skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is implementation variance on whether you apply the dithering consistently left to right on each row or you alternate. Floyd-Steinberg definitely benefits from the latter approach.

Also whether you apply the dithering in a linear colorspace.
Quality loss with quantization is expected. It seems like with GPTQ the loss is within acceptable range based on the perplexity score shown.
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Adding a +1 to this request. Something like Codeium for NeoVim but using Claude 3.5 Sonnet as the model would be swell.
Bottom+right is purely a performance optimization, when processing top-to-bottom, left-to-right. You only ever push the error terms to pixels you haven't processed yet, so the whole algorithm remains a single linear pass. That was the standard approach for handling images at the time. Everything was stored as lines of raster data, rather than the blocks modern compressed formats prefer, and there wasn't parallel processing available to speed things up in ways that make linear data dependency awkward.
> identify if you're a real potential customer (vs shopping for prices)

... what?
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Which best satisfies Occam's Razor?

1) The vast majority of matter in the Universe is invisible. We've tried looking for it in a variety of ways for decades but we can't find it but we're sure it's there.

2) Our model of the Universe is slightly incorrect. It works in many many cases but not in interesting outlier situations. eg. at very low accelerations.
Incoherent argument. Non-profits pay sales taxes, income taxes for employee salaries, and, in many cases, property taxes. The only thing they aren't ever paying taxes on is profits, because... they are non-profits. They don't pay out profits to owners.

Some non-profits are exempt from property taxes and other taxes (e.g. universities) and abuse this by becoming huge landowners. This should probably be reined in.
> But obviously, this is not the case now, so why freak out over a robot?

A decay in trust; employees do not trust that counting people is all the robot does, or they don't trust that it won't change in the future without their knowledge.

I don't entirely blame them; I would be equally doubtful that some "enterprising" soul won't come along and turn on the intrusive mode suddenly.

The issue isn't the robot so much as the lack of trust, causing suspicion of things that would otherwise be reasonable.
Other two reversible effects that are not cited in the thread:

1. Peltier effect.
2. Piezoelectric effect.

The second one is especially useful in DYI stuff since you can use a piezo speaker in order to generate a current when mechanically stressed.
It's called universal government provided healthcare. We have it in Canada. Gets rid of that nasty, unnecessary, "for profit" medical sector.

Though, I think that may actually be as-large or a larger problem for America than non-profit taxation/exemption policies.

You have to admit, you could clamp down on the other crap easier if healthcare being a "non-profit" wasn't such a big deal due it just being managed by the government.
I would argue that polyfills are not needed anymore, you are safe using ES2022 or even ES2023.
Maybe something like CppFront can allow metaprogramming such that the default constructor is deleted by default on all types and becomes opt-in.
Using cars less (investing in public transport) and reducing the average weight of cars sensibly would make already an extremely huge difference.

The difference in tire wear between a Corolla and a EV SUV is quite huge, e.g., you're gonna change tires way more often on the second one.
i have issue with it automatically deleting files from /tmp which is a shared dir:

$ cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf
q /tmp 1777 root root 10d
q /var/tmp 1777 root root 30d
See the "Free SSO providers" column at https://ssotax.org.
> The median operating margins for hospitals is around 0% or some times negative

I found this page that seems to agree- https://www.definitivehc.com/resources/healthcare-insights/h...

That shows a negative median operating margin for the last 5 years. How can an industry carry on losing money like this? This must be only part of the story, right?
Thanks for the resource! I've seen some of them and the main issue I had is I don't want to self host anything, and I want to use latest third party models as soon as they are released.

Maybe something like what I'm talking about exists already, but I think I'll still try and make my own open source version to fulfill my personal requirements.
Since you are already running on AWS, I wonder if you would consider AWS serverless EMR an option?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/EMR-Serverless-UserGu...

I guess the pricing will be cheaper than renting entire machines since you are doing something like micro-spot allocations for map or reduce jobs.

