skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article reads as something trying to make the case for ternary without knowing anything about it.

Being able to store 0-8 numbers in 2 trits instead of 0-7 numbers in 3 bits is not a value added.

The comparison (</=/>) is the only real advantage they mentioned, but the way that might provide an advantage is if it's a single trit register within a primarily binary system. I.e. your (binary) comparison instruction (comparing two binary numbers) drops the result in the single-trit register, and then your (binary) jump instructions jump to a (binary) location based on that trit register. Point is, there's no benefit to having the entire system be ternary just for one ternary value. This is a semantic benefit, because the operation really does have 3 possible outcomes, but there are potential energy efficiency downsides to this.

A bigger benefit might be representing unknowns or don't-cares--notably numbers in this system are still binary, but some bits are unknown or don't matter. In this case, you can actually make some energy efficiency gains, especially in the context of don't cares, because you can simply jam whatever voltage is most convenient into that "bit"--it doesn't even have to match a voltage range. But I'm not entirely sure that it's accurate to call those systems "ternary".
For perspective, Strawberry Creek is surrounded by desert or semi-arid biomes, so 3 gallons/second is a lot of water for the area.
my 2c is package it as a Dockerfile and push it to ECR and set up an ECS fargate stack to run it. It's a little work to understand what this entails, but it will pay off, is cheap to run, and you can use it for everything.

Don't host your own db, use a t3.micro from RDS for postgres (NOT aurora). If you don't want to use RDS use an EC2 instead. Definitely don't containerize the db.

You'll also need an ALB to put in front of your ECS cluster, but you can use the same ALB for as many clusters or apps as you want

This will probably cost you $20-30/mo before bandwidth charges and will carry a lot of traffic, but if you need more you just increment how many nodes you're running, no sweat

Probably learn how to do this using the console, but you do this all with terraform and you can just rubber stamp your application infra like magic
The world gets more seafood from aquaculture than wild catch
I think it all depends on the individual. Some people thrive with a quest mentality, while others prefer setting goals. Some live by analyzing their days using a SWOT system and this push them forward. Others are used to setting one big goal and like a dream.
And some people cannot even admit they're wrong about claims they made up, despite them being trivial to check, and such people even sometimes double down on that mistake and make up more false claims.

Is it any wonder such people defend Musk for his ignorance and childish behavior?

How about demonstrating how one should admit being wrong and offer a correction, since that is what you're complaining others don't do properly.
Langgraph is not a no-code tool for visual programming, it's an implementation of the Pregel algorithm for execution of cyclical computation graphs (ie not DAGs)
Weird to call a React + Django boilerplate "not bloated".
Tbl, a Swiss army knife for parquet read and write operations
https://archive.ph/6ZoQp
Some were found in the Philippines decades later, still with weapons refusing to surrender.
Nous is the french word for "us". haven't heard of NousResearch
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Responding to my own post to respond to one of OP's questions:

> Alternative solutions we should explore.

When I am working with a vendor's app with critical gaps and I know the vendor will not solve the problem (because they don't have the talent or it's functionality that doesn't apply broadly to their market), then I try to work with them to just add a hook (on our dime) to link to our external custom functionality.

The easier you can make it on the vendor the more likely they will incorporate it. Typically I will design the interface of info in a way to make their lives as easy as possible to incorporate the results in to their systems.

Some examples where I used this very successfully:

1-Cubing/Cartonization for outbound orders - we have many unique requirements from our customers as well as from our internal business channels. Vendor calls our system, passes relevant info, we produce the result and return it, they do all of their normal app updates as if they were the ones that produced the result.

2-Picking/batching optimization - same issue, nobody has any out of the box optimization that supports all of our requirements and dependencies - same flow, we perform our own prioritization+optimization and return the results, they update their app/db.

3-Generalized Rules engine - most workflows are controlled with normal ERP style configurations in the app, but some require much more flexible logic, for those we had the vendor insert a call to our rules engine, they pass in key relevant data, we crunch it, we return the result, they update their app/db.

An example usage of this one is in our order routing across different DC's. The business can target all kinds of special conditions to support their business requirements (e.g. product X should ship from DC Y for special customers A, B and C due to some special processing in that facility).

4-Generalized external function - in one system we had the vendor add the capability to call an external function at any point in the workflow (they have configurable processes where multiple steps can be linked together). This one one is not designed to return anything to the calling system other than success or failure, it's more about inserting external actions within the workflow (e.g. external action might be a function in a separate system that is fully self-contained).

