skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computer vision has become very good, but whatever it is exactly that it is doing, it is still not the same as human vision, and this is one of the places where that really sticks out. A human can learn from a bunch of super-perfectly-pristine 3D renders to recognize a real-world object. Heck, we can do it from a single pristine 3D render, and not even necessarily a high-quality/resolution one. Whatever it is that computer vision is doing, it is something less "powerful" than human, which we then make up for by throwing a lot more computation and resources at it, which covers over a lot of the problems.

If you can figure out exactly why that is, you will at the very least get a very well-cited paper out of it, if not win some sort of award. It's not a complete mystery what the problem is but the solution is unknown.

Because we don't know what the difference is, we can't fix up the 3D renders. "Just make it noisy" certainly isn't it. (We in fact have a lot of experience throwing noise at things; the whole "stable diffusion" AI image generation is based on that principle at its core.) It has to be the right sort of noise, or distortions, to represent the real world, and nobody can tell you exactly what that is.
Can you share more about your experience, which platform you were using and what features you were looking for so that we can share it with the team?
Once they get a MacBook Air with an M4, it will become a viable option for developers and other users that want/need 2 external monitors. Definitely looking forward to that happening.
The irony of Plato's writings on writing shouldn't be lost on you.
Ask HN: What don't you like about Stripe?
Considering my options and would like to hear from people who have used/are using Stripe.
> A new product, a new market, a spinoff.

Five or 10 years ago, they were doing a lot of this. Dropbox Paper ("a collaborative online workspace that allows you to create, share, and edit documents and notes with your team") for one. It's still active but it never took off. I was just notified that there is some sort of migration taking place which is probably related to the RIF.
Request: Any tech-recruiters on here who can validate this? I spent a single month in June job hunting (mid-level SWE, DE roles) and it was terrible. Hundreds of applicants per position. It felt like being a fresh-grad again. But that's just my anecdata
Ha. I didn’t know the detail of any of these tables beforehand. It’s just a matter of doing a bit of research. The main takeaway is there’s no perfect hash table. It all depends on the data and the operations. Contests like this are the perfect excuse to deep dive into these kinds of topic.
People want a desktop because they

1. can use a smartphone for all mobile tasks

2. see better on a large screen

3. are more comfortable with a mouse than a trackpad

4. don't have to worry about spilling tea on a laptop or dropping it on the floor. A keyboard is cheap to replace if that happens.
There may be a layer of diamond inside Mercury
No, I dont think there should be a penalty by default.

The objective of a company isnt and shouldn't be to run a charity. Some amount of layoffs are desirable just as a matter of housekeeping. Layoffs can be a hard part of doing a good job.

I think there are extreme examples and tactics where layoffs cross a moral line but not a legal line. for example, I think the humane thing to do is freeze hiring before layoffs so you dont relocate someone only to let them go.

That said, there are already a lot of business incentives to avoid turbulence in headcount. It is slow and expensive to hire people and let them go.
Discussion (60 points, 22 hours ago, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41988165
Im relatively surprised modern Macs have same buffer underrun issue I had on intel laptops with pulseaudio 7+ years back.
There is on iOS. No ads. "Reader" by Eleven Labs. I haven't used it that much but have listened to some white papers and blogs (some of which were like 45 minutes) and it "just worked". Even let's you click text you want to jump to.

And it's Eleven Labs quality- which unless I've fallen behind the times is the highest quality TTS by a margin.
Over-architecture is already in use.

What's your reason for leaving out the "ar" in architecture?
Yes. I'm trying to make that work. Thanks for the feedback.
Show HN: AgentServe – A open-source framework for hosting scalable AI agents
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AgentServe is a framework to make hosting scalable AI agents as easy as possible. With 4 lines of code AS wraps your agent (any framework) in a FastAPI and connects it to a Task Queue (celery or redis).

Why Should You Care?

Standardized Communication Pattern: AgentServe proposes that all agents should communicate with each other and the outside world with “Tasks” that can be submitted in a sync or async way. This simple API wil enable

Framework Agnostic: No favorites. OpenAI, LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI are all welcome. AS provides an entry point for the outside world to engage with your agent.

Task Queuing: For when your agents need a little help managing their to-do list. For scale or Asyncronous background agents, AgentServe connects with Redis or Celery Queues.

Batteries Included: AgentServe aims to remove a lot of the boiler plate of writing an API, managing validation, errros ect. Next on the roadmap is introducing a miiddleware pattern to add auth, observability or anything else you can think of.

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Fork it, star it, or just stare at it. We won't judge.

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We're working on streaming responses, detail hosting instructions for each cloud. And eventually created a one click hosting option and managed queue with an AgentServe Cloud (but lets not get ahead of outselves)

Thank you for reading, please check it out and let me know if this is useful.

