unfortunately, not really an option since it's still 32-bit:

https://www.supercard.us/purchase.html

>SuperCard remains a 32-bit application and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. This means it is not compatible with Catalina (macOS 10.15) or later versions of macOS.
Oh, it seems that a square fell off. It should have been 1/x^2. 1/x works fine for bitmaps, but in 1-dimensional case 1/x indeed turns the whole thing into linear interpolation, you're right.
Not anymore in the subscription LLM offerings. Claude seems to allow 70k tokens or more in their paid UI, ChatGPT seems to be about half of that while custom GPTs allow well over 100k.
That only works in the real world if there is zero competition.

This becomes virtually true regionally I think. I believe you that there are 100s of MVNOs, but I only saw Boost and Mint within my area physically. Now one is gone.

I’m still in an area where I have two options for Internet, one of which is on top of the other’s infrastructure. There are hundreds of ISPs nationwide, I’m sure, but not in my area.

Buying out under-cutters and re-listing the service at the price you prefer is a crude and simple strategy and can only really be done by the largest players.
Because it's the second [1] Boeing whistleblower that died within 2 months. The chance to die from all causes at the age of 45 is 0.41% [2]. The first whistleblower died at 62. The chance to die from all causes is 1.6% at this age.

1. https://archive.ph/2024.03.13-031502/https://www.seattletime...

2. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
Considering the sensitivity of their profiles, is there going to be at least a cursory investigation?
Yep, there is a square in the source:

// interpolation/extrapolation with no basis functions
var weight2d1 = 2;
const wf2d1 = function(x) {return 1./Math.pow(x, weight2d1);}
I'm in Germany, my watch originally came in German + English, but when the clockwork had to be replaced recently, the replacement was only available in Italian + English.
Uno Platform maintainer here - We're maintaining production apps ourselves, like NuGet Package Explorer [1], or Uno Calculator [2], and many third-party apps are in production, with some shown in case studies [3]. You can also find some other tech Wasm demos [4] on our repo.

1: https://nuget.info

2: https://calculator.platform.uno

3: https://platform.uno/case-studies

4: https://github.com/unoplatform/uno#live-webassembly-apps
The acceleration needed to make a turn with radius r at speed v is. v²/r (https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-physics/chapter/6-2-c...)

If that combined that with earth’s gravity has to give you 1.1g, that has to be (via the Pythagorean theorem) about 0.2g or 2m/s². Let’s pick r = 100m. Then, v² has to be 20, giving as a velocity of about 16 km/hour. r = 1km would require about 50km/hour.

Sounds doable, until you consider your “put gyms, hotels, swimming pool, living quarters, etc. in it”. That’s a lot of mass and space.

Centrifuges that we put potential astronauts and fighter pilots in are a lot smaller.

On the other hand, there’s the idea of “a massive floating railway, Maglev-style, which will travel along a track with a radius of 2.5 kilometers within an underground vacuum tunnel. The machine will run on excess energy generated from wind and solar, and it can reach speeds up to 2,000 km/h. When the renewable energy production is insufficient, the kinetic energy from the train movement will be reconverted and sent to the grid.” that engineers claim can be built (https://www.greenoptimistic.com/energy-train-mph/). That would hit over 10g and weigh a lot more than that hotel. I can’t find updates, though.
> Retirement age minus 4 would be reasonable compromise for me. So you would not be allowed to run if you would hit retirement age during term.

I don't want to give them even more excuse to raise the retirement age.
It’s mysterious for healthy people to suddenly die from flu in their mid 40s, yes.
Is that a database you earnestly expect to be maintained? It sounds to me like you're just asking silly rhetoricals in bad faith, not a good look IMO.
Boeing getting “lucky” again
My read of each of your points is that they are about manufacturing capacity (1. in the past, 2. in the present, 3. its inputs.) rather than about finance. All of these things are valuable or necessary independent of their financing. In a war situation, finance may not be a substitute for acquiring them.

I like your "machine that builds the machine", I think that's actually the point I was driving at in the original post. Finance can accomplish much, but, at least during war, it is not a substitute for the physical economy.
Antivirus are really stupid tools, but not that stupid. I said that from a time where I had to work around tools flagged by antivirus.
Among stupid things they do are flagging a part of an executable, some nsis plugin flagged the whole package as virus as soon as you included them. I think they probably hash files by chunks, if you have too many bad chunks then you are a virus. A few bytes at the end doesn't change that.
Jane Street made 4.4bn net income in Q1 2024 w/ 2600 employees.

Tether made 4.5bn net income in Q1 2024 w/ probably <50 employees.
I imagine they also "discriminate" on skills and previous jobs you have too..
Its mostly done as a way to filter job applications into a smaller set. When Google was the 'hottest' job prospect (many years ago) they needed a way to reduce the set of applicants down to a number where hiring managers could handle the load. Setting criteria such as having an Ivy League degree or a CS degrees with GPA over 3.8 was a logical way to achieve this goal.

That being said, if you went to a community college but also had 10+ years experience at one of their competitors (eg: DE Shaw, 2Sig, Citadel, etc), you'd almost be guaranteed an interview. But once again, thats another very small set of applicants.
I’m not sure what you’re asking - they lost because the “we just host personal antennas for subscribers, it’s 1:1 between antennas and subscribers with no Y therefore it’s not rebroadcasting” was found to not be a viable argument, yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying.

Like this is a weird “that’s not true, weren’t they actually…” that recites all the same reasons I just said they were found to be infringing?
Vanguard lets you vote if you own individual shares. Vanguard owns the underlying shares for my units of VTI, so they get the votes. I absolutely do not want to vote on every individual stock in VTI.