skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hunyuan and LTX both run on consumer hardware

Are there other versions than the official?

> An NVIDIA GPU with CUDA support is required.
> Recommended: We recommend using a GPU with 80GB of memory for better generation quality.

https://github.com/Tencent/HunyuanVideo

> I am getting CUDA out of memory on an Nvidia L4 with 24 GB of VRAM, even after using the bfloat16 optimization.

https://github.com/Lightricks/LTX-Video/issues/64
Cool idea. Very simple. I like it.

> There are of course many alternatives for declarative systems: from NixOS (which just doesn’t sound fun)

The linked drama in the NixOS discourse forum is sad to see. I'm a happy NixOS user and committer, but never find need to browse the forum.
Also because physical attributes are a key component of attractiveness, regardless of their actual utility.

We're not just economic units. We eat, we love, we breathe fresh air, we sleep. Even in a far-flung future, if we are still human, we are still animals.
those are well documented. i was talking about this statement

> People that were fine with Twitter interfering in elections and censoring people are now upset that X is interfering in elections and censoring people.

particularly

> are now upset that X is interfering in elections and censoring people

what are some examples of those same people being okay with this?

edit: i did a quick search and couldn't find any examples where the writer of this piece did what you claim.
Sure, but it is spoken about in the abstract. I enjoyed the article, but why not at least include "some" of the actual notes she wrote or at least a screenshot?
> Even ignoring the fact that programmatic access to translation seems to require payment, or that its parent company is doing the scraping (similar to how one would use CommonCrawl instead of doing the scraping themselves), I am actually in favor of taking in to account the intent behind it.

Does intent matter for the purposes of interpreting the laws here? I'm not criticizing your point, I'm genuinely curious if that matters (outside the context of fair use). I can certainly think of valid use cases that would not be considered fair use.

> The thing that I don't like, is the highly asymmetrical situation we're in with generative AI: because the result (the trained model) is not publicly accessible like a significant part of the content it was trained on; they only release a very limited interface to it.

I'm not sure that I agree with this one, given that most serious LLMs are free or very low cost to use, and in llama and phi-3's case pretty much just given away. Not a small gesture given the substantial expenses required to provide free access to some of these models.
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For all the things wrong with/bad about Apple's iron grip on low-level interfaces, in this case that's not the only reason:

MIFARE Classic uses a mandatory, proprietary (presumably still patented) encryption algorithm even for "world-readable" cards, on top of the ISO 14443-3 standard. I'm not even sure whether Apple could legally offer that capability without licensing it from NXP.

On Android, only devices with an NXP chip support these tags for the same reason.

You could argue that Apple could just provide even lower layer access to the contactless interface to allow apps to implement it in software, but I'm not sure if that's feasible (due to timing constraints).

(Note that the article doesn't specify which MIFARE tags it is about. If it's MIFARE Classic, something must have changed, and maybe Apple has licensed the required NXP patents? DESfire should work with iOS without jumping through any hoops, since that implementation is ISO 14443 compliant all the way up to -4.)
Don't run a website personally, set up a separate legal entity. The UK is one of the easiest places in the world to do this and has well-understood legal entities that fit the model of a community-operated organisation (i.e: "community interest company"). The fact that the OP is running such a large community as an individual is bonkers in the first place, independent of this new act.
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From the paper it looks like this is for read heavy workloads (testing write performance is "future work") and I think for network file systems which will add latency.
Another day, another nondescript product name on HN for Russian roulette clicking. Dare to say anything about it, get downvoted into a smoking hole in the ground (e.g. by webdevs who assume everyone else is), yadda yadda... I'm pretty convinced by now that it will never change.
I recently re-read Frederick Pohl's Plague Of Pythons which I will try hard not to spoil for you. In it there is not only the most evil set of villains that I've ever seen in science fiction based on dear Tellus, but they suffer muscular atrophy too.
it works well for the US as some 5 to 12% of the US army is composed by immigrants
I see, I saw the chart and 02-03 I thought that was the reg scheduled election date.
1.57 % in 2020.
After the invasion and with the 100 mio it is at 2%.
And the non-Google engines can't even begin to solve use cases that I find central to my search experience, because the Google results are based on user signals that the other engines are incapable of processing, even when I am logged in.

For example "When is the bus coming" does what I want on Google, does nothing of value elsewhere.
Here's the corporate backlash to Mass Deportations Now.

The deportations will be low in number, high in propaganda, just like The Wall.
Top lawyers at his company, Automattic, have been leaving: https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2024/12/02/for-the-sec...

