skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* get users to upload their entire life on Instagram

* train AI using uploaded data

* automatically create unskippable ads using AI

* … profit?
I believe that a classical radio receiver is measuring a coherent state. This is a much lower level notion than people normally think about in QEC since the physical DoF are usually already fixed (and assumed to be a qubit!) in QEC. The closest analogue might be different choices of qubit encodings in a bosonic code.

In general, I'm not sure that the classical information theory toolkit allows us to compare a coherent state with some average occupation number N to say, M (not necessarily coherent) states with average occupation number N' such that N' * M = N. For example, you could use a state that is definitely not "classical" / a coherent state or you could use photon number resolving measurements.

A tangential remark: The classical information theory field uses this notion of "energy per bit" to be able to compare more universally between information transmission schemes. So they would ask something like "How many bits can I transmit with X bandwidth and Y transmission power?"
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> The issue does not affect Toyota’s overseas production.

Does this mean it is a JDM-only issue, aka problems with the testing are in Japan only?

Or are they strictly speaking of production of vehicles [not being halted]?
I'm tempted to be cynical about this, especially since me and Garry Tan really don't seem to have the same political alignment, but I'm honestly pretty glad this happened. The tech community (outside of big tech) ought to be more politically active rather than complain when senile politicians get behind a law that doesn't make sense. I want to say there are about as many software developers in the US as there are farmers, and yet the latter has enormous political power, while we have virtually none. I mean, imagine if we could get the federal government to subsidize us in the same way it subsidizes corn farmers.

Don't get me wrong, I kind of fear what laws and legislation a tech voting bloc would pass, but I'm also optimistic that we could push forward some genuinely progressive legislation as well. Maybe we could pass laws that encourage more housing development. Perhaps some bureaucratic reforms similar to the ones that occurred in Estonia, the kind that result in major cost reductions without any loss in quality of service. Universal healthcare? Those slightly strange policy ideas we like to talk about that are clearly progressive, even "socialist", but are also palatable to libertarians?

Mixed feelings about lobby for open source AI, but nonetheless, glad it happened. Hope to see more of it.
>How did we fail to forsee the effects of leaded gasoline....

Humanity is mostly reactive. Once people are harmed then we launch a decade long fight against massive corporations who gaslight us as to how safe their product is and spend millions in delaying court battles and faking positive public opinion.
Didn’t we just recently see an article about this? Some studies show handwriting is better, and some don’t.
What X does or does not do is increasingly irrelevant. They have a CEO who is good at creating attention for himself, but Twitter/X has substantially less active users than Pinterest now. I am almost surprised there is time to make this change while working on board vote politics on his $50B compensation package controversy at his other CEO job.

With all the downvote this clearly triggered some people in bad ways, but it is true. Twitter is about 250M, Pinterest is about 500M.

Twitter is down substantially in all publicly disclosed metrics / investor writedowns since the go private transaction. I don't know what it is about them that makes some people treat the company with deference it doesn't deserve, but it's a shrinking, niche social network.
That also plays videoclips.

But I don't think most people at the company care, they just want to listen and take whatever they know. I don't think most of them even know youtube music exists. Spotify is really popular here (Europe) but it's banned like I mentioned.
Great reading recommendations.
Thanks!

"Tensors as matrices of matrices" isn't particularly deep; basically you can think of a 3D tensor of being a "cube" of entries, where each cross section in the direction going into the page is just a regular 2D matrix. For example, if you wanted to store the density of discrete voxels in a region of space, you could use such a tensor. This is in fact how MRI scan data is stored, as a bunch of cross sections that are glued together to make a 3D structure. You can then extend this to 4 dimensions, by taking an array of those 3D tensors, and so on.

Understanding the link between wedge products and tensors, I think the key thing is the anti-symmetry of the wedge product, where if you reverse the order, the sign changes-- this is related to how the determinant is an "oriented" measure of area, and can take on negative values. The results of combining elements with the wedge product are called differential forms, and these can be thought of as "antisymmetric tensors." I agree that it's all a bit confusing. You can read more here:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/how-do-tensor-and-wedg...

