skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a generation of people is growing who got used to watching digitally compressed audio and video

I have to point out that DVDs are in fact digitally compressed audio and video. The last mass market video media that wasn't compressed was VHS.

DVDs use MPEG-2 and AC3 for their compression algorithms (both lossy).

The algorithms that streaming services use for compression are leaps and bounds better than what DVDs can do. Further, there's been a lot of research dumped into optimizing perceptual quality at a given bitrate.

As a hobby, I've recompressed DVDs and blurays. With modern compression algorithms and codecs, for me a 1080p stream with AV1 compression and Opus codec is transparent at about 1500kbps. (Depending on the media, Cartoons can go much lower and live action might need more bits).
I'm pretty sure they're doing fine-tune training, using Llama because it is a widely known and available sample. They used SDXL elsewhere for the same reason.

Llama 2 was released well over a year ago and was training between Meta and Microsoft.
not going to miss the opportunity to upvote on the grief of having lost Reader
There is zero chance the whatsapp stories have more views than IG stories.
Ok, well, maybe it’s different from where you have been. But I’m pretty sure there is no global conspiracy to make me believe this, and it has been directly explained to me by people that were in the life, so to speak.

Of course, the term “superhobo” is a farcical literary confabulation, I’m sure nobody actually calls them “superhobos”

My exposure comes from Fairbanks in the 00s, Santo Domingo, Delhi, someplace in California near LA can’t remember. Figured it must be common?
I think it's trained on Brazilian Portuguese. Although I have lived in the UK for the last 10 years, it got it right every single time.
> We can approximately solve these systems with computers.

Yes, but with quantum measurements you cannot even approximate. Your predictions for e.g. a two-state system with equal amplitudes for the two states will be exactly right exactly half of the time, and exactly wrong the other half.
BLAS is just the library definition and not the implementation, so BLAS implementations could implement GEMM anyway they want. But in practice the triple loop method (n^3) is the most common, despite Strassen's and the more numerically stable, Winograd methods being well known and available for decades. But with most things involving real computing hardware, memory access patterns and locality tend to be more important for performance than operation counts
Huh. So does that mean that LinkedIn respects DNT in the EU nowadays?
Suction has gotten us pretty far at the prototype level but definitely isn't enough - we're testing out some new gripper designs that use suction as a broader part of an overall grasping system.

For these videos we have lidars and two Intel Realsense depth cameras mounted to the safety cage and on a wall. We're working on moving as many sensor on-robot as possible in the near future to aid with deployability.
Advocating, in other words, the creation of a sort of

Automattic for the People
Hackers find hole in Krispy Kreme Doughnuts' cyber-security
The Rails apps I’ve worked with where there was an ORM mess (which yeah… is all of them) it’s extremely clear that the mess is the normal “too fast” software development mess. Sure, it’s worse because it’s the ORM (and/or sharp knives), but it’s also always been the case that I can clean it up with better use of Actuve Record.

Also, I’ve worked with some pretty gnarly pure-SQL systems that had essentially the same kinds of problems.

It’s all just variations on “saving hours of planning with months of work” kind of things.
Not me, I came out as 98% German. Oh well, I just need to own it!
Not really. Many businesses have a fixed set of customers that changes very infrequently. e.g., many wholesalers may only have a small handful of customers that they sell to.
They were if you count the amount they claimed to be putting in from their award:

“The total value of The Onion’s bid was $7 million, including $1.75 million in cash put up by Global Tetrahedron, with the rest coming from the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, who essentially opted to put a portion of their potential earnings from a defamation judgment against Mr. Jones toward The Onion’s bid.”
I'm genuinely surprised it got my accent right. Coming from Serbia, I'd never expect to get it right. My first guess was that it's geo-ip based, but I could be wrong.
> IQ is as far as I can tell quite well accepted as a diagnostic tool

Inside certain bubbles, sure, because there's pressing demand to have something quantifiable and sufficient supporters willing to assert its legitimacy.

But good luck taking your test results outside of those bubbles to earn you some opportunity or respect, even if you can say your test was administered to the highest standards by the most respected administrators.

Nobody here will take your results to mean anything. Nobody at your work will take your results to mean anything. The recruiter at some new potential job won't either. The prestigious university you want to attend won't care. Most of your partners and friends probably won't.

Many of them may already have a sense of whether you're "intelligent" or not, either from personal interactions or from other practical indications. But good luck finding somebody of material influence who would hear your IQ score results and change their mind. It just doesn't have that weight.

That's what it means for it not to be treated seriously outside of bubbles. There are supporters that back it, and there are institutions that rely on it, but outside of those very specific places, there's very very little trust in it.
I can’t speak for rails’s ActiveRecord but I don’t think DjangoORM is worse than any other ORM in that regard. It’s probably one of my favorite ORMs. I don’t think I’ll ever really use it again but that includes every other ORM.
Hand them a newspaper. Plenty of text there to use as a pad. The code breakers would need to know both the newspaper used, and the algorithm used to select letters from the paper in order to crack it. Or use a magazine to provide the algorithm.

