skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just an ad for their photo service. Which presumably has terrible search features, if it doesn't use AI to analyse them. That's one of the best features in Google Photos!
Have you ever heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_sugar_syrup ?

( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invertzucker#Verwendung )

It is listed on so many labels as ingredient that it is really hard to avoid.
Hangouts was the default SMS client in Android for a while, and it worked well enough as an SMS client that I never heard anybody complain about it. Much like iMessage, it could upgrade to internet-based messaging if both people in a conversation used it.

Where Google went wrong was bowing to pressure from carriers to stop doing that. Carriers had been much more powerful in the past, and I think Google failed to recognize just how fast their influence was waning.
But the nose was not heated
Show HN: Wheel Ball – Multiplayer game for the web
Tech stack:

- Passkey for registration and login

- JSON Web Tokens for game server authentication

- WebSocket for real-time notifications and tunneled communication between server and player

- WebRTC for real-time communication between host and players

- Web Crypto API for server configuration and player scores handling

Source code: https://github.com/MiguelRipoll23/wheel-ball

Feedback appreciated.
It isn't. Please note the last paragraph of my much-maligned post:

"There are legitimate and worthy reasons for which we should clean up our act. Climate change and saving the planet just happen not to be among them. Because it is impossible without violating the rules of physics."

As for reducing the magnitude of, as you put it, future damage, I very much doubt this is possible as well.

Loose quote from a research paper released by Google many years ago: Even if we were to deploy the most optimal forms of renewable and clean energy sources at a global scale, not only will this not reverse the problem, atmospheric CO2 will continue to rise.

Part of our reality is inescapable. For example, massive forest fires drive more CO2 into the atmosphere than lots of human activity. Around the world, there are fires in mines that have been burning for centuries (google it, you'll be surprised). Etc. We are kidding ourselves if we think that a bunch of measures that are but rounding errors at a planetary scale will have any impact at all in, as I like to put it, anything even remotely resembling a human time scale.

There are things we can do (and probably should do) that I think are likely to make for better and cleaner life all around without the fantasy of saving the planet or reversing climate.

One example of this is to seriously address the massive pollution created by container ships travelling our oceans every day. These ships burn bunker fuel, perhaps the worst thing one could burn. The stuff is horrible and the pollution it creates goes far beyond just CO2. I also learned that they contribute to something called "species pollution". They ingest all sorts of marine life into the ballast tanks at port A and pump it out at port B, transporting species clear across the planet, where they can and have done serious damage.

How to address container ships is a subject that requires serious discussion. It's a complex multivariate problem. Would all-electric ships be better? Massive hydrofoils (for more efficient transport)? Wind has been tried, it isn't as much help as one might think. Another optimization vector would be to eliminate them by distributing the production of material goods closer to their points of consumption. In other words, eliminate container ships (unlikely) or reduce the fleet by only transporting materials that cannot be sourced at the point of manufacture.

Again, these are complex problems. Their resolution, as a first step, requires leaving fantasy-land to then be able to discuss, evaluate and address reality. Only then will we we able to improve life, clean-up our act and live better. The value in these three desirable outcomes is self-evident to the point that they do not need to be justified by some fantastical imaginary doomsday scenario where all life on earth ceases to exist in, as some politicians have suggested, a dozen years.

I am all for being far better about how we behave on this planet. My problem is with creating a religion out of fantasies. Reality does not care about these things and keeps moving forward. It's almost like like stock market.
Why does a perf difference factor into it? There is no requirement for a syscall to be this fast or else it isn't a syscall. If you have a hot loop you shouldn't be putting a syscall in it, not even on the CPU.
https://archive.ph/W7AVi
Yeah. I have to scrub every photo before I'll upload it. Even the 'remove properties' option in Windows can do some good.
January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all
Did you ever investigate the underlying cause?
Ilya very much had the same optimism about AGI during his time at OpenAI from my understanding.
Whether it happens or not, the cat is out of the bag.

Other countries will dive in. El Salvador is a great example of this. https://nayibtracker.com/

Don't forget, $MSTR is buying up all the supply they can get their hands on. https://saylortracker.com/
I gave the following advice to someone I was chatting with on tinder:

1. Remember that when you send pics through imessage, it sends the exif data which includes location, date when it was taken etc and other info.

2. Disable Live Photos as it often captures things you may not want to capture few moments before and after the pic is taken.
Yes, I do. I read the privacy policy of all the websites I sign up for. In fact, that is the exact reason why I never got a Facebook account. When I read their privacy policy when it first came out when I was an undergraduate student, I was horrified and never signed up.