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https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169...
The very high experience rate of renewables is just as important as current low cost. It means anything trying to compete with them is facing a rapidly moving target, and has to aim at where renewables will be, not just where they are.
Ask HN: Who is the smartest person you've ever known and why?
(no need to be famous) smart in the broadest meaning of the word
>> stagflation is dead ahead

Why?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989041 combined with https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/blob/release-7011/LICEN... is a pretty stark contrast, IMHO
LLMs have spawned endemic academic dishonesty in order to pad publication and citation counts.
A somewhat sensible take, but the issue isn’t just healthcare. A lot of your life is based off of long-term, fixed cost cash flow. E.g. you can’t pay less on your mortgage just because you got fired. Even with savings, getting laid off is highly disruptive, and, if done as part of a broader downturn in the market, you may never recover the required cash flow to enable your lifestyle.
Did you take a poll, or do you just have the feeling that that is the case? Not to mention, it's a bit weaselly. It offsets the burden of defending the position to "most people".

And it doesn't even matter what "most people" think. "Most people" in this case, would be wrong. Even if it were "most people" and not "most people whose opinions you've happened to remember on the subject because they happen to align with yours".

And it's going to get darker earlier in winter. That's just what it does. People are really just lamenting the lack of daylight hours in general. Because during the winter, few places have sunlight during 6pm and 7pm even if we kept DST year round. What they say they want is sunlight between 5pm and 6pm. And after the clocks roll back, it'll start getting dark soon after 5.

And once again, I ask, for what? Having the sun rise just after 6am is better for everyone. School kids waiting for the bus are safer, kids walking to school way safer. Better driving when you're waking up. Everything is more in line with your circadian rhythms, etc.
Yep. I moved from an M1 Air to M2 MBP but only for RAM and creature comforts (size, display, sound etc.)

Even on the fanless Air performance was more than enough for the moderate dev work I threw at it.

iPhones have been more powerful than they needed to be for years; it's great to see this phenomenon in Macs.
Vertical bedrock shifts reveal summer water storage in Greenland ice sheet
> But the idea of letting an LLM write/move large swaths of code seems so incredibly irresponsible. Whenever I sit down to write some code, be it a large implementation or a small function, I think about what other people (or future versions of myself) will struggle with when interacting with the code. Is it clear and concise? Is it too clever?

I agree with our conclusion but not your supporting evidence. Not only can you read it to answer all these questions, but you can BETTER answer these questions from reading it. Because you are already looking at it from the perspective you are trying optimize for (future reader).

What is less clear is if it handles all the edge cases correctly. In theory these should all be tested, but many of them cannot even be identified without thinking through the idiosyncrasies of the code which is a natural byproduct of writing code.
Yes, I think that's a perfectly reasonable way to describe the amount of rope produced in South Africa. It uses the correct units and therefore contains no ambiguity. Saying instead that the total amount of rope produced in South Africa was 16 billion meters, leaving the "per year" implied, would, by contrast, be ambiguous and open to misinterpretation; equally plausible interpretations would be "in all of history" (the literal interpretation) or "per month". Unless, as in this case, the statement was qualified with a particular year-long time period, such as "in 2019", in which case "500 meters per second" or "16 billion meters" would be equally unambiguous ways of describing the situation.

"500 meters per second" is not just (total production per year) / (seconds in a year) but also (total production in a day) / (seconds in a day) and (total production in a month) / (seconds in a month).

Meters per second, like watts, has the advantage of being an SI unit and therefore facilitating calculations with other SI units without requiring a bunch of numerical conversion factors.
There’s a decently well known one in Idaho
If they delete your stuff, you almost certainly won’t resume your subscription. The cost of storage may be lower than the benefit from re-subscriptions, and possibly the cost of actually implementing and maintaining an automated deletion process in compliance with all jurisdictions.
I don’t mind discussing arachidonic acid after this - I’m less woke on the literature on it and am always up for learning something new. When I was referring to no evidence in humans, I meant with regards to the idea of n3:n6 ratios.

If n3 is at sufficient levels, I see no reason to believe the n3:n6 ratio should be of any concern in terms of health risks. All the evidence I’ve seen cited to support the claim that a given n3:n6 ratio raises risks of negative health outcomes has induced “unhealthy” n3:n6 ratios by dropping n3 levels to insufficiency.

It’s on that point that I believe there is no supporting evidence in humans, and the fears of an issue are rooted in speculation. Happy to be proven wrong, though!
> Certainly France has been much better off in terms of carbon emissions from electricity since the 1980s than most places in the world, but they were also going nuclear due to lack of cheap fossil fuels.

