skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2016-End of COVID your average Green politician in Europe in a TV debate was an ecology priest who could effortlessly reprimand any party that wasn't strong enough on ecology, with approval from host + audience, and was the voice for authority on whether irreparable damage to the environment would be by 2032 or by 2027.

>There was never a "net zero at any cost" policy

Look at what the German greens and Habeck cooked up so far. And they have been restrained by the fact that geopolitics made a comeback.
To quote Gene Kranz during the start of problems on Apollo 13: "Let's not make things worse by guessing."
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS
I think vision models have a lot bigger ROI from fine tuning than language models. That being said, I do consider fine-tunes to be helpful in improving smaller models as long as the domain is limited in scope. In other words, fine tuning allows you to get similar performance in smaller models, but improved performance in larger models seems pretty elusive at the moment, albeit somewhat possible with very creatively engineered training datasets.

An example of this is DeepSeek-Coder, which can essentially be considered a fine-tune of a fine-tune of a Mixtral model. It performs very similarly to Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which is pretty damn impressive, but it does it at less than 1/10th the cost.

What I don't understand though is why anyone would even remotely consider fine tuning a GPT-4o model that they will never fully own, when they could spend the same resources on fine tuning a Llama3.1 model that they will own. And even if you absolutely don't care about ownership (???), why not do a fine tune of an Anthropic model which is already significantly better than GPT-4o. At this point, with the laggard performance of OpenAI and their shameless attempts at regulatory hostility to competitors, I can't imagine ever giving them any of my money, let alone owning my derivative work.
As if people didn't photoshop the hell out of photos before. This "era" began 20 years ago. Look at instagram, for the last decade these techniques were applied without ai.
An acquaintance of mine has a fairly expensive Sage brand toaster that has an LED bar graph showing remaining time and an 'a bit more' button. Overall it is a nice toaster, but the linear variable resistor for the slide control that sets the toasting time has become noisy so the LEDs light up unexpectedly now and again. We are hesitant to spray aerosol switch cleaner into a food appliance, sliding the time control end to end a few times clears it for a few days.
> It calls attention to the fact that Youtube isn't just serving me videos neutrally, it knows what is being said in those videos at the exact moment it is said. It highlights how much Google analyses the content of its videos in a way that more neutral features like automatic transcripts don't and in turn how much that can teach Google about me based on the videos I watch.

How else do you think the "up next" and "recommended videos for you" feature works? Did you think they were serving up relevant videos purely out of chance? If anything a dumb rule like "highlight the subscribe button if the transcript mentions it" is much more benign then a recommendation engine that can somehow always serve you a relevant video.
are u a robot? or simply answer whatever comes to mind without reading the question?
Totally fair and I don't know. My yard actually has a sprinkler system, such that I don't think I'm flat out not watering it in the sunny time of the year. You can definitely see where the sun hits the yard for longer, though.
Just in general I have yet to see what is so technically impressive about Stripe. Seems like their success is because of very good technical writing and self-perpetuating hype about their own technical competence (?).
I was definitely confused when I first learn that 'chip' elements in material design look like french fries.
> I don't understand why people seem so resistant to the idea that some sun is probably beneficial.

A cynical take would be that it’s because there is no profit in sun exposure. Even places that would theoretically have a motivation to promote sun exposure, such as beaches and outdoor restaurants, have goals that are perfectly compatible with umbrellas and sunscreen and hats and sunglasses, etc. In fact, those are just complimentary sales for them. Tanning salons come to mind, but the sun is their biggest competitor.

> “basking in the sun” is almost certainly taking it too far

Plenty of animals sunbathe, though, not just humans. Lots of reptiles, of course, but my dog also does it every chance she can get.
I think it depends on your skin tone. Black people can get a lot of sun without burning. White people evolved in a cloudy climate and need less sun for the same health benefit (and also burn very quickly in midday sun in not cloudy climates).
> I'd be hooked for life.

I mean, that's how a lot of prescriptions work anyway. I take daily medication to prevent anxiety and depression. It's not addictive, but I try pretty hard to never miss a day, because anxiety and depression will get in the way of me living my life. Assuming Xanax is safe to take daily (I have no idea), the only difference is that a supply disruption would have side-effects. But if I run out of my medication, I'll get depressed within weeks, almost guaranteed, withdrawals or no.
Clever in the "nice job, but this is not a problem I have, nor a solution I would want to have to listen to..."

- you could use an e-paper display without the stepper motors
- you could use an o-led display and be able to read it in the dark
- etc
Thanks! Yes I should probably start with something simpler, I have a tendency to want to skip ahead to the good stuff
The simplest recommender would use videos that were commonly watched afterwards by other people.
Every photo is a lie. https://fstoppers.com/documentary/every-photograph-youve-eve...
Related: At the national scale, 'American Exceptionalism'.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
> your body absorbs an abysmal fraction of supplements, nearly all of it comes back out the other end

This is irrelevant when the supplements are available in high enough doses to overcome poor availability.

