skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great! What this page doesn't explain, though, is why the author will resist the urge to make more money when one of the products becomes popular.

The other products he talks about didn't turn shitty because the founders just hate babies, but because they like money. The author doesn't go into enough detail on why he doesn't like money.
Mundane or not, it’s actually useful, a meaningful improvement, and should work consistently well.

That is in contrast to a lot of fancy AI demos which are a great party trick, but fall apart in actual usage, with their reliability being “maybe it will work this time, maybe it won’t, just keep retrying :)”.

Apple is pretty well-recognized for usually being a bit late to the party, but at least delivering stuff that’s polished.

Just look at this thread of people sharing how Gemini broke all their commands and automations. The Apple Intelligence Siri on the other hand works just fine (even if new features are arriving slowly).
> Or had they been taken from Greece to Constantinopole before being looted in the crusades?

There is no such thing as Greece before 1821. So they would have to travel back in time.
nice. a similar idea was recently used to detect ragallucinations.
the key is using logits when provided
It was super insightful reading the clash eval paper
https://www.lycee.ai/blog/rag-ragallucinations-and-how-to-fi...
I would like a chance to jump into this point because this problem is a function of two things. The throughput that you can make your Tigger (Data acquisition system) save the data and transfer it to permanent storage. This is usually invlove multiple steps and most of them happens in real-time. The other problem is the storage itself and how it would be kept (duplicated and distributed to analysts) which at the scale of operation we are doing is insanely costly. If we are to say save 20% of the generated collision data then we would fill the entire cloud storage in the world in a couple of runs . Also the vasr majority of data is background and useless so you would do a lot of work to clean that and apply your selections which we do anyway but now you are dealing with another problem. The analysts will need to handle much more data and trying new things (ideas and searches) becomes more costly which will be discouraged. So you work in a very constrained way. You improve your capabilities in computing and storage and you present a good physics case of what data (deploy trigger line which is to pick this physics signal) that the experiment is sensitive to and then lets the natural selections take place (metaphorically of course).

Most of the experiments cannot because of the data acquisition problems.
In this case it would be a low entropy, high varentropy situation. It's confident in a few possible answers, like if it's a set of synonyms.
The technology really is not up to it, though.

To give some numbers:

- The LHC has 40M "events" (bunch of collisions) a second.

- The experiments can afford to save around 2000 of them.

This is a factor of 20k between what they collide and what they can afford to analyze. There is just no conceivable way to expand the LHC computing and storage by a factor of 20k.

Valid question would be why they don't just collide fewer protons. The problem is that when you study processes on a length scale smaller than a proton, you really can't control when they happen. You just have to smash a lot and catch the interesting collisions.

So yeah, it's a lot of "throwing away data" in the smartest way possible.

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All that said, it might be a stretch to say the data is "thrown away", since that implies that it was ever acquired. The data that doesn't get saved generally doesn't make it off a memory buffer on a sensor deep within the detector. It's never piped through an actual CPU or assembled into any meaningful unit with the millions of other readouts.

If keeping the data was one more trivial step, the experiments would keep it. As it is they need to be smart about where the attention goes. And they are! The data is "thrown away" in the sense that an astronomy experiment throws away data by turning off during the day.
> I'm having a horrifying realization that all of my pictures are "fake" in the sense that they don't match what I saw/experienced.

I'd caution that judicious/proper post-processing is actually needed if you want that result, because of the differences between the sensors.

Your human experience comes from many small pictures taken by a set of lenses panning across multiple points in a scene with constantly adjusting exposure times and focal lengths, all biologically composited into what feels like a single moment.

Trying to fully replicate that with a single artificial picture is going to be deficient in certain ways.

