skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AIUI diffusion models of images are trained to make a noisy image into an image without noise (reverse diffusion). Then when an image is required, the system starts with white noise, and maybe a prompt, and then iteratively performs reverse diffusion - guided by the prompt - to produce a final image.

You can enhance an image by [forward] diffusing it, then feeding it to the NN created to perform the reverse diffusion.
It's close enough, and is good enough to generally satisfy our institutions and culture. The standard shouldn't be, and isn't, objective perfection.
> Of course, it can change formatting and page numbers, so it's worth being mindful of that.

The way this is phrased may give the impression that this is not much of a deal breaker in practical application as long as you just keep it in mind, but it really is.
Check to see if VueScan supports it - I believe it uses its own driver regardless of what the OS has installed: https://www.hamrick.com
Asking patients if they have any questions can help improve patient satisfaction
The phrase "the dose makes the poison" did not just occur in someone's head for no reason.

What dose of PFOA/PFAS is harmful instead of harmless?
Virtual Entities, Hybrid Data Models for Knowledge Graphs and RAG
Had Kirk Marple on the podcast. Some interesting stuff on building ETL / entity extraction for LLMs. They are running a fully serverless setup to support usage spikes.

*Key Points:*
- *Knowledge Graphs:* Graphlit utilizes knowledge graphs as a filtering layer on top of keyword metadata and vector search, aiding in information retrieval.
- *Storage for KGs:* A single piece of content in their data model resides across multiple systems: a document store with JSON, a graph node, and a search index. This hybrid approach creates a virtual entity with representations in different databases.
- *Entity Extraction:* Azure Cognitive Services and other models are employed to extract entities from text for improved understanding.
- *Metadata-first approach:* The metadata-first strategy involves extracting comprehensive metadata from various sources, ensuring it is canonicalized and filterable. This approach aids in better indexing and retrieval of data, crucial for effective RAG.
- *Challenges:* Entity resolution and deduplication remain significant challenges in knowledge graph development.
1. draw box then fill
2. print to actual paper
3. scan paper back to pdf
On mine I just push the number that corresponds with the number of minutes I want. I push two and it cooks for two minutes.
No, it's in Europe and you're not "expected" to go over the limit at all.

If you want to step on it, leave the city. Most non-access roads in non-built-up areas are 50mph, and more for motorways. Some major urban thoroughfares are also 45mph.
Fei Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy's Stanford CS231N course is also a great intro to the basic of the math from an engineering forward perspective. I'm pretty sure all the materials are online. You build up from the basic components to an image focused CNN.
I think you're being unnecessarily harsh.

First off, are we not supposed to have "random guys" writing stuff on Stack Overflow and Wikipedia? Because that's kind of how those websites work: they rely on "random guys" to do all of the writing, rather than relying on credentialed experts only. I sure think Stack Overflow and Wikipedia are very useful resources despite having "random guys" do all the writing.

Secondly, you attack the random guy for... correctly identifying that "the worst it can do is an XSS attack". This is very useful and accurate information. Information like this is typically absent from all kinds of vulnerability disclosures. When you read on the news that something something has a vulnerability, they typically they don't give you the practically useful bit of information, like what is the practical scope. Is it a 0-click RCE or is it a XSS inside a web app? They don't tell you. Except this random guy, who accurately identifies this information.

> How can this guy know "just an XSS" is not catastrophic?