That's the point: 2024's solar is better than 1980's nuclear, but in the meantime we've pumped a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere we didn't have to.
It's a good line, but our sun is making nice clean helium out of hydrogen fusion, those nasty radioactive elements are associated with fission (of big unstable isotopes of uranium, plutonium, thorium etc.)
The problem in Europe with the construction of electricity grids is the lack of competition. An oligopoly of producers supply monopolies on the buyer side.

The price-driving monopoly/oligopoly problem also affects the US electricity market.
Some ISPs (often those of the "last-mile") allow outgoing packets whose source IP does not belong to their subnet. They have no rules in IPtables preventing packets that do not belong to the given subnet assigned to end customers. This is how spoofed packets enter Internet most of the time. The ISPs on upper tiers can not use such filters (even if they want to) because their networks are not strictly hierarchical like the networks of the "last-mile" ISPs and such filters will simply break the connectivity. The only way to significantly reduce spoofed packets is if all "last-mile" ISPs implement proper filtration.
I've never heard that before. I don't think politics would stop a fleet of small 50-100MW replacing a 1GW reactor, and that's certainly not the opposition to SMRs now.

It's actually both economic and technical: the technical side makes smaller reactors less economic in terms of efficiency. Thermal generation benefits massively from being really really big.
And who sets the standards? Their CEO-buddies on the boards. None of them would dare rock the boat.

One of the failure modes of 401ks and investment funds are large investment pools that don't vote at AGMs, leaving boards largely dominated by CxOs, to their own devices.
I held onto my M1 Air for almost 4 years and only upgraded because the LCD somehow developed some random screen-dooring issues. It was always completely capable for what I needed though I do appreciate the additional real estate afforded by its 15" M3 replacement.
> you can't say you've read even one of those in that time.

I'm not sure if you're aware, but most of those papers are well known. All the arxiv papers are from 2022 or 2023. So I think your 5 minutes is pretty far off. I for one have spent hours, but the majority of that was prior to this comment.

You're claiming intellectual dishonestly too soon.

That said, @foobarqux, I think you could expand on your point more to clarify. @og_kalu, focus on the topic and claims (even if not obvious) rather than the time
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>Imagine you have a start-up and have built an AI teacher — an obvious and good AI use case. Before you may release it in the EU you must do the following:

I'm not sure I agree with what the author finds obvious...
>MW is power, not energy

i think a more useful correction for people whose day to day lives don't require them to keep track of the difference is

MW is rate of energy use with respect to time, not total energy. The rate of energy in science is called "power"

because they both are measures of energy, and the energy/power distinction in science co-opted preexisting words that didn't have those precise meanings. Total energy is the integral of power over time, so it's not really wrong to say "this higher energy battery contains more power" in everyday speech.
> I wonder what it will take to make Mac/iOS feel faster

I know, disabling shadows and customisable animation times ;) On a jailbroken phone I once could disable all animation delays, it felt like a new machine (must add that the animations are very important and generally great ux design, but most are just a tad too slow)
SMRs still require construction, not just manufacturing. NuScale's abortive effort required 1/3rd more labor hours to build per MW than conventional large reactors. You can't pour large concrete structures in a factory.
If only they would bring back the 11" Air.
Guys, I ran an EXPLAIN in a dockerized postgres server. You can see it in the screenshot I shared. Why did you assume I was just trusting the LLM? Jeez, Hn.
>"grade inflation"/"toxic positivity"

This is probably true of me (for BOTW/TOTK) from the position of a hard-core gamer or game critic, and itt stems from where I am in life. I am not looking for a super innovative/blem free game. I am looking for something that I can play with my kid and just have a fun time.

I have played a lot of games over the years. I have 250+ hours in every single fallout title (except 76), have completed all Halo storylines, hundreds of hours into each of the HL games, and have completed most of MGS. Most recently I put 80+ hours into Starfield, and another 60+ into Helldivers 2. If you're a hardcore gamer, those are all baby numbers (especially since I played fallout 2 in 1999), but to a non-gamer those numbers probably seem obscene.

All that to say, the 300 hours I have combined between BOTW + TOTK were a truly magical time hanging out with my daughter. I can't explain it more than that.

10 out of 10 games. Zero flaws.
Do they exclusively speak English as well?
That could just be the context though. Listening to a clip that's a demo of what the model can produce is very different to listening to a YouTube video that's using the model to generate speech about something you'd actually want to watch a video of.
As far as I know the lesson here is, never, ever, connect your TV to the Internet.
> The idea that a shlub like this would only just now for the first time be using an LLM like this is what is unbelievable.

