skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She's still older than average (which is 55 yrs): https://potus.com/presidential-facts/age-at-inauguration/

I don't think that age is everything, but I feel like it is a significant factor.

At the very least, it is very frustrating as a younger person that the vast majority of our lawmakers are _very_ old. This has (historically, but not recently) been more of a problem with congress: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/aging-congress-boomers/
The winner, unfortunately, will be on cloud inference.
I was thinking about LLMs hallucinating function names when writing programs, it's not a bad thing as long as it follows up and generates the code for each function name that isn't real yet.
So hallucination is good for purely creative activities, and bad for analyzing the past.
Unless you think native UI runs on magic - it's not that hard to outperform native rendering - you have to be way less general with a bespoke framework (up to a certain point of complexity).
Most Opcodes Are Typesafe If Memory Is Infinite
I rarely need to. The things I'm writing down have a shelf life of at most one week. I also draw pictures and diagrams which you can't grep anyways. The Tops brand Steno Pad has been a feature on my desk for the last 30 years. If you use it linearly it's somewhat self indexing and going "back in time" to find things is much easier than you'd expect.
It seems contradictory because the "one clock per instruction" is mostly a misconception, at least with respect to anything even remotely modern.

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/14509
Deep Fission produces safe and low-cost nuclear power
Why would it be obviously wrong?
Mine too, but I rarely read my notes.
I tried to keep a simple table in Apple Notes and it got frustrating, fast. Couldn't control formatting and it would randomly change font sizes. Looked at alternatives and was confronted with more complexity - looks like notes are just the entry point to mindmaps/braindumps/network diagrams of thought processes. Creating a table in Markdown is even less fun that creating it in Notes.

Now I just track my blood pressure on paper.
Novel view synthesis via 3DGS requires knowledge of the camera pose for every input image, ie the cam position and orientation in 3D space.

Historically camera poses have been estimated via 2D image matching techniques like SIFT [1], through software packages like COLMAP.

These algorithms work well when you have many images that methodically cover a scene. However they often struggle to produce accurate estimates in the few image regime, or “in the wild” where photos are taken casually with less rigorous scene coverage.

To address this, a major trend in the field is to move away from classical 2D algorithms, instead leveraging methods that incorporate 3D “priors” or knowledge of the world.

To that end, this paper builds heavily on MASt3R [2], which is a vision transformer model that has been trained to reconstruct a 3D scene from 2D image pairs. The authors added another projection head to output the initial parameters for each gaussian primitive. They further optimize the gaussians through some clever use of the original image pair and randomly selected and rendered novel views, which is basically the original 3DGS algorithm but using synthesized target images instead (hence “zero-shot” in the title).

I do think this general approach will dominate the field in the coming years, but it brings its own unique challenges.

In particular, the quadratic time complexity of transformers is the main computational bottleneck preventing this technique from being scaled up to more than two images at a time, and to resolutions beyond 512 x 512.

Also, naive image matching itself has quadratic time complexity, which is really painful with large dense latent vectors and can’t be accelerated with kd-trees due to the curse of dimensionality. That’s why the authors use a hierarchical coarse to fine algorithm that approximates the exact computation and achieves linear time complexity wrt to image resolution.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_tran...

[2] https://github.com/naver/mast3r
I tried but I can’t figure out how to call the compiler on my hand-written notes.

I actually think it would be really interesting, if I could point a camera at my notes and somehow have it spit out a Matlab code or something like that. But I’m not sure how it would work. It would need to understand at least that the things in the brackets are sub-matrices…
I think we should get substantially tighter reigns on where our tax dollars are going and stop the outflows considerably before we worry about taking more and more dollars from citizens. The government has lost billions in recent years. LOST BILLIONS. No one has been held accountable.
> Probably for the best that users see the words "Sorry, I hallucinated" every now and then.