"Just an XSS" is the correct description of the severity here.
I never did that myself so I wonder: what tools are typically used to pixelate text? And do those tools have to do the actual "pixelation"? Why can't you just have a tool in, say, Microsoft Word, that would allow you to select the text, and then chose "pixelate" option, and generate completely random pattern of squares in different shades of grey?
I've been in software development professionally since I was 20. I'm 42 now and feel like I have no specialties. I've done many projects for all kinds of things, but never the things that truly interest me. I'm jealous of you writing software for spacecrafts and now I'm thinking maybe I should get some certs...
Humans are not capable of measuring to that level of detail. It should be expected there will be externalities. So far, the only way I have thought of that society can align productivity of raising children well to the actual benefit of raising children well is by scrapping all old age benefits. But even that might not work in reality.
I gave up my $800k/yr Google AI job for the hope of having a baby
I was just thinking about something adjacent to this the other day. I had this half-baked idea that you could classify all the "types" built out of, say (R, ×, →) by algebraically replacing each copy of R with a finite set of cardinality a and then counting the cardinality of the entire type expression. So you'd formally associate, say, R^3 with the algebraic term a^3, and that holds regardless of how you rearrange R^3 = R^2 × R or R × R^2 or whatever. I liked the idea because it seemed (?) to derive non-obvious set theoretic equivalences, for free: such as

R -> (R -> R) ~ (a^a)^a = a^(a^2)
R^2 -> R ~ a^(a^2)

(R -> R)^2 ~ (a^a)^2 = a^(2a)
R -> R^2 ~ a^(2a)

The first equivalence is between a "curried", partial-application, function form of a function of two arguments, and the "uncurried" form which takes a tuple argument. The second equivalence is between a pair of real functions and a path in the plane R^2—the two functions getting identified with the coordinate paths x(t) and y(t). (Remember the cardinality of distinct functions over finite sets S -> T is |T|^|S|).

And I think you can take this further, I'm not sure how far, for example by associating different formal parameters a,b,c... for different abstract types S,T,U... Is this a trick that's already known, in type theory?

(My motivation was to try to classify the "complexity", "size", of higher-ordered functions over the reals. The inspiration's that you're imagining a numerical approximation on a grid of size a for (a finite subinterval in) each copy of R: then that cardinality relates to the memory size of the numerical algorithm, working inside that space. And you could interpret the asymptotic growth of the formal function, as a complexity measure of the space. If you think of R^n -> R as a "larger" function space than R -> R^n, that observation maps to a^(a^n) being an asymptotically faster-growing function (of 'a') than (a^n)^a = a^(na). And similarly the functionals, (R -> R) -> R, and function operators (like differential operators) (R -> R) -> (R -> R), form a hierarchy of increasing "size").
Totally. I may have gone a bit far in my wording, but what irritated me was the cringy demos, not the actual app.

I basically spend more time talking to ChatGPT than humans these days when I'm not on holiday. I'm in no way opposed to it.

I don't know why, but I always end up going down the devil's advocate route without even realizing it. And then I find myself arguing positions that I don't even agree with. But it's interesting.
I received microwave treatment for veruccas. It was administered via a fancy machine, that produced microwaves at the nozzle of a meter-long pipe.

The purported mechanism of action was not to destroy the verucca, although that was the immediate effect; they didn't try to hit all of them. The purported mechanism was to cause damage that would provoke the immune system; it would learn the properties of the virus, and then attack it wherever it found it.

It worked; all my veruccas disappeared, including ones that hadn't been zapped.

I have to say that this was easily the most-painful medical treatment I have ever undergone. Each targeted verucca got a 5s blast, twice per treatment, over a programme of three treatments. Each blast caused me to scream out loud and swear. I apologised to the podiatrist, saying I hoped I hadn't annoyed her neighbours. She said not to worry, everyone screams and swears. It was like having a sharpened red-hot screwdriver pushed into the sole of my foot.
plastic balloon?
> Never have more than 79 characters per line
Never write lines longer than 79 characters.

I'm sorry, I just cannot do this. I start to feel somewhat guity after 300 characters but 80 feels like an Atari 800.
Biosignal Sensing Device Using Dynamic Selection of Electrodes
> Figuring out ways to make human bodily functions not immediately fail in space. Next to none of these technologies benefit humanity at large in any way.

