skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this is something I've been thinking about recently, not so much in terms of the difficulty of managing spam on a per post basis, as I'm thinking that the instances will be very small and moderation on that front should be easy, so long as you can keep the problematic user from signing up in the first place. One thing I've been thinking is that perhaps there could be a captcha-like solution that will benefit from the limited location. For instance: Select only images that are of this location. Local users will know, bots will struggle. It doesn't stop anyone else from using Google street view or something but it does make the bar the bit higher. I don't know how to deal with the obvious accessibility issue with this though so I'm going to keep it in mind until I get around to that sort of thing. Long term of course we're going to have the issue with federated spam also, so I don't want to implement a solution that will only be in my way in the long run.
If you define “bigness” of my house as being more value than living next to all my friends in a very walkable city with tons of things to do at any time I want where I don’t need to ever drive my car then sure.

Personally, I’ll take my $500k condo in my very amazing city that is 1000sq ft over a 3500sq ft empty house that is 2 miles from the nearest grocery store.
Techcrunch: A mysterious new image generation model has appeared
A new model has appeared on Artificial Analysis under the name "red_panda" that is scoring around 40 points ahead of Flux 1.1 Pro on ELO Scores.

Are we about to see yet another Flux release? Anyone have a guess?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scott_Adams_Adventure_...
Mike Masnick is a treasure. He posts on Bluesky here: https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social
I suspect a large percentage of Dan's work moderating HN is downweighing posts that incite engagement from frustration. I've had on at least one occasion the top comment in a thread by over 100 upvotes that was purely the sentiment of several readers but did not contribute to the curated voice of the community.
> my physical therapy is out of network and costs me $800/mo

That part doubles what you are paying yearly and is EXTREMELY uncommon. For most Americans, an appointment that costs $800/mo is one you don't schedule because you quite literally cannot afford that and will go through bankruptcy attempting to.
The Fake Buildings of New York: What Happens Inside Their Mysterious Walls
Thank you. @bookofjoe.
If I'm not interested in reading something fully I can get the main idea of it from skimming much faster than I could by getting an AI summary. And without the uncertainty that the AI got something about the summary wrong.
You're asking good questions. The reason standing on Earth gives you an upward push is that in fact this is a semantics game. What's really happening is that the upward push is what we call a "normal force", and it is entirely the result of interactions between the electrons and protons of the matter we and the Earth are made up of. The accelerations measured by accelerometers (including the ones in our ears) and by the pressure sensors in our skin are strictly electromagnetic in nature, but ultimately these are caused by gravity being a force indeed that is pulling us down, and it is the normal forces that stop us from accelerating further into the planet.

A lot of people are confused by GR. But really, gravity can be seen as any of these things:

- an effect that curves spacetime,
yielding accelerations when that
curved spacetime is mapped to
flat spacetime (think of a Mercator-
like projection of curved spacetime
to flat spacetime)

- a force that, when applied to waves
and matter (which... is standing
waves anyways) causes them to be
accelerated in such ways as to
follow paths indistinguishable from
the ones they would follow in
curved spacetime

It's really a lot simpler than some people make it out to be.

Consider the Schwarzschild metric \[ds^2 = -(1 - \frac{2M}{r}) dt^2 + (1 - \frac{2M}{r})^{-1} dr^2 + r^2 d\Omega^2\] -- its terms show you the distortions of space and time (independently, though related by the distance r to the center of the massive object) relative to flat spacetime. The first term shows you the distortion of time, and the second and third show you the distortion of space. I've yet to see a physicist put it that way, but that is exactly how it is. (This metric is a second derivative of spacetime, so it's not immediately obvious what the actual mapping between flat and curved spacetime is -- you have to do a double integral for that. However, what you get is the normal time dilation factor we know \[\sqrt{1-\frac{2M}{rc^2}] as the distortion of time, and... the same as the radial space expansion (that is, space expands, but only in the direction to/away from the massive body), + a three-dimentional angular (two angles) displacement.