Of course, that doesn't guarantee everything in this deceptive world, but it's the best I can do certainly.
Java has Spring/Java EE, what people typically call EnterpriseJavaBean and it has Vert.x, Quarkus, Micronaut which are complete opposite.
It is terrifying exqctly because it does hallucinate
Are machine learning image classifiers new to people? I don't get what's controversial here. How did people think they were searching their photos apps for beach and dog and getting automatic albums this whole time. Am I missing the point of this post/website?
> Not shown are the various assumptions they'll make about you based on your photos such as: gay, likely uneducated, high income earner, most likely republican, narcissistic, etc.

I uploaded a photo of myself as a child and based on the house in the background, the brand of shoes on my feet, and the clothes my dad was wearing, it flagged me as “middle class”, so at least one part of your claim is incorrect. I suspect this may be the same model google used internally
Making prints easily available could be a good business idea for a photo storage app
I would understand creating a reserve in a stable asset. Maybe the goal here is to stabilize bitcoin by attaching it to the US economy, in which case it skyrockets and billionaires can now exit, leaving all taxpayers as bag holders without any of the potential upside of holding actual btc.

But, if all of a sudden the US govt holds BTC, then it becomes cash equivalent, and all banks will start letting people cash out and bitcoin will then fully enter the economy as a first class citizen. Banks will put a ledger in front of their btc deposits and give you BTC credit/debit cards that run on Visa/Mastercard's network and let you pay for stuff without actually moving anything on the blockchain.
Most people don’t even know what machine learning even means or is.
sweet! thanks for posting
Password spraying attacks on NetScaler/NetScaler Gateway – December 2024
Who do you use for printing?
Everyone who's a permanent resident in Sweden gets a personal identity number, it's not tied to your citizenship. That would be illegal anyway, at least for citizens of other EU countries.

There's a lower-level, different number, which is less powerful, but easier to get.
this is a surefire way to have a monster midlife crisis. chasing money will all but ensure you don’t spend much time enjoying your life and come 40’s/50’s you’ll realize you can’t get burried with a pile of cash and possessions you made and midlife crisis will hit you like a truck.

to younger people - do the exact opposite of this. do as much shit before you hit 40/50, travel as much as you can, love as much as you can… money will come and go, your 20s/30s will never come again
> If humanity ceases to exist it will require 50K to 100K years per 100 ppm drop.

If we don't cease to exist we could do that in a lot less time than 50k years. We could do it, and a lot more, in under 2k years.

Assumption: we can indefinitely keep producing solar panels at a rate at least as high as current production. I will call the amount of solar panels currently produced in one year an "arseload" of solar panels.

If we produced 1600 arseloads of solar panels (which would take 1600 years at the current rate of production) and used those to build solar farms in the 5 largest tropical deserts, and used the power from those to power direct air carbon capture operating at the efficiency of current direct air carbon capture (DAC) technology they would be removing enough carbon at a rate that would reduce the atmospheric CO2 levels from 450 ppm to 280 ppm (pre-industrial levels) in 6 years.

If the captured carbon was stored as graphite and spread out evenly under that 1600 arseloads of solar panels (which seems like a convenient place for it) it would be a layer roughly 1 cm deep.

Note that at around 180 arseloads of solar panels powering DAC we'd be removing CO2 fast enough to be removing about 10% more each year than we currently omit so even if we can't manage to reduce fossil fuels if we can at least finally stop their growth we can start having CO2 reduction in a couple hundred years.

I've not done the math to figure out when a program of adding an arseload of solar panel powered DAC to tropical deserts every year would actually get us back to pre-industrial levels. It's somewhere between 200 and 2000 years, but I'll leave it to others to figure out where in that range it would actually happen.
A 15 trillion dollar boom prediction is the sort of thing that should end with an "or I'll castrate myself on live television" sort of collateral. Guess they all took notes from McAfee.
I uploaded a race photo and it said that I appeared economically comfortable because I was wearing running gear like a hydration pack.
> I'm not really sure who you're arguing against

I'm arguing against calling these photos art.

> But for the most part if you believe what you're doing it art, it's art— this is for sure a performance piece.

I understand this is the prevalent view in the 21st century. I'm not convinced it is true. And similarly just because I rent a place, put up a sign saying "Art Gallery" and put some things up for display, that doesn't mean those things are works of art. The emperor has no clothes and all that.
> Trivially false—humanity has already changed the CO2 ppm by larger, in a shorter span of time. For the most part without even noticing.

You are trivially confused: The time, energy and resources required to emit these gasses is insignificant when compared to what it will take to capture them back.

That's the problem, and that's what most casual observers refuse to think through and understand.

Go buy a 10 kg bag of fine flour. Walk around your home or office spreading the stuff everywhere.

Now clean up every single particle.

Easy to make a mess. Not so easy in time, energy and resources to clean it up. That's the problem.
And so we allow people to trivially circumvent the law by shielding themself behind a shell corporation, and never are consequences seen.
There’s no reason DisplayPort couldn’t do the same thing. The connector on the inside is basically identical.