It's unbelievable that someone would use a brand-new feature on their device for the first time?
Avoid lifestyle creep! I have to say I'm bad at this myself: somehow it all adds up, while each individual expense doesn't look so bad.
Thanks for the reply! I'll try the list approach myself. The Mutuals list is one of my favorites because I catch stuff I wouldn't otherwise.
On a tangent, if I have a M3 pro laptop how do I test HDR? Download a test movie from where, play it with what?

I may or may have not seen HDR content accidentally, but I’m not sure.
You're not explaining to me why a dog bites a human - you're telling me the lie the owner of the dog wants me to believe about why the dog bites a human.
If it's not generating income consider moving it to your basement. Maybe it'll be down occasionally, but not forever.
Yes they definitely do, see very similar numbered organizers in the background of this video [1]. In auto mfg they need to reliably build dozens of configurations on one line while maintaining impeccable part tracking for auditing and triage purposes. Each shelf on the left could be a different version of the engine cover for a different trim and the shelf on the right will be brought to a station where workers will pick from it based on the number the computer tells them for the exact vehicle in front of them.

This helps make sure the customer gets what they purchased and helps for QC and recalls. If one batch is bad then this system allows them to pinpoint down to the exact VINs that were affected.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Jlod53BCU&t=60s
The 2nd Gen of Pokémon also did that, basically having references to rl Japan:

https://youtu.be/Qil4OpfOufU?si=dLQEFJVESfMdW1BX
I travel and live abroad permanently, but I need to maintain a US mailing address and phone number. I have used TravelingMailbox for many years. Good customer service, addresses all over the USA. I looked at several services (and the new ones that pop up), they all seem to have similar pricing and services. I don't get a lot of mail. They scan incoming mail, will receive from USPS, FedEx, UPS, including parcels, can forward anywhere in the world.

Note that you have to fill out a USPS form to authorize a mail receiving service, including notary (which you can do online).

Also note that some organizations require an actual residential address, and they have access to databases that tell them you gave a mail receiving service. Mostly happens because of "know your customer" laws with banks, credit card companies, DMV, some other govt. agencies. Usually you can add the virtual address as a mailing address.
Yes that does get annoying, but at least for now they can be skipped over pretty easily.
> bit weird how people feel so differently when they get fired

That doesn't seem the least bit weird to me. If I choose to leave a job (or relationship), I could quite sensibly feel differently if that same job (or relationship) chooses to leave me.
There's no mixup. Solar electric energy production in South Africa in 02019 did indeed average about 500 megajoules per second throughout the year, totaling about 16 petajoules; which is to say, it was about 500 megawatts, or, in cursed units, 4 terawatt-hours per year.

Separately, it's true that peak power is often a very important criterion for energy storage systems.
Take a pay cut. Return last year's mega bonus.
Much like you can search the internet until you find a source that agrees with you, you can select a set of papers that "confirm" a particular viewpoint, especially in developing fields of research. In this case, the selected papers all support the view LLMs "know what they know" on some internal level, which iiuc is not (yet?) a consensus viewpoint (from my outsider perspective). But from the list alone, you might get that impression.

Related:

Still no lie detector for language models: probing empirical and conceptual roadblocks - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-023-02094-3

Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models - https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live With This - https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05746

(disclaimer, I also have not read any of these papers beyond the title!)
They aren't 20% smaller, they stopped growing. Some of those positions existed to help them continue with growth, which now isn't happening.

They reached market saturation, which isn't the same thing as failing.
I've usually found that this breaks down when there are a lot of filtering conditions besides the join condition, and multiple columns used in the joins. The WHERE clause gets long and jumbled and it is much easier to separate join conditions from filtering conditions.
I honestly can't answer that question, because it depends on context. People who are very smart in one sort of setting can be idiots in another, and vice-versa.

In my lifetime, I've gotten to know only two people who were unambiguous geniuses (although being a genius is a different thing than being smart). They were both broken people otherwise, and they led me to think that if that's the price of genius, then I'm very glad that I'm not one.
> Your manager doesn't get upset when you leave, bit weird how people feel so differently when they get fired.

Really? You think its weird that someone leaving impacts that person more than their manager, team, or company?

A manager doesn't care that you leave because he still gets to bring home a salary, all they have to do is hire another person and maybe cut back on scope for a little while. When someone is layed off or fired they have to go find a new job, their income streams dry up, and are forced to rely on savings. People often have long term financial commitments they cannot back out of, and not knowing how you'll make rent, if you can afford your child's school fees, or even maybe having to cut back on how much you eat, _is stressful_ and emotionally taxing.

Are you fucking kidding me? "Which is a bit weird" I'll tell you what's weird: management who doesn't understand that their employees rely on them more than they rely on the employee.

Of course its fine when someone chooses to leave their job, they've made contingencies and planned around it. Whether it's through savings, another job, or the lottery, people have at least some idea of their plan when they leave a job.