skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots, but my favourite is a caption remover. I found a film I wanted to watch, the audio was in English, but there were Greek captions spread over the bottom quarter of the screen.

- Split the mp4 up into pngs (better quality than jpgs) with ffmpeg.

- Process each png, filling the white caption areas with data from the nearest non-caption pixels.

- Join the pngs back to an mp4 (ffmpeg).

- Get the original audio with ffmpeg and merge it into the mp4, ffmpeg again.

The actual processing was with C# on Windows because that's home turf for me.

Lessons:

1) You need a lot of space for 200,000 decent quality .pngs

2) You need to be prepared to wait a few hours for the process to run

3) ffmpeg is blooming marvelous. https://ffmpeg.org.

I probably spent 20 hours on it, maybe more. I don't use it at all now, it was a one-off solution, but I occasionally see a video and think "I could run my app on that ... "
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Review of Mechanistic Interpretability for Transformer-Based Language Models
The mistake was using golang apparently.

If you need high-performance and fine control of synchronization, just use a low-level systems programming language.
But unless you're going to ask for contributions, this means the organizers are footing the bill every time -- and in my opinion, once you start collecting money you've doubled the complexity.
What's an OSS equivalent to Chubby? Etcd?
I’m not sure how effective using copper will be at scale, though I know you can use h2o and co2 to produce ch4 (methane) through a process called a Sabatier Reaction which involves the presence of a catalyst like nickel and high temperature. I’m guessing it would be a similar process here, except with copper?

Additionally, I recently discovered a company Valar Atomics who are working on small scale nuclear reactors to produce methane from h2o and co2 using this method.

- Valar Atomics announcement https://x.com/isaiah_p_taylor/status/1720418162985054350?s=4...
Infuriating that you actually think Lebron James is that famous outside the US.
Yeah "Millennial qualified to be on a board" is almost certainly not bringing a "Millennial perspective" to said board.
Do Chinese and Indians watch Messi?

That's what matters for worldwide popularity total.
> Is there a level of complexity in the environment that is a base requirement?

I think you are unto something here. Either that or a necessary minimum of sensory/processing capacity to "take in"/parse/drawn information from the environment, which amounts to the same (you end up with a certain amount of environmental complexity that you can benefit from, as a "ceiling" ...
Interesting. Here is more detail on how those Soviet quail experiments went: https://finchwench.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/cosmoquails/

Unfortunately, the chicks often came out deformed and many died early. Though birds are not closely related to us (our last common ancestor lived more than 300 million years ago), so I really would like to see ISS experiments on whether mice fare any better, or perhaps even worse.

Overall, I'm pessimistic about colonizing Mars. In the interview mentioned before, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith also mention other problems, like the necessity to live underground in caves, due to radiation. Building an underground city on Earth would be vastly easier than on Mars, yet nothing like it has ever been tried.

I think the most likely thing that will happen is this: In about 20 years, NASA will use Starship (a SpaceX rocket currently in development) to send a few US Americans to Mars, they will plant the flag of the nation, and, having beat the Chinese, that will be mostly the end of humanity's Mars aspirations.

Basically like the moon missions: Once the novelty is gone, people will likely lose interest in earlier aspirations of establishing a permanent base. Especially if the ISS mice turn out crippled.
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Not surprising. We know from a rare moment of truth that the U.K. 77th brigade is using social media to influence people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)#...

The Brigade uses social media such as Twitter and Facebook to influence populations and behaviour.[11][12] David Miller, then a professor of political sociology at the University of Bristol studying British government propaganda and public relations, said that it is "involved in manipulation of the media including using fake online profiles".

Generative AI is even cheaper.
Honestly, at first I read that as “Come for the HPV, stay for SIGGRAPH,” and thought that this sounded like one hell of a conference.
This is a publication about a finding. No price yet, no bussiness yet

The current synthesis process starts with oil. I imagine through hydrogenation.

The idea here is producing methane as a battery. A solarfarm would be upgraded to a power plant that generates electricity all day. That's it
I love Firefox's picture-in-picture mode for this exact reason. I think there is an extension for Chrome also.
> Psychedelics are really great at showing you just how much “work” consciousness is doing, and just how fungible all of its contents are. And the most important insight, which is that everything “out there” in the world — everything you experience — is actually an internal, subjective representation.

> The way I’ve described it is that we’re all in our own sensoriums, but that is generally totally opaque to us. Psychedelics can temporarily knock that sensorium askew — enough to notice that it’s there all the time and doesn’t have to be configured the way that it happens to be.