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Separately, a pet peeve of mine: Too many people have been subtly brainwashed into conflating the "like I was really there" with " like a Hollywood film camera was really there." Then the next thing you know your medieval fantasy game has lens flares in it for no good reason.
>LibNSFB: "The overall idea of the library is to provide a

generic abstraction to a linear section of memory which corresponds to a visible array of pixel elements on a display [surface, context, software abstraction layer or] device

Different colour depths are supported and the library provides routines for tasks such as drawing onto the framebuffer and rectangle copy operations.

LibNSFB currently supports the following as framebuffer providers:

Linux framebuffer

X

SDL

VNC

ABLE framebuffer"

Absolutely beautiful -- and necessary!

I was looking for a library like this that was not tightly coupled to other extraneous and unnecessary software (aka "bloatware") but could work across multiple graphics context providers, providing the same abstraction to each (i.e., software that is written for one software stack, i.e., X, automatically works for another software stack, i.e., SDL).

Here we're not trying to be a game engine or a sound engine or anything else.

We (by which I mean the developers!) are only trying to do one thing and do it right, and that's to abstract a graphical drawing surface, a bitmap, a "graphical viewport on the screen" across all of the above lower-level implementations.

So, I was looking for something like this for some time...

Well done!
Note to those reading: The fact that they needed to ask for this exemption, and were denied, should be all you need to know about the legality of modding game consoles in 2024.
Wine and olives also cost more than milk and eggs. You can package milk in glass bottle 5 percent of the weight of the product made at thousands of degrees from burning fossil fuels or you can package it in an inert HDPE container, that is processed at several hundred degrees and weighs say 0.5% of the product contained within. lighter packaging means less fuel burned to ship it. Lower processing temperatures means less fuel burned to make it. Ethylene polymerized into plastic for milk jugs doesn't end up in the air as CO2. Plastic feed stocks directly compete with fuel feed stocks. The less fuel we need to burn to ship things the more carbon is kept out of the atmosphere and the more carbon made into plastic that is stable when buried for thousands of years the less ends up in the air. You can make a lighter foam egg carton for less cost, that better protects the eggs than a paper one. Paper is no more a natural material than plastic. The manufacturing process releases hydrogen sulfide, contaminates water and when the paper rots the toxic dyes in ink printed on it is unbound and free to leach into the environment. Paper cups are coated with persistent waxed and plastics that migrate once the cup that supported them is gone. White paper products are bleached and brown paper is produced with harmful chemicals including even flame retardants at times. What is cheapest, lightest and most stable is usually also the most environmentally friendly thing.
Get raw, and marvel at its imperfection and ugliness in many aspects. If given phone ain't giving up raw data, take any decent camera, raw sensor data has been part of it since its beginning.

But those pics will be probably further from perceived reality than those enhanced by software (lets not get retarded here and don't brand every data processing as 'AI'). Distortions not only of barrel type, waning brightness towards edges, moire, heavy vignetting, tons of noise, over/underexposition, maybe some dead pixels... thats not how I see my days go by.
I'm 36 and somehow I simply avoided social media for the most part. At least never used platforms like facebook, instagram, tiktok, etc.

It all just seemed like a time waster and not really anything interesting.

I use sites like this of course, and I suppose that is some form of social media though.
> 2048 is now my full-time focus

How? How does that game pay anywhere nearly enough to allow that?
Yeah I wish more LLM APIs offered internal insights like logits, right now I think only OpenAI does and it started recently.
I think you might be mixing things up a bit.

the tolerance score wouldn't be tied to a specific change. it's an estimate of how tolerant a person is of changes generally.

it's not that different from asking people if they want to be part of a beta testers group or if they would be open to being surveyed by market researchers.

targeting like that usually doesn't have a significant impact on the results of individual experiments.
> I stumbled on a great way to explain the temporal logic of actions that TLA+ is based on. [emphasis added]

I mean, it's spelled out right there in the post so what's the complaint? And I double checked, that's copied from the email on Tuesday so not a later addition. He does seem to have changed it on the page for people who don't want to read so now the T, L, and A in the words are capitalized and bolded.
Also, webgpu isn't enabled on Chrome for Linux by default currently. You'll need

> The chrome://flags/#enable-unsafe-webgpu flag must be enabled (not enable-webgpu-developer-features). Linux experimental support also requires launching the browser with --enable-features=Vulkan.

https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/wiki/Implementation-Status#...
OP here. We’re building a new kind of Git platform. "Infinity" is more beneficial for us as platform builders (simplifying infrastructure) but less relevant to our customers as users.
> CEL exists for Go and (safely) solves many of the problems you might also want a DSL for.

