skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're working on a specialised graph compiler for speeding up simulations and computing derivatives automatically (backpropagation/adjoint differentiation). It now supports C++, Python, and C#; AVX2 and AVX512 instruction sets, multithreading; Windows, and Linux.

Essentially, it allows model developers (such as quants in finance, engineers, and ML specialists) to code in Python without needing to think about the performance of repetitive calculations. As we all know, Python is one of the least efficient languages when it comes to complex calculations/simulations - and we help to resolve it. Long story short, with very few tweaks to the code certain types of calculations (such as pricing of derivatives, curve building, computing financial risks, or "small" NNs) can be accelerated by 100+ in Python and x20+ in C++/C#.

We're now looking to add support for Java (but it doesn't have Operator Overloading, so it's tricky), and some customers are asking to support GPU - which is a bit tricky because it's got a closed instruction set.
Different pirates have different moral codes regarding piracy; there is no standard.

Personally, I consider it immoral to pirate Windows without a very good reason (which doesn't include "I like using Windows", or "I want to play game X" or "I want to use the enterprise version which doesn't have baked-in ads").
> TfL’s ticketing system isn’t outsourced

The operation of it? Or the development of it? I'm seeing information that conflicts with this statement.

> and in London many people don’t drive and don’t have a driving licence.

My presumptions are rooted in the USA. For those that don't drive having a state ID card is still quite common. These always have barcodes on the back which would make them useful in POS like applications. You'll need a photo ID to cash a check, buy tobacco or alcohol, or when applying for most jobs. It's unusual here to not have one.

Is that also the case in the UK? Is there no similar system or demand for ID? Would those using it in this free application be less likely to have one?
I live next to Denver Union Station and coincidentally I took the California Zephyr for the first time yesterday (Saturday). I wanted to experience the train going up into the Rockies and back. I was surprised that seats were assigned; I got an aisle seat. I could mostly catch the scenery anyway, but that was a downside. They were passing out tickets to give more people a turn in the observation car, but they weren't switching until after I was scheduled to get off. I went up to Granby, CO and back. It was a beautiful day (maybe the last one for the season?). Friday, near Oakland, the train that was taking me back was stuck waiting for a bridge malfunction, so it was 4 hours behind. By the time it got to Granby, it was supposed to be 2.5 hours late, but as the day went on the timeline got pushed back until it was 3.5 hours late. It picked me up as it was getting dark after sunset, and the ride back was in the dark. The trip was amazing and disappointing at the same time.
I think you’ll find all of those things are true of English too.
Forgot to add GitHub: https://github.com/matlogica/AADC-Python
Real or fake, it's not AI generated. It's been around for over a decade (this same one, with those typos).

https://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam191... - on the answers page they also acknowledge the typo on "eneeavor".

https://headsup.scoutlife.org/would-you-pass-this-test/ - 2013
Your comment makes me wonder about the idea of building a superscalar, out of order, speculative implementation of the 6502 or 8080 instruction sets. Might make a good educational project.
Yes; parent was making a pun about it not taking off (in fact, the A-90 Ekranoplane could fly without the ground effect, albeit poorly). The substantive point though is that using the ground effect isn't as viable over rough seas such as those of the Atlantic as it is over calm, flat water due to the irregular astrodynamic shear forces among other reasons.
If there's one thing I've learn over the last few years is that it's incredibly difficult working on a project when you don't have peace of mind. It can be difficult working on something or staying motivated when you're battling depression, or if you're sad, don't have friends, or if anything is troubling your mind.

I've been there and I know what it feels like. I would try to perhaps solve the mental health problem first perhaps before tackling big projects. Maybe try gym, hiking, somehow finding friends, talk to more people, solve your sleep, eat better - something. Because again, if you don't have peace of mind, working on a project is difficult (at least for me it is).

Hope that helps.
Depends on the setup no?

When I took the trains in Europe I’d show up early, get tickets, find out what platform.