The lawyer he retained for this case, Neal Katyal, is not a sympathetic figure to a lot of people: https://newrepublic.com/article/160481/neal-katyal-depravity...
"Exercise mimetics" are fine. You need to look at the professional publications. It's a very active area of research, so things change rapidly.

The newest research: https://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/388/2/232.long

Here's a nice, but a somewhat obsolete review: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8728540/
PCB motor that survives 1.6B spins at 30k RPM
You're missing the point of low-code/no-code solutions. Those are intended to sold to executives who don't actually understand software, as proven by a prior history of buying other crap software. Whether it actually works or saves any money is irrelevant.
Not really as the structrure of most houses leaks. It can be done but you are doing a lot of work that is easy to skip
HN is for some reason utterly obsessed with the Germany decision to close it's nuclear power plants, even though they only ever contributed a small percentage and were replaced with about the same amount of renewables.

If there is any reference to a disaster, a catastrophe or poor decision(which there always is in any thread about Germany, even if it has nothing to do with energy), it's ALWAYS about Nuclear.

My favourite was a comment which unironically described it as "the most catastrophic peacetime decision in human history".
1000 years. Essentially 'static
Ask HN: How to Improve LLM Function Calling?
If we want to give an LLM access to external tools, it seems like the current best method is to use some form of function calling (tool-use in OpenAi’s case). This essentially provides the llm a context of a list of functions it can call and is prompted to return a structured output if it needs to call a function in the list. The backend code then catches these cases and renders the code and feeds in back to the llm. This is great for validating that LLMs can understand how to use different tools, but it seems to me that this setup is quite limited in actual use cases for several reasons:

1. It requires the developer to curate descriptions for the function (example below), what happens when you want to give it an entire private repository of functions?

Example of a function in OpenAi’s Tool-Use (https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/function-calling):
{
"name": "get_delivery_date",
"description": "Get the delivery date for a customer's order. Call this whenever you need to know the delivery date, for example when a customer asks 'Where is my package'",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"order_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The customer's order ID."
}
},
"required": ["order_id"],
"additionalProperties": false
}
}

2. What if your action requires a more sophisticated series of functions nested with each other? Currently LLMs output a single function call.

3. More complex use-cases require fine-tuning models to more accurately detect which functions to use/not use. Doing so requires some form of generation of synthetic data, which grows rapidly with the number of functions you give it access to.

I'm wondering if anyone has worked on better methods for function calling, specifically giving an LLM access to a library of functions without having to input each function+description? Feeding them as context also wouldn't work here given limitations in context windows, and RAG isn't able to understand the functions deeply enough.
Needs to read this in-depth over weekends. Have fully imersed into LLMs for the past 2 years, ignored system research.

This appears a very logical solution, i.e., use estimation service quality instead of resource metrics, for scheduling. This is also more or less a known facts in the recent years, as systems are becoming so complex and so distributed intertwined that scheduling based on host load concerns a minor factors of serving requests. It's like one grew taller, and need to worry not stepping on huddles, but not bumping heads into door frame.

But we do need this kind of research to fomalize the practice, and get everyone on board.

Google's applied research absolutely winning here.
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It's not, because "ironing out all the edge-cases" is orders of magnitude more expensive than just designing a system without edge-cases in the first place. What's cheap is getting away with not bothering: but then you end up with a tech demo, rather than a usable product.
No, exercise mimetics are drugs that stimulate the same biochemical pathways as regular exercises.
From Wikipedia:

> The act creates a new duty of care of online platforms, requiring them to take action against illegal, or legal but "harmful", content from their users. Platforms failing this duty would be liable to fines of up to £18 million or 10% of their annual turnover, whichever is higher.
FWIW I ran LLama 3.3 70B locally for fun, which took about 50 minutes thanks to not having a Mac nor several 4090s, and it gave me this:

The essay argues that the efficient markets hypothesis, which states that markets enforce efficiency and eliminate inefficiencies, is not always true in practice. The author provides numerous examples from various industries, including tech, shipping, and accounting, where companies and individuals have struggled to find reliable and high-quality products or services due to information asymmetry and market failures.

The essay suggests that this is often due to cultural norms and expectations that prioritize short-term gains over long-term quality and reliability. As a result, companies may be forced to "build" rather than "buy" solutions in order to get what they need, which can be costly and inefficient. However, the author also notes that building instead of buying is not a panacea, and that dysfunctional teams and organizations can still produce poor products.