Seems like it would be difficult to use for what they are trying to achieve. Lua would be a better fit, however it is noted that they tried it first, but ran into some kind of issue with it. So now Limbo is among the "off the shelf" options.
You mean 400 people? No, that isn't too small. Why would you think it was?
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is due for release this month, so they'll be available.

Current Working Title: Wheel of Feta
That makes sense, thanks for the expertise!
CHERI is pretty much there already
I think it’s all about the water. I think the purity standard is higher than detectable, so perhaps Arizona deep wells have better quality?
I imagine it will be smuggled out of the country immediately.

No cheese buyer at a large retailer in the UK would touch it. It’s not worth the risk.

Similarly at the artisan end of the market, it’s a small world (like the article says) - why would you risk your personal and commercial reputation buying stolen goods? You wouldn’t.
> There's a certain personality type that is drawn to engineering that believes the whole world can be explained by their simple pet model and that they are smarter than everyone else.

Lots of failed theorists with that personality type/flaw as well.
Eelco's typical online handle is "niksnut", which obviously means "nix nut" but also "good for nothing" :).
No free software no support.
You don't have to merge it upstream right away, but publish it for others to study and use as permitted by the license.
GAO Office: F-35 Zero Capable Goals Achieved over Last Six Years [pdf]
Possibly! I remember that but completely missed it as an inspiration here.
I'm not sure what point you are making here.
So bad in what way? I see plenty of tech listings in my area. The company I work at just put up openings for some engineers.
We’re in an era of "subscription fatigue" and smartphone makers adding another monthly fee could be a tough sell
The gossip is that it's actually ransomware (and not having backups) and they're just saying hacker because it's less humiliating to admit. No data/evidence though, just gossip.
The current narrative of Ozembic reminds me a lot of the 1930s narrative around amphetamine. [1] The mood booster wonder drug was used extensively in the military and civilian population, from soldier to politician. Indications included weight loss, depressed mood, alcoholism [2], and fatigue.

> Another early pharmacologic approach to alcoholism treatment used psychostimulants to create a feeling of well-being and obviate the euphoric effects of alcohol. Bloomberg (1939) administered amphetamine to 21 alcoholic patients, who became more alert and energetic and reported no desire to drink (see also Bowman and Jellinek, 1941). Reifenstein and Davidoff (1940) found that amphetamine was of benefit in cases of acute alcohol intoxication and recommended it to treat depression in institutionalized alcoholics (see also Bowman and Jellinek, 1941).

Of course, I'm interested, but I will let medical science do the damage first before I elect to dive in.

[1] https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2007....

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4453501/
Whew. "Everything" is a tough one, today.

1. I know there is an upcoming book, NixOS in Production. There is a lot of great info in there!

2. Have you seen https://zero-to-nix.com/?
This is welcome news for users... (potentially not so much for competitors like Dexcom, Abbot, etc).

I do know that both Dexcom and Abbot have recently launched their consumer versions continuous-glucose-monitoring (CGM) solutions for non-diabetic (=pre-diabetic) customers . [FYI - in the US, only diabetic customers can officially get CGMs with a prescription, afaik. Pre-diabetics usually do not have the option. And most health plans do not pay for prediabetes solutions]

Would love to hear if anyone has any experience with Dexcom's Stelo [1] or Abbot's Lingo [2] ?