What a weirdly confident statement. I could imagine all kinds of technology coming from that that would benefit life on Earth.
Maternal Urinary Fluoride and Child Neurobehavior at Age 36 Months
No, /FontMatrix is part of a metadata object which can be present whether the font is embedded or external.
I'll grant revolutionaries are not always the good guys, but you seem to be taking for granted that an "enemy of the state" never is.

We're talking about people who wrote software, not bombers.
As it was explained to me warts are caused by a virus, which at some point the local skin tissue no longer attacks. Any treatment that provokes the immune system in the area without damaging the tissue too much has a change of waking up the immune system to the wart's virus.

If that is true it is no surprise to me all sorts of folk medicine work on warts.
I am an advocate of wildlife conservation efforts, and regularly donate to charities that work to conserve species and their habitats.

I am just replying to a single comment, so forgive me for addressing everyone else as well as you here. I think it's very funny that people are making obvious replies to my comment to defend against (the also very obvious) observation that perhaps being born and dying in a tin can on another planet might be an undesirable fate for the vast majority of the human race.
Well sure but is the conclusion then that the effect is an artifact of the bad measurment, rather than something “real”?
A wart itself protrudes above skin level and extends below normal skin level.

They have much more visualization than adjacent tissue, and you can see this in many medical diagrams.

When I cut, I do it horizontally in layers, until blood just starts to bead from cut vessels. In my experience, the wart will always start to bleed before the adjacent healthy tissue. The vessels naturally die back from the new surface, and the process can be repeated in a few days.
Just put all your articles into a customGPT with the examples from the rehashes for each one and then ask the GPT to rewrite your title to the a “rehash” like title for the new posts ;)
Elon Musk confirms threat: give me 25% of Tesla or you don't get AI and robotics
Another online pharmacy bypasses the FDA to offer cut-rate weight loss drugs
One of the main reasons you put up with the annoyances of tuple-based storage like DynamoDB is because you want extremely high availability that simply cannot be provided by one computer in one physical location.
> If I was super rich I'd rather put my money in my own charities where I can control how the money is managed and where it goes

spoiler alert: this is already what is happening. You don't get and remain rich by putting your money in taxable accounts.

> They aren't going to work and if they did work they aren't going to make as much difference as people hope.

Considering how many people live paycheck to paycheck, can't properly house themselves, or just enjoy one week off in the year, considering how crappy the train infrastructure in the US is, considering the mountain of problems around, I fail to see how a better redistribution of riches doesn't do anything.
If it was a school teacher people would surreptitiously dismiss it as "coping". People would dismiss it anyway, being it Woz or a teacher. Maybe people are somehow dismissing his opinion because it contradicts the entrepreneurial ethos that is glorified over here.
Of course you didn't. You used your time to promote yourself instead of doing what you were asked to do instead. That could have cost a promotion for your manager who could have promoted you.
Hi, I'm Dawid.

My focus on creating this app was to be straightforward and user-friendly, making it easier for freelancers like me to stay organized without the overhead of traditional CRMs.

I would love to hear your feedback about it. Your insights and suggestions would be incredibly valuable as I continue to refine and improve the tool.

Thank you!
> photocopy the redacted document and distribute that, so the text cannot be forensically recovered.

To be really safe, you will want to check whether the photocopier forgets about your document after copying. Many photocopiers store documents on hard disks before copying them, and there’s no guarantee that the data is deleted afterwards.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/digital-photocopiers-loaded-wit...:

“In 2008, Sharp commissioned a survey on copier security that found 60 percent of Americans "don't know" that copiers store images on a hard drive. Sharp tried to warn consumers about the simple act of copying.

"It's falling on deaf ears," McLaughlin said. "Or people don't feel it's important, or 'we'll take care of it later.'"

All the major manufacturers told us they offer security or encryption packages on their products. One product from Sharp automatically erases an image from the hard drive. It costs $500.

But evidence keeps piling up in warehouses that many businesses are unwilling to pay for such protection, and that the average American is completely unaware of the dangers posed by digital copiers.”