And stations in the middle of cities? Maybe, but unlikely building new infrastructure in existing cities.

And sure, if I want to go from SF to LA, there are 20+ flights per day. Are there going to be 20+ trains?
Backend guy here, but I wrote my website's Rails+Turbo frontend with Bulma. It's been pleasant, works well enough, generally hassle-free for typical web CMS-blog-infosite type duties. My only real complaint is the navbar menus lack submenus.
> But even better, the station is in the center of town

Only better if you live in the center of town.
Do you truly believe it would be preferable, if one party consistently wins 51% of the vote, and the other wins 49%, to have one party permanently in power?

That (51% of votes translating into 100% of power) is certainly not fair either.

One thing the current system does surprising well is ensure that power remains divided over the long term.
https://NomonAI.com

Im exploring helping engineering managers better manage projects and people. If you're leading a team of engineers and feel strapped for time constantly, I'd love your feedback (mention the post in the waitlist form so I know to bubble you to the top of the list and reach out)
I've been working on some projects in Rust relating to image processing and rendering. I'm between a few projects at the moment though but the biggest one is an image processing application I've been working on for quite some time. A lot of stuff I've programmed and learned about over the last 3 years has been leading up to the goal of making something like this haha. I wanted to leverage OpenCL for compute but I had a lot of trouble getting OpenGL OpenCL interoperability to work.

A big motivation for such a project is my passion for photography. I've taken many thousands of photos over just the last 2 years alone. A lot of them are digital, and so far a few dozen rolls of film. A big challenge for me is that I'm not satisfied with the tools available to develop the raw files that are free or open source. Either they're quite finnicky, or they have noticeable issues with color transformations.

I've done a lot of rendering projects over the last few years relating to color that have been focused on getting a better understanding of working with color spaces. Lots of 2D and 3D fractals haha.

Unfortunately I've had quite a turbulent life the last few years so development is very off/on. Every autumn for me seems to be a period of change, this one no different as I'm moving and I'm a bit uncertain of things. However, a side project to all of this has been an OpenGL project where I'm working on things related to voxels! I did a lot of research on data structures like interval trees, octrees, segment trees, etc. It does seem that a lot of people jump for the octree approach, however I've been able to render a lot of voxels with just a hashmap of chunks and a 3d array haha (albeit, mostly initial implementation of chunk generation, single threaded at that!). With this I'm hoping to explore OpenGL compute as I intend of generating world geometry in compute shaders :D

I havent published a project in a while and I'm hoping to get back to putting things out there, so hopefully some of the stuff I've been working on goes well and I can put it up on GitHub or something
I built a site that saves time by summarizing YouTube videos or news articles by simply inputting the URL. The tool preserves the original context, allowing users to ask follow-up questions.

I'd like to continue building fun projects like this until I find a market. I work in Phase 1 clinical trials and the end goal would be to implement some of these efficiencies into health technologies.

https://tldw.pw/
PoC or Integration? Or how startups are being used
An entity database (rest api on postgres so dB is a stretch) with a crud frontend for platform engineering. Adding a similar control loop to kubernetes and bash script (or executables) as the extension language.

This way you can write all of your glue code into one platform and create an IDP at the same time.

This came from a lot of situations where I'd need like one random thing to be stored in a database, but adding that complexity is a bit of a hump for just one thing.

Also crossplane is a really cool idea but starting a kubernetes cluster so that you can manage infra sounds insane to me, even as an avid kubernetes fanboy.
This is an 8th grade exam from 1912 from Bullitt County in Kentucky for White students.

It's not representative of the average American during that era - who would not have made it to 8th grade.

Heck, in 1910, Kentucky had a 17% illiteracy rate [0]

The fact that illiteracy using the IMF definition is non-existent in the US automatically means your average 8th grader today is better off than one a century ago.

And if I'm honest, the exam itself doesn't seem that different from content I dealt with in 4th-6th grade and I was attending an urban lower middle class school back then.

