skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could buy a Honda Fit for 17k, the bottom of Honda’s car lineup. Much cheaper than a CRV. If you look at the actual CAFE standards you’ll see this had nothing to do with this particular case anyway, but even if it did, if consumers really wanted small cars the volume of Fit sales would rapidly outpace CRVs and it’d make up for the lower margin.

They didn’t though. Because Americans didn’t want them.

The emissions regulations people talk about are easy to look up online and there was undoubtedly a real effect on the viability of larger vehicles but it is hugely overstated online. The main reason for huge cars is because they really are much more useful and comfortable for anything except gas mileage and city parking, Americans can afford them, and such models generally have more social clout.

The Fit in particular is an amazing car. There’s actually much more room for the driver than in even much larger cars. With the seats down you can fit all kinds of crazy stuff in there - even 8ft lumber. It didn’t die because of government regulation. It died because Americans by and large think it’s a ridiculous car to drive around in, so it didn’t sell. And because despite all those things, a three row SUV or a truck has more general utility.
I didn't realize we even had a discrete LED tunable across the visible spectrum, let alone a Micro-LED array of them. Anybody know where I can buy one? I want to build a hyperspectral imager.
The larger models generate high quality textbook-like synthetic data which is used to develop the model's reasoning skills. Microsoft's Phi series is a demonstration of this. These models do not have the ability to absorb and retain a lot of factual knowledge due to the low parameter count. However, they do have the ability to reason as well as larger models, which means these models perform best when most of the factual stuff is provided in context.
Probably. See my comment (and example repo) elsewhere about running any old binary when someone connects.
So... the road for maximizing the profits will begin?
I miss when this was the internet. Just thousands of little sites like this.
If you want to be pedantic about it, the post I was responding to was asking how a mom-and-pop might survive when Starbucks didn’t. Thus, I only felt compelled to name some possible advantages on the one side. It was not intended as an overall analysis. Obviously Starbucks has some other advantages over a mom-and-pop, or else they wouldn’t be everywhere.
> I'm regularly impressed at how quickly both projects get updated to support such things.

Same! Big kudos to all involved
Ha, yea, in particular these monochromatic pixels can't simply be white. Notably ctrl-f'ing for "white" gives zero results on this page.

Relatedly, the page talks a lot about pixel density, but this confused me: if you swap each R, G, or B LED with an adjustable LED, you naively get a one-time 3x boost in pixel area density, which is a one-time sqrt(3)=1.73x boost in linear resolution. So I think density is really a red herring.

But they also mention mass transfer ("positioning of the red, green and blue chips to form a full-colour pixel") which plausibly is a much bigger effect: If you replace a process that needs to delicately interweave 3 distinct parts with one that lays down a grid of identical (but individually controllable) parts, you potentially get a much bigger manufacturing efficiency improvement that could go way beyond 3x. I think that's probably the better sales pitch.
Would be fun if displays come full circle with variable addressable geometry/ glowing goo too.

Not quite vector display, but some thing organic than can be adressed with some stimulators like reaction-diffusion or gaussian, FFT, laplacians, gabor filters, Turig patterns, etc.
Get fancy patterns with lowest amount of data.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092547739...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1755-148X.2010...
Aren't small models useful for providing a language-based interface - spoken or in writing - to any app? Tuned specifically for that app or more likely enriched via RAG and possibly also by using function calling?

It doesn't have to be intelligent like we expect it from the top-tier, huge models, just capable of understanding some words in sentences, mostly commands, and how to react to them.
This runs counter to most physiology textbook introductions which tend toward making statements like, "The body's main goal is maintaining homeostasis," and from there framing the rest of the bodily processes as various feedback mechanisms which normally align to achieve homeostasis. Sometimes these processes are at odds with each other, and only their combined effect is homeostatic, but pedagogically the nuance of that is present from the start of education.
A piano which has keys ordered in a certain order influences any creation process.

Nobody exists in a vacuum, we're all consumers of the culture which surrounds us. I think you're confusing consumption and mass consumption.
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Here's my cheap suggestion. Change the name from Apache Software Foundation to "A Software Foundation" (or even "ASF Software Foundation"). Change instances of 'Apache X' to 'ASF X'; ex Apache HTTPd becomes ASF HTTPd. The license becomes the ASF License.

You can do it in steps. Anything that's currently Apache X could become ASF X on its own schedule. asf.org seems to be managed by a foundation that changed its name away from ASF in 2010, so it might be available (presumably at some cost) for the ASF to make use of to replace apache.org over time.