Wouldn’t “sorry, I don’t know how to answer the question” be better?
https://xcancel.com/emergetools/status/1828490449881047401
This is true for most (all?) countries. If there's any country that avoided this fate, I'd like to know.

People don't know what's going on in their own country but obsess over minutae of american politics.

Legacy media is no escape as its journalists themselves are addicted to twitter and reflect that in their work. My local newspaper in germany used to have Trump on the frontpage more then any german politician.

We need local forums.
<<Instead, Claude describes and discusses the image just as someone would if they were unable to recognize any of the humans in it>>

Why? This seems really dumb.
Ah, I interpreted that as the traffic moving over, but it could indeed mean an increase in traffic.
Have a look at the process for unionization: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/what-we-do/conduct-elections.

For instance it's per workplace and there's a threshold of how much support among the workers you need, etc. It's not just something you join and then you're in a union.
That seems to be what every social platform eventually turns into
On the contrary, I believe they are intentionally laggy to rate-limit the orders, so that people in line can get pissed at the person in front of them rather than the waiter/server taking time to prepare and package the order. Also avoids overwhelming the counter.
Listing the simplest apps, down to Apple Notes as complicated has got to be a troll.

I'm sure there are people who prefer paper for good reasons. But there are no reasons with justifications listed here. Just a very short personal opinion.
I think it's just hurting someone at Microsoft less if they give it a home that isn't /dev/null.

Edit: quick hat tip to Mono.Cecil which I've used a couple of times to crack .Net components to bypass licensing code. It's not that we didn't pay for them but we couldn't be bothered to deal with license deployment and maintenance.
For agentic use cases, where you might need several round-trips to the LLM to reflect on a query, improve a result, etc., getting fast inference means you can do more round-trips while still responding in reasonable time. So basically any LLM use-case is improved by having greater speed available IMO.
One of many. Another is to just directly bribe farmers for political support in areas of the country given extra power by the structure of the US government where not every vote gets equal weight.
It is ridiculous. If they want to increase the price by 15% then just do that, but don't pretend you're not by just asking for a 15% tip instead (for the pleasure of using the self-checkout terminal).
Can't you just tell gpt4 to generate some prompts, estimated number of calls, then slap a $1 tag on it and simply redirect the request to openai at 1/100th the cost?
no, SMRs are interesting because they represent smaller units of power. Nuclear reactors are huge things generating power in one specific location, so they're a large point of failure. In addition they have the opposite coin problem of solar and wind; whereas solar and wind don't generate enough power sometimes, nuclear often generates too much power for the grid, and can't easily be turned up or down. A lot of the pumped hydro we have was not developed for solar and wind storage, but for excess nuclear storage. Most hydro in Japan is pumped hydro for nuclear plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity_in_Japan

If you are going to wind up with the same energy storage problems with nuclear or newer renewables then you may as well go with the cheaper option.
Yes, there will be some people who are tipped an unusually high amount who will lose out.

But almost any significant policy or social change will have an impact like that. You have to basically give up on fixing anything if you're not willing to impact anyone.
> though somewhat astonishingly, the WSE 2 draws 23 kW of power. To put this in perspective, the most powerful GPUs “only” draw around 450W

https://liquidstack.com/blog/breaking-the-thermal-ceiling-in...
Tbh I don't assign weight to anyone with the opinion that Apple Reminders is too complicated.
> It’s actually far more unreasonable to sell someone a product and the next day make it unable to be reinstalled. That’s unreasonable.

I agree. So does MakeMusic, I guess, which is why they have at least a 30 day refund, and a whole year before new install authorizations end. I feel like I’m being misunderstood and misquoted and you’re arguing against things I didn’t say. I agree that losing access to new installs of Finale after a year sucks. I understand why paid users are angry. I assume the no re-auth after a year part could be a non-compete stipulation in their agreement with Steinberg. If most current Finale users value the ~$450 Dorico discount, maybe it’s worth the blowback, otherwise, maybe not.
It wasn't so much deemed unsafe as not safe enough. Pretty much everyone involved threw up their hands and said screw it we'll store on-site which is WAY less safe than Yucca or deep bore sites. Meanwhile we have casks exploding in New Mexico which should have been buried 3 miles underground decades ago.
I prefer paper when I need to reason deeply, with drafts and schemes. Once my thoughts on paper mean something, I organize them digitally.
So the animations are probably all embedded mpegs because what would a toothbrush company want to manage a CDN for...
I do the same, and I'll probably automate it soon since I use a fresh markdown doc.

