skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the problem, at least in the US, is that the tests and standards have tightened up without necessarily giving the teachers better training or better productivity tools to teach them, and now their job evaluations also depend on it, so now everybody is optimizing for the test. Usually to the detriment of subjects not on standardized testing like the arts or physical education or anything resembling a break time.

Throw in the fact that in much of the country, teachers have to do things like pull second jobs to get by and beg parents for basic supplies like scissors and paper towels, and it's no wonder everything is falling apart.
Yeah, I was thinking about writing a blog post about it but I did not know if people would be interested.

For the filter try this

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Cheaters who spin don't care if they get caught. Its the closet cheaters you can't catch like this who's aim bot only locks on the head of someone when the cross hair its a certain amount of pixels from the head, or they set it to never lock on the head.
warm light (ideally adjustable temperature) and page turn buttons are the killer features for the Oasis. faster page turns and all the rest I can live without.
Sometimes Zero-Percent Financing Is Not Zero Percent
The Expectation Creates the Result
> Chevron deference wasn't created by Congress

Yeah, but they could've overturned it if they didn't like it.

> The main difference is that now unelected judges decide how to interpret the law instead of unelected administrative officials. But that's what judges do.

This is a huge difference you kinda skip over. Should the policies and regulations of 100s of industries be decided by:

1. People who are only familiar with court proceedings
2. Experts in those industries with experience in those industries

One of those things is meaningfully worse, because we're going to get a ton of "armchair experts" on culture war issues who have no idea about what's happening on the ground, and just have their own culture-war opinion that ignores the nuance of the situation.
You’re right. I was referring to the Palestinian Territories in the context of annexation.
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I've actually had to get Wi-Fi drivers on a USB stick a lot more times for Windows than for Linux.
https://archive.is/WFBAA
Look into PocketBook readers. They have a full lineup with color and grayscale in various sizes. They run linux, you can ssh into it and install koreader, etc. They have a good privacy story and little vendor lock-in. The experience is a lot like my Kobo, but the matching mobile app is much better. I continue where I leave off with my iPad sometimes, it's a nice feature.

https://pocketbook.ch/en-ch/catalog
I carry stickers with me that I put on the locked plexiglass at the drugstore, supermarket, etc. They say "Stop Voting For Pro-Crime Candidates"
In this case there's the extra meta joke with Monopoly originally being created to show how capitalism is bad.
> Who is gaming in a competitive game behind a VPN..

Cheaters, which is why they’re getting banned in the first place
Can you please explain what you mean by “blockchain proof/notary support”?
Getting higher z-scores now. But you could always just try running the code yourself
Emre here from Homebrew Research. It's great to see Ichigo on HN!

A quick intro: We're a Local AI company building local AI tools and training open-source models.

Ichigo is our training method that enables LLMs to understand human speech and talk back with low latency - thanks to FishSpeech integration. It is open data, open weights, and weight initialized with Llama 3.1, extending its reasoning ability.

Plus, we are the creators and lead maintainers of: https://jan.ai/, Local AI Assistant - an alternative to ChatGPT & https://cortex.so/, Local AI Toolkit (soft launch coming soon)

Everything we build and train is done out in the open - we share our progress on:

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You can check out all our products on our simple website: https://homebrew.ltd/
I think you might be on to something
Tried demo but all I got was "I'm sorry, I can't quite catch that".
Question--what's to be lost by making your features sufficiently not dense to allow them to cool at full tilt?
On average we fall to the level of our training, but then there's moment to moment variation because of "human error" which has little to do with lack of skill or training, and more to do with individual and situational factors.

Training is critical, but even then you can still fail, which is why layers of backups are great.

For a lot of us, skill might never be as reliable as other layers, but it's generally different from other layers making it less likely to fail at the same time because of the same cause.

Crew Resource Management has a lot of great insights.
Let me throw out an idea I haven't seen elsewhere here yet -- this corrects for a part of who I am in a way I find uncomfortable and negative.

I'm autistic. I do not make eye contact easily. That's part of who I am, and a useful signal for the people I interact with that I might be neurodiverse.

Something like this could mask or hide that autistic trait, and make me appear allistic. And, for some autistic folks, maybe that's desirable. However, I find the traits that I have around communication to be a deep part of me. Not making eye contact is nothing to be ashamed of, because being autistic is nothing to be ashamed. The introduction of tools like this could lead to pressure to use them to conform to some standard of "normalcy" that people expect.

While the technical achievement here is neat (and other commenters pointed out places where it's struggling to look good), but there's a sort of meta impact that it can have on people who fall outside of normal ranges.
That's why I love my Kobo Libra 2. Physical buttons, sweet spot for size, easy to sideload or I can buy on Kobo on device/mobile/desktop or sync pocket or get library books from overdrive/Libby.
> The only permanent bipeds of the animal kingdom alongside humans

Kangaroos?
Lightmatter's $400M round has AI hyperscalers hyped for photonic data centers
Well, it's just a genre that's immensely popular and easy to cheat in.