It’s not hard to exceed the upper limits of serum Vitamin D with common higher-dose off the shelf supplements if taken long enough.
I think you forgot to mention the condition 'given that you already have a ticket', and whatever justifications are required to assume that two more winning tickets will be present (if each ticket has independent odds of being a winner then you end up with a distribution of other tickets yeah?). Otherwise your premise doesn't quite lead to your conclusion.
If five years ago someone said that in half a decade we'd have a computer program that could solve medium-complexity Leetcode problems that it had never seen before, hardly anyone would believe them. Now we have programs that can do exactly this, and yet some people never miss a chance to try to trivialise what just a few years ago would have been considered an amazing, world-changing achievement.
It's interesting how you're able to read something and take away the complete opposite meaning from it.

Id say I'm managing a work/life balance pretty well here. You're the one suggesting it's too heavily skewed towards the "life" part.
It makes especially... interesting reading to those of us from the global South. To make $2 mil at my current salary, I will have to work for about 100-150 years, saving every penny and spending nothing, and I make decent money by our standards. There's even no relatively safe way to make some smart investments (which I imagine is how most of this money was acquired) because of incessant economical crises and non-existence of startup culture.

Man, some people here are completely out of touch with the average Eathlican. I'll have to show this discussion to my friends.

With that kind of money you could just... you know, move pretty much anywhere on the planet and live comfortably for many years, until a good opportunity comes up. Depending on the place, it might last you the entire lifetime (see my salary above).
I'm wondering the same thing, these stories need told!

I literally am good friends today with a guy who was wrongly convicted of exactly the same thing, around the same time, in a different state, who served 20 years before the Innocence Project was successful in getting him exonerated.

That we, as a society, allow this shit to go on is just mind-bending.
Amusingly, my dogs specifically will only sit in the shade outside. Same for the various snakes and other animals in the yard. Hard to know if that is avoiding sun, or avoiding predator birds, though. My guess would be the birds are far more of a concern for the animals.
Doesn't help you much if you are a family in Bay Area.
I love Adobe's GenAI, but I also hate it. The problem is it has been programmed with some pseudo Judeo-Christian moral guidelines. Trying to edit my gf's beach pics to remove crap from the background, it freaks out on some bikini pics and pops-up with an angry yellow box, basically lecturing you on your life choices for not covering your entire skin with clothing. You have to chop the image into new documents, fix each part and then reassemble them so that it never sees the whole.

Then there is the fact it marks any image using AI as made with AI (and the user cannot disable it), so the meta data makes it look like you fabricated the whole image. I used GenAI the other day to extend a blank wall so I could crop the image better, but I had to strip the metadata before I uploaded it to social media or it gets big flags on the posts saying "MADE WITH AI".
If the buses are perfectly at schedule and people arrive at random (uniform), the mean (and the median) waiting time will be half the scheduled interval.

If both are completely uniformly random, the mean waiting time will be the mean interval between buses. (In fact the distribution of the passenger arrival doesn't matter anymore.)

The real world is somewhere between those two.
given that the display is viewpoint dependent, you need to orient this clock to make it usable from a variety of vertical viewing angles
When are they going to fix ChatGPT Classic not using Custom Instructions?
I am almost convinced most middle management are like small babies. That's not meant derogatively: there's a problem, they have been notified, yet they cannot do anything about it. They need someone else to fix it. So, they cry loud and clear that there is a need to fix this.

It's difficult to understand sometimes, but they are pressured from above, and they don't have the means to fix it by themselves.
Eliminating single-family-only zoning and similar restrictions would be an important part of "getting out of the way".
Tesla to get lower EU tariff on its Chinese-made EVs
"preemptively protect an effort to build software that filters content because an internet user simply does not want to see it."

Is this not the basis of every adblocker ever? I mean, what is special here? If nothing, then does this put every adblocker in a protected class of software? And what are the limits of that protection?

If there is something special about blocking feeds in Facebook, which is different from an adblocker, what is it?
It would be "just a preference" if there were no external impacts from making that decision.

But there are. And they're quite large. That's why it's so contentious, and why people directly impacted by it take issue with it.
Douglas Hofstadter (of Godel, Escher, Bach fame) has written a whole lot about this and related questions. Translator, Trader is a great essay (my favorite work of his) that anyone who thinks about translation and its implications a lot should check out.
> Maybe "toasts" aren't the bee's knees, but they work as lagging indicator that something happened that I otherwise wouldn't notice, and in some apps even lets me undo the unwanted operation. That does a lot to relieve my anxiety and help me use software with less frustration.