The only thing that remains the same is the header has 'yearly goals'.

It's easy and I can jettison the previous week's unfinished tasks (hey they didn't get done so were they really important?).
I also prefer just a txt file or pinned Keep note for todo lists, but I maintain about a dozen different lists, and not everything gets done. Occasionally I will do an audit and remove things.

Are you just in a scenario where you have absolute control over what you do and on what timeline?

If not:

Do you ever lose track of older items (i.e. forget about them for a long time because your eyeballs don't land on them)?

How do you decide when to remove something that isn't done?

Alternatively, if things never enter the list faster than they leave, how do you predict whether something will or will not violate that rule at entrance time?
How has ’free as in puppies’ not reached its rightful place on the podium?
Because it's cool man!

BTW, I stayed over at a friend's place one time, and he donated me a new electric tooth brush. How can people even use this? I found it extremely hurtful on my teeth. I would not use it if you paid me.
If my organizational systems aren't backed up to the internet they're useless to me.

I use Apple Notes for scratch notes and GitHub Issues for everything else and I couldn't be happier.
Paper is good if you are solo. I tried Notion, waiting inside the grocery store 30 seconds for it to boot up or load or update or whatever on mobile, gave up on it for day to day tasks. Google Keep is still king. Am I going to be able to consistently pull down a text file from a server on mobile? How will I share a paper shopping list with others?

What cheap hosted service should I be using that lets me CRUD my text files on mobile + desktop and share with others?
Paper is great for transient stuff that is relevant for at most a week or two, but it really goes downhill when you try to capture information you'll want to revisit in the future. Paper is great for todo lists and in the moment notes, but not so great for knowledge base building.

I used to struggle with a lot of tools before too and now use org-roam for longer term notes. The linking model helps a lot with just _writing_ the stuff down and not worrying about how to organize it too much in the moment.
I don’t think the people who engineered the Golden Gate Bridge, Apollo 7, or the transistor would have succeeded if they didn’t have hope.
Nah, pet owners are bad at pet maintenance and we will be inundated by raccoon poop everywhere that the owners were "going to pick up on our way back". Besides, the relationship people have with animals is idiotic. In San Francisco, they wanted kids to stop playing in Golden Gate Park because a coyote bit a child. Fortunately, saner minds prevailed and the animal was destroyed.
And now its,

"I can't turn my paper into a Vector DB to build a RAG pipeline and connect it to a voice chat so I can "talk" to my notes" :'D.
If your project TODO lists are stretching into years, it's time to get a better project management system. I recommend paper.
Unlocking the bootloader has long broken a lot of functionality. Play Integrity (formerly known as SafetyNet) provides three levels of checks, and increasingly apps are requiring the phone to pass the second level in order to use the app.

Until last year, it was possible to spoof the second level (though not the third), with an unlocked bootloader, but Google started cracking down on that hard and it's essentially a game of whack-a-mole. Because the spoofing requires finding the fingerprint for a supported device that hasn't yet been banned (of which there are a finite number), it's a losing battle.

That said, unlocking the bootloader on Pixel devices is less useful than it used to be, because of an expansion between what the base device already does and a degradation of what an unlocked and/or rooted device can do. There are fewer custom ROMs than there were a decade ago, and (unlocked) Pixel devices get rapid updates with long official support.