This still costs money and time, but it would do the job over time, with a minimal upfront expenses.
All "technology" (using the broad definition) is a manifestation of human ideas and the evolution of those ideas over time. Human thought preceded the creation of prisons or the repurposing of existing structures as prisons. And even the idea of a "prison" has to be collapsed into a broader category of "secure building", which is a technology that emerged because of just how useful it is to have a robust place to live in and avoid the elements, intruders, etc.

To frame prisons as "inherently oppressive" is to pretend that a prison is not just another building with the label "prison" on the outside built to a certain specification of security. Much like a church is just a building where people gather to practice their faith. I realize that these buildings have some unique features that are optimized for their particular purpose, but at each level you drill down, those technologies almost universally co-emerged because of other human needs.

These buildings do not have intrinsic essences, nor were the underlying techniques of engineering used to build them solely developed for the purpose of incarcerating people or praying to various gods.

> The adoption of a technology is done by the decision of a human

And so is the inception of the original idea that led to the establishment of the technology. The tools we build are a manifestation of collective human consciousness at any given point in time. That goes not just for the ways we use technology, but also for the technologies we invent and decide to build in the first place.

The call is coming from inside the house. The thing we need to be focusing on is our own nature, and how we tend to oppress each other. This is a problem not solved by assigning technology with properties like "oppressive". Technology is not oppressive. People are.

> Nobody's claiming that computers have imposed themselves on society...

Oppression is generally something that humans do to other humans (I agree that they use tools along the way). By saying that computers are inherently oppressive, you're implying that computers are somehow imposing themselves on society. If a human has to be involved for the oppression to occur, the computer is by definition not inherently oppressive.
Loved this piece for the style and rumination, though I focused less on the "did it work? were the approaches reasonable?" aspects that other commenters seem to be highlighting.

Not quite the same, but for years I moderated a few big subreddits for friendmaking, and was part of such communities myself. ('til the API fiasco neutered the tools I had for catching bots, harassers, and pedophiles.) At risk of sounding absurd: I think friendmaking subreddits were awesome, but they did put pretty broad swathes of people in a hellish loop. People fall for a lot of the same known traps described in the article like fear of rejection. You need a paradoxical combination of thick skin, patience, effort, and also willingness to play the "numbers game"[1] to succeed with any amount of expediency. (And time can be of the essence for some people, particularly the depressed/suicidal.) Some people simply don't want to deal with that shit (fair enough). Very loose observations on this in the digital world:

* Some people are lonely / don't really click with many others, but find someone they do click with, only to blow it by clinging hard.

* High-effort users who spend a lot of time and feel little return get burnt out, meaning that a lot of posts in the new queue are low-effort shotgun posts; your best bet at finding high-effort friends is catching new posters in their first few posts.

* Reddit's "front page" mechanic works well enough for a first-approximation on who MIGHT be a high-effort friend but very often falsely bubbles a bot to the top (especially now). If it's not a bot, then the poster is likely overwhelmed with responses and even if they're otherwise high-effort: they're treading a tightrope between responding to everyone (with cut corners or delays), or responding to a subset of respondents. If you're a high-effort respondent, neither feels good to be on the receiving end of.

* In general, men don't get as many responses as women. Though the responses they do get tend to be from women. Men just don't use those sites to make other male friends much.

[1]: "numbers game" referring to seeing value in maximizing the quantity of interactions with unique people (there's kind of a distasteful red-pill-ishness about this when taken too far wrt dating, but really: people are so different that there really is an effective upper bound on how quickly you can find the people you're looking for without just talking to more people.)
A CMS makes the backend inaccessible. Want to add inline styles to a page? You can't. Want to embed a script for some quick interactivity? You can't. Of course you could attempt to locate the theme files and edit them, and edit the configuration files to enqueue scripts but at that point you're no longer having fun.

The only thing you can do is write paragraphs in templated portions of the page. And that's who a CMS is for: people who are doing a job, and have no curiosity about looking under the hood and messing around.
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I would suggest Fastmail. They are excellent in what they provide. Just email and calendar. So if you are using proton other features (pass, drive..etc) then it wouldn't be 1:1 replacment.
Spreadsheets have such a way of making chaotic things more clear. I wonder if there's any work on spreadsheets as a multidimensional thinking tool
Would this be practical? Or would it be similar to how printers have separate black ink, which is theoretically unnecessary?
marquee still works too
Thanks for this. I think the same but I never went to grad school so I'm wary it might be the last step instead of the penultimate one. Its hard to get out of the Ivy mania as well.
>In pre-training, we filter out(opens in a new window) information that we do not want our models to learn from or output, such as hate speech, adult content, sites that primarily aggregate personal information, and spam.