[1] https://www.dexcom.com/stelo
[2] https://abbott.mediaroom.com/2024-06-10-Abbott-Receives-U-S-...
Couple loose ideas:

All the low-hanging fruit in development have been picked and so the growth or "growth" comes from financial engineering and "efficiency" i.e. forcing workers to do more

Gutting of manufacturing capacity in North America and Europe so as to off-shore it to Asia

Elites having the generational compounding of wealth and connections which gives them edge against the 99%

Development of the MBA class finally bearing its fruit, making managers of today unrecognizable compared to the few decades ago; internal promotions are an exception the higher in the ladder you go

Stock market not being allowed to crash and clean up, in part by holding retirement savings hostage

Polarization of society taking toll on the 99%; despite the presumed idealistic slogans it doesn't matter who gets elected, neither side will touch the elites; meanwhile 99% is not able to organize bottom-up to protest
Tiny House, Great Living
There's a lot of ways to rephrase this to be less insulting.

For instance,

"lots of people have started with the idea that they could sell at retail for only 3-4x parts cost and failed"

or

"I have had personal experience trying (and failing) to drive down retail cost of electronics below this rule of thumb"

This last has the advantage of making the advice more personal.
This when that entropy is high i feel like models should have an escape hatch to trigger that the answers overall certainty was low, and hell add it up and score it so at the end the user can see if during the generation the certainty of the answer was shit, and should be thrown out ore replaced with a "i'm not sure"
This is pretty niche cheddar. I doubt it’s being sold at a corner shop alongside warm cans of Carlsberg!
Oh no, me cheese
There should be a platform like the opposite of what it is today. No wants to be featured there. Something people would want to not be there in that list or platform. Like imdb or but for those of worst products.

People wont buy it if it is on there.
OP here. Not yet - it's about 50% complete. I plan to open-source it in the future.
> Wanting to avoid managing the servers ourselves, we experimented with a serverless approach.

I must be getting old but building a gigantic house of card of interlinked components only to arrive to a more limited solution is truly bizarre to me.

The maintenance burden for a VPS: periodically run apt update upgrade. Use filesystem snapshots to create periodic backups. If something happens to your provider, spin up a new VM elsewhere with your last snapshot.

The maintenance burden for your solution: Periodically merge upstream libgit2 in your custom fork, maintain your custom git server code and audit it for vulnerabilities, make sure everything still compiles with emscripten, deploy it. Rotate API keys to make sure your database service can talk to your storage service and your worker service. Then I don't even know how you'd backup all this to get it back online quickly if something happened to cloudflare. And all that only to end up with worse latency than a VPS, and more size constraints on the repo and objects.

But hey, at least it scales infinitely!
Then you're strawmanning, because of course this has nothing to do with the Republican voters writ large. Nothing really does, because as I already stated, the word is meaningless now. It's just the vague "enemy".
What AI software/service is being used to implement this?
Or perhaps a SaaS product where individual customers had their own fork of the code.

There are many reasons not to do this, perhaps this scratches away at one of them.
Urg, so American. It's Saturday.
It's so prevalent. I am dealing with it. Find the good people and stick with them!
Engaging read! For me, just the right balance of technical detail and narrative content. It's a hard balance to strike and I'm sure preferences vary widely which makes it an impossible target for every audience.
Dude-- I don't even have a downvote button for replies to my comments, and neither of my rarely used alt accounts even has enough rep to downvote.

From the looks of the comments you left here you've spent far too much time on Twitter. This isn't a battle of one-liner zings. The HN crowd often downvotes throwaway comments like that on principle, but surely your, like, 12 words vaguely prodding at the premise of one thing I said contain hidden layers of depth and understanding that handily eclipse the value of my vacuous musings, so shame on them.

Do yourself and everybody you interact with a huge favor: take a break from the internet to go outside and get some fresh air.
Somewhat related question.
Assume I have ~1k ~200MB XML files that get ~20% of their content changed. What are my best option to store them? While using vanilla git on a SSD raid10 works, that's quite slow in retrieving historical data dating back ~3-6 months. Are there other options for a quickie back-end? I'm fine with it being not that storage efficient to a degree.
There is some error here, because the Kron paper quotes Angel as the source of that result.