Ultimately, the essay argues that trust, both within and between companies, is essential for creating efficient and effective markets, and that cultural norms and expectations play a significant role in shaping market outcomes.
Seriously. As the article states, while everyone else was like "Wow cool we will make a machine that makes calculating things easier"

Meanwhile Ada over here going "Oh shit this can do literally anything that can be done by steps of math. Someday machines following that formula will make music"

Ada is not the first programmer. Ada is the first computer scientist. She understood the ramifications of what we would eventually call "turing complete" systems, and understood the value of "general purpose" in a general purpose computer, and seemingly understood that more than just numbers could be represented and calculated in a computer.
Did you find UpWork worth pursuing? I looked at it briefly and it seemed like a race to the bottom on compensation.

What type of blogging are you doing? I'm curious how companies would find that and decide to hire you.
Anyone know if these long think-pieces by extremely busy extremely powerful people are ghost-written or self-written? And if they are ghost-written, why doesn't the ghost-writer (e.g. Obama's "speechwriter") get to share in the writing credit?
Those are really unpleasant and dangerous to take and basically not an option for half the population though
I love this! Such a cool idea, and such a great resource.
What we need is a legislative budget. Currently there is no limit to the number of laws a person may be subjected to. The amount of law increases every year and will continue to increase until the whole system collapses. We have seen this happen with the fall of the soviet union for example.

Personally, I think the limit should be 200k words. Perhaps half fed half state/local. Moby Dick is 206,052 words long. Even if the limit were a million words, that would be about the length of the harry potter series.
Did you compared europes combined economic and military capabilities with those of russia lately?

If it weren't for the nukes, no one would talk about russia so much. China would be a different story.
Show HN: Claude and Apple Notes integration using MCP
Hi all,

With MCP (Model Context Protocol) announcement, it is now possible to plugin local system to Claude. So, I decided to use JXA to pull content from Notes.app, turn them into embeddings locally/on device using Transformer.js and store them in a local LanceDB database so we can build a proper RAG on top of it (mixture of semantic and BM25 search).

Hope some of you find it useful!
I love Home Assistant but I now have a pretty strict minimum effort rule after years of configuring integrations and building dashboards that I would forget about after 2 months:

I only do automations (no dashboards at all), and try to keep them as simple as possible. Once I feel I’m reaching diminishing returns territory, I stop.

Only use HA if I need to mix different vendors (e.g. turn on the hue lights if the tuya sensor switches to on) or if the vendor app/service has a limitation that doesn’t allow me to do what I want. For instance, I have some automations for my Mitsubishi airco units cause their app sucks. Otherwise I’ll just use the default app or service.

Only configure an integration if I’m going to use it in an automation; I have a bunch of integrations detected that I don’t configure.

I decided to follow these rules a couple of years back, and since then I could address all my needs with almost 0 maintenance.
Once again, Claude wins.
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I am firmly in the camp of jq because (a) I am able to bring my years of muscle memory to this problem (b) jq is without a doubt more expressive than jsonpath (c) related to the muscle memory part I have uncanny valley syndrome trying to context switch between jsonpath and jmespath (used by awscli for some stupid reason) so it's much easier to just use the one true json swiss-army tool upon the json those clis emit
Personally, I think it's bonkers that an individual can't run an online forum.
I suggest you read about it again. It was about geo-centric vs helio-centric models. It was not about flat vs globe.

The geo-centric model assumed the earth was spherical but it didn't rotate or otherwise move.
Wonder how long it takes before someone comes up with an AI to identify graffiti artists and cluster their artworks. It would be trivial to extract their activity map then.
33 years here, and that's *exactly* where I am. Emacs... is fine. I mean, there are new features occasionally that are worth using. There are new paradigms it would be nice for it to support. But major architectural changes just seem silly. It's *done*. How many pieces of software ever get to say that? How many of those are entering their fifth decade of popular use?

Just leave elisp alone. I see nothing but grief and churn in this direction.
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Discussed at the time (of the article):

What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17797003 - Aug 2018 (52 comments)
Fabian Giesen's name jumped out at me on the page, not sure why but that was pretty surprising to me (he's normally writing about compression / graphics / maths).
They also had a good chunk of the web text indexed, millions of people's email sent every day, Google scholar papers, the massive Google books that digitized most ever published books and even discovered transformers.
Then, while we are at it, why not put strawberries, mangoes, or bananas on pizza? Why stop at pineapples?

I also take issue with the idea that there are just five cardinal flavors. There are many, many more, which cannot be expressed in terms of these five, especially in the savory category.

Think of the flavor of meat, spices, and pepper. They are all fundamentally different, and yet would be bundled under savory in the 5-flavor scheme. The word "spicy" itself has two distinct meanings.
AI can already do everything you can imagine, and more
Oh, the appendix part is such a poignant description of the US society. It is perfectly acceptable to be enriched at someone's cost because they should have known better

If it's not both parties benefitting from a transaction then let's name it straight - it's a scam.
Efficient markets enforce efficiency. The trouble is that purely efficient markets are very much a spherical cow—they're useful for modeling reality in some simple simulations, but they miss an awful lot of detail and that can lead to very bad conclusions if you take them too seriously.
That's for card emulation. This article is about using iOS devices as readers.