Considering this: do you find it a bit strange that ~all people (including yourself above) write as if the opposite of this is true? I mean sure, "people are imperfect" and "everyone is just expressing their opinion" are attractive memes (cultural "truths" that emerge from the very same simulation), but is there not perhaps something important going on that might be worth paying at least a little attention to?
That’s the US perspective. But globally the final of the World Cup (which Messi played) was seen by more than 1.5B people (compared to <200M in the Super Bowl). It is a big name.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/07/generatio...
Not entirely. I'd look up things like the 'Starving Time' at Jamestown. [1] Jamestown lost 90% of its population in a single winter, and was left resorting to cannibalism and other such things. In the past you were constantly preparing for winter. And if something went wrong, either with your crops, water, surprise weather, or whatever else - you died. And that's if disease, natives, weather, or a million other issues didn't get you.

And that's after you got there. Crossing the sea meant you were completely subject to the whims of the weather, often sailing into the literal unknown, all the while your rations were slowly dwindling and your crew was starting to rot from the inside out dying rather unpleasant deaths - scurvy wouldn't be entirely resolved until the 20th century! With Mars we won't really have to deal with any of this, because the issues and variables will be mostly known ahead of time, and the supplies per settler will also be dramatically higher meaning a far greater window of time to reach self sustainability.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starving_Time
A lot of devs and PMs under age 30 have never heard of RSS, or if they have it's not something they ever used, and not top-of-mind when it comes to features.
1. You were supposed to identify who the stakeholders were. Let's say you're a mechanical engineer and you need some $1m lathe. The economic decision making basically says you need to consider options like contracting the work to someone that has that machine and show some reasonable ROI period on actually buying that lathe vs. contracting it out or renting it or whatever other reasonable alternatives. People involved in this decision could be your team lead, if you're a mechanical engineer, and the project manager. If the amount is so large that it impacts the entire company maybe the CEO is also involved. You get everyone in the same room and talk about it. Anyone can sign off on the purchase. The project I was on built some large very expensive machines (multi-million dollar per machine) and we've done things like build clean rooms and buy pretty expensive equipment without a lot of friction. I worked on software so I wasn't personally in the loop for those purchases.

2. I guess it's no different than RSUs, stock options or a bonus plan or any other form of profit sharing. At the end of the day people are trusted to do their job. At least during my time with Creo it didn't seem to create a barrier to experimenting, if anything there were some projects that were maybe were too experimental.

3. Not enforced in any formal way. Peer review and just culture/peer pressure would do the job. I am aware of one case where someone abused the system and someone found out and they were fired. In terms of your example, the power was fundamentally less with the middle manager and more with the engineers in the first place, so there wasn't a lot to gain personally from empire building as in traditional companies. For the most part managers did not manage people, they managed projects. For example, as a software team lead I was under a project manager but I didn't report to him in the traditional sense of the word and they did not control my compensation (which would be mostly the outcome of the peer review process). The project manager's success was also measured by peer review.

I think the interesting thing about Creo, and what made it tick, was that the founders were in it not just to make money. They wanted to create a place they would want to work in, were passionate about this, and tried to hire people that fit into this vision. They have seen the things they didn't like and thought they can do better. It sort of happened in the right time and place where it managed to gain momentum.

EDIT: I managed to re-find this old video of Amos Michelson explaining how this works better than me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXTWMlRK0LE
The AI community is worse than JavaScript for acting like everything needs to be thrown out every six months.

Aside from the very important fact that GPT-3.5 is still far and away the most frequently used LLM model, it's not like GPT-4 has a completely different architecture with completely different characteristics. It's clearly better, but much of what they describe should generalize to LLMs as a whole (for example, knowledge cutoff dates matter a lot and these things likely have memorized a lot more than we thought they did).
Assuming Gaussian distribution, how many criteria should be graded, so that 90% of applicants are in top 10% for at least one criterion?
Spelling accessability as a11y is the pinnacle of irony.
"Public content" aka _our_ content that we sell for millions and steal from our userbase.
what do a pair of out of touch billionaires have to say that’s worth listening to. especially one that’s actively funding the erosion of American democracy
Indeed, an organism can only survive long enough if it can resist infection. For this, an organization should be openly hostile to certain forms of conduct, and should have a way to expel people who bring in wrong values, especially in management.

This is a really hard problem, due to its influence on the morale, and the danger of weaponization of these mechanisms by bad actors.
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There’s a huge difference between 3.5 and 4. 3.5 is pretty much useless. 4 is very decent, it saved me countless hours at work.
Could be useful for the psyops divisions like: https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/specialty-careers/sp...
Yes I'm serious. Here's the prompt I would use: "what does bananas mean in this sentence: YouTube embeds are bananas heavy and it’s fixable"

Put it in google, and it doesn't give anything useful

Put it in an LLM, and you get a correct answer because LLMs can understand full sentences
In 2024, it is less controversial to accuse the US government of lying than generative AI models
Generation labels mean nothing. It's time to retire them. (2021)
Just for anyone curious - pharmacists explained the situation to me about the government limiting the supply of ADHD meds and the resulting shortages, then I found news that confirmed it.

