skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From (very) brief searching, Adobe Camera Raw produces a depth map (and lets you edit it), and gets situations wheee the same pixel contains hair and background wrong, exactly the way one would expect if one trying to use a depth map-aware blue.

I would expect an ML algorithm actually trained to blur the background behind hair to be able to do better (where the resulting image is the output), and maybe a radiance field or splatting algorithm could also do better. In the latter cases, the hair would be separately represented as a foreground object/source.

I could easily be missing something, though. And I did not find any good full-resolution examples.
This has helped some folks' IBS symptoms: https://www.vsl3.com/

Contains:

Streptococcus thermophilus
Bifidobacterium breve
Bifidobacterium lactis (previously classified as B. longum)
Bifidobacterium lactis (previously classified as B. infantis)
Lactobacillus acidophilus
Lactobacillus plantarum
Lactobacillus paracasei
Lactobacillus helveticus (previously classified as L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus)

I'll have to research L Reuteri, thank you for mentioning it.
They have large bank accounts because of their scale. You’re adding to the parent’s case.
> I ended up printing out the LFS book in segments on one of the printers in High School and brought it home in pieces to use on the home computer.

I am actually flabbergasted there's another human being on Earth that has this exact same story as me. I used one of those giant 3 ring legal binders for my printed copy, lmao.
While non-rhotic accents are common in parts of America, the dominant theory among linguists is that this was a result of Americans copying a trend in England, not the other way around, as you seem to be asserting:

> By the 1770s, postvocalic /r/-less pronunciation was becoming common around London even in formal educated speech. The English actor and linguist John Walker used the spelling ar to indicate the long vowel of aunt in his 1775 rhyming dictionary.[4] In his influential Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (1791), Walker reported, with a strong tone of disapproval, that "the r in lard, bard,... is pronounced so much in the throat as to be little more than the middle or Italian a, lengthened into baa, baad...."[8] Americans returning to England after the American Revolutionary War, which lasted from 1775 to 1783, reported surprise at the significant changes in the fashionable pronunciation that had taken place.[16]

...

> The loss of postvocalic /r/ in the British prestige standard in the late 18th and the early 19th centuries influenced the American port cities with close connections to Britain, which caused upper-class pronunciation to become non-rhotic in many Eastern and Southern port cities such as New York City, Boston, Alexandria, Charleston, and Savannah.[9] Like regional dialects in England, however, the accents of other areas in the United States remained rhotic in a display of linguistic "lag", which preserved the original pronunciation of /r/.[9]

—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English#History
AI trained on infringing material being used to help sue over such material. Pretty funny.
> No, the U.S. has not done worse than Russia has in this war. Not even in Vietnam, I think.

Rethink[0]. It just takes some basic math to understand that the USA has done much worse, even if we just consider civilian deaths estimates. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. And for what, to stop communism? Is that a valid reason to devastate three countries?

> But, I guess we were orcs when we invaded and occupied Iraq

Orcs once, orcs forever. Isn't that how it works? If you can call an entire population "orcs", then there must be some intrinsic evil rooted in their ethnicity, culture, or whatever it is.

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties#Deaths_...
I was curious about your defense of Matt's behavior in this thread but your empathy makes sense given that you work on a similar project that you describe as:

> A static site that is 100% free and open-source, competing with several businesses operating scammy subscription models.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30295629

Is this a competitor to Wordpress? Can you elaborate more about how the competition in this space uses scammy subscription models? It might help to illustrate the issues in the industry for outsiders like me.

Off topic, but I'm a bit of an amateur musician myself. I try to check out other musicians that I encounter, but I wasn't able to find anything about you or your music online. Do you have a bandcamp or something similar? The contrabass trombone is a really interesting instrument.
Or buy a boat I guess.
Or they are shotgunning and there are many others in flight, and this was just public first.
100%, this alert went out because an officer was injured and for some reason that means that they get to see blood and just kill anything in sight legally.
You already have to pay fees to file a lawsuit.
Why are you spending your finite life working with people who you wouldn't fight for?