It is often said that you can't tease out the space and the time curvature from spacetime curvature because they are intimately intertwined. But if you look at the Schwarzschild metric this is not really quite true. Yes, the first two terms have an r in them, so space and time curvature are very much interrelated, but they are still terms in an addition, with one term for time and one for space, so they can in fact be described separately, as indeed the Schwarzschild metric does.
True-ish. But when you say 'older-fashioned communities' I have a feeling you are speaking through nostalgia or a rose-tinted view of an idealized past. Can you name some of these older-fashioned communities that exist today, and how they are different from the ones you are contrasting them to?
I like it! How does your stack look like?
"Species" simply means can interbreed AND produce fertile offspring.

This why your lion + tiger is not some special case, it trivially fails the definition: Their offspring are sterile.

Now ring species as you describe have not been shown to exist. Let me refer you as well to this brilliant article by an evolutionist explaining that: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2014/07/16/there-are-no-ring-...

In short, the suspected ring species were found to produce fertile offspring when interbreeding at the ring-closing point (!).

> The authors [...] found, contrary to previous information, that there are indeed some hybrids (fertile ones, since they backcross) produced where the ring closes at the top, so they aren’t really acting like full biological species.

So we cannot be certain that where the ring closes, inter-breeding is impossible, because it has been shown to occur. Further:

> In the end, the authors conclude [...]: there are no good examples of ring species in nature

---

It's not about "doubting" in a religious sense. As an intellectual and academic I simply reserve the right to challenge and poke holes as rigorously as I can into any theory presented to me. What I found is that speciation-by-random-mutation appears to fail my (admittedly difficult but nonetheless valid) challenge.

As for plate tectonics: Look, if I were to say the evidence in my eyes does not support the theory well enough, would that make me unscientific? Of course not! The best counter-example I just posted are ring species - scientists once had extreme confidence in their existence, only to be disappointed after new findings.
I personally believe Toronto hosts some of the best child care resources and options for young working parents, though issues of affordability and information asymmetry are palpable.

I'm not naive to think that technology alone can fix this problem, but we are looking to balance the scale by 1) making existing child care resources easily accessible and 2) connecting parents and alternative caregiver options to fill the gaps that the current industry left behind. We are calling it Kindervillage (http://kindervillage.ca/).
Aside from everything else, I don't understand what Whittaker's point was; she seemed to ultimately be advocating for something, but I can't understand what, exactly.

It's probably in the talk's last sentences:

> We want not only the right to deploy e2ee and privacy-preserving tech, but the power to make determinations about how, and for whom, our computational infrastructures work.
This is the path to privacy, and to actual tech accountability. And we should accept nothing less.

But who are "we" and "whom", and what "computational infrastructure" is she referring to?
I definitely thought about it but that seemed a bit too crackable
It would be fantastic if Apple brought back that 27-inch or larger iMac for desktop users who don’t need a separate display
Thanks so much! I work on it almost every weekend so hopefully you'll continue to see good progress.
Surely we are beyond concern with bezels, chins, and other frivolous mobile phone aesthetics at this point.
ServeTheHome: The Largest AI Supercluster XAI Colossus [video]
Deep dive on a Rust app that processes images in the browser via WASM
I'm not the parent commenter, but whisper based dictation is getting pretty awesome nowadays. It's almost as good as sci-fi.

(Fully dictated, no edits except for this)
With this many prior discussions here, I guess the only question to ask is: Are any major sites using this method, or at least providing a way to combine sort with a filter items with under X ratings.

If anything, it seems like the likes of Amazon are making it harder to sort and filter, using dark patterns to direct you to their preferred products.
They rely very heavily on public support, politically and financially. You're participating in a public pile-on, which absolutely can damage them.

> Maybe they could pick one sport -- archiving things -- and focus on that for a while?