All things that a message log does better than toasts!
>It’s okay to get some sun but just baking under it for hours isn’t great. Shirt off for a run? Great. Swimming for an hour? Great.

That very much depends on your climate and skin type. In many circumstances, that kind of casual exposure can still result in dangerous levels of UV exposure.
The DCT is really neat, but the actual compression magic comes from a combination of side effects that occur after you apply it:

1. The DCT (II) packs lower frequency coefficients into the top-left corner of the block.

2. Quantization helps to zero out many higher frequency coefficients (toward bottom-right corner). This is where your information loss occurs.

3. Clever zig-zag scanning of the quantized coefficients means that you wind up with long runs of zeroes.

4. Zig-zag scanned blocks are RLE coded. This is the first form of actual compression.

5. RLE coded blocks are sent through huffman or arithmetic coding. This is the final form of actual compression (for intra-frame-only/JPEG considerations). Additional compression occurs in MPEG, et. al. with interframe techniques.
That's a lot cheaper! :)
It's hard to compete against the people who are "enhanced" with drugs.
Given that YouTube uses the like and subscribe buttons as inputs for its recommendation algorithm, doesn't this feature just aid and abet content creators in gaming YouTube's system?
I don’t think one is still „old“ if they died. The oldest person is normally the oldest person alive and that’s the opposite of dead.

So, no: there is still an oldest person. It just switched to someone else, happens all the time. It’s a bit more apparent with the youngest person, everyone was the youngest person at birth - at least for a short amount of time and then it switched to the next one.
Hugging Face replacing Git LFS storage back end
HF’s Git LFS storage backend makes it easy to publish datasets and models - but difficult for anyone to collaborate on repos because LFS gets slower and slower with every change, with history bloated with full versions of every changed file.
Now with over 12PB stored in LFS (1.3m models, 450k datasets, 680k spaces), HF is replacing LFS with XetHub’s content-defined store that uses Merkle trees to deduplicate at the block level, unlocking the ability to push small changes to huge files without having to transfer/save the whole file again.

The implementation scales to 100TB repos while preserving all Git history to enable fast development on HF Hub.

Read more:
- Acquisition: https://huggingface.co/blog/xethub-joins-hf
- Tech: https://xethub.com/assets/docs/how-xet-deduplication-works
- Benchmarks: https://about.xethub.com/blog/benchmarking-the-modern-develo...
Social engagement metrics increase vulnerability to disinformation (2020) [pdf]
"Not with sticks and stones, but with a barrage of patent lawsuits. We will have to tell the aliens how we used this great system of socially legitimate torture to slowly wear him down over the years."

Author fails to note that the Wrights were doing most of the suing.

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

"The lawsuits damaged the public image of the Wright brothers, who previously had been generally regarded as heroes. Critics said the brothers' actions may have hampered the development of aviation, and compared their actions unfavorably to European inventors, who worked more openly"
They, in my experience, result in different outcomes. Fine-tuning is better at shaping the response, for example getting a correct JSON format, or making the responses shorters and concise, or use emojis, or whatever. Long prompts are better for in-context learning, fine-tuning doesn't seem to impart knowledge well, it just increases or decreases the likelihoods of existing knowledge coming out.
IMO, not a great take.

Author's alternative suggestion isn't that that great either - the problem with having a loading indicator next to an actionable item in a list is that if you get an error, it would be difficult to communicate what went wrong to the user (if you wanted to do that).

If the author considered why services like Google and almost every UI library, from Bootstrap to MUI, has some sort of toast/alert message, then I think the argument of toasts as bad UX could be better articulated.

Seems like author's take is more personal opinion than analytical conclusion.

Personally, I like the UX of toast + alerts.
This is easier said than done. NIMBYs and other interest groups will intentionally get in the way to ensure homes are not built.
This is called the Hispanic Paradox, there's even a wiki page on it.

Hispanic people have better health outcomes despite being poorer, probably due to better diet, exercise, community structure etc.
Per the article, it's not about good or bad reviews, but the company asking streamers not to discuss things China doesn't like (like feminism or covid). Not even related to the game.
As a rider, I also just find it more convenient to buy tickets in an app.

I can link my payment method, and purchase tickets in seconds whenever I’m ready.
LLM Lookahead Decoding
Hey! Nice to see this here.

My graduate thesis advisor was a coinventor of the DCT [0]. I miss my grad school days - he was a great advisor.

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._R._Rao
Author here! I totally agree.

If you are the captain of your ship, following others' treasure maps is problematic. Maps cannot anticipate the weather, the holes in your ship, the skill of your steering, etc.

I'm moreso interested in a few tangential questions:

• What metaskills can I acquire to more quickly integrate practical information into my life?

• What behaviors/beliefs are preventing me from accepting useful/true information?