We have done a lot of analytical and also batched workflows with AWS Athena. This is really cheap and also, once you get a hang of it, you get surprised how much you can achieve with only SQL.

I am hoping serverless EMR would be roughly equivalent, just with another language...
> Claude 3.5 says to just bring the goat across in the boat, which is wrong but better than previous versions. So that's an improvement.

Sometimes it's funny to me how we can have such a feeling the responses are so obviously wrong in some way but then don't even see it the same way between ourselves. Imagine someone strikes up a conversation with you saying they've got a truck & a sofa with them and they want to know how to get to Manhattan. You say "just drive the sofa over the bridge" and they say "Good, but wrong. I don't need the sofa to get to Manhattan". You'd probably say "okay... so what are you going to do with this sofa you said you had with you"?

Of course, like you point out, LLMs sometimes take those associations a little to far and where your average person would say "Okay, they're saying they are with all of these things but probably because it's a list of what's around not a list of what they need to cross with" the LLMs are eager to answer in the form "Oh he's with all of these things? Alright - let's figure out how to use them all for them regardless of how odd it may be!".
Also, here's an example of another 3D dithering technique, inspired by Obra Dinn: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@runevision/11050883717334359...
Got it. I don't do Java if I can help it so all information I got was sitting in meeting or being dragged into the project.
> complexity in enterprise agreements

> be honest, clear, and upfront with pricing

I have seen SaaS sales where the prospect (not the vendor) required contracts to be executed prior to determining requirements. This involved legal on both sides to be involved. Once the trial was started, the prospect required many changes to the app, API, data model, and other fundamental aspects of the SaaS.

In order to account for this, what number would you put on the website's pricing page?
It would indeed be ridiculous; also stupid and counterproductive. Those could be clues to the fact that we didn't do it.

Some of your comments are getting killed by software filters. Those are tuned more strictly for new accounts, for reasons which aren't hard to figure out.

I don't think any mods even saw your comments (before now)
Or you could look at Kaiser Permanente, which is the exact opposite of this and the biggest nonprofit cited in this paper.

Unless you go to 3rd party provider for a non-emergency, you will never get hit with this type of nonsense. Everything is reasonably priced.

It’s a nonprofit organization that handles the financing and providing healthcare services which gives them an incentive to manage costs.

The ACA marketplace gives them an incentive to provide good service because you can always sign up for different insurance at the end of the year if you don’t like the care they provide.

Personally, I suspect this study was sponsored by the big health insurance companies who want to get in the same game.
If anyone is unsure, please refer to this simple diagram:

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

Obvious, really! :)
Nobody wants to give up 1/r^2, including me.

However, what if it holds, but if inertia is quantized, then you get less gravitational effect at 90 degrees to the path of motion at astronomic distances as it recedes into the quantum noise.

Which fits observations with inventing dark matter, or tweaking gravity.
I have not seen any explanation of why CUDA is so hard to replicate. Is it that hard... even with billions of dollars at stake no one can come up with an alternative?
Basically, it's just a lookup table for isSpace, rather than whatever logic is in the original function (which probably has conditional branches).

There's a little bit of a complication in the fact that a state machine can implicitly share parts of the computation for utf-8 encoded codepoints with shared prefixes, so instead of a 2^32-element lookup table, you only need 4 2^8-element lookup tables (and instead of 1 state, parsing codepoint, you have 4, parsing first byte, parsing second byte, etc.).
Yep. Especially with relative imports, it’s easier to type `import { myHelperFunc` and let LSP complete `tion } from "../../../util"`.
[spoiler alert]

