skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you store the image in Lab coordinates, then converting back to RGB is two 3×3 matrix-vector multiplications and three cubes. The hue shift would be another 2×2 matrix-vector multiplication if you have (cos θ, sin θ). Is that that expensive?

(Obviously preprocessing would be a lot better if you can get away with it.)
The concern wouldn't be if huly chat integrates well with the rest of huly project management, video calls, docs. It would be all the other services your company uses like pagerduty, salesforce, HR apps, etc where Slack has become the "hub" for everything to integrate with.
> Jews do not charge interest to other Jews

Even now?
It still astounds me how hard software distribution is. We've had so many generations of solutions and paradigms that attempt to solve this problem (e.g. C, Unix, Java, Docker, etc) but the best we've come up with is client-server applications and the web. Yet it's still not trivial to host a reasonably "powerful" web application.

In theory, the components for a universal runtime are pretty apparent by now. Wouldn't it be wonderful if truly portable and end-user friendly cloud computing was a thing.
Hello Pran:

Diagnostics info:

App Version: 34.0
OS Version: 4.19.191-28701252-abA137FXXU6EXG3
App Name: HACK
Bundle Identifier: com.pranapps.hack
VERSION_CODE: 34
SDK Version: API 34 (Android 14)
Device: a13ve
Model: SM-A137F
Product: a13venseea
Manufacture: samsung
Epoch: 1722423168000
Time: Ott 14, 2024 1:20 PM
hack_pro: false
We are really hardwired for Earth.
As to whether catching the booster adds risk - I'm not sure it does.

First, to the extent the booster is out of position in the x (sideways) direction, the chopsticks can move to accomodate error. But actually I think this dimension is the easiest of the three, as the booster has plenty to time to null any error in this dimension.

In the y direction (direction of travel towards the tower), the rails on the chopsticks can cope with the booster touching down along quite a long distance. But importantly, they appear to be smooth, so the pins can initially skid along them and then the booster can swing if it has not fully nulled any horizontal movement.
In contrast, if the booster used legs and has not yet fully nulled any horizontal motion at touchdown, there is a greater risk of breaking a leg or simply tipping over.

And in the z direction, it should be possible for the chopsticks can absorb more vertical motion than legs can absorb, because you can easily build in huge springs/dampers/etc into the ground equipment without concern about mass.

Catching also puts the booster in tension rather than compression - it's easier to be rigid in tension than compression.

Finally, if legs were used, the engines would have to get close to the ground during landing, so reflected shock from the ground could cause damage. I know Falcon 9 does this, but the area of the base of Starship is much greater, so there's effectively less room for the reflected energy to escape. Catching completely removes this risk.

On balance, I think they would have better chance of success for each mission by catching. The main downside would be if you fail to catch, you may need to build a new tower, whereas a flat pad would be cheaper and easier to repair.
What is the main purpose of the ocli project on GitHub, and how can I use it in my command-line applications?
That's fascinating!

Do you have a source for this where I can read more?
I hake known many people in the trades who can't always get a job.
Thanks, I'll treasure that :)
It does feel right to me, because it's not distilling the second model, and in fact the second model is not an image generation model at all, but a visual encoder. That is, it's a more "general purpose" model which specializes in extracting semantic information from images.

In hindsight it makes total sense - generative image models don't automatically start out with an idea of semantic meaning or the world, and so they have to implicitly learn one during training. That's a hard task by itself, and it's not specifically trained for this task, but rather learns it on the go at the same time as the network learns to create images. The idea of the paper then is to provide the diffusion model with a preexisting concept of the world by nudging its internal representations to be similar to the visual encoders'. As I understand DINO isn't even used during inference after the model is ready, it's just about representations.

I wouldn't at all describe it as "a technique for transplanting an existing model onto a different architecture". It's different from distillation because again, DINO isn't an image generation model at all. It's more like (very roughly simplifying for the sake of analogy) instead of teaching someone to cook from scratch, we're starting with a chef who already knows all about ingredients, flavors, and cooking techniques, but hasn't yet learned to create dishes. This chef would likely learn to create new recipes much faster and more effectively than someone starting from zero knowledge about food. It's different from telling them to just copy another chef's recipes.
While I agree to some extent, it's good to have a discussion on this from time to time as it's an important social topic. Especially when young girls became acquainted with history of women's rights and so on, they immediately tend to become convinced that men are the source of all evil. Some spit it out explicitly, some just hide that feeling in their hearts and go through lives like this.

For this reason, it's worth remembering that the source of these problems for women and men is the same, even though effects differ.

(1) For individual asault cases, these are violent people, almost always men, who choose men and women as their victims. (2) For systemic issues, it is the law. (3) For cultural issues (e.g expectations that men should "take care of the family" while women should take care of children/older family problems) this is the society with its prejudices.

