skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previously discussed here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41840562
Probably not -- very few whale skeletons on display are from recently deceased whales. Just a random lookup -- the one in the London Natural History Museum is from 1891. Seems likely that when it was new it also leaked some oil?
Why not just get TSA Precheck at this point?
I use my monitor's network connection so devices connected to it via thunderbolt also have ethernet.
I have 12.5. maybe 12.6 is better but I've heard that before.

Don't get me wrong without a concerted data team building maps a priori, this is pretty incredible. But from a pure performance standpoint it's a shaky product.
It seems unlikely to be a cgnat issue since the phone uses WiFi rather than cellular networks (where cgnat is most commonly found).
Very often it's yet another consulting company proving to their clients that the big cultural change they are suggesting needs to be done.

There is big money in doing that too - you gain a client for life if you're successful, and you get to recommend all your friends in Professional Services companies who give you a cut/forward strategy business your way.
The app looks pretty cool! Congratulations, OP!!

If you don't need a web UI, I'd strongly recommend rclone (https://rclone.org/) that can layer e2e encryption over many and I mean MANY cloud storage providers!

It runs on Linux, Windows, MacOS and Android.

Finally, it has some nifty features as "union" which combines multiple backends into a single directory view.
I think most of the classical statistical methods for curve fitting happen to be some kind of variant of using least squares on a manually chosen parameterizable function - you'll have to chose between a linear, polynomial, exponential or some other moire complex forms.

The nice things of using a simple feedforward DNN is that it will automatically infer both the nonlinear function structure and parameters and for simple basic use cases like this that don't require a lot of training it works well and you can even validate the fit visually by looking at the graph output.
> It wasn't a pain on Digg, and it was equally good at conversations.

No it wasn't, because it wasn't threaded. You had to linearly scan all the comments to see if anyone was replying.
More successful than Rails? A technology which changed the whole industry?
This is mostly not a problem on the Fediverse because its userbase is completely different.
"Chemotherapy = Poison" is a meme.

In truth, "the dose makes the poison," as has been known since even before Paracelsus' time. In chemotherapy, strong and destructive drugs are indeed administered, but the aim is never to kill the patient, but instead to buy that patient -- otherwise facing an incurable and invariably fatal disease -- more time. In some cases, to cure that patient or send them into a long-lasting remission. This is not "poisoning" the patient. It is just the opposite; it is therapy with an eye towards lengthening the life of that patient.
> AFAIK, your rule is that the best place to optimize is the lowest pN.

We are talking about different things.
[throwaway because ...reasons; also, I ran my comment thru ChatGPT to anonymize it]

I'm currently working at Accenture, collaborating with a well-known German car manufacturer (OZJ). We receive a new RFP almost every other month, and due to our long-standing relationship with them, we end up securing the majority of the projects. We manage to deliver on these projects—or at least ensure they are billed.

Occasionally, we engage in some RAG work or even delve into image generation, though the quality of these outputs tends to be quite subpar. Sometimes, it surprises me that the client even accepts it, but ultimately, they receive a functioning product (most of the time), we get compensated, and the end consumers cover the costs.
It means that if you publish a website in Germany, you need to have your real name and address on the site, or some enterprising lawyer will probably sue you.
Sapir-Whorf is not alive.
Did OP basically summarise another blog post and publish it on their own blog, even though the original is linked? Not a good look, also because it's "narrated" in the first person, as if they were the one to implement this change.
Would you mind elaborating on how you use LLMs to track calories?

Edit: nevermind, its all in the blog linked by you :)
> U.S. to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed

I think i've seen this before.
Isn't this just taking advantage of "log(x) + log(y) = log(xy)"? The IEEE754 floating-point representation stores floats as sign, mantissa, and exponent -- ignore the first two (you quantitized anyway, right?), and the exponent is just an integer storing log() of the float.
I have started preparing myself mentally for a future where I give up on most of modern technology in the home and just go back to paper books/vinyls/etc.
It's sort of what this patch does, from https://lwn.net/ml/all/20241008144829.GG14587@noisy.programm... :

> SCHED_IDLE, SCHED_BATCH and SCHED_NORMAL/OTHER get the lazy
thing, FIFO, RR and DEADLINE get the traditional Full behaviour.
> So, why do we trust them to operate these machines

Because their operation is just pushing a button. They are not responsible for the safety protocols, etc. That is somebody elses job.

Like if you dont like the machines fine, but their safety (or lack thereof) has nothing to do with the TSA agent.
A few thoughts. (Apologies, having trouble editing my response, will post a new message)
It's not super clear to me how this interacts with data. If I have am using ADLS to store delta tables, and I cannot pull prod to my local can I still use this? Is there a point if I can just look at delta log to switch between past versions?
Can you count without using a "language"?