If you have access to the game's memory etc, it's pretty easy to create an aimbot or thing that lets you see thru walls et cetera.

How you gonna cheat in a moba? It's a strategy game, you need, like, cutting edge AI to beat the best humans at it. In fact OpenAI specifically worked on an AI to play Dota 2, it was that hard.
I'm pretty sure Chevron deference includes some deferred powers of congress to presidential administrative agencies. Which is what I'm referring to here. I could be wrong about that.

But the rules I'm thinking of are more about Roe V. Wade, which don't make sense in their interpretation of the laws.

It also goes to the heart of the arbitrariness of the rulings if they can overturn previous precedent 'just because they want to' which is a lot of the logic of the rulings.

Brown v. Board is famous for not just overturning the precedent, but for giving a reasonable understanding of the precedent was meaningfully unfair in the previous setup.
I have a single USB-C to USB-C cable for travel that has a permanently attached USB-A adapter on one side, and lightning and micro adapters (also attached) on the other end. Not as slick as just USB-C, but it’s a single cable that does power and data, along with a single USB-C brick, and since it does data it works in any rental car as well. Check them out!
I've been in-place upgrading my Fedora install for about 7 years. Or is it 10? IDR. As far as I remember the upgrade has always succeeded. Sometimes things are broken afterwards because software I liked got removed or something, but I never got locked out or the operating system unusable.
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Supreme Court Allows EPA to Limit Power Plant Emissions
The sun is the biggest neutrino source in the sky. So we'd need some way to filter out neutrinos that are not from the sun, like we do with various photon telescopes.

Furthermore, we can barely detect neutrinos. Building neutrino detectors is extremely challenging. Usually they are extremely massive and surrounded by lots of rock (even more massive). We'd have to get all that mass to the focal point of the observatory which is extremely far away.

Lastly, the gravitational field inside the sun is much different than outside. In fact, the field is strongest at the surface (or slightly below, as it doesn't have equal density). The further inside you go, the more parts of the sun start pulling you outside, until you reach the center of mass, where the gravitational forces cancel out.
You would start by not sending them money. Unless of course you needed a justification for your political/expansionist goals.

https://archive.ph/2023.10.14-033824/https://www.haaretz.com...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hamas-israels-own-creation/

Anyway, the idea of embedding military targets within civilian populations is also not exclusive to one side:

https://www.haaretz.com/2012-06-09/ty-article/.premium/does-...

Neither is the use of terror:

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

https://web.archive.org/web/20121226235336/http://www.foreig...

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2019/02/no-justifica...

https://www.thetorah.com/article/israels-incomplete-conquest...
Here is a thought. If you're having difficulty finding proper testing, just have a doctor prescribe the treatment for giardiasis. After finishing it, you can test whether things are now better for you.
My Kindle Paperwhite has been running strong for 10 years. No issues whatsoever except diminished battery life.
There are plenty of true facts that are much more optimistic. In fact the main difference between news organizations is not whether they choose to report true facts or not, but which true facts to report.

For example, if I wanted to cultivate an anti-immigrant readership I might publish all of the crimes that immigrants commit. It’s not that these stories are false, they are just not a representative sample of all stories.

> don’t cork the fountain of truth

There is an opportunity cost to every moment you spend reading about far away conflicts.

So my question is, what is the actual purpose of exposing yourself to the gory play-by-play of that framing of world events? There are plenty of other stories to read. Reading about conflicts in far-away places feels important but the reality is that anything more than a passing understanding won’t improve your life in any meaningful way.
A Shield in Space?
seriously every article is about someone dying!
> They're probably expecting their email provider to take that info and use it somewhere upstream of their own individual account.

Report spam, as a generic feature? It's an okay starting point "as-is" but useless for preventing malicious use and it hasn't meaningfully improved since launch.

Specifically for google: allow users to block whole domains; I can already do that on my own mailserver, why can't I do that on Google's? Then, block mail from foreign countries -- or at least countries that I don't care about; I can block whole ASNs on my mailserver, why can't I on Google's? That then leaves only mail that I can bring legal action to.

Another iteration: when you "unsubscribe", then keep a record of it, and also show the history of emails that you've received from them on a confirmation dialog. Show me anything interesting like purchases, warranties, appointments, etc. When confirmed, keep a record of it. Show me a list of _all_ of the things I've unsubscribed from. If email is still received, automatic report spam and block the domain. Oh, that means that mailing lists must come from the same domain that sales are made on.

Another iteration: a subscription should require a confirmation. Let the email server recognize the confirmation, and block emails whose unsubscribe links aren't in the list of confirmations. That means an unsubscription link should go to the same domain that a subscription was confirmed on.