Archiving them without sharing them? What's the point? Certainly that's not their mission.

They've been very successful with multiple projects; it's also part of pushing the envelope - part of their mission - politically, socially, and technologically. Innovative organizations have a lot failures. I think they are doing great, except for the emergency lending library, and one mistake isn't

IMHO you and others are just finding fault, joining in on the sport of piling on. This is your team, and the IA is a critical resource and not, at all, a sport. Instead of treating it like one (I know the metaphor was my idea, but that's how people seem to treat it), we'd better fight for it if we want it.

Who will stand up for it if not you? While you are playing social sports, who else is out there to save IA?
When you say "develop" a raw file, do you mean convert it to a viewable colour space, given a known screen? Like HDR or some other type of choosing the exposure/gain?

Re: 3D, are you aiming to infer a 3D scene from a single photo? There's a few approaches for that, but they tend to show off the examples that work well, and conveniently avoid examples that work poorly. But depending on the content of your photos, you might find an algorithm that works out of the box.

For data representation, we used a sparse voxel representation of a Truncated Signed Distance Function to represent surfaces for this project: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/kinectfusio...
However, I can't recall interacting with the sparseness; that level of abstraction may have already been resolved in the code by the time I got on that projects. TSDFs are cool as hell and way more interesting than representing ambiguous surfaces with mesh triangles.

Also, I've been there with the turbulence a couple times. Sometimes months happen in a day and vice versa ;)
For anyone who wants to explore further, Wikipedia has a list page for these RFCs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for...

There are a lot more of them than I had realized before finding that. Some years even had multiple.
You might not want to retire, but your body (or mind) might have other ideas.
Show HN: Interactive price comparison for AI models (LLMs and Speech-to-Text)
Demo: https://ai-pricing.vercel.app/
GitHub: https://github.com/WiegerWolf/ai-pricing

I built this tool to solve a common problem: understanding the real cost of using different AI models at scale. It compares pricing and performance metrics across major AI providers, with interactive calculators for both Large Language Models and Speech-to-Text services.

What it does:
- Compares 20+ LLMs (GPT-4, Claude 3, Gemini 1.5, Groq, etc.)
- Shows Arena ELO scores, processing speeds, context sizes
- Calculates monthly costs based on token usage
- Compares STT services (Deepgram, AssemblyAI, OpenAI Whisper, etc.)
- Displays per-minute/hour pricing and free quotas
- Updates regularly with latest models and pricing

Technical details:
- No frameworks or dependencies, just vanilla HTML/CSS/JS
- Data stored in JSON files for easy updates
- Responsive design, works on mobile
- Keyboard navigation support
- Open source, MIT licensed

Example use cases:
- Calculate costs for different usage scenarios
- Compare model performance vs price
- Find models with free tiers
- Check real-time STT capabilities
- Verify context window limitations

The tool helped me choose providers for several projects, so I thought others might find it useful too. Feedback welcome!
Apple did not start making Mini's because of pent up demand. It started because of a specific opportunity to realize high profits in the context of Apple's other manufacturing and logistic operations. The manufacturing line for the Mini made Mini's until the supply of its widgets was exhausted.

For example if a screen wafer has 1000mm diameter (I am just making this up). If the yield is 100 large iPad Pro screens and Apple can make 15 Mini screens from the left over area, the Mini screens have a very low cost basis. There is also a low output, so consumer demand doesn't need to be high for the Mini to be very profitable.

Apple's product line is the result of an optimization problem that is solved across its entire product line not product by product. It doesn't matter that a product sells well. It matters that it sells right. Too much demand for the Mini means Apple stores don't have them in stock and that will make shoppers unhappy.

I doubt Apple has been sending Mini's to the landfill.
KitOps is a packaging, versioning, and sharing system for AI/ML projects, using open standards to work seamlessly with your existing AI/ML, DevOps, and development tools, all stored in your enterprise container registry.

