skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you bring up some good points.

One thing I'd add: If we enter a world where the ability to build some product, movie, song, novel, whatever is so widespread and cheap that anyone can do it (and I do emphasize the word "if", because I think its debatable that this will ever happen at a level that is cost-accessible):

The strongest way businesses will be able to differentiate is Taste. Human-ness; novelty, Design, things that AI isn't actually all that good at. AI may generate an episode of Law and Order, but it probably couldn't generate, say, Oppenheimer; because nothing in the world knew that it wanted what Oppenheimer delivered. If everything else goes to zero, then that's all that remains.

The issue is: AI is tremendously bad at working with Humans who actually have taste. You generate an AI image with the subject on the left; you ask for a revision, same image, but move the subject to the right side of the image; it changes too much, or generates new images entirely rather than iterating. Its not-obvious that this will get better because it is somewhat antithetical to the way the AI works.

Put another way, english lacks precision. Its not the right language for this. And what seems inevitable to me is that we'll need something other than english to get the last 20% finished with anything AI is being used to deliver. That thing is, guess what, a human knowing python, knowing After Effects, knowing Photoshop, etc. An image generating AI will be popular; a .psd generating AI, with extremely precise layers left in-tact, would be worth billions.

In that sense, I think the current phase of AI is absolutely "people with no taste now being able to lean on the trained taste of everyone else", but you're right that they're totally blind to one IMO non-zero probability endgame: Taste + Skill + AI becomes a hyperweapon. Creation (AI), in the right direction (Taste), with the technical acumen to take the 80% output AI generates up to 100% delivery (Skill).

The unsolved problem is: How do we integrate AI into that workflow in a way that puts the Human, that puts Taste, first? Such that it isn't "AI does 80%, then passes it off to a human", but rather that the AI becomes more like Photoshop, or After Effects, or VSCode, involved in the process from Day 0, integral to it, back and forth. No one has solved this. No one is even remotely close.
It'll engrave you. The spot size is small and the material removal rate is low.

Still not fun, but it's not gonna take a finger.
I drink, probably too much, and feel like I enjoy the flavors of many different drinks. But I don't think that's evidence that it's not really just a chemical dependence. I certainly remember there was a time when I didn't enjoy the flavors I believe I do now.

Your point about variety is good but, again playing devil's advocate, maybe that's necessary to keep drinking socially acceptable and sustain the illusion that there's more to it than just addiction?

The most convincing argument though is that we do enjoy the flavors of fermented things that aren't intoxicating.
> but I’m not sure this should be on the front page as it’s mostly a collection of links

I disagree. A lot of time there's a link to a project on Hacker News without any kind of about page. I significantly prefer to go to an about / demo page that tells me about the tool, with links to the tool itself.

> Disclaimer: We are now entering a ‘rabbit hole’ that may consume several hours of your time.

I really enjoyed skimming the article; seeing your results instead of taking the time to learn how to use the tool and generate similar results.
I could say something but I'm glad to get the confirmation.
Cool to see this on HN!

This is my favorite part of language design: you get to play with weird ideas and see how the implications cascade through the rest of the program. It kind of blew my mind when a linear type solved a caching problem.

Now it's kind of a curse, because any time I code in a normal language (even the modern ones like Scala and Rust) I see places (concurrency, coroutines, etc) where we could have statically prevented these bugs.
> Understood, sorry about that.

And apologies on my side, as I worded it a bit strongly. I agree with pretty much everything in your post, except for the implication that it would be magic. To me, the expected behavior is to follow lexical scoping, just like the vast majority of languages from the past several decades.

> So it does make sense to me that ARG values are thrown away after a new FROM instruction and if you need them, you need to declare them again.

True, and I'd expect an ARG from a previous stage to be undefined when in the next stage. Each ARG belongs to the scope in which it is declared, and a new scope is entered with each FROM statement. However, ARG statements prior to the first FROM statement don't fit into that model. They are before any FROM statement, so they can't belong to any FROM statement.

There's a design decision on whether statements before the first FROM statement are a parent scope, or whether they are unrelated scopes, to the scope used for each stage. They feel like they should be a parent scope, because these ARG definitions can be used in a FROM statement, and so it keeps surprising me when they are instead treated as unrelated scopes.
Just one example: Closing a business deal in China or Japan might require you to drink a lot of alcohol.
Price competition isn't limited to commodities.
OP forgot to include it in the title, but this is from (2015).
looks great!

> It’s a website that shows every movie screening in every cinema across the entire Germany. And when I say EVERY screening, I mean it

UCI East side gallery is missing in Berlin though (https://www.uci-kinowelt.de/kinoprogramm/berlin-mercedes-pla...), which is a shame because I think it's one of the only IMAX screen in the city (https://www.reddit.com/r/berlin/comments/14u755m/biggest_scr...)
And I don't want or use any of those things.