Mental health is a private matter, so I will just say that nurses can prescribe these meds in many states and often work with patients without insurance. Please see someone if you struggle with depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, or similar nebulous issues. There really are treatments starting at about $1 per day that can drastically improve the quality of your life.

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In my case, I've been healing from my second burnout with physical symptoms since my first one in 2019. My high cortisol levels overwhelmed my other hormones, and the way I found out is that I stopped recovering after workouts and took some injuries. For men, the dopamine-testosterone pathway is the weak link in the chain that governs our overall vitality. For women, I think it's oxytocin-estrogen but I haven't done a deep dive on it.

Anyway for overweight men, the aromatase in their fat converts testosterone to estrogen, which tells their body to lower production of testosterone to prevent tumors and eventually even cancer from the estrogen. Also phytoestrogens from foods like legumes and estrogenic chemicals in plastic cause the body to think that estrogen is higher than it is, which shuts down testosterone production. In women, BPA and other endocrine disruptors might cause conditions like PCOS and throw off their hormones, but I don't know enough about that to speak more on it. Basically these environmental factors are messing with our hormones, and I believe that's why young men today have lower testosterone (so probably dopamine too) than previous generations, which may be causing a rise in mental health issues and dopamine-seeking behaviors like video game addiction (the horror!)

Since endocrine disruptors are unavoidable in the modern world, people are juicing with leafy greens and other vegetables to combat them. I've heard good things about Man Greens and estrogen blockers like white button mushrooms. You can also eat walnuts, 1-3 brazil nuts per day, a serving of dark chocolate over 72%, pomegranate juice, bacon and 2-4 eggs, and various other foods to raise dopamine and testosterone and lower estrogen. It's also good to aim for about 8% body fat before pursuing other fitness goals. The quickest way to do that is to walk briskly for 45-60 minutes at least 3 times per week in addition to your current exercise, and add a large loose leaf salad with a low calorie dressing like a vinaigrette each day. I mention this because I've found that improving my physical health has had a drastic effect on my mental health and I'm working towards being free of all medication until late in life. YMMV
Coriander, if you forgot what cilantro is.
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What choice do we have? I'm in the middle of an investigation. This changes everything. Please bring back Wayback Machine. Archive.org, come back improved, whole and free.
Scales are like two years out of fashion. Target and Walmart are using cameras and machine learning now. Almost no false positives, but someone's going to come and take a look if you bag something without scanning it.

I noticed it once when I paid for pharmacy items at Walmart and later put that bag into the bagging area when I bought grocery items. It flagged it as an unscanned item and notified the attending associate.

All in all, it's a superior experience to waiting in regular lines or having to talk to people. Ultimately, I want to just scan and pay with my phone without the kiosk bottleneck.
Happy to answer, I hope this quick list will be satisfactory despite its messiness:

- numbers make the order (more) significant, making reordering the text more costly

- compared to numbers, words are often easier to spot and jump to

- compared to numbers, the words have some connection to the point (not saying I do this perfectly!) so you don't have to remember which (number) footnote you were looking for

- ADHD

- herbalessence because coriander is a herb, and Maybe some people even have coriander scented soap

- daftpunk because 'Around the World (around the world)'
'Tis a sad day when a phys.org article is this fluffy. Much better is the research article's Abstract:

> Carbon dioxide offers a unique opportunity as a feedstock for energy production through electrocatalysis. Methane production holds promise for its widespread applications and market demand. However, commercial viability faces challenges of low selectivity, current density, and high applied potential. Efforts to improve methane selectivity while suppressing multi-carbon products, e.g., ethylene, often involve lower alkalinity electrolytes. However, it reduces current density due to increased ohmic resistance without significant gains in the reaction yield. This study utilizes quantum mechanics computations to design a nano-cluster copper catalyst that redirects the reaction pathway from ethylene towards methane, even under alkaline conditions. We achieved a Faradaic efficiency (FE) of 85 %, a current density of 1.5 A/cm2, and stability of over 10 hours solely by controlling particle size in copper catalysts. This work paves the way to overcoming current limitations in electrocatalytic methane production and holds broader implications for advancing sustainable CO2 utilization in energy systems.

Also of interest - could this electrochemical setup be run in reverse, as a methane fuel cell? That I'm aware of, 85% efficiency would be far better than the current state of the art there.
We have to be careful here. Individualism is not the same thing as respect for person. Individualism is a recent development in the West, specifically a tenet of liberalism in the tradition of Hobbes, Locke, and Mill. The liberal tradition cannot be understood completely except as a Christian heresy as it takes a properly Christian anthropology and distorts it by, in this case, exaggeration. So, in this case, while Christianity elevates the human person by recognizing his dignity as a rational and free agent, liberalism atomizes persons in a manner that effectively destroys or distorts their social nature, and in doing so, diminishes their humanity (Aristotle once famously said that a man who does not need society is either a beast or a god; I have my opinion about which tends to characterize our relationships today, and which tends to characterize our opinions of ourselves.)