ISO 14443 card reader functionality has been made available some iOS versions before, but it's still restricted (e.g. you can't select any "payment" ISO 7816 applications, you have to predefine the list of AIDs you want to be able to select, and you don't have lower layer access to ISO 14443).

I'm not aware of any announcements to further open up "reader" mode.
Most people don't have time to wade through that amount of bureaucratic legalese, much less put it into practice.
I like and respect the OP and their work. I do not think this is consistent with his previous levelheadedness.

edit: removed unintentional deadnaming
I tried it and got an error dialog with "Failed to generate resume. Network Error". I'd be happy to help you debug. My contact info is in my profile.
Show HN: LLM Chat, Image Generation, & RAG – free, no account needed
You wrote this in present tense:

> Although I may not have the exact reason the domain was banned, I've been around long enough to observe that everytime a 404media.co article is posted and gets traction, the comments unanimously complain about the paywall and it gets flagkilled.

So I thought this is what you meant by shadowbanned.
A fair number of sites hosted and operated outside the European Union reacted to GDPR by instituting blocks of EU users, many returning HTTP 451. Regardless of whether you believe GDPR is a good idea or not (that's beyond the scope of this comment), the disparity in statutory and regulatory approaches plus widely varying (often poor) levels of 'plain language' clarity in obligations, and inconsistent enforcement, it all leads to entirely understandable decisions like this and more of a divided internet.

Thank you to those who have tirelessly run these online communities for decades, I'm sorry we can't collectively elect lawmakers who are more educated about the real challenges online, and thoughtful on real ways to solve them.
Of course they agreed. It is like little boys and cutting digs. They just love that shit!
Ohh and I would like to be able to tell it not to keep featuring photos of my ex wife years after the divorce.
Exactly, couldn't agree more. See my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42433881
> It's extremely hard to communicate long distance underwater, especially to do so discreetly.

How does existing submarine cable infrastructure carry communications to subs?

Low-frequency AC current in the shield, data picked up magnetically?
The example of a "Renaissance palace chamber" is very historically inaccurate by around a century or two, the generated video looks a lot like a pastiche of Versailles from the Age en Enlightenment instead. I guess that's what you get by training on the internet.
> I have the freedom to read what I want. You're telling me I don't

You don't. This is not a legally protected right in any US jurisdiction. Period.

> This isn't about freedom of speech

Correct, because this isn't speech and "freedom of speech" does not mean what you think it does. The right to freedom of speech enumerated in the US constitution is generally interpreted to mean that the government cannot punish its citizens for speaking out against the government. That's really all you're guaranteed. This has nothing to do with censorship, and in fact censorship in general is quite accepted in US law. You quite plainly do not have the right to unrestricted access to any information you want. No law even suggests that. Just for starters, we regularly ban books at the state level. In some places, you can be arrested for possessing certain materials. Perfectly constitutional.

Freedom of speech does not mean you can say or print anything with no consequences. See libel.

Freedom of speech does not mean you can read or posses any information you want. See classified materials, state secrets, illegal materials such as CSAM.

Freedom of speech means that the government can't put three generations of your family in a concentration camp because you tweeted once that the president sucks.
My life, growing up, was: lockblox (v legos), construx (v meccano), vectrex (v nintendo), macintosh (in 1985!), etc. My dad is epically contrarian.
I think it's interesting to consider how humans would go about this task ("Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle"), and how well they would do if they had to output the SVG into a text box without any other tools. Considering that, I think Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o did incredibly well, and even the others might be commended for making a valid SVG at all..
They didn't use macroscopic magnets to form the alternate pattern or the swirls, and they are stable. If you have a link to a YouTube Channel with a similar result, it would be nice to see it.

Also, do you have a link to the arxiv post of 2021? It's a lot of time. This article looks like studing how to "see" the pattern. Perhaps the old one was about the material and general properties.
When we get to that point we will have the right methods to sculpt our bodies as we like. It's a matter of hormones or some other biological hack.
No, they are not. The entropy of an ideal monatomic gas depends on the mass of its atoms (see the Sackur–Tetrode equation). And a gas mix is not an ideal monatomic gas; its entropy increases at the same temperature and volume compared to an equal volume divided between the two gases.

Also, entropy is not the same thing as heat capacity. It's true that I didn't describe the entropy measurement process very well, so I may have been ambiguous, but they are not the same quantity.