Every U-Boot mission gets another newspaper. Every U-Boot has a different newspaper. There weren't that many U-Boots, so this would be manageable.

Even decoding one U-Boot's transmissions would not compromise the others.
I have had the opposite. I think it really just depends on which lists your number is on.
Title is: Introducing Reddit Answers
I'm with parent commenter: please don't.
How do you prevent wetness on the bottom side if you don’t flip?

Also how do you get a thin crust?
Slow down your investments until the nature of the chaos is understood.

If you have federal exposure, and know people with juice in MAGA circles, start sucking up. Otherwise, you need a lobbying strategy. These guys hate civil service, and intend to break the agencies, so knowing cronies is essential.

Start scrubbing political content from social media and blogs. With fascists, you need to suck it up and work with them, or not. If applicable, de-empathize your wokeness and progressive politics, which shouldn’t be associated with your business anyway.
Oh this is very cool as well. Thank you for sharing. I hadn't heard of LiveStore.
Leaving out the How totally changes it though. "It works?!?" means it's working but you don't know how/why nor really care. Kind of like everyone importing 3rd party libraries. It works, but don't care to know how. Just move that card to the done column. "How it works?!?" means there's an attempt at the explanation but it might not be the best explanation if even correct.
What does this mean - could you elaborate on what you mean by ad companies and how they would use voice data?
The app this is advertising helps non-native speakers with their accent, I assume to sound more American. This is a great goal, and I'm sure there are a lot of people who would be willing to pay the $200-$300 yearly subscription cost. Apparently the AI part is not even the main function of the app, that's what the extra $100 are paying for[1].

I would be interested in an AI-only product that would help me learn to passably immitate various English accents, like Australian, Irish and so forth, for fun. I know that ChatGPT Voice can do accents pretty well, I've been wondering if it would also be able to help me with mine, but I haven't tried it seriously.

[1] https://www.boldvoice.com/frequently-asked-questions
It seems this way, but we've been saying this for years and years. And somehow nvidia keeps making more and more.

Isn't it telling when Google's release of an "AI" chip doesn't include a single reference to nvidia or its products? They're releasing it for general availability, for people to build solutions on, so it's pretty weird that there isn't comparisons to H100s et al. All of their comparisons are to their own prior generations, which you do if you're the leader (e.g. Apple does it with their chips), but it's a notable gap when you're a contender.
Corollary on another thread discussion: Never ever buy anything that depends on Software as a Service on a payment plan.

They go out of business too quickly these days, and run away with the money.
Edit: Is there any big open source project, long term, community contributed, in rust?
yeah, but the result is pie!
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392116
This is one of my main topics when integrating design systems for UI concerns, and imho this site does well at demonstrating a central problem and misunderstanding:

The author talking about "4 colors", when really he means 4 "color roles" or "theming swatches".

First of all, 4 don't cut it.

You'll need accents for all of them, to fade sidenotes, visual hierarchy and disabled elements; to differentiate states of interactive; for borders, separators, and other parts of the chrome, and visual distinction of illustrative elements like icons; to give just a few samples ..

But the shortcomings of building a design system on 3 swatches for "text, bg, button" will become obvious much sooner, since defining which of the text/bg colors works for the button text depends on the button color itself, etc.

What most frameworks, complex and simplistic alike, get wrong imho, is that you need TWO "layers" of color definition, not to cram your palette definition into semantic concerns of the ui to be decorated. Those are separate concerns!

Or better said: the purpose of design tokens is not to be an abstraction for css properties of distinctive components.

- One Layer is your brand definition, or the color palettes that will serve to define the GUIs design. These are your design tokens

- The other layer is a semantic abstraction of the requirements in the design context. These are your "text, bg, button text, button bg, ..."

The library of design tokens need to acommodate ANY context the brand design could be applied to, and thus provide a wide range of shades for whatever amount of base colors want to use in the brand design.

These will then be mapped to the second layer of "roles", and populate whatever distinct use cases in the design.

TLDR: there is no "text, bg, highlight" color. There are "primary, secondary, accent, neutral, ..." color palettes, and "copy text, copy bg, button text, button icon, button bg, hovered button, .." swatches to be populated with them.
Based on what? The receiver knows where it is since it has GPS. Starlink knows the orbits of their own satellites. Why wouldn't they queue up connections to upcoming satellites and then hand off from one to the next in anticipation of the one you are on eventually rotating out?

