skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It makes so much sense that there's even a second team taking a crack at it that I wasn't aware of: https://www.alice.camera/

It's a good idea, but I just don't think it's going to work. The mechanical connection between the phone and camera is awkward, and connectivity through Bluetooth/WiFi can not be seamless enough. Especially in challenging radio environments (like a concert).

> I don't trust a camera manufacturer to keep their Android deployment up to date, or even to really fix that many bugs in it, and a whole Android OS is a lot more complex for them to manage than SwitchLens/Alice's apps and internal RTOS + comms layers.

Android can allow third-party software, much easier than hacking into the proprietary OS.
This is how my calculus class worked out a few years ago.

It was a purely online course, and the instructor was at a campus I never visited. (We were surprised to learn that we'd need to commute there for the final exam, but I worked out an alternate plan.)

The course materials were all Pearson-provided and hosted on Canvas, so there were video lectures, and the quizzes and tests were automated. Our instructor was just there to keep the backend together, and provide a credentialed face.

I, however, struggled mightily, and so I found the tutoring center, and it was fantastic. It was bustling in the daytime; it had computers we could log into or desks without them. Then the tutors circulated, and we could plug through coursework and raise a flag when we had questions.

It was one instance of a vast support network that is too often left untapped by students, who just aren't aware of what's available, or don't care and resort to cheating, or have a study group where they all sort of muddle through.
The problem with these conversations is that capitalists seem incredibly brittle-minded. Meaning even a small, and fair, critic devolves into "oh so you want communism?"

Public vs private isn't black and white, it's a spectrum. Energy providers sit on this spectrum. In some way, they're public infrastructure. In others, they're private companies. Slightly pushing them more towards "public" via regulation is what we HAVE been doing for a long time. This shouldn't be setting off your communism senses. If it is, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the economy works in regard to these kind-of-public-infrastructure goods and services.
Any ETA on F-Droid, Accrescent, and/or APK releases from Github (for Obtainium)?

I know it's a non-trivial ask, and is planned, but seems important that software against censorship be hosted on a less censorship-friendly platform than the Play Store.

That said, thank you so much for doing this important work! I've often thought that I should start or contribute to a project like this, considering the direction of the world seems to be bending towards censorship and autocracy on the internet.
[dupe]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41695587
Is this why almost all CompSci PhDs are actually “doctor of philosophy”?
I find it fascinating. To me it grounds expectations and motivates discussions about the jagged boundaries of LLM capabilities.
Can you have it work with pipfiles too ?
How is uv, another flavor-of-the-month Python packaging tool, not contributing to fragmentation?
I haven't found a difference to AWS, for example. They are all terrible in their own ways. But if one or the other is what you earn your money with, then at least put in the effort to be proficient with it, and not a complete dumbass. (Not you as in "you!")
That's true, although like with rock paper scissors, ensuring simultaneous sharing of the keys is hard. So whoever reveals their key "last" knows the outcome before the other participants, which can be bad depending on the application. Adding a random beacon value from a 3rd party to the game (say as an input to the hash in step 3) means all participants can learn the outcome at the same time and that the reveal time is known in advance. Of course now it's the 3rd party that knows in advance, but for many applications you can trust them to be disinterested in the result and you can use multiple independent 3rd parties for better security.

An interesting property here is that with the old NIST beacon version, the beacon operator could actually change the result assuming the other parties in your construct reveal their keys before the beacon value is published (because NIST or whoever could just pick a beacon value that gives a particular result). However the new version includes a hash commitment in the current beacon for the next beacon, so participants could wait for that to be published, then share their keys now that the beacon operator can't change the next beacon value.
How do people sleep with that noise? I see the noise and music is through the night.
Is Uber profitable already or are they waiting for another order of magnitude increase in scale before they bother with that?

Amazon is the poster-child of that mentality. It spent more than it earned into growth for more than 20 years, got a monopoly on retail, and still isn't the most profitable retail company around.
Whatever you think about AGI, this is a dumb paper. So many words and references to say - what. If you can't articulate your point in a few sentences you probably don't have a point. There are all kinds of assumptions being made in the study about how AI systems work, about what people "mean" then they talk about AGI etc.

The article starts out talking about white supremacy and replacing women. This isn't a proof. This is a social sciences paper dressed up with numbers. Honestly - Computer Science has given us more clues about how the human mind might work than cognitive science ever did.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41690302
I know someone who teaches middle-school science not far from Hartford.