And while we can't do much about (1), there is a lot to be done for (2) and (3), and an honest and civilized discussion rather than flagging all posts on the subject is a part of it.
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This year’s laureates in the economic sciences – Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson – have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity. Societies with a poor rule of law and institutions that exploit the population do not generate growth or change for the better. The laureates’ research helps us understand why.
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There is an excellent overview on the Marginal Revolution blog:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/10/ac...

Alex Tabarrok writes:

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I think of Daron Acemoglu (GS) as the Wilt Chamberlin of economics, an absolute monster of productivity who racks up the papers and the citations at nearly unprecedented rates. According to Google Scholar he has 247,440 citations and an H-index of 175, which means 175 papers each with more than 175 citations. Pause on that for a moment. Daron got his PhD in 1992 so that’s over 5 papers per year which would be tremendous by itself–but we are talking 5 path-breaking, highly-cited papers per year plus many others! (Of course, most written with excellent co-authors). In addition, he’s the author of a massive textbook on economic growth. More than any other economist Daron has pushed the cutting-edge of technical economics and has also written books of deep scholarship still accessible to the public. In his overview of Daron’s work for the John Bates Clark medal Robert Shimer wrote “he can write faster than I can digest his research.” I believe that is true for the profession as a whole. We are all catching-up to Daron Acemoglu.
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I had similar thoughts to you.

However diffusion models suck at details, like how many fingers on a hand, and with language words and characters matter, both which ones and where they are.

So while I'm sure diffusion could produce walls of text that look convincingly like a blog post at a glance say, I'm not sure it would hold up to anyone actually reading.
Name and shame the companies
Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption
> just copy the latest snapshot of your app directory over to a new server and done.

In practice, wouldn't you need a load balancer in front of your site for that to be somewhat feasible? I can't imagine you're doing manual DNS updates in that scenario because of propagation time.
I don’t want to be a party pooper, but from my very cursory look at the page, I don’t think this will go much farther than a very small community. I feel like you’re adding a lot of complexity compared to normal backhand/frontend/websetvices Scenario that everybody already understand.
It would also be harder to tune into a station that is SSB because there's no carrier to detect. If you're slightly too high or low, the audio will have a slightly higher or lower pitch. I'm just guessing but with modern radios that wouldn't be a problem, but when AM was still used a lot I think (analog) oscillators tended to drift a bit, and you would have to adjust your radio often to correct for the changing pitch.
Been broken all day (JST).
If you do have a deep interest in this it would probably help to learn immunology on a more detailed level. My suspicion is that articles like the one you linked feel unsatisfactory because they say things like this

> But if our immunity is “restructured” in some way every few months, we would again expect all viral infections to peak at the same time

It is clear the author doesn't have a good understanding of basic immunology.

Much of the mystique falls away when you understand concepts such as adaptive immunity (how it develops and is retained), antigenic drift, environmental conditions (on the host) that improve transmission, etc.
for fun, try using a square wave amplifier to shift the wave:

-for AM you get sound effects such as chip monks

-for FM what do you get?
We can also take a look at the linux kernel that powers the docker instances and faint in terror.

These “moving parts” are implementation details which (iiuc) require no maintenance apart from backing up via some obvious solutions. Didn’t they make docker to stop worrying about exactly this?

And you don’t need multiple roles, specialists or competences for that, it’s a one-time task for a single sysop who can google and read man. These management-spoiled ideas will hire one guy for every explicitly named thing. Tell them you’re using echo and printf and they rush to search for an output-ops team.
> brought humanity together again

This is such a culturally insensitive thing to say. And very ironic considering all the Americans that died during that "bringing humanity together" period and all the segregation imposed by the invaders that has been in place until not that many decades ago
> You just visit another server and it downloads and sets up all of the server's mods. You have dependencies and stuff so not every mod has to reinvent the wheel. Much better experience than minecraft modding.

Reminds me of Unreal Tournament 2004, that was pretty much the same experience.
I found this PR [1] yesterday which should implement a copy function for panels. But it's anyone's guess whether we'll get this functionality in Plasma or a QT6 port of Latte dock [2]

[1] https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_reque...

[2] https://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock/-/tree/work/plasma6...
Even with a disposable upper stage, I believe Starship would be cheaper per kg than F9 or FH.
I mostly agree. However, some nuerodivergent individuals could benefit from the structure and routine. The only real problem is when wrong or political orders take place since there's not any real recourse. There's not much recourse in the civilian side, but at least quitting is a potential option.
There are plenty of uses for WordPress for marcom sites for Fortune 500 brands that don't use those sites for transactional revenue, but they serve millions of impressions a month that rely on ACF. This is a supply chain attack. The security discussions with client IT groups happening this week are going to be a much bigger deal than they were last week.