I knew that 4 colours sufficed for any arbitrary map from back in the day when I learned this, but still I found it VERY rewarding by attempting to draw a map that needed 5 colors, and how intuitive this demo was for getting a "feel" for a thing that I knew only theoretically! Like I needed an impossible geometry to fit, either an area that stretched to a zero-width path (which would becomes a point, and thus 2 areas, so doesn't fit) or some other "impossible" geometry. Loved it, congrats on a really well executed idea!
When people buy software they often speak to multiple vendors to compare prices. 90% of the time, they already know what they're going to use and they're only getting competitor quotes to show to their execs that they made the right decision. It isn't worth the time of the salespeople to entertain them, understand their usage, and give a quote if the customer already knows they want to use a competitor's product. Sometimes it is, sometimes not.
If you want to sell the output from Graal you must get a payed license. Kotlin/Native might be an alternative if that doesn't fit your needs.
10 person startup -> that is a strawman if I ever saw one. There are many 100 person scale ups that are pre-profit for who the hassle of managing separate accounts for X SaaS tools for 100+ people is justifiably too much to ask but who can also not justify paying literally 50x as much as the highest non Enterprise tier
(Incidentally, great webserver ...)
Reading the code to help me understand how things are

I got the wc_lines from coreutils: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/wc.c#...

And I thought "damn, I understand nothing about the state-machine stuff, how did they made this faster ?"

Truth is: they did not
Of course, this is just the "count line" part. Other parts are indeed faster.

Coreutils 9.4:

0.67 [jack:/tmp] /usr/bin/time -v wc -l debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso
2524855 debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso
Command being timed: "wc -l debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso"
User time (seconds): 0.00
System time (seconds): 0.07
Percent of CPU this job got: 98%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:00.07
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 2176
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 99
Voluntary context switches: 1
Involuntary context switches: 0
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 0
File system outputs: 0
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 0

And wc2 (from gcc -O3 -o wc2 wc2.c):

0.47 [jack:/tmp] /usr/bin/time -v ./wc2 -l debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso
2524855 debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso
Command being timed: "./wc2 -l debian-12.2.0-amd64- netinst.iso"
User time (seconds): 0.97
System time (seconds): 0.05
Percent of CPU this job got: 99%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:01.03
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 2176
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 146
Voluntary context switches: 1
Involuntary context switches: 1
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 0
File system outputs: 0
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 0

Gotta keep reading
GPT-5 will make elections obsolete :)
The OpenAI integration is almost exactly the same thing as the current Siri integration with Wikipedia. It has nothing to do with "horsepower" or "your data". It's literally a plugin for getting info like how do I make a cherry pie, or write me a sonnet, that Apple's models aren't trained to be good at. And it's called from apple's side with no identifying information and just the query to get the encyclopedia style information. There is so much misinformation about this.
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Also, running over a fawn really bums out the person driving the tractor!
Policy is not always about how much tax one pays, it's about landscaping your society.

The difference between a town with unique, local shops and a town with sprawling landscape of walmarts is the policies of those towns, one of the big ones being tax code. Policy is just a way to execute on decisions for what kind of social outcomes your society wants.

In this instance, abolishing the category completely is essentially saying we don't want any non-profit organizations to exist as a legal structure, which is probably not the intention.

Policy design favors strongly directed outcomes over reducing complexity of legal code (because we have a robust legal institution). So, yes, it is increased complexity. But most complexity is not out of reach. Most small organizations have the budget to handle policy complexity, even if many individuals do not.

Ideally, good policy is tested as well and actually creates the effect it was intended for. A great example of bad policy design, IMO, is the plastic bag ban in California. Its intention is to reduce plastic waste, but the actual implementation probably didn't.

All in all, it's a deep issue because you can then argue if the non-profit status really creates benevolent organizations AT ALL, or if it just creates tax-exempt businesses. But if you go down that route, you're essentially "joining" in the conversation - it's exactly what this article (or the research behind the article) is trying to figure out.
Empathic AI can't get under the skin
i was interested to see how it would render kanji, probably is harder than i think
Interesting, TIL that Hubble uses gas-bearing gyroscopes. I been struggling to find any other spacecraft that use those gas-bearing gyros. The only other one that seems to be using them (that is still operational) is the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
If the hemisphere cameras in the corner would occasionally pop out of the ceiling a bit only to recede back in, it would catch the workers' eyes and they'd at least get distracted from their work; perhaps worse, they'd be reminded that they're being recorded. After maybe a dozen times a day over a few weeks a fair amount of people will be wanting them gone.