His experience has been that, for a large fraction of his students, something has gone seriously off the rails before the 7th grade.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, and looks like a duck it's probably worth dissecting its internal organs to see if it might be related to a duck.
I've read the application. In fact I've filled it out three times, once successfully and twice not. It is indeed an excellent exercise. Among many other things: if you're a first-time founder then it teaches you what's important, and if you're a second-time founder then it reminds you. (Many second-timers do sometimes need to be reminded, myself included.)
It's unreasonable for you to expect a cost estimate on knee pain. You can ask the provider organization how much they charge for a regular office visit, and then check your coinsurance or copay amount. During the initial office visit the doctor is likely to recommend follow-up tests, imaging scans, medications, and/or physical therapy; you can then ask for price estimates on those additional services.

The No Surprises Act does give patients some protection against high charges for out-of-network services.

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/no-surprises-unders...
Being in the special ed program is the easiest way to fall through the cracks. Expectations are low and if the kid isn't disruptive then they won't get a lot of attention because they are in class with the kids who are disruptive.
> But there should be room, at the same port, for trying a more-efficient approach.

I'll gladly steelman the opposite idea. If you're running a McDonalds and you fire half your employees to replace them with burger-flipping robots, you damn well better expect the cashier to quit or go on strike. People aren't that stupid - they can see the Looney-Tunes ACME anvil suspended over their heads, they know when they have to negotiate themselves off the red painted 'X'.

Similarly, I think introducing automation to a historically-human career like longshoring is absolutely an all-or-nothing shtick. You're either displacing your human workers entirely with unpaid alternatives, or you're dealing with the consequences of a partially human workforce. There is no magic compromise, despite what management wants. You either acquiesce or replace them with robo-scabs.
This only hold true in relation to the economy if you say every person has the exact same wealth. This isn't true in capitalism and is (arguably) the reason capitalism exists. Such a system, however you choose to develop it, would invariably be closer to socialism in spirit.
Unless we’re trying to get an actual company funded without giving away our worthless product for free.
I thought import names and PyPI names are not always equal, thus this can not work reliably, right?
> Google for lazard LCOE.

I guess LCOH is a more relevant search term. https://www.lazard.com/media/2ozoovyg/lazards-lcoeplus-april...

Page 28 is informative. 220-235 USD/kWh for a 25% blend of unsubsidised PEM hydrogen, or 210-221 USD/kWh a 25% blend for unsubsidised alkaline hydrogen.
If you are a hobbyist writing blogs for fun and not spending hours doing seo for google old twitter was the only way your post / site could be delivered to your intended audience . You wrote a post about the latest python update ? Twitter will deliver it to python liking cluster . Something no other social media does nor do search engines like google where only limited sites are shown .
I completely agree, I gave Shottr as an example. I also have a lot of subscriptions I’m not at all against it. But you gave the example of Kino, I imagine that the skills to develop such an app is quite high and even if they would be 15$ per year or more it would be worth it. But if a « click away » app kind of skills, my personnal preference is more like a sub 10$ a year. Like, I have smoothScroll, I pay a subscription every year and I don’t mind paying 8€ for it. 20€ ? I never would have tried the app
Congratulations to the app I used today that initially sent an SMS code, then offered it via WhatsApp.
I've bounced in and out of advertising tech, and I can tell you that this isn't unique to that business space. No matter what space you land in, try to establish yourself as someone who is self-driven and can define and tackle your own problems. And then find problems that you want to fix.

I'm back in the ad space at the moment (any port in a storm), and the project I'm working on addresses one of our viewers' and customers' biggest pain points. When it's ready for launch I'll p-hack the numbers to show that it's a win for the company too. And then I can sit back and know that I've actually made things better for people.
It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but children don't have much disposable income, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?
My guess would be using "AI" to increase/enhance sales with your existing processes. Pay for this product, get 20% increased sales, ad revenue, yada yada.
One reason that humans might not self-regulate population is because we are less in direct contact with our ecosystem. A rat knows if food has been scarce lately, or the nest crowded. Your average human has no intuitive idea if the soil in the big AgriCorp farms has been depleted, or if the oil reserves are about to run out, and the price of housing in the suburbs only a intellectual consideration.
AGI is already here for most definitions of general.
Ah understood. I can see how the term is a little fuzzy. Glad it highlighted how the product works though.
Training on the test set is all you need.
Twitter was doing okay (maybe not) before pre-musk without being another facebook .

New owner is actually the best option in my opinion too , but I don't think anyone is willing to buy it for 44b .
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

This is an issue for all sorts of studies.
We're already competing under capitalism, and clearly the end-state isn't who'll get the most of what we already have, but who'll get the most of what's yet to get exploited. This competition doesn't have any upper bounds.
Ahh just when founders had finally stopped pitching their startups as "the uber for X" now we get "Cursor for X"
> It's not so uncommon in science to come to a strange conclusion by excluding all "reasonable" alternatives.