Great so now the model would be unable to recognize this type of content, do not use it for moderation.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_color

This reminds me of the observation I had in high school that I could immerse LEDs in liquid nitrogen and run them at higher than usual voltage and watch the color change.

I got a PhD in condensed matter physics later on but never got a really good understanding of the phenomenon but I think it has something to do with

https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/identifying-the-causes-o...

Here is a video of people doing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PquJdIK_z8
Maybe developers should spend more time in bio tech, rather than ad tech.

Imagine if we spent 30% of our effort to improve humanity.
See also: ssh-chat by shazow from ~10 years ago written in Go

ssh chat.shazow.net

The most amazing part is perhaps the fact that this one is still around, 10 years later! Try it yourself and you’ll see :)

Discussion at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8743374

Source code in GitHub repo here:

https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat
It also can't produce white or anything else in the interior of this diagram (as well as, as you mention, shades of magenta and purple that lie on the flat lower edge):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Planckia...
>and the busybodies & hypochondriacs find it easy to get on "the list"

If it's not a random sampling, is not nearly as useful.
After the submission it was actually on the front page. But then quickly got flagged then unflagged (I didn't reach out to dang).
exactly. the only people who would use 3.5 now are people who MUST use it due to some specification, contract or requirement.

You can charge a premium to people who aren't allowed to change their mind.
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100% I think the author is really misunderstanding the issue here. "Hallucination" is a fundamental aspect of the design of Large Language Models. Narrowing the distribution of the training data will reduce the LLM's ability to generalize, but it won't stop hallucinations.
whats the dns setup?
This is a little mixed up. If you write the arc length as an elliptic integral and evaluate it using a special function library, you may just be evaluating a Chebyshev series or some rational approximation (or some piecewise combination). It may indeed be quite accurate... but that will be for a general case which may be too heavyweight (e.g. a library function which evaluates a special function for any choice of parameters to 15 digits). It might be that directly approximating the arc length if your particular curve on the fly (a smooth function!) with a Chebyshev series will be faster for the same accuracy, but now you can also reduce the accuracy to get more speed if you like. This is the sense in which numerical methods are almost guaranteed to be the superior tool for the job.
That's a good point. I should probably print a QR code that is equivalent to a type 4 UUID or a snowflake id and stick it on each individual book. Now that I think of it, I have two copies of Nixon Agonistes which I mentioned in a comment here yesterday.
> It's clearly an overestimate, as literally 60 people have gotten tested in the US.

Those numbers are largely from outbreaks that happened a few years back, in some cases with more extensive testing. The current US outbreak is (so far, and hopefully it continues that way) small enough that you can't read much into the numbers either way.

> If it was very severe we'd know it already.

Not if human-human transmission is nearly impossible with the current strain, as it seems to be. This shouldn't be _too_ reassuring, as the same went for H1N1 until 1918 (in the next two years it killed 50 million people). H5N1 kills people via a cytokine swarm, same as H1N1, though it seems to be more dramatic, and like H1N1 tends to preferentially kill young people.

Like, I'm not saying "panic, it's definitely going to be the next COVID only worse, shut everything down", but it deserves more attention from the authorities than it's necessarily getting.

Interestingly, some of the more pointless COVID precautions (especially the early emphasis on gloves and things) probably showed up because the WHO was so fixated on the idea that the next pandemic would be either H1N1 or H5N1, and fomites are a big deal for influenza in a way that they're not for COVID.
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When you consider the extent of regulatory capture in the defense industry, the degree to which prime contractors have come to overspecialize in regulatory compliance and lobbying, and the nigh insurmountable barriers to entry for new firms -- you might reconsider.

Before Anduril was established, nobody was certain whether a company like that could even exist. A company, focused on defense projects, that doesn't just make software, but makes real things in the real world -- and that company operates along modern lines and isn't a bloated old MIC dinosaur. The odds were stacked heavily against them. But they're winning.
Cool, the source code is amazingly readable. Also love the sense of humor :-D such as https://github.com/quackduck/devzat/blob/main/commands.go#L1...
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Do you mean hyperspectral imager (i.e., camera), or a hyperspectral display?
He didn't as much predict it as made it. He obviously didn't do it alone, but he did spend a lot of his life making those predictions (really promises) come true.
Not really. The tv content alone is all in English, the books you buy are in English, the people you talk to are speaking English. In a way or another, they get English (I have two children and we speak Italian at home, they both know English).