Try it now: Tap your hand on the desk randomly. Can you recall how many times you did it without "saying" a sequence in your head like "1, 2, 3" or "A, B, C" etc?

If yes, how far can you count? With a language it's effectively infinite. You could theoretically go up to "1 million 5 hundred 43 thousand, 2 hundred and 10" and effortlessly know what comes next.
> I always thought a nation as rich as ours should welcome a lot more...

You're ruining the country. Stop.
> Would be clearer to say that its return to flight has been delayed to at least around a year from now.

I think this is a soft cancellation of Starliner. System certification is indefinitely paused.
I have that, along with global entry, and even had clear for a while. I didn't renew cause it wasn't in every airport and because it really wasn't any faster than precheck. Oh and on Spirit biz class, you even get to skip the line.

None of that is a guarantee that they don't require you to go through the scanner.

I just flew roundtrip last week, in both airports they were making everyone go through the scanner.
'Stanford Prison Experiment' Psychologist Zimbardo Dies at 91 – AP News
They do. I have an Achielle Craighton transport bike (with the double horizontal bar). I actually have a photo of it on Wikimedia Commons because I needed it to illustrate a type of bicycle stand:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fixed_bollard_bicycl...

My wife rides an Azor with a classic 'cross' frame; these are also known as preacher's bicycles, because it (allegedly) allowed them to ride one in a frock without resorting to a ladies bicycle.

Both frames have a nice bit of heft, which is really great from a traffic safety standpoint because of the stability you have.

https://www.achielle.be/ and https://www.azor.nl/
Neither have I, and this has gotten me excited solely because of that. I had heard SNOBOL's name back in the 80's a lot, along with COMAL, COBOL, FORTRAN, RPG, etc. This looks like a hybrid between COBOL and FORTRAN :)
Show HN: Open-Source Zero-Shot Image Model Server Enabling Model Feedback
Hi everyone!

Here is an open source implementation of a decently performant server hosting zero-shot image models (CLIP for image classification, OWL-ViT-ST for object detection), with an extra algorithm to allow users to give the models feedback when they make mistakes! We built a company off this flavor of tech two years ago and have clients who are currently using our commercial API. We are now moving on to other projects but want to make sure our clients still have access to the approaches that they've grown to rely on, so we're open sourcing a simple implementation that they'll be able to use after we've shut down our hosted API!

I used to work at a robotics startup. After a while it seemed clear that the biggest limiting factor in our ability to ship new models wasn't innovation on model architecture, it was access to relevant, high-quality training data. Around that time CLIP was released, which got me thinking about the idea of having models with world-knowledge baked in so as to reduce the amount of training data required. A year later when Stable Diffusion dropped, my cofounder Ben Brooks and I took the plunge and founded DirectAI, where we worked on building ways to get performant models without collecting any training data, using the knowledge stored in pretrained models instead.

In this implementation, we replace the linear classification head typically used in zero-shot image classifiers with a modified nearest neighbors method that lets you use multiple examples (both positive and negative) per-class to make sure the decision boundary the model is using is more aligned with what you had in mind.

Our clients have found it very useful for things from interior design to content moderation to sports analytics, building models that are either too niche to be supported by a traditional cloud-hosted computer vision API or are subtly different from the models that existing cloud APIs host. For example, one of our clients wants to filter out all images containing alcohol. Hive has an API for that, but Hive explicitly allows red solo cups that don't obviously have anything alcoholic in them, whereas our client wanted to filter those out too!

Feedback is welcome! There are still bugs in the Gradio frontend / codebase in general, but I have a deadline and need to be working on new stuff at a new job starting Monday so I thought I would just go ahead and get it out there! I've never tried to publish a real open source piece of code before and I must admit I am quite nervous!
From what I read, you exercise a lot of different sports. Of course it will lead to fitness. It's like doing many different things using a computer, of course it will make you handy with computers.
I'm currently using my Unifi Cloud Gateway Ultra router as a Wireguard server for my home network and it's at least somewhat compact with good performance. Before that I used to have a Dell WYSE 3040 that's also quite compact but maybe a bit less so on the performance side.
Have You Wanted to Quit Social Media?
I'm curious, have you ever wanted to quit social media?
It’s only technically a supply chain attack. Pretty much all they did was apply a security patch and remove the other company’s IP. It doesn’t really attack a user or put anyone at risk, which is what you normally mean with an attack, so it sounds hyperbolic.

That said it is absolutely scummy and dumb, and a sign that Automattic puts its own whims ahead of its clients’ stability. Even if this issue gets settled tomorrow, we now know that Automattic is an irrational actor. Who is going to choose a software platform for new projects where every week a new drama unfolds?
I recommend a chess club for that.
I remember back in school, a language teacher once was trying to convey the importance of language. One of his main arguments was that we needed words and languages in order to think. I still recall my disbelief.