KitOps generates a ModelKit for your AI/ML project, including everything needed for local reproduction or production deployment. ModelKits are immutable, signable, and live in your registry, making them easy to track, control, and audit.

ModelKits simplify collaboration between data scientists, developers, and SREs by allowing selective unpacking to save time and space. Teams use KitOps for secure, efficient AI/ML project management across the lifecycle.

Use KitOps for all AI/ML projects:

Predictive models
Large language models
Computer vision models
Multi-modal and audio models, etc.
But we don't see armed rebellions of native populations against the local elites, we see foreign forces attacking with the native population (generally unsuccessfully) resisting the invaders. While undoubtedly there were internal power struggles that contributed to the larger collapse, the sea peoples are not explained by a military shift to larger armies.
> "how is cyber bullying real? Like just close your eyes lmao".

I guess I read this with a widely different angle of view.

I read it more like "it's fine to disagree with feedback", or "it's fine not to contribute 'back'", and you shouldn't feel guilty about this, or think people are guilty when they do these things.

I think having those things in mind can help feel better and have better communication.

About bullying, the author actually explicitly says that it's not okay:

> A user has the freedom to grumble about the software, or how some facet of the software means that they are not going to use the software. (Well, freedom within the constraints of the rules of whatever system they are using to document that grumble; if they’re doing so on someone else’s computer, whoever runs that computer has the freedom not to permit that grumble…). And, IMHO, the expectation that they should be free to do so without harassment.
How to Create a Hugging Face Space: A Beginner's Guide [video]
Immigration, what Americans want is democratic control
It's a stealth ad for the author's book. If you think the advertising copy was written by an llm, I'm pretty sure that says you won't like his book :-)
One option is `bld`. They added IntelliJ support since I looked at it last, so that's nice.

https://github.com/rife2/bld
Sticking notes...Not everyone understands how necessary this is for some people
Certainty is too high of a bar.
Except that storing your iCloud Photo Library on an external drive is a PITA, as multiple daemons (photoanalysysd being one of them) will randomly activate themselves to do their shit, making it difficult to predict when the drive will not be able to be gracefully ejected. It needs to be a permanent external disk.
Go buy 40 acres in the desert and live your dream.
I believe most of the offices she called actually required referrals for all initial appointments (regardless of insurance), so I don't think that's a factor here.
What was the attitude toward humility 2000 years ago, and where? I personally have no idea.

Jesus is certainly far, far more influential than 2000 years ago. Christianity was an obscure religion and probably nobody had heard of Jesus outside the immediate region.
2 or 3 families I can imagine. 5 is a lot. 10 seems like a very rare, and somewhat odd, exception.
That news is so 2023.
> But the charging on the bottom is such a non-issue in reality

As I said, you rarely needed to remember to charge it. Till you would in the midst of something.

Anyway, I never liked the MM so when I had my iMac I bought a magic trackpad (which you could charge while using, small bonus).
Different kind of TLS.
Great theory lesson, but… You are basing all of this on a non cash world. Cash is still king in many parts of society that aren’t entirely on the up and up. These are the OGs of this sport and definitely aren’t incompetent. Plus sale of goods is very easy to fake if you have multiple parts of the vertical covered. things don’t make sense if you’ve never done them.
They were common, just not as visible. If you knew which mailing lists to be on, you saw all the same stuff.
Two things can both be bad!
Adventure (but it's admittedly a very difficult game to win):

https://grack.com/demos/adventure/
Of course, but those cables (or more likely, just one cable) can be stashed away in a drawer 99% of the time. The bundled keyboard and mouse/trackpad can go months between recharges, especially with lighter less frequent use that something like a living room or kitchen machine might see.
The most amusing (IMHO) part of the old Usenet Oracle:

>"Answers from the Oracle traditionally contain a request for payment such as "You owe the Oracle a rubber chicken and a Cadillac." This segment, often called the "YOTO line" (for "You owe the Oracle") or tribute, often refers to objects that are related, in a punny way, to the answer they are a part of."
Brought to you by AI and the EU.