More succinctly: out of sight, out of mind.
Good idea! I've gone ahead and implemented this feature: if "obscure in URL" is turned on, the text won't be visible unless you focus on the textbox (e.g. to edit it).
They released the model announced in the demo but they haven't released the new way to interact with said model. I highly doubt they've got a significantly better model to release already.
"health" did not improve, cirrhosis of the liver cases dropped. At the same time crimes related to drug addiction jumped 45% and all crime was up 20%.

That article is blinding the reader in its selective use of stats, by limiting the assessment to violent crime they ignore the wider social deleterious effect alcohol prohibition had.

The question is not "will this succeed in what it attempts to do", but rather "is it worth all the extra baggage", does it matter if alcohol prohibition works when it's also a weed and cocaine popularity campaign?
This is a lovely, inspiring essay. The 8,000 words flew by. I enjoyed reading the quoted passages about what Sifan Hassan said about her own performance and thoughts about running. I ran track and cross-country in high school and cross-country (briefly) while in college. I wasn't good enough for college sports though.

I'm amazed at Sifan's breadth of talent! She has genuine speed to be able to win 1500 meter races on the track yet also win marathons! This caught my attention toward the beginning:

>Like my other favorite runners, Des Linden and Nikki Hiltz, Hassan’s running kit is gendered more as male than female. The extra fabric in their singlets and covering their thighs does not appear to be a hindrance.

I preferred wearing a men's type singlet. The feeling of air on my bare midriff felt odd. As for the other half, the bottom garment like Sifan wears, it stays put. The abbreviated ones were a distraction, as they wouldn't stay in place. Of course, I was not as thin as professional athletes nor even college athletes. If I were, it might have been more comfortable.

P.S. I liked that mentioned tantek in your disclaimer at the end, about no LLM use. I've read his cleverly designed website for many years.
That was almost exactly my point, that American 5-over-1s are bad not because they're 5-over-1s but because they're done badly. But it's more than just the car-centricness. It's all the other Americanisms as well.
I would consider people that are blackout drunk to be p-zombies given this definition. The part of the blackout person other people interact with, their self, simply isn't there - but they are still animated (mostly) like other people with selves. If you are truly blackout drunk I don't think you experience the moment in a traditional sense (a moment from the perspective of a self). There might be an experience there, but it's radically different from what is normally considered subjective experience. The person can have consciousness clinically (as in they show external signs of consciousness) - but their self is not there and their subjective sense is in discontinuity.
Not complicated at all, but it's still easier to reboot to bare metal if you're doing it right and all you want to do is run one OS at a time.
The answer is right in the OP:

> More than half (55 percent) of all the income generated by 501(c)(3) organizations comes from tax-exempt hospitals and health-care plans.

They can carry on losing money because they are often charities. Isn't a 0% or less margin what most people would naively expect for a charity?
wow, reading your comment is a great mood boost for me because these are literally the exact features I want from my llm chat experience. It's great to see someone with the exact same problem set.

I just followed you on Twitter (I'm @NamanyayG there as well), I'll definitely ping you when I have something to test.
Religious orgs do nothing but prey on the weak and break them so that they can never be free and have to rely on the church. And then there's all the land that they use once a week, and that is a complete waste. All that needs to be taxed, they shouldn't exist. You want to pray, cool, don't waste resources and pay your share.
There's also outside support due to converging interests. If DM is a particle that gives particle physicists an excuse to fund numerous experiments in an attempt to detect it. There are just more physicists motivated overall to prefer particle DM.
I suppose it depends on how you are defining normal. Does that mean owning a home and vehicle and supporting a wife and kids, or does that mean sharing an apartment with multiple people and using public transport and not having any savings? I get that the cost of living is lower in Italy, but different people have different ideas about what constitutes comfortable. Just from googling, the 2k seems like it'd be a bit of a struggle but the 4k seems like it'd be pretty nice.