skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, even if we say that the ads from the website creator are not legitimate, it doesn't make the ads from brave legitimate.

Try to think about this from the perspective of another person instead of yourself.

Or think about this comparison: I own a bar where I sell drinks to the general public. Then some businessman comes in, throws out my bar staff and starts selling his own drinks to the guests, and offers 10% of revenue to me. Is that fair and honest? Who was the legitimate drink seller and who wasn't? Now you can say that alcohol is bad for your health and shouldn't be sold at all, and that you as a customer don't care. But it is very clear who is legit and who isn't.
I always really appreciate these posts.
Agreed. They are making two declarative statements: “all my hats”, and “are green”

If they always lie, then statement one is false - they lied about having hats.
Puberty blockers: Can a drug trial solve one of medicine's most controversial
It might, or it might just become the next CAFE. Disappointingly, the proposed regulation does not apply to vehicles over 10k lbs gross weight. This notably includes heavy duty pickups, a fast growing market segment thanks to the increasing popularity of 5th wheel campers as an alternative to self propelled RVs and their exemption from CAFE. Within 5 years HD pickups will probably be the only class of vehicles available with V8s, further increasing their popularity.
By the way, if the phrase is "X exists and all X are Y" then we wouldn't know if X really existed.

We only would know that either X doesn't exists or, if it exists, not all X are Y.
IBM has well structured learning material and a quantum simulator at https://learning.quantum.ibm.com/

Also my almamater made the quantum enigmas series that is appropriate for high-school students (it also interesting if you have no prior knowledge about quantum computing) https://www.usherbrooke.ca/iq/quantumenigmas/ (it also use IBM online learning platform)
Daniel Penny found not guilty in chokehold death of homeless man
At this point it's not inconceivable that either the US or the EU will fuck up their ads business out of anti-trust concerns.
I see a lot of sites writing articles about related subjects, then at the end there’s something like “if you like this topic, check out our product” or they find some way to tie the article into their product. (Some sites have “Top 10 Solutions to _____”, of which their product is recommended as #1, but I find those kinds of articles disingenuous because they’re trying to give the impression of neutrality where it doesn’t exist.)

IMO it’s impossible to build a serious business on word of mouth alone, but if you create genuinely useful content people will want to link to it. I have discovered many products this way.
Show HN: Ternary Computer System
Hi everyone!
I'm an Italian programmer, very passionate about computer architecture. Some time ago I realized that some architectures potentially much superior to the classic VonNeumann, have been forgotten because there were no reliable technical solutions to implement them.

One of these architectures particularly struck me and it is the "Dataflow architecture", in which there is no Program counter, but the instructions are executed in real contemporaneity whenever the operands are available.

In trying to find a technical solution that implements this type of architecture effectively (spoiler: yes, maybe I succeeded but I still have to test the real correct functioning!) I realized that this solution works more than well with three logical states. And at this point I discovered that perhaps it is better to implement a CPU with three states (ternary) instead of a white one. This as a first step to realize my dataflow solution.

Obviously a world has opened up to me regarding ternary CPUs, I have discovered not only that they are the best solution implemented for a computing device, but also that an increasing number of university and researcher papers are dealing with them in recent times.

This is also thanks to the enormous potential compared to normal CPUs; lower circuit complexity (and also lower consumption and lower heat production) but at the same time the truly formidable information representation capabilities compared to binary counterparts!

So here I am creating this ternary CPU and all the hardware and software to be able to use it immediately. In the link you have found some other details, but obviously for questions, suggestions or anything else you can insert your comment here!
> "I never make a true statement" says the liar.

I’ve never seen one of this puzzles phrasing it like that. With good reason, that would break the puzzle.
Yeah, but if I handed you a Maxfield Parrish it would be better than either of us can do — but not what I asked for.

I find generative AI frustrating because I know what I want. To this point I have been trying but then ultimately sitting it out — waiting for the one that really works the way I want.
What did the EU do this time?
I think inpainting and "draw the label scene" type interfaces are the obvious future. Never thought I'd miss GauGAN [1].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNv7XBngmLY&t=25
Yawn, there are literally 10 different apps and wannabe startups that do video generation and AI videos have already flooded social media. This doesn't look any better than what is and has been already available to the masses. OpenAI announced this ages ago and never did give people access, now competitors have already captured the AI generated video for social media slop market.