That's just a few spitballed ideas. Spam reporting functionality is clearly iterable, but it hasn't meaningfully changed for decades. It's still primarily done through opaque "reputation" scores and little else.

I don't want "report spam" which doesn't give me feedback and continues to let spam onto the wire to my client, and isn't powerful enough to use to block bad actors from trivially getting to my inbox. I don't want to be expected to (and trained to) click on unverified links which take me to somewhere I don't recognize, and could take me somewhere malicious. I expect more from the largest email provider(s) in the world.
Because most people who read ebooks use a Kindle, and an e-reader having Android is by far the simplest way to read your collection of Kindle books on a non-Amazon e-reader. This is because you can just download the Kindle app to access your collection.
Sure you can. Just increase the size of a virtual window to fill the entire avaiable field of view (110 degrees or so). It's basically the same effect as sitting in a close-to-the-front row of a theater.

There are VR headsets with wider FoV, but they're pretty bulky as of yet because of the limits of current costs-less-than-literally-$10,000-a-unit optics.
My dad, partner, and I all have our own Kindles on my Amazon account. Over the past decade I’ve had them break a few times out of warranty. What I do is chat with support online and explain the issue. They may offer you a coupon to replace it at a discount. Decline and tell them not to worry about it, you’ll just toss it in the trash.

I think this has gotten a free replacement Kindle on 2 of 3 times that I’ve tried it.
Standard test images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_test_image

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

- https://sipi.usc.edu/database/

- https://r0k.us/graphics/kodak/
Tracking Musk in the Military Industrial Complex: from Starlink to Star Wars:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/1fy10k1/tracking...
Agree that it's not cheap for a mobile phone, but it is cheap for a low-volume custom phone.

To get under €150, you need volume and bundling.
It’s definitely not e-ink, it’s a type of LCD. Been reading about it and it seems like users are pretty hyped about it. I don’t really need another tablet, I want a really good writing experience. I’m test driving the Boox Go 10.3 but I may return it and wait for the new Supernote offering. Or I’ve been reading up on de-bloating the Boox software if I keep it.
This is very important in controllers using feedback loops. The output of a controller is measured, a function is applied to it, and the result is fed back into the controller. The output becomes self-balancing.

The applications in this case involve self-driving cars, rocketry, homeostatic medical devices like insulin pumps, cruise control, HVAC controllers, life support systems, satellites, and other scenarios.

This is mainly due to a type of controller called the PID controller which involves a feedback loop and is self-balancing. The purpose of a PID controller is to induce a target value of a measurement in a system by adjusting the system’s inputs, at least some of which are outputs of the said controller. Particularly, the derivative term of a PID controller involves a first order derivative. The smoother its values are over time, the better such a controller performs. A problem where derivative values are not smooth or second degree derivative is not continuous, is called a “derivative kick”.

The people building these controllers have long sought after algorithms that produce at least a good approximation of a measurement from a noisy sensor. A good approximation of derivatives is the next level, a bit harder, and overall good approximations of the derivative are a relatively recent development.

There is a lot of business here. For example, Abbott Laboratories and Dexcom are building continuous blood glucose monitors that use a small transdermal sensor to sense someone’s blood glucose. This is tremendously important for management of people’s diabetes. And yet algorithms like what GP presents are some of the biggest hurdles. The sensors are small and ridiculously susceptible to noise. Yet it is safety-critical that the data they produce is reliable and up to date (can’t use historical smoothing) because devices like insulin pumps can consume it at real time. I won’t go into this in further detail, but incorrect data can and has killed patients. So a good algorithm for cleaning up this noisy sensor data is both a serious matter and challenging.

The same can be said about self-driving cars - real-time data from noisy sensors must be fed into various systems, some using PID controllers. These systems are often safety-critical and can kill people in a garbage in-garbage out scenario.

There are about a million applications to this algorithm. It is likely an improvement on at least some previous implementations in the aforementioned fields. Of course, these algorithms also often don’t handle certain edge cases well. It’s an ongoing area of research.

In short — take any important and technically advanced sensor-controller system. There’s a good chance it benefits from advancements like what GP posted.

P.S. it’s more solved with uniformly sampled data (i.e. every N seconds) than non-uniformly sampled data (i.e. as available). So once again, what GP posted is really useful.

I think they could get a job at pretty big medical and automotive industry companies with this, it is “the sauce”. If they weren’t already working for a research group of a self-driving car company, that is ;)
On the one hand I agree with you and think school shouldn’t allow for sloppy thinking and relying on effortless work such as prompting, copying and pasting. And yet we have no idea where this will take is nor have we any idea if it will be 100% bad, we assume so and I tend catch myself do this too. But once the storm settles this could open us up to a new chapter in education for example. Mainstream AI may evolve beyond ChatGPT at some point and if that happens humans will have a very different place in history.
The syntax of Lisp is made up of the same fundamental data types as you use when writing Lisp programs. `(+ 1 2 3)` is both a Lisp expression that evaluates to 6 and also a list containing four items, the symbol `+` and the numbers 1, 2, and 3.