[0] - https://usa.ipums.org/usa/resources/voliii/pubdocs/1910/Vol1...
I do set a second alarm if I'm waking up for something particularly important - say a flight, but for a regular work day? I think one is good enough.
"For a simple example, a better home craft than lemonade might be a pastry, taken seriously. Not sugar cookies or muffins, but the kind of thing that is plain for a 13-year-old to understand, harder for him to make, and very difficult to master. If a child committed to a batch a day, documenting progress, perhaps in time he would have something worth selling."

1. is lemonade a home craft?
2. who is forcing their children to bake sourdough croissants?
3. is craft baker really the career path of the future?
Posted up above, here's a collection of English pronunciation rules that English speakers have internalized so well they can't generally explain them: https://www.zompist.com/spell.html

"Ghoti" is mentioned a few times there, but basically "fish" is a nonsensical pronunciation that breaks several rules. There's a reason (well, a few reasons) why if you ask English speakers how to pronounce "ghoti" and they've never seen it before, they'll probably all guess some variation of "go-tee" or "go-tie".
This reminds me of when Hollywood got pissed at Ted Turner because he decided to colorize some movies.

They're movies. Anyone spewing toxicity over them needs therapy.
An AI-driven corporation wouldn't be able to surpass anyone doing it the old way because they'd still have to wait for building permits and inspections.
Not only AWS, but GCP also charges for network communication across availability zones. Moreover, your understanding is correct.The key here is the use of S3 as a shared storage feature. Reading and writing S3-like object storage across AZs will not incur cross-AZ traffic fees. Cloud vendors charge for API call fees and storage fees for object storage.
How is this a good thing?

You now need the extra JS from that <Button> component to encapsulate the HTML with TW classes.

Plus all the overhead from TW itself. You need a ton of classes to essentially replicate inline styles.

Plus all the CPU needed to parse and execute all that extra JS and CSS code.

I get that some people prefer this workflow and that's fine, everyone has preferences. But arguing this is better than sending an HTML tag with a couple of classes is absurd.
The 1600s were a watershed for swear words (2022)
That would be Mayoral career suicide at this point. Most voters are car owners.
Well. America is the only place in the world where I was told to "move on" with a gunpoint. In Texas they told they always "procecute trespassers", but local sheriff decided I was not tresspassing, I was camping too close to railroad, so it was government property.
> Let’s say you have a production process, and the AIs involved operate at IQ = 160, and the humans operate at IQ = 120.

The author is begging the question: Why automatically assume these near-future AI actors will be dramatically smarter than the humans?
It requires significantly less energy than producing new glass. The reasons glass isn't recycled more than it is in the US are political and educational. Many European countries recycle 90% of the glass.
it would be great if this project is open source
Where did you get that idea from? I can read most books in Japanese, but probably not a word of most reasonably ‘old’ texts. I think most native speakers would struggle as much as English speakers do with, say, medieval-era English.
Not someone you asked, but I personally tend to avoid it because it makes my system less transparent to me.

Isolated self contained containers are cool for enterprise setting with huge fleets of machines, frequent updates, etc. But it's not optimal for desktop Linux atm because no one secured any of desktop APIs and there are no easy way to inspect WTF each container is doing and why. Is it ships outdated deps? Is there crypto miner in or its just random hung process eating 100% of one cpu core?

Basically each app in self contained container have its own universe and you will never figure out what exactly its doing. So its turn your system into a black box.

As maintainer of OSS software and game developer I totally get the appeal, but as user I love Linux exactly because it's give me more transparency and I dont want to lose it.
I'm working on ways to allow developers and deployers of LLMs to express how and why their overall system is compliant and adversarially robust, and what to do when that's not the case.