What's up with the apparent assumption they only track one satellite at a time or until there is a communication problem? That would be stupid (and why they obviously don't do that).
This is relevant to folks evaluating VPN providers as the app is most users' entrypoint to the service.
https://livebench.ai/#/
I don't agree with Jones' political positions, but as someone who was not born in America, I think I can see the issue in a less passionate and partisan way. For me it is clear that the this judgment had a gigantic political vector.

I fully agree on the guilty verdict, but the sentence, frankly, was meant as a political message for Jones and everyone else on his side of the political spectrum: Stop talking the things you talk, because we are coming for you, and we get you, you won't like it.

As someone who was born in a corrupt small town in a corrupt banana republic, and was somewhat familiar with this kind of thing, it was pretty easy to see it for what it was.
Queen talked into a magic mirror, that she chose based upon it's agreeableness, and every day asking if someone was more beautiful than her, mirror appeased her and said yes there is and it so happens to be the step daughter you hate. I should kill her, shouldn't I magic mirror. Yeah, people in fairy tales kill their step daughters all the time, no problem there.

Queen does it, and the kingdom is then mad at the mirror, and king rules that all mirrors need to be destroyed.
So I picked up the Czech accent but not the language, dang.
There are some previous incidents of English Scrabble champions who didn't speak English (by the same approach of memorizing dictionaries without necessarily knowing the meaning of the words).

Here's a documentary about Thai Scrabble experts who often don't speak English:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyFJTEOHdi4

I believe there were also non-English-speaking competitors from other countries who had turned in world champion-level performances!
Would be cool if it could detect area specific accents. I grew up in Kentucky and tried it in a very thick Eastern KY accent and it just said native english speaker. (technically true)
Here's what it sounds like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB8vHRH9A6M
There’s none other than localized heating effects, and yes, it’s laughed out of the room.

So, obviously you don’t want to microwave your eyeballs, but you’d feel that in other nearby tissues as heat. If you don’t feel heat from a non-ionizing RF source, you’re not getting cooked. In any case, the amount of infrared coming off an incandescent lightbulb is about 3 orders of magnitude higher than the energy coming off a WiFi router antenna. If being in the room with a lightbulb is safe, so is being in the room with WiFi.

There isn’t a set of rules of physics where low-power, non-heating, non-ionizing RF is dangerous, and also where CPUs work. They’re incompatible. You can’t have both of those at the same time.
From what I've heard, it's ubiquitous everywhere except North America, where it is still quite popular. In South America, everyone uses it, even to message their doctor with a random question.
You’ll be very surprised if you saw internal dashboards for each feature usage.
I've heard about this one as well. I'm not sure why it seems to have less "hype" than Zero or ElectricSQL. I'm going to play with it this weekend. Thanks for sharing.
sealed bidding entices bidders who really want something to overbid to ensure they win. It is a common strategy to maximize offers
The problem is not bone density. Your bones are never going to break under your own weight unless there's something seriously wrong with you. The problem is joint health.
guessed 100% czech for me as well, wrongly
How about a forklift like handling ?
For an alternative django templating, I would recommend htpy. https://htpy.dev/
> Would you sub for $50 if you whee getting $51

Personally no, 50$/month of value covers not just 30$/month, but also the overhead of yet another subscription.

So paying 10 for 15 doesn’t make much sense IMO, but $100 for $150 does.
Another one I have to play with. Thanks for sharing.
they and TSMC don't compete with ASML.
If you have the time, read "Chip wars" that will definitely convince you that USA needs a local chip maker and a Fab if the wish to retain their superpower position. Prior to reading the book, I'll agree and say to hell with the fabs. Just design and let TSMC make it. After reading the book, USA needs a miracle.
Code execution is okay, but soon runs into the problem of missing packages that it can't install.

Practically, sandboxing hasn't been super important for me. Running claude with mcp based shell access has been working fine for me, as long as you instruct it to use venv, temporary directory, etc.
US nutritional info panels are far easier to tune out, but many people still find them useful. Better to give people information should they want to put extra thought into their diet as opposed to keeping things obscured and making the task that much more difficult. The Wiki article says 10% of people take the labels into consideration. If 5-10 million Mexican families eat healthier diets at the cost of simple labels covering some marketing materials, that seems like a fantastic deal for consumers.
>> Younger workers — particularly in Generation Z, the Zoomers born from 1997 through 2012 — often witness companies marketing themselves as a place with a culture that cares, a workplace that treats people like family.

They grew up in the era that was experiencing the destruction of that ideal. Totally naive to not have read the news while they were growing up if they didn't know it coming in. A company that size is too big to care.

Or, the company definitely treats you like family. But it's entirely dependent on one sociopathic parent for all its resources. Family is the source of much abuse, after all.
I've noticed a slight drop-off, but my phone is still useless.
That's a Bazaar I would love to window-shop in - and heck maybe purchase a couple of ornate unique carpets while I'm at it =)
> The app this is advertising helps non-native speakers with their accent, I assume to sound more American.