In general, we can say that the Lisp language is very good at manipulating the same data types that the syntax of Lisp programs is made from. This makes it very easy to write Lisp programs that swallow up Lisp programs as raw syntax, analyze Lisp programs syntactically, and/or spit out new Lisp programs as raw syntax.
> Kindles are too restrictive and anti-consumer

Bro I can wake up my Kindle, buy essentially any book I want to read for less than $20 and be reading it in less than 30 seconds.

The Kindle has been one of the most amazing and consumer friendly devices I’ve ever used. I think I spent like $2k on books last year on it.
I came here to say this. I haven’t worked with the Elite X but the past gen stuff I’ve used (865 mostly) the accelerators - compute DSP and much smaller NPU - required _very_ specific setup, compilation with a bespoke toolchain, and communication via RPC to name a few.

I would hope the NPU on Elite X is easier to get to considering the whole copilot+ thing, but I bring this up mainly to make the point that I doubt it’s just as easy as “run general purpose model, expect it to magically teleport onto the NPU”.
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Sample what you can't compress; image auto-encoders wihtout GANs
Hi

In our latest paper we shoa that a GAN loss (used by almost all latent diffusion models) to train their autoencoders is not required and instead can be replaced with a diffusion loss. Our auto-encoder is trained end-to-end and achieves higher compression and better generation quality.

I am excited to share it with you. Let me know what you think.

Cheers
In case this is helpful for anyone, two possible gluten intolerance solutions:

A digestive research center changed my life. My gluten-induced symptoms (inflammation, joint pain, diarrhea, etc) is linked to something with my gut bacteria. If I take a certain antibiotic that targets the digestive tract, I can eat anything for 9 months including gluten, without problems. After about 9 months, I can no longer eat gluten. And then about a year after that, I can't eat corn. This has repeated 4 times. I always test negative for celiac and sibo. Side note: The doc told me some patients are cured by antiparasitic meds rather than antibiotic.

The doc is now using wellbutrin to change my brain-gut communication and amazingly it cured my corn intolerance and is improving my reaction to gluten, but not yet to the point where I want to eat it. I have 4 more months to go, so this may improve.

Lastly, I know 2 people whose thyroid issues masquerade as gluten intolerance. Consider a "comprehensive thyroid panel"
Very interesting. At the age of 29 I hiked the Appalachian Trail for 6 months and started having gluten intolerance systems in the months after. I have been since clinically diagnosed with an allergy to barley and rye. For what it’s worth I almost always filtered or treated my drinking water although there were some exceptions. I’m 52 now and still cannot consume barley or rye.
Kangaroos engage in quadrupedal (actually pentapedal—using their tail as well) locomotion at slow speeds.
Sure they do - but they tend to declare abstract "states of war" without a stated goal or timeline. Like the State of Israel, for example, on Oct 8.
> I want whatever I'm playing to FILL the viewing area.

There's literally a preset for "front row in a theater" when playing media.
Please don't.

Journalism is work.

The current site is a nice and fair summary (though I think the attribution to the original sources rather hidden) with easy links to the original source.

If yu start doing automated summaries, you are taking nearly all the value of someone else's work.
Most schools I imagine. Often, it's used for extreme truancy issues, i.e. in the State of Texas, you have to be present a certain number of days I believe per school year.

So Saturday detention tended to be a thing you'd get sent to if you had a truly outrageous number of absences.

I believe there was a way for situations like serious illness where this rule doesn't apply. But let's be honest, most situations of excessive absences that I saw back in High School were NOT that.

In that sense, your kid isn't really being "punished" by receiving Saturday detention. It's just, the school doesn't have to advance them to the next grade level either if they missed like half the school days for the year and are under the minimum attendance. Like it or not, education in the United States is compulsory and part of that is that there is usually some kind of attendence policy. If you don't like it, then you can homeschool.
"Normal" lenses bend light more strongly farther out towards the edges. Gravitational lensing is shaped differently.
How should it work? Send everything through a central server? Try to hole-punch through NAT? Ubiquitous IPv6 might help, but we're not there yet.
You can have copyleft without virality; the Mozilla Public License 2.0 requires any modifications to a covered work to be released under the same license (copyleft), but does not extend this requirement to other code included in a combined work (virality). As I read the license, you could embed the Gecko browser engine in your proprietary e-reader software, and only your changes to the engine itself would have to be released as free software.
I wanted to originally point it to the GitHub but accidentally set the URL to the site.