This might not be a "them" problem.

I'm not advocating that your coworkers have to be at the same rung as your family or [in-group X] but it's weird/sad to many reading this that you're okay not caring about the people you spend your days working towards a common goal with.
Migrant encounters at U.S.-Mexico border have fallen sharply in 2024
I’m not confused, I just disagree. I don’t think that authorial intent is something fundamentally different than text prediction.

When I’m writing out a comment, there’s no muse in my head singing the words to me. I have a model of who I am and what I believe - if I weren’t religious I might say I am that model - and I type things out by picking the words which that guy would say in response to the input I read.

(The model isn’t a transformer-based LLM, of course.)
Study is here: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eng-2022-0390...

> Recently, corn starch was employed as a binder for inorganic aggregates such as sand and limestone powder. Termed CoRncrete, these materials displayed impressive compressive strengths as high as 30 MPa; however, moisture sensitivity remained a key weakness for practical Earth-based applications.

> Having extremely limited amounts of water, the issue of moisture sensitivity is irrelevant for the Lunar and Martian environments – meaning a CoRncrete-like material could be well-suited for extraterrestrial construction. Furthermore, since starch is the primary constituent of staple foods such as rice, potatoes, and maize (corn), any sustained off-world habitat will likely have the capability to produce starch as food for inhabitants. To mitigate risks such as crop failure or poor yields, a surplus of starch will likely be produced under ordinary conditions: the use of surplus starch as a binder for regolith would therefore avoid the need for additional construction material fabrication equipment and supporting infrastructure.

I think someone from the IgNobel award committee wrote that headline?
LFS to a computer scientist should be like soap to a chemist. Something you can do as a fun, educational experiment, but not where you source a necessary tool for your life.
From the study, to your point:

> To assess the translational potential of the intranasal neomycin approach in humans, we conducted a small pilot randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study involving healthy human participants.

> For the experimental arm (n = 12)
> For the placebo arm (n = 7)

> One out of 21 participants experienced signs of an adverse event after 2 doses which self-resolved after a few days and self-withdrew from the study early. Upon examination of their medical record, it was found that the participant had a history of allergic reactions to various medications (not specific to study drug). Another participant’s nasal samples could not be used due to technical issues. All other 19 participants tolerated the treatment well and did not experience any adverse events from the study.
It was an exchange of one kind of drama until another group got into power and then instated their own approved drama, for sure.
The Data Visualisation Catalogue: find the right method for your data
Excellent news. Although, how come some people keep spam posting that thezvi blog then?
I’ve worked with Matt’s team while I was in the hosting industry- Matt has always cared very deeply about it being called WordPress. I’ve written recursive web crawlers to alert us on miscapitaizations for this specific issue, even 10 years ago.
This is very helpful. Well done!
Yeah; my doctor recommends neilmed sinus rinse, in the little squirt bottle and powder packet form factor. I keep a gallon of distilled water in the bathroom. Problem solved. (Avoid the maximum strength formulation unless you want to use osmotic pressure to reduce swelling — ouch!)

If you go for the carbonated mist spray stuff, note that you get a lot less volume of water per dose, so it’s a bit less reliable (but much more convenient since you don’t need to worry about sterilizing anything).

Regarding the article: Unless you’re using this when completely symptom free (or have some condition where your sinuses are chronically dry), there’s probably already more crap in your sinuses than you need. I’m skeptical of this new technology.
There are a billion plus South Asians that eat a ton of dairy. Cows are even sacred.

Lactose tolerance is a very wide scale, from zero tolerance to even cheese to being able to drink multiple glasses of milk without getting diarrhea.