And ChatGPT can also do a good job explaing and answering questions about it. Hope that helped!
I took Rybelsus (pill version of Ozempic) for 7 months last year. I lost 8 kg and then I slowly tapered off over the course of 3 months. I'm now +10 kg. :/
The real trick is to find good tenants who are, in turn, convinced that you're a good landlord. Then you're in better shape for both turnover and rent amount.
Plastic is used intensively to make the food too. This is a sea of plastic in Spain used for growing. https://vertical-farming.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/alme...

Plastic stops weeds, stops birds, is the skin of greenhouses - every step of growing seems to involve another damn square kilometer of plastic. A lot of it just degrades in to microplastics in the soil, too.

(My wife and I did a market-garden type smallholding for a while and it's damn near impossible to get away from plastic)
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Solving "Number Cross 4" (Jane Street Puzzle, May 2024)
I have tried dozens of AI Profile Photo creators before (since late 2022 when Dreambooth was still a thing) but tbh I haven't received any results that met my bar. would love to give your tool a try for sure!
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From lab to life: 3D bioprinting unveils new horizons in biomedical applications
The Middle East including KSA are some of the top consumers of porn per capita, especially gay porn.

And Dubai is sin city.

They happily invest in all manner of unislamic things, it is good to be the king. How are you so naive.
> * Automate government-driven compliance standards - enable small businesses to sell into large companies/government entities, automatic certification when using pre-approved cloud solutions.

I don't see how this will end well. I appreciate the reasoning behind it, but this is not a good solution.

I'd prefer to see more "startup friendly" compliance frameworks that don't require tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars and make both the startup and their customers satisfied with the outcome. Something like a SOC2-lite that isn't so onerous but still provides a decent snapshot of their current situation from a third party's perspective.
Has anyone implemented a DSL for a professional use case? I would love anyone to share what was the use case, what alternatives did you consider and how did you measure success?

I have previously implemented one for credit policy decisions, but I am not sure in hindsight if it was the right approach and we did a poor job of measuring success, so I would love to hear from the community.
I wonder then if the 9900X could be undervolted without losing more than a few percentage points of speed?
Lisp language for NES game development
You host binary blob releases in the qstudio GitHub alongside a License file in the repo indicating apache license. If you didn't open source everything that made up those releases including it's dependencies, you should remove or clarify what exactly is covered by the license to avoid the confusion.
You will get access to many order of magnitudes of minerals out there.

You answer to it "we don't need that much, and it's not where we can use it". Which is basically Emperor's speech from the linked article.
>> Microservices provide encapsulation and an API interface, but are not composable the way Unix programs are when e.g called by a Unix shell on a Unix OS.

Because the Unix programs all use pipes as their interface. When you simplify and
standardize the "API" composition becomes easy. Microservices are more like functions or modules each running as separate processes - if you use the same language for the services and glue you can just compile them all together and call it a program right?
I think medical science is awesome.
Google either of those first two things. The answers are in the first page, no need to provide a citation and open up “well I don’t like that citation” cans of worms, pick your source, there will be a mountain of them. Dig a little on any of them and you’ll be on actual meta-studies and such. Neither is a controversial claim, or even close to it.

“Why only extreme solutions?” 1) because zero non-extreme ones have worked, 2) because the root cause appears to be deeply embedded in a complex web of systems, which means addressing the root cause within a human lifespan is necessarily extreme, 3) the drugs arguably aren’t really extreme, and 4) supporting #3, the alternatives we’re currently reaching for are drugs to treat the outcome of the pattern of failures in behavior modification / willpower approaches, so this is really what we’re already doing just applied before things get extremely bad.

[edit] here, a couple examples, why not:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19538440/

Maybe it’s just me, but the last sentence of the abstract reads like a punch line:

“Future research is needed to identify the specific mechanisms through which living in the USA may adversely affect health outcomes.”

I chuckled. “Uh well we know it’s real bad but as for why, look, it’s fuckin’ complicated and probably gets political way faster than you’d expect”

(The paper appears to recommend weight gain prevention intervention programs for immigrants, because what else are you gonna do?)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-024-01525-3

Paywalled but the summary provides some good info. Between this and others (also appearing on the first page of my ddg searches for this) one puts together a consistent picture

1) thanks to a ton of research and spending we’re getting better behavior modification programs! Hooray!