We have yet to see any kind of AI created movie, like Toy Story was for computer 3D animation.

OpenAI isn't a player in the video AI game, but certainly has bagged most of the money for it already (somehow).
The article said that the problem was based in formal logic and appeared on a "maths test." That means it isn't ambiguous question about the English language.
I'd love this on-prem.
It will work within thousands of days.
> he advances from junior to senior engineer in your specific domain

Only if your expectation of senior engineers is that they often hallucinate and you'll constantly have to double-check their work
Skyweb maybe?
https://saasbook.info/
Even if it's made with AI, it is slop only if you don't add anything original in your prompt, and don't spend much time selecting.

The real competition of any new work is the backlog of decades of content that is instantly accessible. Of course it makes all content less valuable, you can always find something else. Hence the race for attention and the slop machine. It was actually invented by the ad driven revenue model.

We should not project on AI something invented elsewhere. Even if gen AI could make original interesting works, the social network feeds would prioritize slop back again. So the problem is the way we let them control our feeds.
The article showed that Dirac deltas could be defined WITHOUT distributions. You ignored the article when answering my question.

The question is why distribution theory is a particularly good approach to notions like the Dirac delta.
> It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.

Can someone explain to me how he made the jump from "we achieved a meaninful threshold in quantum computing performance" to "The multiverse is probably real."
I wonder what it is about EU and UK law, in particular, that restricts its availability there. Their FAQs don't mention this.

If it's about training models on potentially personal information, the GDPR (EU and UK variants) kicks in, but then that hasn't restricted OpenAI's ability to deploy (Chat)GPT there. The same applies to broader copyright regulations around platforms needing to proactively prevent copyright violation, something GPT could also theoretically accomplish. Any (planned) EU-specific regulations don't apply to the UK, so I doubt it's those either.

The only thing that leaves, perhaps, is laws around the generation of deepfakes which both the UK and EU have laws about? But then why didn't that affect DALL-E? Anyone with a more detailed understanding of this space have any ideas?
Interesting to see how bad the physics/object permanence is. I wonder if combining this with a Genie 2 type model (Google's new "world model") would be the next step in refining it's capabilities.
You didn't say if you'll have a front end.

Supabase works best with single page apps. However a lot of the frameworks are moving towards server side react, so the need for having a rest API is going away.

So I would actually say use nextjs and get an AI such as bolt to generate an MVP.

If you are running AI such as LLM's you need GPU's. LLM's are constrained by memory bandwidth not CPU and GPUS have a ton of memory bandwidth.

Postgres is always a sold choice and RLS is defence in depth anyway.
Way back in the days of GPT-2, there was an expectation that you'd need to cherry-pick atleast 10% of your output to get something usable/coherent. GPT-3 and ChatGPT greatly reduced the need to cherry-pick, for better or for worse.

All the generated video startups seem to generate videos with much lower than 10% usable output, without significant human-guided edits. Given the massive amount of compute needed to generate a video relative to hyperoptimized LLMs, the quality issue will handicap gen video for the foreseeable future.
Link should be annoucement post: https://openai.com/index/sora-is-here/
Don't just critique - link. What other video generation tools have you used and recommend?
"Democrats perform poorly on history tests designed by Republicans."
I... can you explain, or point to some competitors...? To me this looks leagues ahead of everything else. But maybe I'm behind the game?

AFAIK based on HuggingFace trending[1], the competitors are:

- bytedance/animatediff-lightning: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.12706 (2.7M downloads in the past 30d, released in March)

- genmo/mochi-1-preview: https://github-production-user-asset-6210df.s3.amazonaws.com... (21k downloads, released in October)

- thudm/cogvideox-5b: https://huggingface.co/THUDM/CogVideoX-5b (128k downloads, released in August)

Is there a better place to go? I'm very much not plugged into this part of LLMs, partially because it's just so damn spooky...