Based on anecdotal evidence and the seeming popularity of pizza, a lactose intolerance so great that cheese is an issue seems to be rare.
The other aspect of this is that the Japanese soldiers were fearsome and won many victories at the start of the conflict. I think that part of othering in this context is to reduce the fear response to a very capable adversary.
I do think it’s an arms race where in many instances legal filing will be aided by AI and then the other party will also use AI to synthesize and summarize the filings or do similar analysis. The filings themselves will not actually be written or read by real human beings
Official release: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-foreign-nationals-sentenc...
Purposeful avoidance of temptation is self control.
LOL

When you spend 8 hours a day around folks and become friends with them, it's natural to miss them when they leave. It's OK if you don't have any meaningful relationships with your co-workers, but, to me, that sounds unhealthy.
Small communities get people with large enough bank accounts to attract scams as well.
Being invisible is invaluable. Chasing status and vanity is an emotional deficiency.
Show HN: Amewz – Spontaneous video or text chats with AI matchmaking
I wouldn’t do that. All sorts of stuff will permanently kill your sense of smell.

One common one (this keeps getting reinvented, then banned in the us) is zinc nasal spray.

Zinc lozenges seem fine. Both are effective at shortening colds.
TikTok is young enough that it hasn't completed the full enshittification cycle. The worst is yet to come.
I'm not comparing Waymo to FSD because FSD has not shown the ability to be "truly diverless", aka Level 4+, which was an important distinction I made (perhaps not too clearly) in my comment.

FSD is probably the leading Level 2 autonomy system. As you point out it covers a massively broader set of geographies and conditions than Waymo can. On the flip side, it won't even take you around the block if you just get in the back seat and expect it to handle everything. Perhaps next week we will see major update from Tesla towards Level 4, but until FSD breaks past L2 supervised capabilities they are different products solving for massively different trade-offs.
Zune never took off just like HoloLens, Band, Kinect and Windows Phone didn't take off—not because they were in any way late, but because Microsoft is never "all-in" with any of these ventures.

The Xbox was somewhat of an anomaly owing to exclusives like Halo and Gears of War, but it's floundering, and in some countries, like Japan, it's just never taken off, period.

Apple Vision doesn't seem to be a sensation in terms of sales figures, despite the HoloLens beating Apple to the punch, and the stereotypical nonsense being "Apple is always late, but they always do it right". HoloLens just got killed along with Windows Mixed Reality.

Hell, even the Microsoft Band beat the Apple Watch to market.

The problem is that merely having a presence in a niche doesn't guarantee success as it once did. Now, you need to actually iterate, innovate, and satisfy the minimum expected threshold of solving real problems. This is also what Tim Cook's Apple struggles with these days.

What's the killer app for Apple Vision? What was it for HoloLens?

When digital technology was new and exciting, having anything would draw buyers. Now, we're spoiled for choice, things move fast, it isn't years between models, it's months to a year. Early adopters tend to get a bad experience too.
You're missing when LLMs are used to misinform, manipulate, and create chaos.

The way you're framing it is "let's use limited humans to moderate an infinite number of LLM bots" - how do you go about it?
If that's what you meant, then I agree with you.

What's the quote? "If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t".

Even though it doesn't need to be a single human doing all of it, our brains as existence proofs of the physical possibility, not of our own understanding.
We got to ~gpt4 by scaling model parameters, and then several more companies did too.

That’s dead. OpenAI knows that much. There will be more, but they aren’t going to report that we’re doing incremental advances until there’s a significant breakthrough. They need to stay afloat and say what it takes to try and bridge the gap.
He doesn't seem fearful of the apocalypse. He seems to consider preparing for it to be a fun hobby.
I wasn't expecting to see my (uncredited) die photo of the 8008 processor in the middle of an article about P vs NP!
A key question is why the free market does not work in this case. Many business are "profit obsessed", yet it does not mean they won't provide quality products or services at increasingly lower prices. What's different in the health care?
Communists killed more than 100 millions worldwide, not thousands.
How do you know if someone is a vegan?
If this were merely a philosophical debate then yeah, we could have a lively discussion to come up with some answers that would satisfy us individually. We probably wouldn't all agree and that'd be OK.