• If advice/coaching becomes 10x better through technology (big "if" haha), am I equipped to accept and enact it?
If something is so hard to implement that everyone who tries gets it wrong (to a first approximation), then maybe the concept is bad. Or, at least, the concept isn't fully baked and is missing something critical.
I only allow notifications from a tiny number of sites. The ability to notify me while on the page is different from notifying me while the tab is in the background and more so yet than the ability to bug me whenever.

Ask for everything get nothing. I imagine most people click no
You don't necessarily need to analyze every word in every video for recommendations- it could be as simple as 'users who liked this video also liked these other videos'
Does their prompt caching work with semantically equivalent queries, or do they match lexically?
That's right. So make sure you first tie your shoes and get your medicines before having that nail art up. And don't forget to bring your chauffeur with you to open and drive your car back home.
I host my email with tutanota. It's worse than gmails client, but I don't really care that much. I'm happy that I don't depend on Google for that and I have my own domain.
Some much focus on fine-tuning when it can actively make performance on reasoning and planning benchmarks worse (over a baseline of already worse-than-coin-toss).

Why not give us nice things for integrating with knowledge graphs and rules engines pretty please?
You'd kind of expect someone to get fired for screwing up that badly.
That would be fun to exploit. Just get a few hundred accounts, have them watch a Mr. Beast video followed by a video you want to boost, and watch the numbers grow
Since I'm not familiar with Roc and am looking at example code that has an unknown amount of boilerplate added or removed compared to normal code...

What part of that example is bad, and the lack of macros means it stays bad? I can come up with some possibilities (e.g. response mapping), but I have no idea if they're valid or not because I don't know if that's just due to being an intentionally explicit example.
Through this same lens, using Google is a form of learned helplessness.
That’s a great topic for late night dorm bull sessions but it’s not what we’re talking about here. People know that photographers can be selective about what and how they cover things, but there’s been an understanding that photos are recording something real in a way which is no longer true at all.

Yes, people played dark room and photoshop tricks but those were labor intensive and hard to make pass a detailed examination. What we have just seen is the equivalent of jumping from the age of archery to machine guns without much time for society to adjust and develop safeguards.
303 was THE sound of acid..
>synth1

Don't forget the synth1 librarian (sorry, no link)!
I managed to get three synth1's in my daw (plus the librarian).
Thank you Mr Daichi.
But what doses did they take in the research? Vitamin D RDA has been increased by like 5-10x recently in some countries (others are still lagging behind), because the RDA that we've used for decades had a calculation error.

If the studies dosed vitamin D based on recommendations then it shouldn't be surprising that supplementing vitamin D didn't work. Considering that only a few countries have updated their vitamin D RDA in the past few years, and most haven't, then I think it's likely that most studies on the topic will have too low of a dose of vitamin D supplementation.

The vitamin D error: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4210929/

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It's also possible that some of the health benefits don't come from vitamin D or UV exposure, but instead from something like red light exposure or some other wavelength. (Red) light therapy is a popular topic for example. It's mostly touted to improve skin aging and it's being studied as a help with myopia in children. Does it work? No idea.
So, we're just going to ignore the very real lumber shortage that's affecting homebuilding? We're also going to ignore the fact that our immigration laws have reduced the labor available to build houses? After all, it's pretty hard to build houses without material and labor.
>Research on all cause mortality disagrees. Some sun exposure reduces all cause mortality even if you already take vitamin D.

Some sun exposure is correlated with lower all-cause mortality. That is a very long way from establishing causation, particularly considering all of the other plausible explanations for that correlation.
What would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US
Disclosure: Raspberry Pi employee, focussed on better tooling for people building products with Raspberry Pi devices.

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Raspberry Pi provide pi-gen (https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen), which allows you to build a customised Debian-based OS that uses our package list to get updates as we release them, with a low impedance mismatch between developing your software on Raspberry Pi OS and your deployment platform. Since it's debian based, your resultant system winds up being _very_ familiar.

We also provide tooling that compliments pi-gen. For example, rpi-sb-provisioner (https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-sb-provisioner), which will happily ingest an OS image created by pi-gen and automate the configuration of signed boot with an encrypted rootfs on CM4 devices. I've used it to flash half a dozen Raspberry Pi devices in rapid form as part of testing, and it runs on our own hardware.

I'd love to see what people make of these tools, and where we could expand support / docs / ascii-art. I don't check HN very often - but I'm pretty responsive to Github issues.
> The problem is it has been programmed with some pseudo Judeo-Christian moral guidelines.

That's because there are already a multitude of services offering to "nudify" people for cash (which the customers then not just use for their own spank bank but for extorting women), and Adobe does not want to be associated with that kind of disgusting (and in some jurisdictions illegal) behavior.
Result of promo-driven culture
"The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots."

- Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny

This is completely true. 18-20-year-old kids launch and arrest aircraft on a carrier while simultaneously performing an underway replenishment, and it's just another day.