skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is this, Elder Scrolls science? Those are some terribly low-quality uncanny valley face models... if I were in the study I'd answer whatever I had to just to get out.
I'd bet a lot of money it's not running anything significant on device AI-wise, maybe a speech model, but not anything in the key assistant pipeline that wasn't there in 2020.
Reminded me of https://www.runningreality.org/#01/01/1855&47.60530,-122.334...
Insurance companies in the US have armies of doctors whose sole purpose is to deny care to sick people. CA health system is less fucked, but no reason to think this system is exempt from various forms of corruption. Families wanting to fast-forward their inheritance, romance scammers trying to marry people who they can manipulate into this, doctors who want to get rid of difficult patients. That's just off the cuff what I could think of.
Textual 1.0 Release
> false the chance of getting cured and not needing any more visits is big enough that the risk factor doesn't get a chance to grow

In general, most mental health issues are chronic, and need multiple visits. In this case, that's part of the problem, as C.AI becomes more trusted over time, but the chance of a hallucination occurring grows with the number of visits, both increasing the eventual likelihood of an incident and compounding the harm.

> the first instinct should be work on reducing the chance and magnitude of damage, instead of giving up entirely

The first instinct should be to prove this attempt at therapeutic C.AI _actually works_. Then we can work on improvement, but right now, that hasn't happened. We don't let people practice medicine without a license for some very good reasons.

My fears for AI therapy becoming a more accepted practice is that we know, from research, the act of _having a person care_ is part of what makes therapy work. Humans are social creatures, for better and for worse, and loneliness is almost as good a predictor for bad health outcomes as smoking. [1] We have no meaningful evidence that an AI is going to cure loneliness, nor lead to better health outcomes, but we do know that protracted social media usage does worsen mental health outcomes. [2]

As well, having a cheap substitute means the focus will be on getting the cheap substitute to work, instead of addressing the larger ongoing mental health epidemic and health care cost crisis. Getting the AI to work will become the new focus, rather than getting to the root cause and creating meaningful policies to create a better society where health care isn't out of reach and strong, healthy friendships with people are supported by infrastructure.

C.AI replacing therapists is huge step towards a future where people are unable to afford to talk to another person. This attempt to substitute therapists, who are professional people who care, is a huge step towards that future. Do you want a future where Medicare only gives access to a chatbot, rather than a human professional? I don't want that, and I hope you don't either.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/loneliness-poses-health-...
[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9915628/
Yup. And deserts are pretty good places to build massive solar farms.

The more mainstream way of thinking is to electrolyze water into hydrogen and oxygen. Which requires pure water (extremely pure; trying to electrolyze water is difficult and corrodes the anodes and such as is; doing it with salt water? Currently, disastrous, and I believe tons of money is being thrown at that problem with so far no satisfactory results). That means you waste a bunch of your energy on a desal plant just to get clean water out in your desert, and this gets you an ecological disaster as the briny mess (a desal plant converts energy and salt water into plain water... and a boatload of very highly concentrated salt water of course. As the dead sea and such can attest, that stuff pretty much kills an ecosystem, whereever you care to dump it).

I did some math and it's not that much water. But, hey, _its water_. It's more than enough to provide free and plenty water to the few people that live in these places. It's not enough to start farming alfalfa or whatever, though.
I really, really think folks are overthinking this.

This isn't a Comcast subscription. This is an enterprise software deal that costs many multiple thousands of dollars. Anyone that thinks that Carta was ever going to go "Oh, sucks to be you, you couldn't schedule your cancellation meeting before the renewal date, well, tough cookies, you have to pay us $18k for your next contract year" simply doesn't know how enterprise software deals work. There is no need to get a lawyer involved because all you have to do is call up Carta and say "Your shit is broken, there are no cancellation meetings for weeks."

To emphasize what I put in some of my other comments, sure, Carta needs to fix their shit, and I think the Techcrunch article is making it more about the fact that you have to have a cancellation meeting in the first place (which is a valid compliant), but this idea that it's some deliberate form of "dark pattern gotcha" just belies a misunderstanding of how enterprise software subscriptions work.
Just exactly which medical system has collapsed?

Things need improvement but perhaps you aren't aware there's like 12 different medical systems up here...
Accompanying blog post: https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2024/12/12/algorithms-for...
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42396733
Malaysia's internet crackdown forces creators to self-censor
We still have that and it is awesome. PHP is better than ever.

In serious emergencies I even sometimes end up quickly SSH-en to a prod server and changing the file directly. Which is kind of horrifying but hey customer is happy it got fixed immediately and I get to relax and take my time to write a proper fix. Beats sweating and watching the pipeline build and asking around for people to approve my merge request.
Non-tech goals are a bit simpler:

- Job stability

- Commit to gym

- Save XX,XXX etc

- Buy a car
Okcupid (the old fashioned dating site) used to have an amazing blog on the data science of dating before Match.com bought them and shut it down :(
How did copy-pasting text between programs fit in the initial shell design ? You can't paste from a remote tmux to a local one, you can't mouse-copy multiple lines from a vim vertical split, etc. Where's the terminal clipboard that works across programs ?
Not just recorded, the information needs to be publicly available. I shouldn't have to request this stuff, it should be transparently available and searchable. If we're going to use my tax dollars to fund the surveillance state at least give me the data.
LangChain is great for finding out who has a clue.
I think what you want is a short-circuiting behavior.
I don't see a problem with the status quo, if map is able to short-circuit, that means that it runs in order and have side effects.
If your "map" can cause the whole function to return, then just write a for-loop.
I don't even know if it should return from the whole function or just stop the mapping?
Oh there is more to humanity than that. For example the history of europe with even yamnaya, corded-ware, EHG, ANF all looked different with different heights, skin tones, skull shapes, cultures, etc as well.