The DRAM makers must love AI, low end iPhones increase RAM 33% (6GB -> 8GB), low end iMacs go from 8GB to 16GB.
Tests are great, but there’s more to programming than writing tests. People don’t have to mention tests in every article.
> Imagine my surprise when the customers chief software engineer said "Of course it leaks". He went on to point out that they had calculated the amount of memory the application would leak in the total possible flight time for the missile and then doubled that number.

This is the funniest "feature, not a bug" explanation I've ever seen.
I wouldn't buy any Apple hardware to begin with. We had to sue them in a class action because of their awful faulty hardware. We're never going back.
Good point. No one at a beer store has ever tried to talk me into buying more than I wanted, except maybe boredly pointing to some display and saying "we have X on sale if you want some."
Very interesting project, would love to read a more technical write up on how the model was architected and trained, any pointers?
Perhaps you mean to say that you're waiting for a new scripting language to be created that's designed to be "almost Rust." That could be interesting! OTOH, the bindings for existing languages have matured significantly:

- https://pyo3.rs/
- https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon
- https://github.com/mre/rust-language-bindings
As u/tzs explains, a rocket engine does not cause a uniform field that accelerates the rocket. It only creates a force at the engine's combustion chamber and bell nozzle. That force is then communicated to the rest of the ship via gazillions of interactions between the electrons and protons making up the atoms that make up the ship and its contents. In fact, even at the engine itself it's the same story. It is these electromagnetic interactions that we call the "normal force" that we feel and that our accelerometers measure.

It is too trivial to make the mistake you did, and then to conclude that gravity is not a force. But that's not really a correct view. A better view is that there are at least two equivalent understandings of gravity: one where it curves spacetime, and the other where it causes accelerations (therefore is a force) that cause photons and massive particles to follow the paths that the other interpretation would have them follow due to spacetime curvature.
People complaining they don't have money for groceries with their collection of different colored $40 stainless steel mugs in the background.
If you'll pardon me, as a devil's advocate, it could go either way. They have a value but it's difficult to know to whom they owe that value to, the party, the corporations, voters, readers etc. The other is that.. they have value in the act of playback.

One political faction/side knows a publication is favored by one of the two parties. It can use that fact to feed it false information, or truthful, and watch to see how it gets reported, and the reaction of that electorate.
The “everyone will not just X” issue is, I think, less of an obstacle when you don’t need the “everyone” part.

If “Y% of people just did X, then things would be Y% • Z amount better” is a much better plan than “if everyone just did X, then the problem would be solved.” .

Some proportion of people are likely to be convinced by an argument that they should do something because it would make things better if they did.

You can’t practically expect to convince everyone, nor even almost everyone, to change their behavior with such an argument/plea.

But, if a marginal change in how many people do X would produce a marginal change in goodness of outcome, it can be effective to make such an argument/plea.

I claim that “how kind people are” is a situation where marginal improvements in what fraction of people are at least V kind, produces a commensurate improvement in outcomes.

That’s not to say that improving incentives wouldn’t also be good.
Text-based adventure games have such a unique charm
The webmaster tools used to say Google will punish your rank if the crawler gets too many 404 or 410...
Never mind that half your patients will swear to your face that your entire decade of training was part of a global conspiracy by Bill Gates to put microchips in your arm or other bullshit.

And half of your nurses will agree with them!
https://archive.ph/2vQm6
While I understand the motivation, decent ad blockers such as uBlock Origin do a lot more than just block visible conventional advertisements. So by not running an ad block, unfortunately there might be a great deal of private data about your browser habits that are being exfiltrated without your knowledge.
I had a viceral "oh no, did I just install a virus" feeling when I visited that website, haha. I guess those memories die hard.