That is not what happen in the article, or to my understanding in this field of research.

> For example, black holes have a similar status: no one has conclusively seen one, but we know of no mechanism for matter to support itself beyond a certain density, so black hole it is.

Comparing the equation based methods of physics, often called a "hard" science, to neurology or biology, often called a a "soft" science, is not going to be an apples to apples comparison.
270k is on the low end and would indicate incompetency if anything if you're older than mid-20s, esp since it's not like he's taking a pay cut to work in a cool or interesting field (coinbase lmao)
> It seems to me that there was an early '10s milieu that enabled YC to behave like it did.

Definitely, it's called ZIRP and QE.
Of course I understood your larger point on barriers to entry for a malicious actor.

If a thing like BIMI is not widespread, would it even help an average non-tech Joe who won’t even understand the reason behind that checkmark on a logo?
Any web browser could do a p2p call with just a bookmarklet and a chat room / comment section for trading ICE information.
I would say you could trade hard-earned goodwill and respect for a number of different things, maybe because it is such an unquantifiable asset.

I think earned leadership can be legitimately exploited where everybody wins up to a point, and if you put your mind to it you can engineer an operation to approach that point more successfully than those who do not.

You could be monetizing your "prestige", at a maximum sustainable level, without drawing down the asset.

OTOH it would be possible to go overboard on the march to maximum monetization, and arrive where the asset begins to dwindle. It may not be such a clear picture since it's so unquantifiable, and dwindling returns as a consequence can be some of the most easily misattributed.
Prior to a trip to Poland I listen to some language tapes and learn how to say "I don't understand Polish" in polish (something like "nya rezumium popolski").

Almost everybody understood English and finally when I ran into somebody who didn't and used that Polish phrase, I realized I could have just said in English "I don't understand Polish" and it actually would have been clearer communication.
Nothing. But that’s not the point. The point is that, to a rounding error, all output is made by a small number of models from a small number of easily regulated companies.

It’s never going to be possible to ensure all media is reliably tagged somehow. But if just half of media generated is identifiable as such that helps. Also helps avoid it in training new models, which could turn out useful.
Like most US industries, it's a Free Market*

* Except big players will never go under, and substantial losses are socialized
> trusting it implicitly because it is usually working

I think this danger is understated. Humans are really prone to developing expectations based on past observations and then not thinking very critically about or paying attention to those things once those expectations are established. This is why "self driving" cars that work most of the time but demand that the driver remain attentive and prepared to take over are such a bad idea.
I love that quote and the imagery it invokes. I think it's funny because it feels true - English speakers aren't precious about roping in new words from other languages. I enjoy the concept of the hybrid word - a word made from a mix of languages (e.g. neuroscience, Minneapolis, cryptocurrency etc). "Eigenvalue" is a good one as it's a mix of German and French.
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(2) “Critical harm” does not include any of the following:

(A) Harms caused or materially enabled by information that a covered model or covered model derivative outputs if the information is otherwise reasonably publicly accessible by an ordinary person from sources other than a covered model or covered model derivative.

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This exception swallows any rule and fails to target the difference with AI: it's actually better than an ordinary person at assimilating multiple fact streams.

That suggests this law is legislative theater: something designed to enlist interest and donations, i.e., to build a political franchise. That could be why it targets only the largest models, affecting only the biggest players, who have the most resources to donate per decision and the least goodwill to burn with opposition.

Regulating AI would be a very difficult legislative/administrative task, on the order of a new tax code in its complexity. But it will be impossible if treated as a political franchise.

As for self-regulation, with OpenAI's changing to for-profit, the non-profit form is insufficient to maintain a public benefit focus. Permitting this conversion is on par with the 1990's+ conversion of nonprofit hospital systems to for-profit.

AI's potential shines a bright light on our weakness in governance. While weak governance affords more opportunities, escaping the exploitation caused by governance failures is the engine of autocracy, and autocracy consumes property along with all other rights.
I'd also like to point out that they omit Qwen2.5 14B from the benchmark because it doesn't fit their narrative(MMLU Pro score of 63.7[0]). This kind of listing-only-models-you-beat feels extremely shady to me.

[0] https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5/
>2) pushing the frontier further out will likely get more difficult.

The upside risk is premised on this point. It'll get so cost prohibitive to build frontier models that only 2-3 players will be left standing (to monetize).
Check out https://dan.com / soon to be merged into afternic. You just have to change DNS or verify with a DNS entry on your registrar to add them to your account. They have a feature that does price estimates so you can get a starting value (or make up your own). They'll do all the holding page creation and put the sites in their searchable database etc so buyers will 'find' you. (will they be looking? who knows)
It’s fairly typical to never go back and address major gaps in learning. Have a couple messed-up years, and you may just never be taught some fundamental things.