The erratic and bizarre behavior of the BDFL that runs WordPress and Automattic has proven himself untrustworthy and is causing massive damage to the WordPress ecosystem.
I like the zenmic, mainly its multiple speakers in single podcast feature.
I didn't say we shouldn't get rid of it. I'm saying we shouldn't intentionally break existing protocols.
Even a nuclear war would have that outcome. Even a KT boundary scale asteroid impact would have that outcome. The rest of the solar system is just hell.
I saw alpha phoenix video about reversing game of life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8pjrVbdafY which got me thinking about using diffusion model to solve this problem.

I did this proof of concept yesterday, this look promising and interesting as an open research project.

There are probably plenty of ways to improve, and plenty of work to do to investigate the limits.

Feel free to write some papers about it. Not sure if I can sink more time on it myself as it's the kind of problem that won't put food on your table.
Please excuse me for pointing out you don't disagree with the post you're saying you're disagreeing with.
It’s not immediately clear that Shannon’s theorem is a good point of comparison here, since it’s only recently that coding schemes have really approached the Shannon limits, and FM and AM do not use these.

Even if one does assume a Shannon-perfect coding scheme, as the noise ratio gets greater the benefits of spreading a signal across a higher bandwidth fades. Furthermore, most coding schemes hit their maximum inefficiency as the signal to noise ratio decreases and messages start to be too garbled to be well decoded.

I’d additionally note that folks get near the Shannon noise limit _through_ ‘magic noise rejection’ (aka turbo and ldpc codes). It’s therefore not obvious that FM isn’t gaining clarity due to a noise rejection mechanic. The ‘capture effect’ is well described as an interference reducing mechanism.

Empirically, radio manufacturers who do produce sophisticated long range radio usually advertise a longer range when spreading available power across a narrower rather than wider bandwidth.
The higher the thrust, the lower the gravity losses. Gravity losses go down as you approach orbital speed but they aren't zero until you're in orbit. And when boosting out of orbit, the higher you are the less benefit you get from the Oberth Effect, so you want to do the burn before you rise too much, which implies sufficient thrust.
Musicmap: The genealogy and history of popular music genres
Gnome 1.4's panels had far more settings and applets that current Gnome ones. Nautilus wasn't crippled.

Also, on XFCE3, the GTK version was even faster than Gnome 2.x and XFFM wasn't as bad as it looked.
It is a fucking great name, now that I know that etymology
Unsurprisingly, the way around it is to introduce a third treatment or fourth, with classical psychedelic 5-HT2 action. There are a few such choices and some are also registered antidepressants, one being DXM/bupropion, another being an ergoloid derivative or a psychedelic amphetamine like DOM.

But then you need to run a trial in a hundred or two hundred N.
That's fair, but I don't see that as an argument for intentionally deviating from the spec.
FWIW as a Brit, Americans seem to treat alcohol as being much more of a taboo than we do.

A Brit sees an alcoholic as someone who is pissed basically all of the time during the day or maybe 5+ drinks every night of the week.

I don’t know why it’s this way, but it definitely is, Americans when moving to the UK often come across as being really uptight on this.
Super Heavy and its 33 raptor engines really needs a specific launch pad - on the first launch they tried to see what happens when they just fire it over a regular concrete slab (but still way above in a launch mount) and ended up with a massive crater. While Starship might be able to hop from unimproved landing sites, that is not really an option for Super Heavy, even with low fuel and short hops IMHO.
There are different levels of "bootcamp". They have all sorts of exceptions for certain types of roles, including cyber. I don't remember the name, but there's basically a white collar version for the doctors and lawyers. But I mostly agree with the rest of your points.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_advantage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_(machine)

https://archive.org/details/constructioncra00markgoog
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No particular use
Falcon 9 is still the most advanced rocket flying real missions to date. The only thing close to it is Blue Origin, which didn't even have their maiden flight yet.

Is their timeline too optimistic? Yeah, but if the industry still catches up with F9 and they are close to having something a lot more advanced it really doesn't matter.

Even without reusability nothing comes close to Starship's cargo capacity. If you don't have to put a lot of engineering into getting things as small and light as possible you can put things in space a lot faster.
What's the best approach to valuing an early-stage startup?
For early-stage startups that haven't generated revenue yet, what are some realistic methods for determining valuation? How do investors typically assess value when there is only a product, team, and some market validation in place? Are there specific metrics or frameworks that are more common in these situations?
This is great, A tighter feedback loop is always better for everyone.