(I think selling users that as an add-on is almost criminal. Copiers should make sure documents don’t survive on disk after copying (not even as bits in a now deleted, but not overwritten, file), unless explicitly instructed by the user to do so)
CRISPR can treat common form of inherited blindness, early data hint
Not necessarily. You can white/black out the text and replace it with something that's longer or shorter than the original. It's really just a matter of how much effort the person wants to put into the redaction.
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>This update provides important bug fixes and addresses a rare issue where photos that experienced database corruption could reappear in the Photos library even if they were deleted.

Could someone explain how this is a "database corruption" issue.
Eggplant has a lot of nicotine in it (relative to most plants not a cigarette). Maybe that has something to do with it?
Copyrights only apply when there is copying; independent production is allowed. As it's tort (mostly!), you only have to prove they copied on balance of probability (in jurisdictions I'm familiar with), but you still have to show they copied.

Fwiw, copyright is named for "rights", legally allowed/restricted activities. "Copywrite" is the verb meaning to write content for a publication, content being referred to as "copy" in this context.
Probably not many. Most of the rules are workarounds for C’s design flaws.
Quite low. In fact around 20,000 years ago during the last glacial maximum (LGM), sea level was around 130 meters lower than current day.

Referenced from https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth107/node/1496
Can you measure atmospheric pressure with a thermometer?
Are you saying that pretty much everyone trends healthier than anyone with a comparably more unhealthy diet, high in fats and sugar, with a more sedentary lifestyle?

I ask because, looking around at Americans, so genetically from all over the planet, with a large fraction from Europe, there's a huge dynamic range in diet and exercise levels and it really seems to correlate with the huge dynamic range in external presentation of fitness.
Nice post. I found it ironic that the article about minimalism in business approaches was written in an ornate style. Was that irony intentional?
I guess my thinking was that this had always been the case somewhat, that there was a natural age split between producers and consumers to some extent. Most retired people have at least 1:1 replaced themselves in the workforce, so on a long-time scale I would expect their increased labor demand to be matched by the increased labor supply of subsequent generations
I think this is kind of sad, but I guess I'm also very fortunate in who (most of) my employers have been. I've spent a large portion of my career working in codebases alongside stuff from the '90s, and with my first employer the things I was doing ~20 years ago are still in production systems today, right there alongside the older bits from the '90s in many cases.

I saw some comments in code last week from the founders of my current employer, written back in the '90s when I would've just been entering high school. That code and much more is still there in a product used and beloved by millions.

At an employer in the middle there, the oldest code was from the mid-2000s but it's still kicking around. Code I wrote there a decade later is still in production use today.

I can only think of a single employer where this isn't the case and it was a shitty startup that I never should've accepted an offer for.
the preference for sun tanned skin to pasty,

In some cultures, tanned/dark skin is seen as less desirable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_skin_in_Japanese_culture

My loose (and quite possibly wrong) understanding is that this is based on the notion of tanned skin being associated with lower-class women who spent time laboring outside and getting smelly/dirty versus rich and noble women who could sit inside all day.

In America, there is sometimes (often?) discrimination even within an ethnic group based on skin tone, e.g. lighter-skinned vs. darker-skinned African-Americans.
> However, policymakers have continued to heap pressure on the tech industry to find ways to detect illegal activity taking place on their platforms.

Scam and spam calls could very easily be taken care of by telecom companies: enforce real caller ID. If telecoms can do number portability, they can enforce they can figure out if the "caller ID" is for real.

This is clearly a battle of the lobbyists. We can almost be certain that phone spammers have bribed US Congress on this in the past, and that US telecoms have "pink" contracts with spammers, otherwise the amount of complaints alone would motivate telecoms to shut down the spam.
We could potentially get over the bikeshedding by letting everyone configure their IDEs per their own taste for syntax.

We Smalltalkers were discussing doing this at Camp Smalltalks in the 2000's.