Testing regimes focused on current-grade material and tied to funding make it hard to find support to properly address this. A 5th grade student might best be served by ignoring all 5th grade math and learning 2nd and 3rd grade math instead (something like this is actually a pretty common situation) but they’ll do worse on the standardized test than if the same time had been spent teaching them enough of the 5th grade material to pattern-recognize their way to a better-than-chance score. A great teacher who feels like working extra-hard for zero extra pay and no meaningful improvement in test scores can fill in some of the gaps while still doing what admin wants, but even that’s not ideal.
> Yeah, you do. For the reasons others have given (adjusting the exposure compensation on my iPhone is a PITA. On my Olympus I just spin a dial).

No, I don't. I haven't touched most of controls on my camera, and I don't have a desire to do that.

> But also: if you're "out shooting", this may happen when it's freezing outside.

Yeah, so every feature must be designed to work under water, at night, at -60C, on Jupiter.

Here's a newsflash: people typically don't take pictures when it's super-cold.
You vastly overestimate how many people actually use Twitter. The "python liking cluster" does not uniformly hang out on Twitter - maybe like less than ~3% of them probably still use the site. Also, X will happily downrank your content if it isn't controversial enough to be viral. After all, your python-likers aren't reading on a chronological timeline. They're being fed an algorithm of doomscrolling - finding your posts on the site is little more than a beneficial mistake.

You can continue to cling to Twitter until the corpse is cold and they've replaced the blue branding with black, if you wanted. People are both stockholm-syndromed to the app in an unhealthy way and addicted to attention-seeking in ways that X knowingly exploits for ad revenue and premium subscription tithes.

It will only get worse!
There are definite, unambiguous downsides to having kids when you're older.
> I would love to figure out how to run in a way that builds up my motivational reserve rather than constantly depleting it, but that method, if it exists, has escaped me.

Do you like music? Uptempo music? I run with a playlist designed to match my cadence at the various stages of my run. I get my endorphin rush from the combination of the run and the music.
1. I'm not sure what you mean. The code is open source[3], but the data is, for logistical reasons, not available. Common Crawl is far more comprehensive though.

2. I've got such plans in the pipe. Not sure when I'll have time to implement it, as I'm in the middle of moving in with my girlfriend this month. Soon-ish.

[3] at https://git.marginalia.nu/ , though still some rough edges to sand down before it's easy to self-host (as easy as hosting a full blown internet search engine gets).
The nice thing about society is that it allows people to come together and pool their resources, in order to achieve an expensive thing that no individual might be able to reasonably afford.

I get that nice things that you want are sometimes expensive, but that's just life, isn't it? The world doesn't owe you a cheap-and-easy-to-hack-on piece of software.
It uses this file which maps import names to package names, but it's only 1152 packages and I'm not sure how it was generated. https://github.com/bndr/pipreqs/blob/master/pipreqs/mapping
While it is true, better regulations are needed to get control of some of these companies, those same companies are going to attempt to buy off politicians and whoever possible. It's not going to be any kind of easy battle or quick fix, and the public is going to have to get more involved, to make sure the needed laws and regulation get passed.
...it would also be nice if Debian (Ubunutu and other derivitives) stop shitting on pip in some ridiculous paranoid attempt to stop breaking apt packages (that don't break apt packages anyway) or because of "muh security".
Supabase is one.
English verbs (like Spanish verbs) are marked with aspect in addition to tense: there is a distinction between "I played tennis"/"I have played tennis"/"I was playing tennis".

Where is the verb marking you speak of? Because I don't see any difference between played and played. Your example of how English uses auxiliary verbs to convey different verb aspects is a Germanic construct. I don't really understand how you use this as an example of Romance lineage in English.
Understanding data abstraction, revisited [pdf]
"Spelled" is a perfectly cromulent word in UK English (the best English).
Sales is a matter of talking to people you know. There is no shortcut. The work is:

1. Meet people.
2. Get to know them.
3. Make a pitch if they have a problem they will pay you for.
4. Get paid.

That their problem inclines them to pay you is the only important feature of the problem and that you get paid is the only important feature of your service.

Meeting people is literally meeting people.

Getting to know them means time and effort spent fashioning a relationship. B2B relationships are long term. You can assume that people who regularly use agencies already have agencies they work with and will continue to work barring change to their business or the agency's business. These happen but not on a high pressure timeline. Consulting is a long con. Good luck.