It's almost like a "one size fits all" browser can't actually exist. I'm hoping for a more minimal, but excellent, browser to come around to meet the needs of the sort of user I am.

I think this is one of the adverse effects of Firefox changing how extensions work. In the Good Old Days, Firefox was a reasonably minimal browser and you could pick and choose which advanced functionality you wanted by choosing which extensions to install. But since extensions have been largely neutered now, a whole lot of that advanced functionality has to be built into the browser proper. This is fine if you want that stuff, but it's really uncomfortable if you don't.
WebNN: spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/webnn/ ; src: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36159049

Notes re:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40114567#40115099 :

> lancedb/lance is faster than pandas with dtype_backend="arrow" and has a vector index [and is written in Rust, which compiles to WASM]
This is a very promising development. It would be wise for everyone to go back and revise old experiments that failed now that this capability is unlocked. It should also make RAG even more powerful now that you can load a lot more information into the context and have it be useful.
if your opinion of the most profitable companies of the past 20 years with some of the most widely adopted products in the world is that they are not innovative or able to build profitable products, maybe your definition of profitability, innovation, and product development is a bit off
What kinds of things are you using them for usually? Is it mostly in C/C++?
Isn’t there a lot of positive forward motion and fruitfulness in the current state of the open source llama-3 community?
Note the study involves injections. The oral route is subject to digestion.
PineBerry Pi launches five additional HAT+ boards for the Raspberry Pi 5
Ah right. That confirms my suspicion then that relaxing &mut would make lifetimes unsound.
I assume it is a reference to Google laying off all their dart and flutter engineers [1]. So I'm not sure who is still maintaining either project.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/google-lays-off-staff-from...
Ok, we've changed the url from https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/most-commo... to that. Thanks!
Serious question: does anyone start new projects these days using angular?
Same for me. I was looking at Ratatui to do some TUI games in Rust. There's a joy in simple creation, I think, that seems to be lacking with all the AI stuff.
Why do you think it must be one thing or the other? It can be better than Javascript, used for Flutter and app development, and also cross-platform compiled and used for backend.
Try "the music of the spheres". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis
What is your pin code? All I see is ****.
Non-alcoholic beer is an entire product category and popular in the Middle East. Russians have a fermented bread drink called Kvass that is <1% alcohol.
If you don't think new art styles have come out of AI art, you haven't looked for them. Or, you are putting your requirements for "new art style" too high for even humans to achieve moving forward indefinitely.
> There's many occasions where I don't want to drink, but not doing so can make things uncomfortable.

People don't care as much if/what others drink as you think.
Reminds me vaguely of Windows Desktop Gadgets, anyone remember those? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Desktop_Gadgets
Clearly not all, that would be a different announcement.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Most to least common 4-digit PIN numbers from an analysis of 3.4M - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40306374 - May 2024 (19 comments)

Statistical Analysis of PIN Numbers (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11365962 - March 2016 (1 comment)

The 20 most common PIN numbers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230045 - March 2016 (1 comment)

PIN analysis (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11228319 - March 2016 (1 comment)

Analysis of bank PIN numbers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535417 - Sept 2012 (111 comments)

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40306374 didn't get any frontpage time so we won't treat current post as a dupe)
It's both right? Alcohol is a dopaminergic[1] in all amounts. Your brain, to some degree, likes you drinking (which may be offset by side effects). A much smaller group of people genuinely enjoy the taste and physical experience of drinking alcohol. Non-alcoholic taste-matched substitutes are common.

I strongly suspect that, if alcohol was banned, you would see a bigger market for taste-matched "mocktails" with the same sharp, chemical undertones. However, there's no market now because moderate drinkers can just get a drink and people who don't like they taste don't want them.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6826820/
We don’t see any UFO on the videos and there are no reports about little grey ones on-board. Seems pretty much exluded by the evidence that they tripped the breakers in person if you ask me. Did they do it remotely or in a delayed manner? I think that leads back to my question.
I like the way it comes together wonderfully on such a beautiful carpet.
Ahh yes, reading this as an SRE. This is the average Ops team experience, having to find ways to prove that we're not a cost center (I cut out AWS bill down 40% last year migrating to ARM64) because your work isn't blasted on the front page of a product changelog.

And things... "just work," Until they don't. And they did because of the front loaded work we did correctly to keep things working.
If we assume it's hidden so well it can't be found visually and doesn't transmit data constantly (deep sleep for X minutes, get GPS fix, send location, GOTO 10) - how could it be found?
It's binary.
I don't think this project has a TUI at all, it's just a self hosted page of your social feeds, right?
But the race to the bottom has an opposition right?