I'm also getting some serious Déjà vu for the web tools of the 2000's. History really does rhyme
Right, then I am not surprised at all. I am looking at his github account now, his status is « твой софт — гавно» (direct translation: « your software — shit»).

To me it's a clear message that the author doesn't respect anybody. Also, it seems applicable to potential projects people will build using that Huly tool?

I guess my question would be -- how on earth it's possible people trust authors like this and commit into using product built by them?
I have a bias towards etymology. Here's the entry for the root τέχνη:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%84%CE%AD%CF%87%CE%BD%CE...

That word is all about human (or other) intelligence and skill. Natural things developed and grew by natural processes, not clever skilful design. It's a different animal.

It's the difference between art and science. Technology is a form of art. Patents use the term "prior art" for a reason.
For CSV, "breaking" changes seem like less of a big deal to me. Partially because there is already so much variation in how CSV is implemented.
Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024
Not to mention it could also be more fun, something that sometimes can be more important than we think :)
When I read All-In-One PM and CRM platform I must think of bitrix24, which I think is still widely used. I personally didn't like it because feature creep made the UI quite confusing.
This is stupid and here is why, you are Jewish from the blood of your mother, or his mother is Corsican.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Fontanarossa
Thanks for the reply, I guess thats the secret
Best practices for financial modeling for a startup
As an early-stage startup founder, I’m working on creating a financial model to project our growth and funding needs. What are some best practices for building a flexible financial model at this stage? Are there specific tools, or templates you recommend focusing on?
Kind of crazy how right RMS was. Nothing killed the lisp machine quite like IP law.
From what I recall of various discussions over time:

Around 2001, AMEX fraud detection system was still developed on Genera, then OpenGenera running on Alpha workstations, but for deployment it was compiled using Franz's Allegro Common Lisp to run on "normal" servers.

About 2014-2015? I remember seeing more than 100k USD in publicly visible support contracts for US federal agencies related to Symbolics systems, which might have been related to the part stock and repairs done by symbolics remnant mentioned in the article - I know for certain that repair work continued to happen until at least 2018 (I talked with one of the people doing the repairs on contract).
clickbait would be "POSIX pipes corrupt JSON data? You won't believe this footgun NodeJS intentionally points at linux users!"

this title is simply a poetic description of the initial bug report.
As I said above: Open-source is about what happens if the original author stops working on it. Having the code viewable/inspectable is a side effect of that - can't sustain a project if all you have are blobs. Famously, Richard Stallman started GNU because he wanted to fix a printer: "Particular incidents that motivated this include a case where an annoying printer couldn't be fixed because the source code was withheld from users." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-sourc...
I moved to academia, after six years of working in the industry mainly with C# and SQL. It was a deliberate attempt to find a way to work with Prolog. I guess that's a bit immature of me but I fell in love with Prolog in the second year of my CS degree and I couldn't get over it so here I am.

I did an MSc in data science first, then started a PhD to study Inductive Logic Programming (ILP), which is basically machine learning × Prolog (although there's also ASP ILP these days). I got my PhD last summer and I'm now doing a post-doc on a robotics project with Meta-Interpretive Learning (MIL), a recent form of ILP. Here's my latest publication:

https://github.com/stassa/ijclr_2024_experiments

Which is still a bit proof-of-concept. We're still at the very early stages of practical applications of MIL and so there's a lot of foundation work to do. Bliss :)
what if you had 100k H100s
Language Bias in Performance Feedback 2024
Also a yacht of a fishing boat could run into it in the night and sink - eq it could become an unmarked floating hazard.
AM stereo does exist, however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM_stereo
> does hn award points based on contrariness? Or is it just that people on hn think they're super clever with their contrary point?

It’s both, and seems to be a theme here. HN generally despises the mainstream, so anything that goes against that is praised with little additional thought. A great example is the recent article about “founder mode” which is definitely one of the most idiotic contrarian things I’ve ever read, but receives heaps of upvotes every time it gets posted.
Oh I think there’s a lot of good stuff baked in there. The big idea downstream is that you have incrementally calculated, indexed data structures to query all the results of this fancy CPS logic. It’s all slightly esoteric even coming from a Clojure background but it ticks every box I want from a modern data platform, short of speaking SQL.
the concept of freedom itself kind of is hard even in a stricter context like politics.

like, I cannot freely choose to do X today, because (iE: capitalism environment) demands me to do certain other things that bring in money to live comfortably. I could make a tradeoff somewhere, but that very tradeoff itself limits actual freedom.

therefore to maximize actual freedom, we're looking at eliminating constraints that limit freedom, like the need to make money somehow, which would be a dramatic society change not everyone agrees to.

its hard. and wonky. so everyone uses it only through a personal belief lense.