skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that spatial reasoning encompasses all reasoning. All the things you mentioned have a direct analogue to abstract models and logic we employ and are engrained deeply into language. For example, shapes containing eachother:

There are two countries both which lay claim to the same territory. There is a set X that contains Y and there is a set Z that contains Y. In the case that the common overlap is 3D and one in on top of the other, we can extend this to there is a set X that contains -Y and a set Z that contains Y, and just as you can only see one on top and not both depending on where you stand, we can apply the same property here and say set X and Z cannot both exist, and therefore if set X is on then -Y and if set Z then Y.

If you pay attention to the language you use youll start to realize how much of it uses spatial relationships to describe completely abstract things. For example, one can speak of disintigrating hegonomic economies. i.e turning things built on top of eachother into nothing, to where it came

We are after all, reasoning about things which happen in time and space.

And spatial != visual. Even if you were blind youd have to reason spatially, because again any set of facts are facts in space-time. What does it take to understand history? People in space, living at various distances from each other, producing goods from various locations of the earth using physical processes, and physically exchanging them. To understand battles you have to understand how armies are arranged physically, how moving supplies works, weather conditions, how weapons and their physical forms affect what they can physically do, etc.

Hell LLMs, the largest advancement we had in artificial intelligence do what exactly? Encode tokens into multi dimensional space.
Did he require 9,999 more examples of horses before learning the difference?
That gives me an idea for a nifty tool that could reorder shopping lists according to the layout of the supermarket of your choice. Obviously someone should train the tool first; either you or the community.
$82,098 in 1955, adjusted for inflation, was worth $727,502.05[1]. So homes were actually much more expensive back then.

[1] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=82098&year1=19...
On the assumption (perhaps misplaced) that this comment is serious and not a joke, such a sentiment indicates extremely poor risk assessment. Native Australian fauna represents such an extremely small risk to tourists that it is not worth considering. (But obviously if you do encounter any dangerous looking fauna you should treat it with respect.)

But I do agree with the grandparent comment that this extreme level of airport search intrusiveness does legitimately make Australia a much less attractive tourist destination. And btw, as an Australian, I feel somewhat the same way towards the USA and its intrusive airport searches (which is what we are slavishly copying).
Compared to Europe the US has an unimaginable amount of land.
Europeans don't know this really - no one has told them, because they never went to the US, the ones who did went for some coastal city. On the other side Americans don't realize the reasons why Europeans live in cities. Europe is much much smaller and with less desirable land to begin with and then there is the entire "walkable cities" which is utopia reasoning...

God damn you US ppl dont know how good you got it.
This sounds like a "back in my day I had to take a ship to school" bit
Could you please share the paper reference? Thank you.
I used to play with this probably around when it first came out.

I’d sit in my dad’s office at IBM and use his all powerful PC-AT steel full tower PC.

It was so cool to even render simple stuff back then. Amazing to see this project still around.
Because as a society, it's nice not to punish people as severely for requiring expensive medical care having a maxing out a bunch of credit cards. Sure, it would be better to reform health care so that care people actually need through no fault of their own doesn't put them into debt, but that's a lot harder to get done; reforming the way medical debt is treated is a much easier thing to do unilaterally.

It's not obvious to me whether the proposal is a total ban on any medical related debt or if there's underlying legal details that attempt to condition the debt being excluded on some sort of test of whether the debt was unavoidable or not, but even if there's not, the question is whether excluding all medical debt is more fair than including; at least to me, it seems much more reasonable to punish medical debt at all than punish all of it.
For me the bar is… can people remember it?
>Young, healthy people subsidize old, sick people. That's okay.

Assuming there is a sufficient proportion of young, healthy people such that an acceptable proportion of the young, healthy people's productivity (income) is used to subsidize old, sick people.
Your advice is a generation or two off, unfortunately.

Most people's grandparents were running households in the middle of the 20th century or later, and were already deep in the transition towards processed foods. Box cake, TV dinner, casseroles made from canned soup, canned/bottled soda, margarine... it all starts with the boom of consumerism, advertising, and expanded workforce in the second quarter of the 20th century and essentially becomes completely normalized by the fourth.

Your grandparents may still have known how to cook and eat the old way, and might have done it sometimes. but they were told they didn't need to bother and that the days of needing to were behind them, so they didn't do it as much and they didn't make sure their kids or grandkids even knew how.
“Solving for colour constancy using a constrained dichromatic reflection model” is a good one to check out
I have a pet ML project that I am doing for fun. I am trying to build a custom transcription and diarizer model for a friend's podcast[1]. My initial solution involved a straight forward implementation using Whisper medium for transcription, and Nemo for diarizing, based on [1]. The results are not bad generally, but since my application involves a fixed set of five known speakers, I thought surely I could fine tune the nemo (or pyannote) diarizer model on their voices to improve accuracy.