But IMO the debate is not really about that -- it's about what we do based on the answer to those questions. It's about what governments can force upon people. Should they be allowed to imprison you if those that write laws believe in something without hard evidence and for which harm is likely unprovable?
I agree it sounds really compelling that those three names are involved, but as mentioned they could just be influences that motivated that particular pseudonym. It would be hard for three people to keep such a secret.
Complete aside, but Jake of jake.fun is an absolute delight. I work with him over at Figma and he’s such a genuine person who makes little nuggets like this on a constant basis. He’s one of those people who make tech a fun industry to be in.
An Example Deploying Next / Postgres / Nginx to a Linux Ubuntu Server
New active optical interposers connect multi-chiplets with minimal latency
im over ars
Might be the clickbait treadmill, indeed, or algospeak. But it doesn't need an objective meaning to be treated that way. The word "literally" can no longer be trusted to mean "in a literal sense". It's frequently used as an intensifier.
Get a bigger belt, friend.
I definitely bought an RF adapter for the N64 to be able to plug it into my old crusty TV at the time. But indeed, it was something you deliberately had to buy at that point and composite inputs were the norm.
I know that's the conventional wisdom, but as an adult of European descent who usually handles lactose/dairy well, I sometimes have periods of reduced tolerance, perhaps due to changes in my gut biome.

And there's evidence even lactose-intolerant ("lactase nonpersistent") demographics can tolerate ever-larger amounts of lactose with a gradual ramp-up of consumption that shifts their gut biomes in a different direction:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38159728/

There's a chance the conventional view overweights human genetics and underweights biome, which could create a self-fulfilling diagnosis of "lactose intolerance".

That is: a person notices a bad reaction, and is told (influenced by demographic tendencies) "oh, as an adult you'll inevitably be lactose-intolerant". They avoid dairy, further thinning (or completely eliminating) the bacteria that could help from their gut, ensuring a more-noticeable negative reaction upon further consumption.

OTOH, if the right bacterial mix was maintained, or reintroduced then maintained if necessary, many considering themselves lactose-intolerant might not persistently be.

(Separate from the bacteria themselves assisting in lactose digestion, there's even some chance that the positive or negative shock of a wildly-changed biome might epigenetically affect the beyond-childhood activation of the human genome's own lactase genes – a possibility mentioned in the middle of this microbiologist's writeup: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/17/health/lactose-intolerance-mi... )
> All I am saying is that Sam Altman's promises (remember the original topic) hinge on breaking thermodynamics

If it hinged on that, then you would actually be saying it's impossible.

> The elements on Earth that make life possible couldn't have been created in a younger universe

Those statements also apply to the silicon and doping agents used in chip manufacture. They tell you nothing of relevance, we're not doing Carl Sagan's Apple Pie from scratch with AI, we're trying to get a thing like us.
It is disingenuous to call it "conditions" as though we were discussing a negative quality of sleep or negative health influence a merely unframed mattress would not realistically cause.

I think needless over-concern with aesthetics is a very common issue. I do equate it with shallowness. I think most people do consider it to be shallow.

I do think many of the worlds problems are caused by excessive attention to that which does not matter, and not enough attention to that which matters a lot.

It is a difference in values.
To give context, I grew up poor. The first 16 years of my life I slept on futons on the floor. When I finally did have a typical american bed with frame, headboard, boxspring, and mattress, it made me uncomfortable.

I eventually gave away the headboard to a sibling. I value the extra few inches beyond the mattress and do not like hitting my head, or hanging my feet over the edge. The discomfort cost was not worth the aesthetic gain. (I didnt think the headboard really looked good anyways.)