Specifically, my team and I are making assurance cases and ontologies that can seamlessly integrate with the system and its guardrails. For example, if you want to deploy some mix of filters underneath a user-facing LLM app, you would able to:
1) express the logic of how they should be deployed and why (e.g., if X=1, then Y, else Z);
2) see how they perform over time and evaluate alternatives;
3) investigate what happened when an attack succeeds;
4) prove to the auditors that you're taking all measures necessary to be robust and compliant with the EU AI Act.

It started as an informal collab early this year, but we have since published a few workshop papers on this concept [1,2]. We're building a Python demo that would show how it all fits together.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09078
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05304
There are few drugs for which withdrawal symptoms can include death, but alcohol is one of them and it's legal for adults to consume it recreationally. I don't think elucidating the risks of any substance is ever a bad thing, but it's also disingenuous to frame this as presenting "both sides" of an issue.

The claim that a drug has some potential side effects simply has no bearing on the question of whether prohibition is good policy, because the case against prohibition isn't and has never been that any drug is completely risk-free or cures every disease or makes you shit rainbows or whatever nonsense, the claim is that adults should get to make those decisions for themselves
I could be wrong (my physics background isn't that strong either) but I think Dyson's "time without end" paper http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Omega/dyson.txt shows that eventually the universe will cool down enough to make all keys brute-force-attackable despite Bremermann's limit.

Given a finite amount of attacker computation you're willing to defend against, you can get a real advantage from key stretching (though not from mere salting). If you want a password strength of 256 bits, you can memorize a password of 226 bits and require work equivalent to 2³⁰ key-hashing operations to derive the actual encryption key or crypted password. This is normally called a KDF; reasonable ones are scrypt, bcrypt, and Argon2, in ascending order of goodness.

If you make the work factor unreasonably large, you won't be able to use the password in practice, because you have to do that work every time you use it. For example, if you try to memorize 170 bits of password and use a 2¹⁷⁰ work factor in your KDF to reach the 340-bit security level, recommended here, you have to do 2¹⁷⁰ work on your laptop every time you log in. Assuming a trillion operations per second (a safe upper bound for current laptops) each login will take about 47 nonillion years, about a sextillion times longer than the history of the universe so far and about 50 times longer than the expected lifetime of the last galaxies (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future). It may be inconvenient to wait that long.

For the same reason that a KDF is a safe way to derive keys for decrypting data at rest, in a client-server system, you can generally do this work on the client safely, so it doesn't pose a denial-of-service risk.
Even with the misspellings it's obvious what words you meant. If someone forgets how to write "嚔" are they just missing a few strokes but it's obvious what they actually meant? Or do they have zero clue what it's supposed to look like?
Geckium Turns Modern Firefox into Vintage Google Chrome
Seems like this is just pointing out exploration/exploitation tradeoffs. I don't see how 80/20 has much to do with this.
Wow this is very exciting! Always makes me happy when I see your comments on HN, you're always up to something interesting! Are you hiring developers or aspiring bioengineers? (I'm a developer and an aspiring bioengineer)
I hope the "French guy" who he didn't like as a conversationalist doesn't read his blog.
Does that mean you actually know that you're a good manager but can't shake off the feeling that you're not? And this technique is a way to achieve that?
Totally, which is why I'm not working on it right now. That is why I asked so I could gather information :-)

However, I would prefer to give users a better experience and set up towards having diffs.

In addition, from test users behavior, it seems like some folks have 20+ mb PDF files that they make revisions on and upload. If they do 4-5 revisions on these files it blows out storage. Of course I can just pass these costs on, but if there's a way to do it more efficiently I'd rather do that.

Storage is unlimited for enterprise customers, but again I'm just wondering how to make this process better.

Like I said, text isn't a problem. It is these PDF and other formats where I'm wondering if there's some binary diff solution that already exists.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to reply.
Instagram saves the best video quality for the most popular content
It's true that LLMs are very good at reproducing correctly spelled text - but we're looking at an image here, and image-generating AIs aren't so good at generating text in most cases. They've gotten a lot better recently, but they're still not quite there yet.