Audio samples are easily obtained from their podcast, but manual data labeling is painful for a hobby activity. Further, from what I understand, the real difficulty in performant diarizer models is not speaker recognition generally, but specifically speaker recognition while there is overlapping speech between multiple speakers. I am not even sure how to best implement a labeling procedure for segments with overlapping speech.

I started to wonder whether I might bootstrap a decent sample by leveraging TTS vocal cloning models to simulate the five speakers in dialogues with overlapping speech segments. So I ask HN, is this hopelessly naive, or potentially useful technique? Also, any other advice?

[1] https://www.3d6downtheline.com/ [2] https://github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/whisper-diarization/
Was pleasantly surprised, seeing a hackernews post on films!
I take pleasure in reminding my colleagues that ML is approximation theory and the concepts are 70-100 years old. All we have now is new hardware.
What’s the politically infeasible but effective solution in your opinion? I’m having trouble coming up with something that doesn’t create an additional cost elsewhere.
OpenAI's current infrastructure runs on Azure.

Do you have any evidence that their new Apple services will run on Azure?
I just shudder to think about all my trips to Home Depot over the last 20 years of owning a home.

I never did those when I was renting. Yes, I didn't get to renovate or pick my paint colours. And yes my money paid down someone else's mortgage. But I suspect if you add it all up...
Not true, there are adventurers for whom we hear the enthralling tales that preceded their demise. Or ones whose disappearance triggered enormous interest - consider Amelia Earhart or George Mallory.
As far as I know the example you mention was the work of Andrea James, and not Conway, but Conway's continued collaboration with someone that cruel and unhinged is, I think, an aspect of her life that shouldn't be ignored.

(Does it cancel out her many unambiguously positive and praiseworthy achievements? No. People are complicated.)
This is great! How does it compare to silverbullet (https://silverbullet.md/)?
Oh, ‘externalities’? Please do tell.
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You are right. It's not a good experience for new developers, especially given how long Python has been around.
Indeed. It makes me wonder what living figures – in CS and neighbouring fields – are alive and prolific and I'm completely oblivious of.
I'm curious what problems you ran into with it?
>"gochisou-sama", literally "Mr. Feast" (yes really)

Sorry to nitpick, but not really. If we're being literal it's "honorably rushing about on your horse": chisō describes the work that had do be done to prepare the feast, running here and there to gather the ingredients. The "sama" doesn't mean Mr., it's just another honorific tag like go-/o-.
I switched to Maccy after using Clipy for the last few years. Clipy hasn't been updated for a while and doesn't have an arm release.

https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy
Thank you! I swear people are acting like one, no one has ever thought of this before, and two that whole foods and the ways we prepare them are magically ideally bioavailable to us like plants give a shit.
I guess the horse maintained the yeast cultures
I too have fond memories of Sun Microsystems. My customers would run into interesting bugs that "should not happen", sometimes causing a core dump. I would upload that core dump to Sun and usually within 15 to 30 minutes I was on the phone with a kernel developer that was actively debugging or more often fixing the bug. They would sometimes offer me a one-off kernel build but I would wait until it was officially released.

I experienced something similar to this maybe two times interacting with Redhat but I had to skip their support chain to do it and kernel developers would be curious and fix some odd bug usually NetApp related but it was not like Sun where this was a regular part of the support process. In fairness we paid for the highest level of support Sun offered whereas we only had a handful of customers individually with Redhat support. Still, I had never seen anything like Sun Microsystems since. Not even close.
Avoiding decades of poor health, and the cost (real and lost-opportunity) to society and the individuals.
I forgot another win for the STM32: no crystal.
This paper is based on garbage data: 2-4 voluntary food surveys per participant, reflecting 24-hour windows, separated by a median of 9 years from the outcome.

Try to recall everything you ate in the last 24 hours, including quantities of calories by food group. Accurate? Now, imagine trying to correlate this with a health outcome a decade from now. On top of that, imagine that your study participants can just skip reporting anything at all if they don't feel like it. Do you think there might be a bias in the people who respond? That there might be a bias in the people who "remember" eating large quantities of plant-based foods? That there might be a bias in the people who respond to follow-up?