That being said, although creative, it’s a pretty terrible idea. PCBs are not meant to be edge connectors. Especially if they aren’t designed for it (ie using hard gold on the edge connector plating).
> The root cause reason for this project existing is to show that GPU
> programming is not synonymous with CUDA (or the other offloading
> languages).

1. The ability to use a particular library does not reflect much on which languages can be used.

2. One you have PTX as a backend target for a compiler, obviously you can use all sorts of languages on the frontend - which NVIDIA's drivers and libraries won't even know about. Or you can just use PTX as your language - making your point that GPU programming is not synonymous with CUDA C++.

> It's nominally to help people run existing code on GPUs.

I'm worried you might be right. But - we should really not encourage people to run existing CPU-side code on GPUs, that's rarely (or maybe never?) a good idea.

> Raw C++ isn't an especially sensible language to program GPUs in
> but it's workable and I think it's better than CUDA.

CUDA is an execution ecosystem. The programming language for writing kernel code is "CUDA C++", which _is_ C++, plus a few builtins functions ... or maybe I'm misunderstanding this sentence.
I have broken a collarbone; gotten a bruise 18 inches long; destroyed (one at a time) almost every part on my bicycle; hit an armadillo and ridden to 90 miles with a 20 mile head-wind in the final 10 miles. I've been happy pretty much every time even through some of these incidents, often because I had other riders with me.

I don't intend to live forever.
Apple devices cost more in Europe, a jump high enough that you might as well consider the competition. I'm taking VAT into account.

That and, well... Google has been more supportive of EU countries than Apple. Apple maps was useless in the EU for a long time. Plus horrendous support across the EU. If you are in a big city, yeah you will find an Apple Store, otherwise tough luck.

It has nothing to do with craftmanship.
Scandal in Russian military town as new school is decorated with F-16 images
It uses a few mb of contiguous shared memory and periodically calling a function from a host thread. Unless you only want sprintf or similar in which case neither is needed. The unused code deadstrips pretty well. Won't help compilation time. Generally you don't want libc calls in numerical kernels doing useful stuff - the most common request was for printf as a debugging crutch, I mostly wanted mmap.
Almost* all of them. At the very least its worth hoarding until an opportunity comes up.

[*] Reduced from all.
Does anyone have a link to the non-paywalled full-text?
Why has Quanta degenerated into a mad combination of ineffective science communication and breathless, and slightly envious references to yoga retreats in the North of England. It's become a lifestyle magazine for the self-important, science-adjacent middlebrows. Most obviously, it's nerd-sniping for HN.

And before you _instinctively_ (it will be instinctive) downvote me to oblivion, please read the piece and assure yourself that it's not truly a piece of rote trash.
Oh wait it's an ad.
You can't measure nitrogen isotopes from fat, because it doesn't have any nitrogen. That comes from protein, so that's what they're measuring.
It's definitely sci-fi for now, but we can always imagine some far out way to store energy much more densely than antimatter. A huge amount of photons orbiting a micro black hole on its Schwarzschild radius, would only weigh as much as the black hole and let you store a potentially infinite amount of energy.
I know! It does AI!!
I suppose none of the others, which could have leveraged their existing userbase chose to follow suit because the companies that owned them did not have a way to make money from them. WhatsApp didn't either, but startups weren't expected to.
Sorry, I didn't know that PCB edge connectors were a terrible idea! I saw it on a PCIe slot before and thought it might work.

The other comment from @wtallis has a good point about electromagnetic interference (EMI). But I think it's shielded when it's plugged in, by the female connector.
yes, roaming coasts where still a thing inside the EU, so messaging relatives or friends while on holiday sucked because of the enormous pricing for roaming. (even while using SMS!. I remember paying rougly 30 euros to send a couple of hundred text messages and have a couple of minutes ( like half an hour or something) while on holiday in france.

thankfully, roaming got abolished in the first half of the 2010's thank to an EU directive, but at that time whatsapp was already very large across the EU.
Other replies saying the process doesn't actually work like this notwithstanding, there's a pretty clear difference between someone in their 80s with ongoing cancer and a physically healthy teenager.
Agreed, sure. Of course it's not subjective.

Is there a concrete physical example where the information-theory definition of entropy conflicts with experiment?
on the other hand, with better insulation you don't need the same BTU output
> a single Portuguese man-o’-war is composed of four or five separate animals.