These are just a few examples but we've made use of it extensively. I think it's a really effective compromise when trying to work around vendors app limitations.
I don't have a problem with the current design, but you're right that this is better. I'll give it a try, thanks!
Enjoying the process and enjoying the outcome... For me the terminology doesn’t change the experience
I don't remember the exact details because it was a long time ago, but what I do remember is

- Limiting memory usage and number of connections for mysql

- Tracking maximum memory size of rails application servers so you didn't run out a memory by running too many of them

- Avoid writing unnecessarily memory intensive code (This is pretty easy in ruby if you know what you're doing)

- Avoiding using gems unless they were worth the memory use

- Configuring the frontend webserver to start dropping connections before it ran out of memory (I'm pretty sure that was just a guess)

- Using the frontend webserver to handle traffic whenever possible (mostly redirects)

- Using IP tables to block traffic before hitting the webserver

- Periodically checking memory use and turning off unnecessary services and cronjobs

I had the entire application running on a 512mb VPS with roughly 70mb to spare. It was a little less spare than I wanted but it worked.

Most of this was just rate limiting with extra steps. At the time rails couldn't use threads, so there was a hard limit on the number of concurrent tasks.

When the site went down it was due to rate limiting and not the server locking up. It was possible to ssh in and make firewall adjustments instead of a forced restart.
At $200/user/month he's making more than 99% of highschool students and computer science students
> Its shares fell nearly 1% after Reuters first reported the cuts. The stock was down over 9% this year as of Thursday's close.

Kind of glad the days of improving stock prices due to layoffs appear to be over, even if it means these companies are actually struggling now and we are possibly bordering on recession.
Why did ChatGPT say that? Attribution using PIZZA
Unless the insurance company mandates that you use a particular roofing company to address the problem, I can't see how that would constitute illegal tying.

I would expect the insurance company would say something like, "We noticed this problem with your roof. Please correct it or we'll cancel your policy." And then the homeowner is free to choose any roofing company they want to remediate.

Heck, the insurance company could even say, "Here are some reputable roofing companies in your area, but you're still free to select any company you want," and I doubt that would constitute tying.

And anyway, even if you could make the argument that roofing companies in the aggregate will benefit from these sorts of policies, it's not as if keeping one's roof in good condition is forcing consumers to make unreasonable purchases.
Secure Deployments, Confident Teams: The Power of Integration Testing
What's your opinion of Langgraph, if you're not affiliated with it?
The tech you're thinking of is the tools that now make it easier than ever to compare insurance rates and choose an insurer that best fits your risk profile.

Insurance companies thrive in the margins of customers being overly-conservative, and as the information asymmetry drops, their margins go down.
So you make hardware costing dozens of thousands of dollars and brag about memory on 5$ chip?
That explains a lot why so many medical and industrial (I haven’t touch military hardware) are so badly designed, with some sad proprietary protocols and dead few months after warranty passes. Today I’ve learned!
This is the best I've found so far:

https://huggingface.co/xtuner/llava-llama-3-8b-v1_1-gguf

But I see that this new one just came out using Llama 3.1 8B:

https://huggingface.co/aimagelab/LLaVA_MORE-llama_3_1-8B-fin...
Yeah, I mean the easy to spot ones are usually the first ever post on a few days old account. Actually…
This is anecdotal and not at all representative. He points out issues on both sides. It's not his fault "one side" tends to warrant that kind of scrutiny so often lately.
If one accepts that a cryptography expert would publish either a peer-reviewed academic paper or a comprehensive article instead of a twitter post, then one may conclude OP is not a cryptography expert. Additionally, the focus on length ahem and no other metrics is a common symptom of non-experts (I posit an 8MB key is not practical). The moral of this story is, it is wonderful and encouraging to have a new idea in any domain, but the next step is to ask yourself (or a few select individuals), "how do I evaluate my idea?" _Everything_ you will learn while answering that question will be valuable. Posting to twitter almost never is.
The future of road safety: A worldwide perspective
but they explain it is from the greek nous which fits better for ai
> On August 21, 1945, less than a week after Japan notified the US that it would accept the terms of the Potsdam Declaration, physicist Harry Daghlian was performing an experiment when he accidentally dropped a piece of “tamper” material, used to reflect neutrons back into the core, and triggered a critical mass. Daghlian used his bare hands to pull the mass apart to stop the chain reaction, and absorbed a fatal dose of radiation. He died three weeks later.
LLaVA is one LLM that takes both text and images as inputs - https://llava-vl.github.io/

Although LLaVA specifically it might not be great for OCR; IIRC it scales all input images to 336 x 336 - meaning it'll only spot details that are visible at that scale.

You can also search on HuggingFace for the tag "image-text-to-text" https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=image-text-to-tex... and find a variety of other models.
Tell HN: Asus, good hardware, horrible customer service
Hi HN.