(To be clear, I don't believe this is actually generated by AI, but in this case, but since we're looking at an image, I can see why some people might be concerned that it might be AI given the misspellings.)
> If something has to be approved by the UN it will never happen

Include there any action against Israel for killing thousands of children and starving millions, and against the US for supplying these weapons. Prosecutors in the international war crimes court asked for Netaniahoo to be arrested for crimes against humanity.
I propose we define AGI as a "strong" form of the Turing test. It must be able to convince a jury of 12 tenured college professors drawn from a variety of academic disciplines that it's as intelligent as an average college freshman over a period of several days. So it need not be an expert in any subject but must be able to converse, pursue independent goals, reason, and learn — all in real time.
Thank you for finding the truth. Books from that era would likely have been subjected to far more careful proofreading, which explains the typo density (or lack thereof) compared to this.
Yup. It’s also because if they don’t list something to filter, they’ll be inundated with candidates they’ll have to spend more time and energy filtering.
I found that 4k HDR/DV DTS Atmos media on my shield tv tube would have issues with freezing after seeking and audio drop outs with kodi/kodi with jellyfin plugin. Switching to jellyfin solved the issue.
There’s simply no “HN is not for self promotion” policy. You’re asked to not use your account primarily for self-promotion, and repeats are allowed, so you can roll your dice multiple times on your Show HN already as long as you’re otherwise a good contributor to the community and only do it sparingly. Flooding another topic with commercial promos simply turns it into another https://news.ycombinator.com/show, what’s the point then?

As for YC companies getting Launch placements, well too bad, it’s their site, you’re free to leave and start your competing one. I assume most users aren’t bothered — I seldom notice them and hardly ever click on them. I notice job ads more.
I'm working on Pictera [1], an AI product where users can upload their photos (like selfies) to create high-quality, hyper-realistic images of themselves in just about any style they want.

Originally, I built Pictera for myself to use because I couldn’t find any service that produced decent photos. Besides, I was very concerned that popular products in this space included broad terms allowing them to keep and use users' photos indefinitely for any purposes, including marketing [2]. But I've been enjoying working on the product so much that I've put way more time into polishing it and thought others would find it useful too.

Would love any feedback from folks!

[1] https://pictera.ai
[2] https://pictera.ai/about
Two completely unrelated things:

1. An infinite realtime canvas for people all over the world to collaborate on pixel art: https://everyonedraw.com/6/4298/8439

2. An LLM-powered translator specifically optimized for English speakers living in Spanish-speaking countries: https://translate-spanish.com

The first one is purely for fun to scratch my own itch, and the second is solving some frustrations I've had with existing translator apps while living in Mexico City.
A useful personal assistant.

Yes, it sounds generic but no one is seriously making progress here apart from the LLM providers and I love experimenting in this space and adding capabilities.

https://olly.bot
Relevant (and enjoyable): https://youtu.be/OV5J6BfToSw

[particularly 13:44~]
I don't think binder is upstream, nor is the default in many distros. AFAIK support is very limited as not a lot of people use it. In arch it is provided only as a community package (AUR) [1]. This was a major blocker for me when trying to install anbox or waydroid, custom compiled kernel modules is a no-no for me, not because of security issues (which could exist), but because they can break a lot of stuff and fixing kernel modules is not a stroll in the park.

[1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/binder_linux-dkms
An app that creates web, mobile and background apps via voice / text requirements.

https://www.tiram.ai
Highly successful people (like waaay outside the normal distribution) needed a reason to get there.

There are far too many off-ramps to ‘comfortable’ along the way, for it to be any other way.

Anger is as good a motivator as any, I guess. What else do you propose?

Greed has a lot of history too.

Love (at least genuine love) much less often, since love for oneself has to be there first - and that is rarely going to coincide with actual high performance.
Ah, sorry, I didn't notice the website itself was that old.