Now, the East does not have this Christian respect for persons. Indeed, it tends toward the opposite error of subordinating the person to society and instrumentalizing persons and making them expendable for the "greater good". We see something like this in the old pagan societies in the West as well (though, as we often see, this "greater good" is a tyranny). In the traditional, pre-liberal Christian vision, still taught by the Catholic Church, there is a simultaneous recognition and respect for persons, and a recognition of Man's social nature and the common good which precedes him and toward which he has a moral duty. We are born into societies (the family is the first and most important society from which the entire tapestry of mankind is woven). And it is the common good: it isn't the "greater good" of society that permits the sacrifice of others, but a good held in common, and also by which many goods are had, including things like private property, which follows from the common good (liberalism has it exactly backwards, because it conceives private property as prior and proper to the individual first, and the common good as something grudgingly ceded by individuals for common benefit).
It's not a dupe if the previous post got erroneously flagged to death.
There is this project: https://github.com/syncfast/clockwise
Just like cable news back then.

We all just got too used to thinking there was a real person on the other end of social media.
* Pumped storage is hours of electric output

* Battery storage is minutes of electric output

Cold snaps and inversions (clouds are low, no wind, cold) are counted in days to weeks.
Probably because they used GPT 3.5 to make general claims about LLMs.
Spot on :)

PS. Also, curiosly fins have six fingers ...
Assessing the Quality of Code Generation by ChatGPT
In Mother Russia you don’t shoot delivery drones, delivery drones shoot you.

Also I have a sneaking suspicion that Florida man will end up pleading out, thus this will never get adjudicated, but I wonder how these charges interact, morally, with Florida’s “stand your ground” doctrine, if he actually believed the drone was both over his property and represented some threat to his perception of safety?
And that's after a pretty debilitating stroke.
World Cup finals alone are watched by ~2B people. Outside the US, only younger people that are into tech know who Zuck is.
VDEv2: Virtual Distributed Ethernet
Postgres supports foreign data wrapper (FDW), which is the basic building block for a distributed DB. It doesn't support strong consistency in distributed settings as of yet, although it does provide two-phase commit which could be used for such.
If you’re on wasm, why not just use Elixir and be done with it?
He is going to build these ? The same people that are build systems expressly to avoid accountability?
Argument is an art of rhetoric, not logic. Many very smart people make flawed arguments, sometimes instinctively, sometimes deliberately.

I'm not saying they should. In fact, I'll now say: they shouldn't. But whatever defect this habit is evidence of, it isn't necessarily a defect of their intelligence. Sometimes, but not always, or even usually.
Northwestel is being sold by Bell to new Indigenous owned consortium for $1B
Erroneously? A number of people saw this already, same content, same discussion, more of it over there.
Using a narrative format to convey complex business concepts, making it more accessible and engaging for readers. Nicely done.
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Zuck does this every now and then, doing photo ops and making statements to burnish his image or test the waters for politics.
Terrence, that you?
It doesn’t matter what is the most commonly used model. If you want to make claims about LLM capabilities you better be using the best model available.
I use JSONB columns a lot, it has its place. It can fit certain applications, but it does introduce a lot of extra query complexity and you lose out on some ways to speed up query performance that you could get from a relational approach.

Which is to say JSONB is useful, but I wouldn’t throw the relational baby out with the bath water.
It technically ran on a 486, but was painfully slow.

IIRC the box stated 100MHz Pentium minimum, but we found for LAN sessions that you really wanted a 200MHz MMX CPU to never suffer slowdown.
What's the point of fake comments, let alone talking with yourself using alt accounts?

Do you think potential users will trust someone who posts fake comments?
These are a lot of extraordinary claims. I would love to learn more about the evidence and what make you think this way. There are many successful companies that built scalable services with golang, so the burden of proof for the above claims are high.
I've used them a few times for dealing with a bad network.

But this is a "me" solution, and I'd imagine those sites would like to be accessible for more people. (I'm personally a very bad "customer" for them.)

Anyway, it's a mild annoyance for me (I have that "me" solution), and not really my problem to solve.
I bet people would be surprised to find out how much of the web, various build systems, etc. are still powered by it.

It's been a few years since I've known the following to necessarily be true but some examples that come to mind are Craigslist and BuzzFeed.
Nope, I checked his post history. As someone who works in a similar lab, what he’s describing certainly isn’t uncommon.
Best case, the technology will allow us to continue to live on a warmer earth, which will still be vastly easier than living on Mars.