So people expect to see a return of investment which will create the bottom of pricing (at least as soon as the old money ran out)

I'm also curious if AI is a good example because ai will become fundamental. This means if you don't invest you might be gone therefore it's more like a fee in case the investment would not pan out.
No fake little laugh either, which was by far the creepiest part of the gpt4o demo
Oh, and then there's kombucha.
Ephemerals in K8s Namespaces with Reliza Hub
Google is building on top of and integrated with their cloud offerings. Having first party solutions like this gives big cloud customers an easy way to integrate. For Google it’s just another tool in the chest that gets sold to these big enterprises. Many go all in on all the same cloud products. Also the models are only the building blocks. Other cloud products at Google will be built with this and sold as a service

Not so sure about Open AI though…
It definitely is what I thought of and the headline is pretty clearly deceptively cultivating this response.
Is this race to the bottom or just Googles new TPUs being extremly efficient?
So… I think you’re a bit confused about how lenses work and what they do (they don’t focus all the light into the middle, they focus light from one plane onto another one. They only focus light from the center of the frame onto the center of the image - that’s why it’s an image)

But… there is something interesting about what ‘focusing’ looks like in the frequency domain, and the difference between the frequency-space-transform of a sharply focused image and a blurred image - or of the same image focused at different focal planes - shows up as a predictable transformation in the frequency space; which means you can apply transformations in frequency space that cause focus changes in the image domain like a lens does.
@toast0 answered your question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40357927
GPT-3.5 has 0.5s average first-token latency and Claude3 Haiku 0.4s.
Part of that back-and-forth is the claim "this specific text was copied a lot all over the internet making it show up more in the output", and that means it's not a useful guide to things where one copy was added to The Pile and not removed when training the model.

(Or worse, that Google already had a copy because of Google Books and didn't think "might training on this explode in our face like that thing with the Street View WiFi scanning?")
Finetuning is now 1 second
There's a hump around 2-3 minutes for myself. Once I get past that my skin gradually stops feeling like it's on fire and I can go for 8-10 minutes easy.
How is the DCT of the two images done here exactly ? Clearly 8x8 tiles like in JPEG are not used, otherwise the similar blurry background tiles would still look similar in the DCT composite. Are the 2D DCT basis functions not a thing in this case ?
Doesn't yeast produce alcohol?

edit: ah, I read TFA:

> "Yeast can degrade ethanol," says microbiologist Benjamin Tu of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. "But they love other sugars — glucose, maltose — more. When those sugars are around, the cells turn off the genes needed for alcohol degradation."
Probably time travelers. Most likely to prevent transport of a specific item or person over the bridge at a future date.

Perhaps a shadowy group striving to put wrong what once went right.
Don't know how common it is, but my tolerance is super low.

Even a single sip of wine, and I'll start to feel pressure in temples. One full glass and my head movement -> visual perception latency will be noticeable, and my words will start a bit getting in the order wrong. That one glass will also hit me like a sleeping pill within an hour. And if it's beer or red wine, I'll enjoy itchy arms, chest, and legs for a couple of hours.

So partially a reaction to alcohol (the sleepiness for sure) and partially an allergic reaction to tannins/hops/etc.

I love a riesling or a mint mojito, but I keep to probably one drink every few months... and then regret it all over again.

On the other hand, there's so many alcoholics in my extended family and my best friends growing up, that I consider my body's rejection of alcohol to be a strong contributor to me being successful in life and work.
Only in languages that have morphemes! This is hardly a universal attribute of language so much as an attribute of those that use an alphabet to encode sounds. It makes more sense to just bypass the encoding and directly consider the speech.

Besides, considering morphemes as semantic often results in a completely different meaning than we actually intend. We aren't trying to train a chatbot to speak in prefixes and suffixes, we're trying to train a chatbot to speak in natural language, even if it is encoded to latin script before output.
Depending on the time of action it could be very useful in addressing the "lag" in alcohol hitting your system. If someone is drinking heavily, they regularly reach an uncomfortable level of intoxication before all the alcohol in their stomach has been absorbed. This could help folks in that situation.
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I hope they didn't mess this one up with ideologically driven non-sense, like they did with Gemini.
Anyone has done any benchmarks for RAG yet?
You really threw me for a second with talking about your kids reading and then saying "I'd have to look up how old they are, but the newest one is two years old"!
> no market

Mocktail mixers are a small but readily available product, e.g. Seedlip.
Related:

Coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37234404 - Aug 2023 (198 comments)
Support for just two specific js frameworks? Meh
Did they come out with a PoE hat yet for the pi5? I know there are aftermarket ones...
I don’t know if other distributions do this, but I quite like gentoo’s “world” file. Its a text file listing all the manually installed packages. Everything in the list is pinned in the dependency tree, and kept up to date when you “emerge update”. I constantly install random stuff for random projects then forget about it. The world list lets me easily do spring cleaning. I’ll scroll through the list, delete everything I don’t recognise and let the package manager auto remove unused stuff.