I had the adventure of pre-ordering an Asus Laptop.
https://www.asus.com/us/laptops/for-home/vivobook/asus-vivobook-s-14-oled-m5406/

I found a 50$ off promocode, and placed my order. About 2 weeks later I'm told my order needs to be canceled due to an error on their end. No problem, I'll just order it again.

The promo code no longer works, customer service chat assures me I can just ask them to apply it after I order it.
Cool, I'm then told the code is no longer valid. I email their "CEO Office" and after 2 weeks their still "working on it". Compared to HP where I was able to haggle a discount in customer service chat, and then was offered a significant discount when they couldn't cancel an order I placed.

The actual laptop is very well built and fast, but I'm worried if I ever have an issue with it I'll have a horrible time getting it fixed. I'm not upset enough to send it back( mainly since I'd have to wait for the other OEMs to release a AMD 300 series laptop), but I will never buy another laptop from this brand.

At a point it's not even about the money, it's just a really janky bait and switch to sell a product with a discount, cancel the order and lie about being able to apply it later.
IME GPT-4V is a lot better than Tesseract, including on scanned document PDFs. The thing about frontier models is they aren’t free but they keep getting better too. I’m not using tesseract for anything anymore, for my tasks it’s obsolete.
This approach can make the journey itself as valuable as the destination.
Ok, great. Can you link to the study which shows chromosomal distributions, the one you mentioned in your comment?
Which is completely fair because Apple does not "own" those users.
Apple Maps on Web now supports Firefox
Why not just vaccinate? Vaccinating flocks would, according to current trade agreements, prohibit export to many countries and thereby preclude huge earnings from the $5 billion poultry export sector. Vaccination is, therefore, prohibited.

What this means is that many flocks are probably culled despite being predominantly healthy. It also means that producers are incentivized to raise as many animals as possible in the ways that they always have.

Meanwhile, the U.S. poultry industry receives billions in annual subsidies.
Beyond Meat Is Stalling in the US
Artist Shaun Gladwell went to extraordinary lengths to paint Julian Assange
Given the domain is well known and solution is in use already that can be used to model new solution, if I were in your shoe, I would have started with one dba, and a couple of oracle APEX developers.
Oracle APEX, with a solid database in background, can get a lot of development done in a short time.
In 2-3 months time, a review of development activity would have provided a decent idea if development should be taken inhouse or left in current state.
I don't know, but personally I've spent orders of magnitude more time debugging memory leaks in languages without GC than the time I've wasted waiting for shitty apps to load.

Software bloat is a real thing, I agree, but it's a fact of life and in my opinion not a hill worth dying on. People just don't care.

If you want proof of this, try to find a widely used Jira alternative which doesn't suck and doesn't need a terabyte cluster to run. There isn't one because most people just don't care about it, they care about the bottom line.
> Which is not distribution friendly.

Why is that?
Dehydration was not the intent, it was supposed to be just a long desert hike:

> "I thought, I’m pretty tough. I can do that," Broyles says. He planned ahead and buried water caches at strategic points of the journey, which he described in a 1982 article. "Intending to parallel [Valencia’s] route, I had no design to parallel his plight," he wrote. "But the desert doesn’t always honor human plans."
This is something I'd like to see an article about on HN :)
Fantastic work is emerging in this field, and with the new release of the schnell model of the flux series we will have the downstream captioning datasets we need to produce a new SOTA vision model, which has been the last straggler in the various open llm augmentations. Most vision models are still based on ancient CLIP/BLIP captioning and even with something like LLAVA or the remarkable phi-llava, we are still held back by the pretained vision components which have been needing love for some months now.

Tessy and LLM is a good pipe, it's likely what produced SCHNELL and will soon be the reverse of this configuration, used for testing and checking while the LLM does the bulk of transcription via vision modality adaption. The fun part of that is that multi lingual models will be able to read and translate, opening up new work for scholars searching through digitized works. Already I have had success in this area with no development at all, after we get our next SOTA vision models I am expecting a massive jump in quality. I expect english vision model adapters to show up using LLAVA architecture first, this may put some other latin script languages into the readable category depending on the adapted model, but we could see a leapfrog of scripts becoming readable all at once. LLAVA-PHI3 already seems to be able to transcribe tiny pieces of hebrew with relative consistency. It also has horrible hallucinations, so there is very much an unknown limiting factor here currently. I was planning some segmentation experiments but schnell knocked that out of my hands like a bar of soap in a prison shower, I will be waiting for a distilled captioning sota to come before I re-evaluate this area.