In a just world, these kinds of nutritional epi papers wouldn't be publishable. No matter how many co-variates you put in the regression, there's simply no way to eliminate the bias.
dongzhimen :)
Not related to Glish at all, but this sentence stroke me:

> South Korea has said it will resume propaganda broadcasts against North Korea for the first time in six years in response to Pyongyang's campaign of sending rubbish-filled balloons across the border

Isn't that the opposite that's happening? Rubbish-filled balloons being sent by NK as a response to propaganda leaflets sent from SK?
> It's not that I want to look like a girl so I can be treated like one - I want to look like a girl, regardless of how I'm treated.

Same, I figured if I was on a desert island with nobody around and a machine that magically dispensed estrogen, it would actually be easier to transition, since I wouldn't have to justify my decision to anyone. That was part of how I convinced myself to start, way back before COVID.
You would have to buy some spectrum, just like the existing wireless carriers. And spectrum is a limited resource, so you'd have to buy some that someone else wants to sell.
The loophole for the kei trucks is that they're more than 25 years old, so they get "antique car" status in most places (except where they're now stamping that out of course). But lots of other antique cars are allowed on the road, and while kei trucks are inherently unsafe (they don't conform to federal safety laws and don't have any real crumple zones because of their size), the other antique cars are also just as unsafe, if not more so. But you don't see any of these places trying to ban people from driving their antique Model T or '55 Chevy.
> To answer your question below: Apple is a customer of OpenAI. They are using OpenAI as a service. The OpenAI models won't be running in Apple data centers.

Don't move the goalposts. I asked you if you had evidence that it will run on Azure.
I also immediately thought Potato Chips!

Or Crisps as we British call them :-)
Gadzooks! With ChatGPT et al, we must lower our expectations, instead of having https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expectations
Lynn Conway, Dynamic Instruction Scheduling

https://web.archive.org/web/20150814232249/https://ai.eecs.u...

This report was issued February 23, 1966 which was close to a year before Tomasulo's An Efficient Algorithm for Exploiting Multiple Arithmetic Units.

I'd never heard of this report before today. It isn't taught in Berkeley's CS152/252. It's not mentioned in Hennessy and Patterson's books.
I've run large GPU clusters on OCI, quite happily. The hardware and interconnects are very good - NVIDIA has a good relationship with them because they are one of the clouds not making their own silicon. GPU clusters are Oracle's path to breaking into top tier of the clouds and IMO they do it well.

It's the high-level services where OCI is worth avoiding. Even core tech like object storage has been a problem.
Ships were obviously much more common given there’s basically one trans-Atlantic ocean liner these days.
If it's so common you could have linked to one report rather than write this mini essay
Yes, aged 8 went to boarding school. There was no phone for the kids. They did have phones for staff, obviously. In our case they’d call a parent if you broke something. But, communication was a weekly letter. We had letter writing every Sunday morning.

My parents seldom wrote back. My mother would send the occasional post-card, at which point the whole school would comment on how bad her english was.

I got a letter from my father and it was signed off:

“Love Dad

Actually, this is his secretary, but he told me to write love dad on it”

After a while there was a campaign to put phones in boarding schools, so a phone was installed. A single phone for 250 boys. There was always a queue and time was limited. On the plus side, I memorized a lot of phone numbers that I’d never know today.

Event with the phone new joiners to the school were banned from using it for the first 3 weeks on the basis they’d adapt quicker to just break the tie to parents than spend all their time moping on the phone.
Intuition i think much more data driven than you say. I think probably it’s just subconscious calculations
Surely e.g. the version that was good enough to ship to hundreds of millions in Windows XP is not junk, and it seems like something on that level should be totally doable in an afternoon by someone familiar with GUI application programming? The actual game logic should take like 10 minutes.

Like what would be the scope of an "alpha" that isn't a working game? Opening an empty window? Writing a console version of the logic?
Dietary Caffeine and Brain Dopaminergic Function in Parkinson Disease
Systemd 256 Released
I think it's too late which is sad since Swift is not a bad language even though I agree it got complex since the last 5 years.

Python is mostly used not because of its language features but for cross-platform ecosystem. This is hard and slow to build especially these days (comparing to 10 years ago) since there are many languages and winner takes all or most of the cake.

The only way is

1) to provide something really groundbreaking at the time (e.g. ruby on rails)

2) piggyback on other ecosystem by providing great interop (e.g. maybe mojo in the future)

3) slowly grind and hustle until something eventually catchup (e.g. maybe rust in the future)

The problem with apple is they are too much focused to wall garden you instead of build ecosystem. Their IBM partnership failed to make something like Rails or Spring Framework for backend. Tensorflow for Swift failed even though it was google project. They don't have cross platform support in their DNA. You don't even get Xcode on Windows or iPad - this is dealbreaker for many people.