I'm currently working in golang, and I've noticed that Goland IDE expends quite a bit of compute indexing and parsing source files. Not only that, but, a significant portion of the bug fixes have to do with this, and the primary motivation for restarting Goland has to do with stale indexing.

Wouldn't tools like git simply work better, if they were working off of some kind of direct representation of the semantic programming language structures? Merging could become 100% accurate, for one thing. (It's not for some edge cases, though many might mistakenly think otherwise.)
Money isn't burned when spent on space programs. resources, e.g. fuels are, but money is spent, it stays down here on Earth, employing people, boosting corporate profits (and therefore pension funds and other things which invest in them), employing people (who maybe women and people of colour).
> That's right. You could. How would that help?

I literally just described in code how that could help. Wherever the compiler encounters an instance of a list in the source code that looks like a function, you compile it and put the result in a secret third element. Then, when you have to apply a list, you first check if it has a compiled third element before you do the slower work of interpreting it. Have you ever written a compiler or used one? What I described here is literally just the process of JIT compilation.
Got it, use fixed-width fonts for everything.
> understand but don't really get

That's exactly where I am at. Despite watching Karpathy's tutorial videos, I quickly got lost. My highest level of math education is Calculus 3 which I barely passed. This probably means that I will only ever understand LLMs at a high level.
Secret meeting between Apple and TSMC reported to reserve all 2nm capacity
Microsoft announces an Arm-powered Surface Laptop
That's the usual issue, people want their language to be a glorified pocket calculator, so they can type their usual formulas as-is, while lisp rapidly grew a culture of searching for new and larger abstractions. I know some people who would die writing an imperative for loop over an external accumulator rather than (+ nums...) of (fold, +, nums).

I keep trying to pin point the psychology of it. Cause even as a kid, I was more attracted toward HP calcs even though I never heard of lisp at this point, but RPL felt like infinite magic. And of course when I ran into emacs, I felt the same strange feeling.. there's something.
This is especially true when the list of potential words is known. So if you know the court case is about Mark, Sandeep, and Elizabeth, and the names are redacted with boxes, then it's trivial to unredact each name by just looking at the length of the boxes.
How else would one eat a mango? I don't mean to be snarky, but I can't imagine what you're talking about!
Traditional redaction implies a retention of length unless an entire block is considered protected / classified / secret in some way.

To destroy even length, or possibly stenographic content a transcription and maybe rephrasing might be required. However at that point it's better to go for a summary that avoids the content and know for sure that there's loss of meaning.
> Every generation has to discover Hannah Arendt anew.

Agree! Arendt's analysis of totalitarianism, power provides a framework for understanding contemporary political phenomena even now.
I love this! My startup and I have been contributors to Antennapod for a while now and I'm always eager to see them ship improvements.
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It's not fine when it happens, but the issue you describe is a property of the PDF viewing application more than the PDF file format (which supports semantic paragraph tags, for example). Adobe Acrobat Reader handles copy & paste well.
The big takeaway from this presentation is CSS offers so many things that were mostly Javascript previously. Going forward, sometime in 2025, it will be less compelling to use libraries an frameworks for many web native interactions and features.

Firefox, please hurry up your support for many mentioned features in this video!
>Is that not clear from the landing page?

The marketing byline you have on your landing page is clear enough, but nobody will take that seriously without a deeper technical description.

When I read it, I assumed you wrote some code to move data in and out of lower-cost S3 or Glacier storage tiers because you don't control storage pricing and you run on top of existing public cloud infrastructure. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong - but if I'm looking for a solution, I need to assess whether I should invest time and effort to do a deeper dive, and that's the box I would put you in, without any more detail.

Anyway, good luck. Hope it works out.
Nobody in congress will vote to kill jobs in their district. The military industrial complex figured that out a while ago, which is why at least one screw for some weapon or aircraft is produced in every state.

If NASA is going to use the same playbook to be benefit space exploration, I’m not remotely upset.