2) the ones that kinda work are a lot higher-touch than you probably expect. I.e. expensive and not accessible to lots of folks, for a variety of reasons.

3) despite all that the expensive state-of-the-art isn’t good enough to tackle the obesity crisis. It helps, but not enough, even if we could provide that help to everyone who needs it.

4) comically (again) this particular summary ends on a “… but now that we have really good weight loss drugs, maybe it’ll work!” note.

(“Just do a diet” without ongoing professional support is basically not effective at all for long term weight loss, on a population level)
It's time to take phones away from students
https://explore.openaq.org/
You just hit the nail on the head. I have had two large weight losses in my life. Both through diet and exercise. The first time I lost 70 lbs with a low-carb/keto diet (at the time it was called Atkins, so this was the early 2000's and I was 21). It took 3 months of running/walking 3 miles a day. The second time was when I was 37 I lost 95 lbs and it took 8 months of calorie restriction combined with weight lifting and jogging 3 miles a day. Both times due to 'Things' I fell back into poor eating habits and lack of exercise due to injury. I found myself recently 70 lbs back from my lowest weight and decided that I would try Wegovy. It has been 2 weeks and I have already lost 11lbs (not sustainable at all and ymmv). I remember the control I had from the big push when I was 38 (I am now 42) and that control feels back. I am taking the Wegovy to get back down to a weight where I feel comfortable working out in a way that minimizes my risk for injury while at the same time reminding myself what that self control felt like. At this point I am just desperate to get some results as I have felt completely off the rails for 2 years now.
Presumably the opposite of the thing that goes wrong when you mess with the same by systematically engineering a hyperstimulus to exploit it for money.
Yeah, and in 3 years wondering why there's no ice on your lakes anymore in winter.
You don't actually need humans to be out there all the time. Humans are not present at the bottoms of oil wells or on top of wind turbines.
How much of this is just the fact that alcohol is typically 'banned' from patients taking this drug?

Sorry didn't read too much into it but are they testing the reduction specifically for alcohol addiction or was alcohol addiction measured from people currently taking it for weight-loss/diabetes?
Hey friend, what’s IIUC stand for?
Useful framing of quantification. A few excerpts:

The power to see like a state was intoxicating for government planners, corporate efficiency experts, and adherents to high modernism in general. But modern technology lets us all see like a state. And with the advent of AI, we all have the power to act on that seeing.. like a data structure.. built for and within a set of societal systems—and stories—that can’t cope with nebulosity.. things are continuous spectra, not discrete categories.. avoid being fragmented into nanogenres.

While large organizations can exist, they can’t be the only ones with access to, or ability to, afford new technologies.. We can create new “federated” networks of organizations and social groups, like we’re seeing in the open social web of Mastodon.. where local groups can have local rules that differ from, but do not conflict with, their participation in the wider whole..

The idea of having multiple identities.. some of us have gotten used to having a “portfolio career” that is not defined by a single hat that we wear. While today there is often economic precarity involved with this way of living, there need not be, and the more we can all do the things that are the best expressions of ourselves, the better off society will be.

Think of how we use weather apps, fitness apps, or self-guided museum tour apps to improve our lives. We need more tools like this in every context to help us to understand nuance and context beyond the level we have time for in our busy lives.. A tool is controlled by a human user, whereas a machine does what its designer wanted. As technologists, we can build tools, rather than machines, that flexibly allow people to make partial, contextual sense of the online and physical world around them.

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

> Unlike epistemic knowledge, which tends to be standardized and centralized, metis is characterized by its adaptability and diversity. It arises from the accumulated experiences of individuals within specific contexts, leading to a rich tapestry of localized knowledge systems. This inherent flexibility allows metis to evolve and respond to changing circumstances, making it highly relevant in various practical domains.
Cool project, here's a few comments after a quick glance over:

- There's no license on the code and design files in the Github repo, thus this currently isn't open source but rather "source-available". If you plan to allow others to modify the code and build their own cameras you should add an appropriate license.