I would bet more on kotlin (native) / java even though I'm iOS dev myself. Embedded is the exception that they still might win the game since the only competition there is pretty much: C, C++, Rust and sometimes python, js more as a glue.
I can assure you that if you’re doing AI research, glowies likely spy on you, but it’s the “good” kind of spying where you might get a job offer some day instead of the kind where they Guantanamo bay you…
Debian has about 59000 packages. Even rebuilding 1k of that is a significant pain on build infrastructure, specially in one go, if say a vulnerable library is found.

You also now get a huge set of users who will now download these 1k of updated packages. Not to mention the utter fun of trying to understand why your system just requires maybe 100 packages to be updated…

Compare to upgrading a single shared library.
And because that whole Tom Clancy scenario hinges critically on whether the initial NATO missile attack is launched from 523 miles away or 1500, Ukraine should run the white flag up the pole, accept Putin's terms, and get over themselves, already.

Got it.
I made another comment here saying the same thing, but visual patterns and other patterns are nonetheless spatial patterns. Audio, understanding music, or speech, rtc are things that are happening spatially, and they can just as easily be mapped as visual problems. This makes a lot of sense, as after all our senses are telling us what's happening in space-time.

Take for example a simple audiotory pattern like "clap clap clap". This has a very trival mapping as visual like so:

x x x

- - -

house house house

whereas anyone would agree the sound of three equally spaced claps would not be analogous to say:

aa b b b

-- --- -- -- ---

This ability to relate or equate two entirely different senses should clue you in that there is a deeper framework at play
They're saying that Apple bringing this tech in will force developers to follow this convention, ss from their experience they're not. Not that there isn't a convention but people aren't following the conventions that exist.
couldn't agree more - i love the whole idea of barefoot developers, the analogy with china's barefoot doctors was superb, but all the time i was thinking what we need is visual basic and access and hypercard revamped for the internet era, not LLM-generated code.
Also Same.
No evidence sperm counts are dropping, researchers find
It's impossible to discuss this with you as you keep changing your comment.

I never once implied it would run on Apple servers. You're putting words in my mouth. I am asking if you have any direct evidence that they'll be running on Azure.

The fact that you keep dodging that question tells me you don't.
You are referencing something orthoganol to the subject at hand here (searches of devices while going through customs, which garvi is right to point out occurs in a range of countries).

(Not only that but it was a very poor reference, with almost no detail given in the linked article of China's alleged involvement in the hacks.)
Three weeks ago I changed my Verizon FIOS plan and was told multiple times that my new bill would be $160. Guess what happened next!

If your guess was they immediately raised the price of the services on my plan and billed me $220 instead, you’d be right!
He didn’t leave OpenAI. He tried to steal employees and was asked to leave.
I just copied that sentence at random to get some text to feed into Glish. Here’s the original story:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1rr92dwqnyo
Worth nothing that J. Michael Bailey was eventually fired from his post at Northwestern for organising a spectacularly inappropriate sexual demonstration, put on in front of his students [1].

Bailey has, it must be said, worked extraordinarily hard to earn his negative reputation. Even beyond the sheer inappropriateness of this episode, I can’t say I disagree with Conway’s assessment of him.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/northwestern-university-p_n_8...
Discussion [0] (32 points, 6 days ago, 13 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40591720
Mine lives in my pocket. I pretty much bring it everywhere I go.
I'm guessing you're young. One day surprisingly soon you'll hear about someone your age dying from something entirely preventable, and you'll get real interested in those small changes.
Wikipedia has updated to use the following U.Mich announcement: https://news.engin.umich.edu/2024/06/the-legacy-of-lynn-conw...
You can use Arduino libs via ESP-IDF. The IDF environment comes with a lot of libraries on its own but it is a development environment first and foremost. The design of IDF is very open and easy to understand throughout the stack. It is very easy to integrate external libraries via CMake as well.
Is it the same for Vegetarian Omega 3?
Look at the artistry in that title page! The typesetting is striking.
Debian is the greatest Linux distro of them all
Wikipedia is now using https://news.engin.umich.edu/2024/06/the-legacy-of-lynn-conw...
Not wanting to support Apple and their anti-consumer decisions. Don't know if Apple Notes is even good and I will never know.
maybe not far better as a language but on the same league but with far better cross-platform ecosystem that would be kotlin (native) or java (this days). You have great ecosystem for e.g. backend (Spring Boot) and modern java is also looking better every year.
illusion that these models are learning like children do, when in reality they are not even entirely capable of learning novel concepts

Now imagine how much would your kid learn if the only input he ever received was a sequence of words?