Sorry, no. Just because they are not physically connected to each other doesn't make them separate animals. They are a single animal made of parts that happen not to be physically attached to one another. This is not uncommon in nature. Colony insects like ants and bees and termites are even more extreme examples of this. An individual ant (or bee or termite) is not an organism any more than (say) your spleen is. Most ants (or bees or termites) are sterile. They cannot reproduce. It is the colony that is the organism, not the individual insect.
This is bullshit. We, humanity, made a HUGE dent just in the last few decades, albeit in the wrong direction warming up our planet to dangerous levels. So we can't revert it back? Everybody knows that already, and that's not what it's all about. It's not about going back to previous levels, it's about damage control and keeping things at some survivable level, instead of burning it all to ashes within the next few decades.

So please don't make braindead, dangerous and lazy arguments that we can't make a difference. We are making a difference. We have to stop making a difference if we want to survive.
SambaNova: High-cost GPUs not fit for next phase of AI
No it isn't. A democracy only works with informed voters. The amount of lies and obfuscation spewed by Trump's campaign is a successful attempt to deliberately break democracy. They don't have a mandate to do much besides mass deportation because they didn't talk about firing the entire federal workforce during the campaign. Project 2025 does talk about that but Trump lied during the campaign and said he disavowed it.

I think oligarch Peter Thiel gave away the game in this clip at 3:26 where he says "you can make pro Trump arguments but that's the democratic question"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luTHVKFi3dc&t=3m24s
Anyone know how to contact the person responsible for that site?

Typo:

>Planetarv

should be "Planetary".
It cost ~$1 (initially a one time fee, later joiners paid annually). Depending on your SMS plan, that might be paid for with the first 10 messages you sent. There was zero additional cost to use to send a lot of messages, including pictures and group messages. This was quite different to most mobile contracts at the time
Definitely, thanks for the details. What do you mean by design partners?
"saving the planet" as a phrase is something I usually seem to hear more as a strawman against doing anything at all.

The advocates for taking action are usually talking about limiting damage rather than restoring anything.
Do you do any ML for Big Tech? Because it's actually a lot simpler than that: the input is the sum total of your activity, and the output is the likelihood that you'll click on an ad or buy a product on a specific surface. You certainly can predict demographic information like sexual orientation, education level, income, political party, and with a fair degree of accuracy, but all it does is add noise to the calculation you really want, which is optimizing the amount of money you'll make. To the extent that demographics are computed, it's to make advertisers feel better about themselves. They would almost always be better off with a blanket "optimize my sales" campaign, but it's hard for ad agencies and digital marketers to justify their existence that way.
KPMG Canada: Students using gen AI say they're not learning as much
This is really cool. I posted a photo of what I think was my great grandparents into it and it explained their circumstances in fascinating ways (to the point of mentioning aged clothing, a detailed I overlooked).

I’ve been trying to figure out how to process hundreds of my own scanned photos to determine any context about them. This was convincing enough for me to consider google’s vision API. No way I’d ever trust OpenAI’s apis for this.

Edit: can anybody recommend how to get similar text results (prompt or processing pipeline to prompt)?
It is a weird advertisement when Ente (the name of the service) will also see your photos.
The few I tried were pretty unimpressive. It felt like elementary deduction with a lot of filler words and few facts… and straight up bad information.
2012 was when the revolutionaries stormed the bastille and overthrew the old guard. But I say it was 2006 when the revolution started, when the manifesto was published: deep NNs can be trained end-to-end, learning their own features [1]. I think this is when "Deep Learning" became a term of art, and the paper has 24k citations. (Interestingly in a talk a Vector Hinton gave two weeks ago he said his paper on deep learning at NIPS 2006 was rejected because they already had one.)

[1] G. E. Hinton and R. R. Salakhutdinov, 2006, Science, Reducing the Dimensionality of Data with Neural Networks
than?

"In this experiment, we use Google Vision API to extract the story behind a single photo."
> Everyone who's a permanent resident in Sweden gets a personal identity number, it's not tied to your citizenship

Same in Denmark too. You get a "CPR" number, and can login to most government services (as well as some commercial ones) with "MitID" (my ID). It's quite convenient. I can even use my MitID to buy alcohol without having to interact with another human being in Rema 1000 using their self-checkout app.

Ireland—where I moved from—has a similar "PPS" number that all residents can get, although the online aspect is not nearly as well integrated as it is here in Denmark; it's slowly improving.
> your fb photo uploads

Don't forget other people's uploads. You don't have to use facebook to be on there. At one time not using it probably only served to make you more interesting to the system.
lovely! my personal belief is that midlife crisis is an exponential function of how many times in your life you said “I’ll ____ later”

- would love to travel, “no time/money/… now, will do it later”

- learn how to play an instrument, no time/money/… now, will do it later”

- have kids/family, no time/money/… now, will do it later”

- become UFC champion, no time/money/… now, will do it later”

then midlife hits and you haven’t left Bismarck, ND all your life, you play no instrument, have no kids (both you and spouse are now too old) and of course UFC dreams are long gone…