- The Mac only support (and it's MacOS only, with no iPad/iPhone support) with a dedicated app to operate it seems to really limit the market for this device. Since all the app does is allow you to view/transfer photos and configure the device you probably could make do with a simple MTP interface for access to the photo files and have a second interface for configuration. Also if you do plan to release this under an OSS license and market it as a hackable + privacy friendly device Linux support is pretty much a requirement.

- Consider using automotive grade ICs to allow the device to function below freezing. The current stuff may be fine for Cali but people in northern states won't be able to use it outdoors in the winter.
so cool!

For your next trick, how about a super long battery life MP3 player? A friend asked if I knew of an MP3 player that would be good for a two-week hike with no access to electricity, and it really seems like there's nothing out there beyond carrying around a bunch of batteries.
We make sailing wind generators [video]
Yeah, the only thing worse than the current status quo would be giving some SV startups a privileged position as gatekeepers for regulatory compliance (the Watershed strategy).
> A few years ago someone kept trying to steal my motorcycle, so I decided to make a small camera with really long battery life to catch them.

The camera seems really cool. But given that the device has no way to get photos off it without physical access, it seems like this wouldn't be super useful for your original purpose. If someone just takes the camera (or manages to successfully steal your motorcycle), then then camera doesn't provide any value.
Hey HN,

Just yesterday, I launched the waitlist for my platform that generates AI-powered captions to help users sell on platforms like Vinted, Wallapop, eBay, and many others.

This all started because I was bored... maybe you'll find it useful too!

Danilo
> In particular we shouldn't use them without trying behavior modification first.

As someone who is diabetic and who has lost a lot of weight on semaglutide I can assure you that several genuine and difficult attempts to modify behavior were attempted before getting on the drug.

I guarantee you that I'm not the only one - I'd expect the vast majority (75%+) of people using semaglutide to have attempted behavior modification before starting the drug.
Yeah, that said the problem has become much better than during OnLive's time. Given a decent connection it's pretty playable.

Kinda worried that widespread game streaming will eventually lead to games not being released at all anymore...
I imagine there was a time-based lockup, and perhaps he was paid the entire time to be on retainer or some such thing. But at this point, it's been so long it would be surprising if there were any sort of active relationship.
I'm also be interested in how this can affect a change of gut biome. Ie if a biome is partly responsible for diet cravings, would something like this help you restart your biome and put you in a better position to maintain?
I often wondered why MIMO was such an investigated topic. It would make sense if the Shannon limit is higher for this channel. Is there a foundational paper or review that shows this?
It's well and good to advocate for change within the industry (large and small) but realistically, all of this is missing the forest for trees, or equating symptom with the cause.

The only way out of this long term, is to take money out of politics, repeal citizens united, revolving doors and other methods of lining politicians' pockets.
> Healthy relationships

In reality, the vast majority of relationships aren’t actually healthy in this way. Most people get that only from their parent and family, if that. So parent’s advice is important.
Yeah, even if you're a mac guy, it doesn't make sense to make hardware that is mac only.
This could be a fascinating development to watch actually. Made much more interesting too by the fact that Elon has a lot of business in states like Texas and Florida. X is also increasingly viewed as a "right wing"[1] place, which might make states like Texas a lot more sympathetic to their "free speech" position because they won't feel like it's a "left wing" tactic to poison minds.

[1]: I'm not saying it is a right wing place, I have no idea as I have no data (not even anecdata because I don't really use it), but I've certainly noticed an uptick in people sharing that view on sites like HN since Elon took over. Have also heard that there is a decent balance of viewpoints on X. My guess is that both are probably true (and are not mutually exclusive), but again I have no data.
Multibillion pound syndicates are destabilising countries, says Interpol
Straight line of travel means you do not turn left or right. Different from heading continuously east. In the former, walking straight on the curved surface creates a curved path. In the latter, the compass needle will shift a bit as you travel, so you will be turning a bit to stay on the due easterly course.

To your point, this a straight line relative to the traveller while staying on the surface of the globe (which is the premise).
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