EDIT: I now see the reply above referencing Hunyuan, which I didn't even know was its own model. Fair enough! I guess, like always, we'll just need to wait for release so people can run their own human-preference tests to definitively say which is better. Hunyuan does indeed seem good
Whoah good point. Man for how small that market is they sure spend a lot of time screwing it up. Given their closed systems, do Google, Meta and TikTok have tighter controls over ads served to kids that they just aren't applying, or is it something else?
it seems like a lot of people are scratching thier heads, and no one is laying claim to these drones.

they should be intercepted and identified, probably confiscated.

there are regulations to follow, Drone regulations in New Jersey are governed by both federal and state laws to ensure safety and privacy. Federally, the FAA mandates that drones over 0.55 pounds be registered and must be flown below 400 feet, with additional licensing for commercial operators. State laws prohibit drone use near correctional facilities, critical infrastructure, and during emergencies if it interferes with first responders.
All praise our new enthusiastically violent tech companies.

I for one don't think moving fast and breaking things is a good approach to weaponized AI, but hey.
We have Marco o1 at home.
Possibly not:

"x".join({'aa'+'bxb'}) == "x".join({'aaxb','b'})

The separator should not be able to show up in the inputs.
For me even if I know what I want, if I’m using gen AI I’m happy to compromise and get good enough (which again, is so much better than I could do otherwise).

If you want higher quality/precision, you’ll likely want to ask a professional, and I don’t expect that to change in the near future.
If you're looking for video for casual personal projects or fill-ins for vlog posts, or something to make your PowerPoint look neat, this seems like a rad tool. It has a looong way to go before it's taking anyone's movie VFX job.
How is EWMA a special case of Kalman? I typically frame it in terms of laplace/Z transform, in which case it's just a 1-pole LPF
So instant coffee is less obtainable than meth?
I like how the article claims that Palantir and Anduril were independently named, as if Palmer Lucky had no clue Palantir existed and what they do.
I've never made up my mind:

Were Peter Thiel et al ignorant of the ethical complexity around the Palantirs, that a sufficiently powerful user could control and distort what other users saw? Or was that part of the sales pitch?
It seems to me that it would make sense to just include more <BOS>-like meta tokens at the beginning in such cases, and have them as a prefixed scratch space that can be suppressed by treating them as non-output tokens.
The biggest issue I have had with Hetzner was with a dedicated server. I was constantly (3 times or more a week) getting abuse messages about my MAC address not being correct:

""""
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I was just using standard Docker to host a web app. No proxmox or KVM of any sort. I would just wait the 10 minutes, click their link https://abuse.hetzner.com/retries/?token=TOKENHERE, which would retry and would come back fine and my response would be "I changed nothing and the retry came back solved. I've done tcpdumps over a weeks time to see if any MAC addresses leak from the OS and none have while a similar ticket like this gets opened every couple days." The ticket would close shortly after I submitted.

I inquired to them at least twice about this and they just kept telling me I was leaking a MAC address that I wasn't allowed to even when I had proof of tcpdumps over a week time period. I found someone else who had this issue with them (most issues around this that I found were people hosting Proxmox) and they had Hetzner replace the NIC and it fixed the issue. Well, Hetzner wouldn't replace my NIC because "it was working" even though I referenced these abuse tickets. I ended up getting another dedicated server, migrated my app over there, and I haven't had issues since.

Their support is seriously not very good. Since that experience, I have had backups elsewhere and test restoring those backups regularly. The price to performance I get from them is unbeatable and like I said, I haven't had issues since getting a new machine. But, I'm definitely cautious and don't exactly trust things to not go sideways even though it's been 2 years since that experience.
That's fair but still better than running on the CPU, and still enough to hold the model in VRAM.
Because in everyday life we do not formally define ideas.

Just for example I play a game with my children where we tickle each other when we see a yellow vehicle. Is a yellow tractor a vehicle for purpose of the game? How about a yellow baby cart. How about a billboard with a photograph of a yellow baby's toy car?

We honestly have more fun discussing what is a vehicle for purpose of the game than we do tickling. Especially when it becomes clear that a yellow baby carriage is a vehicle only if it is daddy to be tickled... Honestly a good lesson to learn early that life is not fair and that rules are subjective.
yes of course, I was trying (and failed?) to draw a connection from all_of to accumulate (i.e. fold).
I use it and find that it's a bit rough around the edges. Any tips to make the experience a bit better?
The assassination itself is one hell of an action, though.