Do people want to learn to speak English like a twangy guitar on purpose?
this would be a major hinderance to widespread adoption. DoS attacks aside the fact that it has no legal liability offset for video hoster (which anybody watching the video ends up sort of like bitorrent)
There should be a way to submit a complaint to the FCC for each instance. I don't know how, but it should exist somehow.
“Tortious interference” is wrongful interference in others’ contractual or business relationships. Wordpress does not have to provide free services to anyone in particular, only to honor their legal agreements and treat their users equally. In this case they did not; they took action specifically to damage WPEngine.

Matt may even be morally correct in some ways, but that doesn’t give him the right to use his position as Wordpress leader to damage the business of someone who competes with Automattic.
this is the gen z/gen alpha equivalent of those "useless" personality surveys.

stop feeding these companies your data.
FYI, there’s a few projects out there for interoperability between Ruby and Python - stuff like putting one language in another.

Also, Jupyter and Zeppelin notebooks allow for interoperability, although I don’t know how.

(Oh, lastly, if there’s a JVM implementation of Python you could probably use alongside JRuby)
> This particular statistic has a ton of problems. It's impossible to disassociate the various causative pathways that land you at a BMI below 25. A ton of them involve diseases and chronic conditions.

I'd beware of using this sort of hand-waving to ignore the studies, there are also effects pushing the relationship between average health outcomes and BMI in the other direction. Your ethnic origin seems to be very important, and for ethnicities who already have a high propensity for Type 2 diabetes, higher BMI is a factor, but not a huge one.

> Strikingly, in those with a normal weight, the prevalence of diabetes was 5.0% in whites, 10.1% in Asians and American Indians/Alaskan Natives, 13.0% in Hispanics, 13.5% in Blacks, and 18.0% in Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders.

> Furthermore, when they examined the relative risks for diabetes for each BMI category by race/ethnicity, Zhu et al. reported that across all racial/ethnic groups whites had the steepest BMI gradient, followed by Asians, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, Hispanics, Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and blacks.

https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/42/12/2164/36251/D...

Another potential distortion comes out of this when you consider that black and Hispanic people are the fattest in the US. Blacks and Hispanics can have lower lifespans for reasons other than BMI, such as access to health care, high-quality food, exposure to violence, physical jobs, etc...

So just these two factors complicate the picture in general (your fattest have the least access to health care and most exposure to danger and neglect), and and in the other direction specifically for white people (an increase of BMI in white people makes a huge difference in their incidence of diabetes.)

Anecdotally, I'm black, and there's a lot of thin diabetes in my family. My dad usually runs about 20-21 BMI, and is pre-diabetic. His mother, who is also small, though not quite as small, is also diabetic. As far as I can tell, the fatter people in both sides of my family are no more likely to be diabetic than the thinner ones.
> to do it all over the internet, but adds the associated serialization and transport latency.

I wrote this blog post on that topic a while back after having seen various approaches robotics companies take and their shortcomings: https://transitiverobotics.com/blog/streaming-video-from-rob...
We're really focused on health and safety aspects of this job - in a repetitive stress sense, these jobs are much more dangerous than many people imagine they would be and people end up with lifelong injuries.

Generally, regulators seem to be moving in this direction as well. The EU has introduced new regulations on the total amount of weight someone can move in a shift, and the Dutch government has mandated that baggage handling move away from manual processes like this in the near future.
It is definitely a PR move
a lot of my international friends tried it form the same german wifi and it got all right :)
You may be right about pgroll specifically, I haven't looked at it closely. However, you can't really say "just do db migrations in a safe way". The way your DBA staff would "apply migrations safely" would be to use ghost-tables and views and triggers and locks - ie: they would write pt-online-schema-change or gh-ost or VReplication or, well, pgroll. These tools were born at places like Facebook or Github by the team responsible for applying migrations safely.

The argument that "all software has bugs" applies to both the database itself as well as the software you're writing on top. Hence why "reversible" is the 2nd selling-point here.
Why is that a huge advantage over AI competitors? Just not having to fight for limited Nvidia supply?
In my case, it said twice that it was Portuguese, but it’s wrong, it should be Brazilian. :-)
you think they're going to hack Amazon "en-mass" by installing faulty ram in every rackmount server?
Canceled my GPT Pro subscription, annoyed with OpenAI
Paying $200 a month (10x the existing subscription!) and I don't get access to Sora on "launch" day? Who the hell does then? Feel even dumber for signing up for the $200/mo and canceled immediately when i saw I didn't have access
Parent didn't claim Google is winning. Only that there is a cohesive push and investment in a single product/platform.
Also, they are gone before anyone can triangulate them.
Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode
Tried it. You know for science. Told me 99% Russian. WRONG! I guess, "Good luck" to you Bryan Mills.