I think nix has something similar. I wish Debian/ubuntu had something like that - maybe it does - but I’ve never figured it out.
One guy says it works. The rest of the article is about a small experiment that showed otherwise. Then it quotes experts who explain why it doesn't work and called it an urban legend.
- Vehicle steering is easy to test.

- How so? I don't think it's possible to test for all cases...

- Well, it's easy, assuming a car on a non-branching track, moving with a constant speed and without any realistic external influences on it, you can simply calculate the distance traveled using the formula s = v/t. Ah, I wish I'd stop running into fools not knowing Newton's first law of motion...

- ??? Are you well?
And that's how they play their trick. We power users much prefer a macOS with a useless touch UI over the iPadOS as it is.
Outstanding rendition of one of my favorite works. Much appreciation!
Could this imaging capability help observe this known free electrons from graphene approach?

From "Physicists Build Circuit That Generates Clean, Limitless Power from Graphene (2020)"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30825430#30839636 :

> "Fluctuation-induced current from freestanding graphene" (2020) https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=3748350803951231734...
All the car, smartphone, insulin pump, and pacemaker owners will surely appreciate this new and exciting EM pulse. And if this device does indeed cause overheating, so will all NHS amalgam dental filling owners and people with implants.

Unfortunately, "the weapon was in development and could be months away from being available, though it is expected to be longer than that", so the public can't enjoy it just yet.

Anyways, what will the criminals do? Will they have to buy petrol scooters again? This will set them back multiple months technologically! Although there are now petrol kick-style stand up scooters, so maybe not.

This sounds like a sketch from Silicon Valley (TV).
excited to have supported this from the early days! i think people might not be appreciating that this is not just an open source game, but its also an opinionated, heavily-in-use nontrivial example of SOTA javascript tooling steup from one of the world's top JS tooling experts. lots of lessons to learn in there.
Well, as a counterpoint, Apple did become a $2 trillion dollar company...

Distortion is easiest when the products really work. :)
Reminds me of Ro15-4513, an antagonist of alcohol that stop (some of) the symptoms of intoxication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro15-4513
As someone who worked on them a decade ago:

To be clear, the displays are not created by Amazon / Lab126. Instead, they're a product of Eink Holdings, Inc.

From what I remember, most of the screen refresh algorithms etc are Eink IP. And by the way, the cost of the display module alone was eye-watering, especially when compared with LCD displays...

With e-ink, you can drive it faster, at the expense of massive power consumption or terrible ghosting / artifacting. You're not going to get the 6 weeks of use out of a battery doing that.

For reading a book, smudges / ghosting sucks, so they optimize for full screen refreshes just often enough to clear that up (that's when the screen goes black then white, followed by the update).

It's kind of a physics based fundamental limitation -- the display is closer to a mechanical display of old than an LCD.

The kindle is a product that does one thing well: display static text in any lighting condition with a similar quality to the printed page.
Oh! That's great. The mocktails I've seen are generally complex, well-crafted drinks that are missing the bite that makes alcoholic drinks so satisfying to sip. I guess I need to check out more mocktails.
Google I/O AI announcements in 60 seconds
It says it may fall back to a worse model under load and there is no way to tell which you are getting. I think chatgpt has at times done something similar though.
I couldn't find an explanation either. They mention a paper somewhere, but all the links just point to that Medium article which doesn't explain the methodology in enough detail to replicate.
truly removing the `id` from video.
I believe that we have far too many stoplights anyway. I don't have data to support this but intuitively stop signs seem safer to me. The problem with lights is that they encourage dangerous driving behavior and increase the likelihood of high speed collisions relative to stop signs. Not only are crashes causing immense harm both to property and people, nothing messes up traffic worse than a crash. My intuition is that more stop signs relative to stop lights would lower best case arrival times but that median arrival times would be comparable (and possibly even superior) in dense environments.

Also, it's worth noting that stoplights guarantee increased car idling in many situations relative to stop signs. How many times have you been pointlessly sitting at a light when there was no cross traffic?

The situation could be further improved with low speed yield signs at visually clear crossings (in other words, you wouldn't have to stop but you would be required to slow down and would be held liable for striking another road user that entered the intersection before you). Cameras could be used to enforce this.
https://archive.ph/nLQW2
You never said it wasn't, either :-P
How Do we know that gpt-4o.has not been trained on this dataset?
Their DOSAAF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSAAF was a hybrid of Junior ROTC, rifle training, and military sports.
Big AI has hoovered up every freely available English-language digitized text
Just to clarify, in this scenario where the state is harvesting organs for transplantation (a complicated medical procedure), you are saying that the methodology employed was to do it en-masse outdoors with guns (with cameras present), as opposed to individually in a hospital?
I’ll urge that we don’t compare Albert Einstein to a k9s expert.

No one will ever be considered for a Nobel over Kubernetes.