Exciting times!
are we all getting replaced by chapGPT already?
>That cluster B personality disorders seem to be having more "effect" on society than they used to

Well no, their nonsense premise is subtly different from this one in that they don't even aspire to misdiagnose the people engaging in nuisance protests.
Why do so many of us blame ourselves after a loved one's death?
Libsibo – Talking to SIBO Peripherals Using Arduino (2022)
I found Claude3 great an reading documents. Plus it can describe figures. The only issue I ran into was giving it a 2-column article, and if reading the first line on each column "kinda made sense" together it would treat the entire thing as 1 column.
> If you can build a system to stick to strength training, excellent, but many cannot. I struggle myself sticking to my strength training routine.

I struggle to just make myself take a daily 1 mile walk. It's not that I can't, it's just that my brain keeps telling me there are better things that I can be doing with my time. Bring on the bioengineering!
"Joe job": <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job>
Tell them to pay their taxes
Personally I tend to discount the possibility of such motivations for a text once that text is interrupted in the middle to sell me something (which a Substack form counts as).
I think public floggings a la Starship Troopers would go a long way towards encouraging more social behavior. Much better than sending people to prison.
I think Gemini Flash 1.5 is the best closed-source model for this. Very cheap. Particularly compared to GPT4o-mini, which is priced the same as GPT4 for image input tokens. Performance and speed is excellent. I convert each pdf page to an image and send one request per page to Flash (asynchronously). The prompt asks for markdown output with specific formatting guidelines. For my application (mainly pdf slideshows with less text), the output is better than any of the dedicated tools I tested particularly for equations and tables.
My post-mortem on the CrowdStrike incident
Seesh that's crazy. Good luck, hopeful you can keep the job and the pay
I made a point of tracking Solid Energy Systems back when they were young and were just announcing their “break through” battery technology.

What’s interesting was that they seemed to go off the radar when they got their investments and initial customers. Hard to find articles and news about them. Recently I found an interview where they talked about that they had been selling batteries to some niche applications with very specific requirements. Now they seem to be coming into the limelight again and have shipped prototype EV battery packs.

In fact it seems like several solid or semi solid state battery techs are just about to reach mass market these days. It’s what.. like 10 years ago we saw all these break through articles (and the obligatory complaints about break through articles)?
Thanks! I posted a reply to another comment about the name clash. I thought I could add another weird to differentiate, but Nous Agents doesn't really roll off the tongue. New name ideas welcome!
is this a remote nvapi?

this is awesome. can it do 3d rendering (vulkan/opengl)
Two/all-party consent are hacky workarounds for the actual harm being inflicted (valid goals including not having your microwave inform Google's ad servers, not recording out-of-context jokes as evidence to imprison people, ... -- invalid goals caught up in the collateral damage include topics like the current one about hearing issues (note that a sufficiently accurate transcription service has all the same privacy problems 2-party consent tries to protect against, maybe more since it's more easily searchable)).

I'd be in favor of some startup pulling an Uber or AirBnB and blatantly violating those laws to the benefit of the deaf or elderly if it meant we could get something better on the books.
A friend of mine is a wonderful musician who never “made it”, but continues to play bars and restaurants and small venues weekly, as he has for 30+ years. He’s done some session work as well.

Another friend said he feels bad for him because he never lucked into greater fame, but he’s too good to give it up.

As long as he’s happy performing, I don’t see this as a bad thing. I can go see him perform regularly, he seems happy, he has a dedicated local following.
Microsoft's AI Can Be Turned into an Automated Phishing Machine
Yup, typo, sorry
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Starbucks has pivoted from coffee shop to desert beverages, pretty much. They still will sell you a coffee but they feature a variety of desert drinks.
> I assume it is too slow in CPU-only mode.

So you don't have to assume: I gave up after running on 8 cores (Ryzen 7 2700) for 10 days for a single page.
Fan theories are fun but usually extrapolate far too much off of innocuous (and likely accidental) clues. Post production cuts are often out of the control of the director entirely. If this was the intended meaning, it would have been far more explicit - Christopher Nolan isn't Edgar Allen Poe, he's making blockbuster movies meant for a general audience.
> The key is to pick a winning criteria that is sufficiently meaningful looking and then really sell the heck out of it.

Exactly. :-)
As a professional procrastinator, even the title makes immediate sense, and has already helped me reframe my to-do list. I'll read the rest of it ...later.
https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ potentially?
Ukranian YouTuber discovers clones of her promoting Chinese propaganda
The majority of the examples have nothing to do with sharing memory of your not-long-dead parents or things like that. And again, usual questions like "what have you done last month" are also as "dangerous", because you may have been to a family funeral.

That's my point: these examples of questions are not different from "usual" questions and don't force anyone to over-share or get personal. It's just you who see an unusual questions and interpolate that you should answer as if you were in therapy with deep and personal answers.