I spent the next few days trying to understand how that process worked. I would force myself to think in words and sentences. It was incredibly limiting! So slow and lacking in images, in abstract relationships between ideas and sensations.

It took me another few years to realise that many people actually depend on those structures in order to produce any thought and idea.
now I really want to understand the deep thoughts my cat is having
As a resident, while I'm happy that Waymo and self-driving is a really positive differentiator for San Francisco, I feel like we could be doing even more to re-energize the city. It would be great to see initiatives from City Hall or Sacramento about making SF or the Bay Area a 'special economic zone'. If we've done it for self-driving, which is already a pretty bold bet (by US standards), why not go further?
Y'know, I only figured this after reading myself back the next day.

Sorry.
Farmer here. John Deere and any other company that does not fully support the right to repair should go bankrupt.
Yes, officer, this one right here.
Are there really people who don't know about inner monologues?
[1] "Typically, when a fresh whale specimen is collected, preparators will attempt to remove as much of this oil as possible. But even then, they cannot get all of it out of the bones."

[2] “The marrow is oily and the oil is a source of energy for these animals. Especially the baleen whales, who typically have a period of the year where they don’t feed,” Robert Rocha, the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s Associate Curator of Science and Research, tells Popular Science. “There’s energy stored in the muscles and in the blubber, but the energy stored in the oil and the bones is a reserve energy source for them.”

[3] "Their bones contain a lot of oil. In life this substance is critical for the animals to maintain buoyancy in water and was the reason why so many were slaughtered during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. But it can cause major issues when trying to preserve their remains in collections."

[1] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/whale-oil-and-half-an-inch-of...

[2] https://www.popsci.com/science/blue-whale-leaking-oil/

[3] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/whale-oil-and-half-an-inch-of...
I have the standard internal monologue many people report, but I've never put much stock in the "words are necessary for thought" because while I think a lot in words, I also do a lot of thinking in not-words.

We recently put the project I've been working on for the last year out into the field for the first time. As was fully expected, some bugs emerged. I needed to solve one of them. I designed a system in my head for spawning off child processes based on the parent process to do certain distinct types of work in a way that gives us access to OS process-level controls over the work, and then got about halfway through implementing it. Little to none of this design involved "words". I can't even say it involved much "visualization" either, except maybe in a very loose sense. It's hard to describe in words how I didn't use words but I've been programming for long enough that I pretty much just directly work in system-architecture space for such designs, especially relatively small ones like that that are just a couple day's work.

Things like pattern language advocates aren't wrong that it can still be useful to put such things into words, especially for communication purposes, but I know through direct personal experience that words are not a necessary component of even quite complicated thought.

"Subjective experience reports are always tricky, jerf. How do you know that you aren't fooling yourself about not using words?" A good and reasonable question, to which my answer is, I don't even have words for the sort of design I was doing. Some, from the aforementioned pattern languages, yes, but not in general. So I don't think I was just fooling myself on the grounds that even if I tried to serialize what I did directly into English, a transliteration rather than a translation, I don't think I could. I don't have one.

I'm also not claiming to be special. I don't know the percentages but I'm sure many people do this too.
> If white makes it easier to remove dust, then why are the parts that are most likely to get covered in dust gray?

Those look like knee/elbow pads. Probably a tougher material.

> Also, the backpack look a bit bulky.

Quite a bit smaller than the ones Apollo used, from the looks of it.
And my point is that “it’s better” and “new standard” are not compelling emotional directives to me after hearing them Integer.MAX times.
I'd love to see a lawsuit regarding them knowingly shipping a monitor with this defect.

When the EULA is blocking the content, the monitor isn't working as advertised. And they willingly shipped it like that.
> That is somebody elses job.

Exactly my point. Your safety and exposure risk is held to the highest standard of "not my job."

> "I was just at an airport, watched someone move a bit, and have to get immediately rescanned again."

Do you blame the individual for moving or the agent for not being clear enough in the instructions?
No. Just because words are not needed for cognitive processes, does not mean that people still can and do think in language. The properties of that language could then influence thought. This is known as the Weak Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (note "hypothesis", not "theory").
Show HN: Contagious Beliefs–Simulating Political Alignment
This is a simulation that allows you to test how beliefs are adopted based on pre-existing beliefs and how they spread through a population. It is entirely editable, so you can test your own parameters based on your own data or intuitions.

A detail methodology can be found here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mj68CsoLDoCfTgeiw/methodolog...
The latest version is 12.5.6, I think he got confused by the .6 at the end. If you think that's bad then there isn't a better version available. However it is a dramatic improvement over 12.3, don't know how much you tested on it.
I'm a noob, but on coolness factor only, this looks kinda lame?

I understand the SpaceX suits aren't rated for moonwalking but these also feel (to this layman's eyes) like the same suit we could make decades ago
I ran the SETI software as well. Was not Bitcoin mining....