By the way, something nobody mentioned, once your kid learns English in an English speaking country, your English gets better (assuming you are non-native). My daughter started correcting my pronunciation and it's getting way better
I agree with this attitude as it was in the country I grew up in. However in the US often internships are the path to graduate jobs which is a much easier way into the highest paying jobs. The other thing is time, sure you can try something out for 4 years but doing too much education means you'll never get to settle down until your 30s at the earliest.
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Congratulations everyone, we can now automate the next global financial crisis.
Internet tells me that human is not the most inefficient, but pretty much down on the list. Sorry to be that guy, but to me a joke or quote needs to be true to impact :(

https://ghijklmno.net/a-bicycle-for-the-mind/
I guess it's time to post the perennial reminder that Cool URIs Don't Change: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
> Unless your only measure of success is getting your foot into the workplace due to prestige.

Prestige I'm not so worried about the but getting foot into the workplace is a significant benefit.
And both mentioned and visited in the linked-to article. With pictures.
Yes, but it's not common for the original model to be 8 bit int. The community can downgrade any model to 8 bit int, but it's always linked to quality loss.
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> This runs counter to most physiology textbook

Which part?
And then you go out into the real world, talk to real adults, and discover that the majority of people don't have a coherent mental model of the world, and have completely ridiculous ideas that aren't anywhere near an approximation of the real physical world.
> only gives you access to a thin slice of the sRGB gamut (i.e. the parts of HSL where saturation is maxed out)

Note that even if we restrict our attention to the max-saturation curve, these pixels can't produce shades of purple/magneta (unless, as you say, they use temporal dithering or some other trick).
An imager/camera: by illuminating a scene (or light box) solely with the tunable LED, sweeping it across the spectrum, and capturing it with an achromatic camera.
Dr. Richard Hipp himself outlined a few more limitations of WAL mode in a recent paper.

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p3535-gaffney.pdf

“To accelerate searching the WAL, SQLite creates a WAL index in shared memory. This improves the performance of read transactions, but the use of shared memory requires that all readers must be on the same machine [and OS instance]. Thus, WAL mode does not work on a network filesystem.”

“It is not possible to change the page size after entering WAL mode.”

“In addition, WAL mode comes with the added complexity of checkpoint operations and additional files to store the WAL and the WAL index.”
Exactly, corruption is more sophisticated, but it exists and is huge nonetheless. The big difference is that the starting GDP is higher, which allows for a little more to reach normal citizens after corruption is taken into account.
"We understand the transition away from using goo.gl short links may cause some inconvenience." ... Hum, ya ... Non tech people might have made lots of links in legacy internal doc's, email conversations and other reference maternal ... Maybe even a thing called "Paper" ;-)
Why on earth would you task a non-deterministic technology with data persistence?
https://archive.ph/2024.07.18-183400/https://www.bloomberg.c...
As a victim of Kumon I am still traumatized from Vieta's formula to establish relationships between the coefficients of a polynomial and sums and products of its roots.

I stuck with it for 6 months during self study and now I see it everywhere in the world.
Seriously? I can't imagine a service that just returns HTTP 301 is costing Google enough to warrant shutting it down.

Just making a whole slew of links across the whole internet dead. Another cancelled google service on the pile, I guess.
Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks!

Btw, is that still reasonably effective if the scene has ambient illumination, but (in addition to shining each wavelength at it) you take a monochrome photo in only the ambient light and you subtract that out from all your other images?
> gas mileage and city parking

Which are exactly the things heavily subsidized in the US!
Well each new generation of model costs like 10x the previous one to train, and its value (and thus ability to generate a return) diminishes extremely rapidly. The only source of improved economics is the rapidly evaporating Moore's Law (and any opex savings are swamped by the crazy high capex if you're using chips from Nvidia).
That indeed sounds promising.
I first found Lex because he would interview really interesting technical people, like Jim Keller.

Like you, I found Lex off-putting in that he will platform anyone, and then will just say Love will prevail, I think its incredibly naive.
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Yes, but chatgpt will happily go browsing the web if needed or appropriate. I guess there is a reason why they haven't hooked up a symbolic math package to do the math when encountered, but feels weird it's not a feature yet.
Yeah, though SSH is already very mature at processing text, so it's a surprisingly good fit for a chat. I would also remember that any machine you SSH from is going to give the server some metadata like IP address, public keys (which aren't useful as creds but can be for tracking). Really fun little project though