Also, police has already said that they are concerned about the lack of cooperation from the public at large when it comes to success of the manhunt. The people who usually jump onto that kind of stuff are explicitly disengaging.

You can argue that this all does nothing wrt navigating the politics that would actually lead to change. But I think that, at the minimum, it creates some incentive for the people who work with those structures on a day to day basis to do so. If CEOs of healthcare companies are now a socially approved assassination target, apparently, what does it say about healthcare lobbyists?
Not too far in the future you will be able to drag and drop the position of the characters as well as the position of the camera, among other refiment tools.
My favorite example is Monty Hall problem. "Smart" people often use it as the evidence of how bad general people are at probability.

It really isn't. The problem is usually given in this form:

> Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice? [1]

The only correct ansewr to this question is "I don't know." People who answer yes are just taking way too many standardized tests.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
It being the reference to Freud that the article presents seems more likely.
And another thing that irks me: none of these video generators get motion right...

Especially anything involving fluid/smoke dynamics, or fast dynamic momements of humans and animals all suffer from the same weird motion artifacts. I can't describe it other than that the fluidity of the movements are completely off.

And as all genai video tools I've used are suffering from the same problem, I wonder if this is somehow inherent to the approach & somehow unsolvable with the current model architectures.
That could be - in my country religion and politics is literally a matter of life or death. We discuss them to no end.
Wow this is bad. And by bad i mean worse than leading open source and existing alternatives.

Is it me or does it seem like OpenAI revolutionized with both chatGPT and Sora, but they've completely hit the ceiling?

Honestly a bit surprised it happened so fast!
The hyperreals and surreals are actually isomorphic under a mild strengthening of the axiom of choice (NBG).

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/91646/surreal-numbers-vs-...

See Ehrlich’s answer.
The adage "a picture is worth a thousand words" has the nice corollary "A thousand words isn't enough to be precise about an image".

Now expand that to movies and games and you can get why this whole generative-AI bubble is going to pop.
There are a few more tolerant versions of JSON. In OjG I called the format SEN https://github.com/ohler55/ojg/blob/develop/sen.md
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"More or less" is the key and the rub. The specific semantics must be determined and utilized in place.

For me, the evaluation of the empty set should have separate semantics than that for how a non-empty set's elements are logically combined to produce a value.

This is the result of doing stats programming for grad students, doing lots of database design and programming, and lots of regular programming in imperative and functional languages.

The key is that we are always working within a context, and this problem's context involves both formal logic and regular old language. And, whew!, is there a disconnect and interference pattern.

What a delightfully unserious discussion!
I'll be back... with more name suggestions.
Bootstrapping works but – is it hurting not to fundraise instead?
I'm a first-time founder and originally planned to bootstrap my SaaS entirely. So far, I’m happy with the revenue growth, the team, and how things are progressing.

That said, everywhere I look in startup networks, there’s an overwhelming buzz around the availability of investor money. It feels like startups that raise are getting propelled forward at breakneck speed.

I don’t know many business-savvy people personally who I could ask for advice.

How can I be confident that my seemingly cautious approach is the right one?

Which is riskier:

Taking on investors who might turn out to be harmful to the business down the line, or
Being overly cautious in today’s fast-changing world and potentially missing opportunities?
Would love to hear your thoughts or experiences.
I felt this same way as image generation was rapidly improving, but I've been caught by surprise and impressed with how resilient we have been in the face of it.

Turns out it's surprisingly, at least for me, to tune out the slop. Some platforms will fall victim to it (Google image search, for one), but new platforms will spring up to take their place.
Actually it is exactly based on hypotheses that are verified.
At What Age Did You Become Less Physically Capable?
Some of these results have been on the arxiv for a few months (https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13687) -- are there any details on new stuff besides this blog post? I can't find anything on the random circuit sampling in the preprint (or its early access published version).
I thought it would be a trick question. If this person is a known liar, how do we even know he has any hats to begin with?

Person could really have a neon colored bowling ball and the statement “All my hats are green” is still valid.

I suppose the solution of A is valid assuming the physical object itself is not a lie.
As there was no mention of an API for either Sora or o1 Pro, I think this launch further marks OpenAI’s transition from an infrastructure company to a product company.