I suspect neither your or I though have ever had to turn over a landfill looking for a hard drive. So there's that anyway.
Svelte 5
Thanks for sharing. I didn't realize it was available, but the version is 1.2 and date is July 2024, so it must have been around for some time.
> Serving websites is an area where capitalism’s promise of achieving efficiency of resource utilization through economic incentives probably actually works, via shared hardware.

Most of the environmental impact happens at the building of hardware, so putting even more websites in datacenter only increases environmental impact. All Capitalism has done here is completely forget that impact by telling you it's ok to do always more.

What we collectively need to do is not find a better tech, it's reduce the total amount of tech we use, and that starts with questioning our actual uses. We don't need 24/7 available websites, 90% availability is more than enough. In fact, more sites should only target 90% availability, and if we were serious about tackling this we'd look towards 1. using old computers to the death because they still can and 2. doing more offline-first. Putting your website in a datacenter is exactly what the Jevons Paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox) warns about. Its environmental impact keeps exploding year after year and it's not with that mindset that we'll make a dent in it.

(Remember, the environment is not a resource, so Capitalism doesn't care about it)
While not essential for thought, language is a very important tool in shaping and sharing thoughts.

Another related tool is religion (for emotions instead of thoughts,) which funnily enough faces the same divergence language does.

Right now society that calls itself "secular" simply does not understand the role of religion, and its importance in society.

To be clear, I don't belong to any religion, I am saying one needs to be invented for people who are currently "secular."

In fact, you have the disorganized aspects of religion already. All one needs to spot these are to look at the aspects that attempt to systematize or control our feelings. Mass media, celebrities for example.

Instead of letting capitalistic forces create a pseudoreligion for society, it's better if people come together and organize something healthier, intentionally.
If that’s true, GP should justify it on its merits instead of on “actually that’s really old”.
Ha ha, no worries - I'm eager to learn from you guys as well :)
As always, barely anyone reads the actual claims in the article and we're left with people opining on the title.

The claims here are exceptionally limited. You don't need spoken language to do well on cognitive tests, but that has never been a subject of debate. Obviously the deaf get on fine without spoken language. People suffering from aphasia, but still capable of communication via other mechanisms, still do well on cognitive tests. Brain scans show you can do sudoku without increasing bloodflow to language regions.

This kind of stuff has never really been in debate. You can teach plenty of animals to do fine on all sorts of cognitive tasks. There's never been a claim that language holds dominion over all forms of cognition in totality.

But if you want to discuss the themes present in Proust, you're going to be hard pressed to do so without something resembling language. This is self-evident. You cannot ask questions or give answers for subjects you lack the facilities to describe.

tl;dr: Language's purpose is thought, not all thoughts require language
I don’t know what to make of people in this situation. Some claim it’s obviously psychosomatic. Possibly, but humans are actively evolving genetically and is it possible that some small group is sensitive via an undiscovered genetic quirk? I’m super curious about this.
yes. and the next question is 'ok, how do we add'
3, but also bad luck (“dirty sock syndrome” right from the get-go) and a very hot & humid environment
Exactly the point. We can compile any piece of software that we want into hardware, but after that it is easier to change in software. Given the variety of unexpected ways in which hardware is used, in practice we went up moving some of what we expected to do in hardware, back into software.

This doesn't mean that moving logic into hardware can't be a win. It often is. But we should also expect that what has tended to wind up in software, will continue to do so in the future. And that includes complex decisions about the priority of interrupts.
Right you are! Was not clear at all at first glance.
I didn't know about Bitwarden Send, thanks! Although I did just check it out and it says the limit is 100 MB, which is typically too little.

EDIT: I'm on mobile, apparently it's 500 MB on desktop.
Growing up it was not unusual for people to smoke one or two packs of cigarettes a day. That is 20 to 40 units daily.

Do you have a sense of how much weed most people consume? It is a tiny fraction of that. I honestly don't know how I would feel after smoking a whole joint all by myself because I have experienced hallucinations after a lot less than that. Granted, I have low tolerance, but still. Modern weed packs a punch.

Not to mention that vaping bypasses the need for burning the flowers in the first place.
Interestingly, I feel like I can "feel" small numbers (up to 4 or 5) easier than than thinking about them as objects in a language.
Both SNOBOL and its spiritual successor Icon did some interesting things with control flow.
> And BEVs at the moment are anything but cheap

Fascinating to see the comments on EV threads where they are claimed to be expensive, but also that the second hand values are really low. Surely buying a second hand one solves the absolute “expensive” bit?

Even then I’d question the “more expensive than ICE” claims for new models. In the UK the average cost of a new vehicle is £40k: https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/opinion/363624/average-new-car...

A model 3 is £40k

I am not rich. You can count me in the 50% of people who can charge at home, which saves me £100/month in fuel.