Rooting the device used to give you the ability to install custom adblockers and bypass screenshot restrictions, but Android now has better support for DNS-based adblocking built in, and they've now cut off the main loopholes that allowed people to screenshot apps that block access. I think it's now impossible to screenshot an app if the app has blocked screenshots[0]. Ironically, it's easier to screenshot or get videos of apps on iOS than of those same apps on Android - I don't know if that's because developers don't bother to implement the blocking APIs on iOS or some other reason, but more than once I've ended up having to pull out a backup iPhone in order to screenshot/record something I couldn't on a Pixel device.

Pixel phones already don't include most of the bloatware that comes with other devices, and the remaining stuff is built in and can't really be removed without impacting the core functionality of the device. So root access gets you a lot less than it used to, for Pixel devices.

[0] In the spirit of classic bash, I am asserting that it's impossible, half hoping that someone will take that as an opportunity to correct me: https://web.archive.org/web/20230711000352/bash.org/?152037
> They all have a common thread and viewpoint, why isn't it trivial for them to organize online, pick a date, and one day all "come out" formally as union employees?

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

If you were to organize a union, how would you increase membership while ensuring that management doesn't know that you're organizing a union? You mention online forums and similar but how do you let people know about the forum for the sake of organizing while keeping management out of the loop for the sake of secrecy?
> Coding style differences cause issues in collaboration and man-years of bike shedding

Solved by each project having its own defined coding style. Every "member" project of PHP-FIG had a defined coding style prior to any PSR telling them how to write code.

There is zero need for this to be enforced across projects.

> I don’t know where your grief around syslog comes from, and I honestly don’t care

You're gesticulating about how important it is to follow "standards", but the moment someone points out how PHP-FIG ignored an established standard that's already used in dozens of languages - including in PHP, it's "I don't care".

You're more concerned with defending your cargo-cult allegiance to a group than understanding criticisms of their work.
The macOS IO benchmark and pgbench (also IO) makes me think macOS cheats somehow, for example it doesn't actually cause the SSD to write to flash when the app performs fsync, and some other "optimizations".
Let’s say everytime you ask your GPT about liquor, get drunk and don’t brush teeth your dental GPT reports that and next time when you search for liquor you get a nice reminder to brush later with fitting dental advertisement.
What about the reMARKABLE 2?
If i stand up a server and host a website, I get to decide who's allowed to use my server. I don't need to be "qualified", and who would decide what "qualified" means? Should the government be forcing me to host content I find objectionable?

Facebook is no different. Just bigger.
Paper is great, but good lord I tire of these "Just do X", "Stop doing Y", "Z considered harmful", kind of posts. So overconfident and devoid of context, this shit gets really old after a while. Reminds me of JWZ or (gack) Zed Shaw.

I LOVE paper. I also like whiteboards. I also like being able to search through my megabytes of notes for something silly I was wrestling with 2.5 years ago. It might be in a TODO list even. I'm messy, I don't care to try to organize such things, but (rip) grepping still provides value. I don't want to "just use fucking $ANYTHING", thanks very much, man.
Some of the apps do 3d maps / AI positioning.
I have a remarkable for this. because yeah, just use paper, but like, we live in the future
For perspective 2.7B is 0.04% of the entire US budget for 2024. This is a rocket that goes to the moon. If your reaction is "lord help us" then perhaps space exploration just isn't in your blood.
What kind of AI do you use in your tools?
They show you if you have spent sufficient time on the front, top, and back of each tooth. Electric toothbrushes are used differently than manual brushes (you don't move them back and forth).
I'll probably get stoned for asking here, but... since you seem knowledgeable on the subject:

I just got llama3.1-8b (standard and instruct). However, I cannot do anything with it on my current hardware. Can you recommend the best AI model that I: 1) can self host 2) run on 16GB ram with no dedicated graphics card and an old intel i5 3) use on Debian without installing a bunch of exo-repo mystery code?