Angel's results are here:

> https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.1330040109 ("Stature 162.19cm.")

> https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/146687.pdf ("Mean male stature of 162.2 cm.")

In other words, Kron either made an honest mistake and misquoted or failed to find relevant data, or quite literally cherry-picked it himself! Could it be that he was unaware of this? Why not mention it?

Besides, if anything, Kron seems as though he worked backwards from his conclusion, because much of his paper laments how far early-modern man had fallen!

> The contrast with the early modem period is dramatic. The average height of Italian conscripts born in 1854 was a mere 162.64 cm, over 5 cm or 2 inches shorter than deceased Romans.

> ...clearly demonstrates that the standards of nutrition and health achieved
by the Romans and, more importantly, by the Hellenistic Greeks are indeed credible for a pre-industrial society, and gives us some idea of the sort of heights which can be achieved by well-fed individuals without the benefit of modem health care, nutritional science, or informed precautions against bacteria and sources of infection, and with limited attention to pure drinking water and sanitation

Angel's data destroys many of the main points he was trying to make. Little wonder he had to hide/misquote it, if indeed that's what he did.

In any case, there are other more recent analyses, and none of them give an average height of 1.7m in Ancient Greece. All are somewhere between 1.6 and 1.675m, settling around 1.63 or 1.64m for an Iron Age population.
> We have been heavily pushed to drive less, recycle more, and use less water, but I have not seen messaging about not buying new clothes you don't need.

It's there if you follow the right people on social media.

Campaigns that center around personal responsibility, however, aren't ever going to work, and there's obvious reasons why people are willing to pay to push this narrative but not the buying fewer clothes one (at least here in the US).
When people talk about not needing to write much unsafe Rust, they mean that in any large-scale system, there are probably only a couple hotspots that are complicated enough to need the escape hatch from the Rust safety rules; you write the unsafe code, you give it an interface to the rest of the code, you carefully validate the unsafe code, and you're good to go.

They don't mean that you write unsafe Rust code for experimental or exploratory code that will be thrown away. You could do that, but it's not common.

More importantly: this approach of parsimoniously writing unsafe code in a larger-scale safe system does not work in C/C++. Memory safety issues can (and do) crop up all over your system, not just in the small "unsafe" parts you validate carefully.
Universal Music release AI-powered Spanish version of Brenda Lee's hit song
Congrats, you've done a lot of interesting work to get here.

This could be a fantastic building block for headless CMS and the like.
Cool! I'm glad somebody is working on this.

What's your business model?
Waymo closes $5.6B funding to expand autonomous ride-hailing service
The ranking doesn’t seem to be based on likes alone.

For a real social media the content should be ranked by the likes of my peers, a feature non existent on HN
> While working on one DARPA-funded project, Solomon stumbled upon a page in a century-old optics textbook that caught his eye. It described a method developed by noted physicist Gabriel Lippmann for producing color photographs. Instead of using film or dyes, Lippmann created photos by using a glass plate coated with a specially formulated silver halide emulsion.

This method of color photography is absolutely fascinating and resulted in some of the best color photographs of the early 20th century.

The Library of Congress has a collection [1] of plates by Prokudin-Gorskii who was hired by the Czar to ride around Russia on a train and photograph the country in the years before WWI and the Revolution. In the last couple of decades someone restored and digitally aligned each color plate so now we have nearly 1,500 relatively high resolution color photographs of imperial Russia. He took photos of everything from Emirs to peasant girls to Tolstoy and all the architecture and scenery in between.

[1] https://www.loc.gov/collections/prokudin-gorskii/about-this-...
Do you know about the maggot filled cheese from Sardinia, casu martzu? It is illegal in the EU but it is still sold illegally around the area of its inception. It's illegal because sometimes the maggots could survive in your intestines to cause damage.