If a woman rejects me solely for my well considered preference in sleeping platform, she is shallow. I would hope she cared for more important things such as the way we treat eachother, reliability, patience, etc. Moral virtue. Living inexpensively, being happy with less, the absence of vanity. These are good qualities. A good person will be able to recognize these, and love another for them.
Wait.. It's all layers of indirection?

Always has been.
The model isn't doing much work, it just takes 3 numbers as input and gives a prediction as output
I wonder what would happen if private equity firms all threw their money into planting trees?
That's CoRny...
Go's pointers in nutshell (my first small blog post)
hi, this is my first "post" i know is really small, but could help some beginner in go. let me know if you like it. (i'm a little bit scared xD)
In my view we should also stop taking the Great Technoking at his word and move away from lionizing this old well-moneyed elite in general.

Real technological progress in the 21st century is more capital-intensive than before. It also usually requires more diverse talent.

Yet the breakthroughs we can make in this half-century can be far greater than any before: commercial-grade fusion power (where Lawrence Livermore National Lab currently leads, thanks to AI[1]), quantum computing, spintronics, twistronics, low-cost room-temperature superconductors, advanced materials, advanced manufacturing, nanotechnology.

Thus, it's much more about the many, not the one. Multi-stakeholder. Multi-person. Often led by one technology leader, sure, but this one person must uplift and be accountable to the many. Otherwise we get the OpenAI story, and end-justifies-the-means type of groupthink wrt. those who worship the technoking.

[1]: https://www.llnl.gov/article/49911/high-performance-computin...
I'm still an advocate of the old-school top income tax bracket of 85-100% i.e. a maximum income. A general wealth tax always seems like double-dipping; today I take $1 out of your $10, and a year from now I take 90¢ from your remaining $9. It's more of a motivation for one to continue accumulating (a floor, even) just to tread water.

Property taxes are different, because more services get provided to people with more property. Income taxes are fine because we take it as a given that the state has the ability to regulate every aspect of domestic financial transactions and financial lives, at least in our currency (even if we don't or shouldn't, we of course can.)

A yearly individual income cap means at the least people would have to put money in more hands. Being corrupt on a large scale would hopefully require a larger conspiracy.

I'm fine with arbitrary wealth taxes and taxes on capital, with arbitrary justifications, so I'm probably not saying much here; but I'm not in support of a revolving wealth tax.
Which is why thought experiments are always useless.
The term originated due to their disorganized, unprofessional, looting heavy behaviors. It has gained prominence in the 2022 invasion mostly because of how pathetic they are. One of the famous quotes of the war is “We’re lucky they’re so fucking stupid”. Which is entirely correct. The understanding of the war from the Ukrainian side is that the Russian army is a huge, dumb horde that vastly underperforms for its size. That doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous. But we’re years into this three day special military operation and we still see laughably wasteful efforts by the Russian military every week.

Hordes of people running and driving through open fields against artillery strikes and FPV drones and suffering 90% casualties is the canonical mental image these days.
That sounds awesome actually

The judge is there to course correct and cap
Russia would have had more decisive steps, then too. Most Russians criticize Putin for not taking this too seriously. Just like America in Iraq, Russia could've destroyed all energy infrastructure on day one, all airport fields, etc. Russia has a lot more capacity unlike Ukraine.
tried lfs back in high school really fun experience and teaches you a lot
Ha, the similar technology that Eridians used to launch Rocky's blip-A.
On the other hand, don't think you can get away without the salt packet either. I think that's worse than too much salt.
Wait what. I am 99% convinced my gas and bowel problem, an impairment at this point, is IBS or SIBO that started 12 years ago. I never thought a about just taking a half bottle of pills to see what would happen, I am going to have to look into this.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41728829
Building using LFS has been on my list of "I really should probably do that just to learn" for about 20 years now. I'll get around to it! This year I'm finally learning Lisp (and really enjoying it).
But do they actually have that result? Or do they simply put people off of all early care
Oh no, they took $2.5 million out of Apple’s $100s of billions what will Apple ever do?