Any recommendation, directly or semi related would be appreciated - I'm doing my 'research' but haven't made much progress nor had any questions answered.
I still use digital tools for documenting my projects and keeping track of long-term tasks, but I agree with the author that papers just fucking works for most things. I sketch out designs on paper. I treat as an ephemeral medium.

Lately I’ve taken to jotting down lists of things on my mind on index cards so I can carry those around and refer to them without the distraction of a phone. The nice thing is that space is limited, so I can’t take on too much at a time. Constraints are a good thing.
Now we can have a robust debate on the best paper and writing utensils! Some will advocate for top-spiral notebooks, some composition books, others will proclaim nothing beats a Moleskine.

Then the fight moves to pens vs. pencils. Fountain pens and carpenter's pencils will slug it out for supremacy in the comments. One lone maniac will die on the quill hill.
- Trump disappears from the public eye for the week leading up to Butler

July 9, Doral Fl

- CNN and other mainstream outlets elect to cover the rally after not broadcasting any others

This was discussed on July 9. They were expecting him to announce his running mate. This is why you saw a lot of press at the July 9th rally.

- The Secret Service shoos crowd members farther from the stage and repositions some of the photographers just before the first shots

They reposition people all the time.

The fact that the first two are easily dismissed as a lie, and the third requires evidence from you that the Secret Service routinely do NOT redirect or move people is enough to discredit this. The rest of what you post is mostly purely subjective.

Please, correct me if I'm wrong. But I'm not. I saw the videos. I saw the media talking about it and literally explaining why they were paying attention.
> We're moving to a world that most restaurants won't have servers taking your food and drinks order. This is already happening in Seattle

Seattle isn’t the world, it’s not even representative of the USA. Like California they have enacted regulations and policy which resulted in widespread crime and homelessness, the shuttering of small business, and population decline.

The reason you have stuff like robots taking orders or kitchen staff waiting tables isn’t because the progressive utopia has been realized, it’s because there is no such thing as free lunch and those people got fired and kicked to the curb while the remaining employees were forced to do more work.
Steph here - each image takes about ~250ms on a small single board compute like an Nvidia Orin Nano. On something larger like an RTX 4080 GPU it's less than 100ms. Because we're running big models we can't really just spin out more threads ourselves, we throw them over to the GPU (or deep learning accelerator - depending on the platform) and the driver's internal scheduler decides how to get it done.

In a robotic packaging scenario most of the time is spent by the robot picking up the objects and moving them, so for a 30 second cycle we usually get less than a second to take multiple pictures and make a decision about the part. For a smaller number of images - like 4 - it's pretty easy to handle with cheap hardware like an Orin Nano or Orin NX. If we've got more images (like 8) and a tight time budget (like less than 2 seconds) we'd usually just bump up the hardware, like going to a higher tier of Nvidia's line of Orins or using compute with an RTX 4080 GPU or equivalent in it.
If they do, I'd probably be the last to know -because slop.
Boy accidentally smashes 3,500-year-old jar on museum visit
I use Apple Notes but it drives me sooo crazy that you can’t left/right swipe between Notes

How is that even possible
My assumption is that it must have something to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)#Microsoft_appl...

This way will allow them to improve Mono accordingly? Who knows? /me-thinks...
Humans haven't figured out how to economically build something watertight and structurally sound for 30000 years... most structures will rarely last over 65 years without constant maintenance.

Anything around water, acid rain, or anaerobic bacteria will fall apart in time.

All mines eventually fill with water, and collapse in time.

Putting the PR BS in a hole in the ground does not make it safer. lol =3
Vectorlite gets even faster with v0.2.0 release
Every health company out there has an app that connects their devices, but make one for a toothbrush and people freak out like this is the first time we've ever let an app measure something health-related.

Y'all will back smart watches that know all your vitals, and pendants that listen to everything you say, but log how frequently and thoroughly you brush your teeth, and suddenly there's an outrage.

As for why they are 300MB? It sounds like it was just poorly packaged assets. That's stupid, but also not a big deal.