And this is from around 3000 BC. Modern european as you know it (admixture wise) would likely be fully formed at around 400 BC
I don't make any calls related to assisted dying; I'm referring to what the law states.
It wasn't surprising that NNs got Nobel in Physics
> For cars the US does have Tesla (...) We also have (...) a pretty great rocket company

And yet you all wish you didn't. Well, maybe not everyone, but it's the dominant view.

This brings back a memory of a HN comment from a little over a decade ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7885128

I'll just quote it in full:

<quote cite='natural219'>

If you want to track the death of the cultural vision of Silicon Valley -- the belief that some people, at least, can rise above petty human squabbling and competition and are legitimately working to better humanity -- look no further than this thread. Every top comment is a skeptical one. "This is clearly a great PR move, but has no teeth." "How do you enforce this guarantee?" Etc.

These are reasonable questions, but as Shaw said, all progress comes from unreasonable men. I cannot help but be fundamentally depressed as I read these comments. In my view, Elon Musk has, moreso than any other human except maybe Bill Gates, given every absolute inch of human effort and genius to fight to solve the world's biggest problems. And all we have for him, after benefiting freely from the fruit of his labor, is skepticism. We want more. It's not enough. It's never enough.

Yes, Tesla Motors is a company operating in a media-hyped 2014 America. I know some of you are butthurt that he engages in the same "dishonest" PR tactics that other companies do. GET THE FUCK OVER IT. The end product he's producing will save humanity. That all of America has not rallied behind Musk and Tesla as the most important movement and achievement in the last 100 years of human history absolutely blows my mind.

Not only do we not recognize his goals or his achievements, we actively try and bring him down and shit on his accomplishments. "Well, they invented a pretty cool electric motor, sure, but they were kind of dishonest in that one press release that one time."

Go fuck yourself.

I want to say "I'm done with Hacker News", but we know that's not true. I'm supremely disappointed in all of you. Godspeed, Musk. I thought this was a great announcement, and I'm behind you 100%. I just hope you can finish your work before our shitty, myopic, destructive society tears you down. Here's to faith.

</quote>

Elon Musk may have changed for the worse since then, but nowhere near as much and as fast as our "shitty, myopic, destructive society", and in particular the Internet commentariat.
Cute idea, works only in a very narrow range of scenarios, namely: dense urban without strong near-CW interferers: It has a sensitivity of -70dBm, so it misses >50dB of the bottom dynamic range, present typically in urban indoor and also in non-urban areas. And it get saturated by any strong signal, so it will fail near FM stations, microwave links, and any other transmitter with near-constant signal. This type of wideband non-rf-filtered design usually has too many failure modes in real-world tests to become an actual useful product.
Ask HN: Cell phone white light pollution
I'm just starting to get into astronomy later in life, and am using apps on my phone to locate various planets, stars, and other astronomical features to look at. However, the white light from the phone is a bit distracting (e.g., my wife might be using the phone to locate while I'm using the telescope or vice-versa).

For now we've been just using plastic, red filters over our screens. What I was wondering was two-fold under the presumption that there are no stupid questions :-)

First, do any stargazing apps combat this at all by actually only using the red channel? Or maybe there's an iOS/Android "plugin" or system setting that can act as a pixel shader emitting primarily only the red channel?

Second, I've found myself wondering if that would even matter, or if the screen would still be emitting white light regardless of any color channel filters being applied by the renderer?
No I don't find it credible. I do find it credible that Jones would latch on to it out of reasons devoid of personal malice, and that even if he thought it wasn't true he would still be incapable of anything other than obsessing the anti-viewpoint presented by the government, if you know anything about the guy.

It is important people like Jones exist, even if what they spout almost all the time is vicious lies that nutjobs cite to harass people. Someone needs to bear the banner of the conspiracy angle, and drum up whatever evidence they can find.
After one year of coding an MVP, I launched this year on February 17, 2024.

After the AI boom, I noticed that a lot of website generation tools launching like SpaceX! These builders didn’t offer anything than what you could already do with WordPress, WIX and Squarespace.

Since I am always hungry to build new SaaS and help others put their ideas into algorithms, I wanted to build a SaaS and not just a website generation tool that I wouldn't even want to use even if it’s free.

I wanted it to be a SaaS builder and give founders control over their build as much as possible. I built a full web-editor where you can add pages, sections, change colors, text, images (nothing special here but founders have full control of the front-end website). I also built a “Custom Task Manager” for custom engineering features that are for a one-time fee and are built onto the informative website by the engineer.

I also wanted a way for founders to trust the process and not have to pay a big bunch at first. Founders have created small tasks such as a custom sign-up pop-up that reads users from an excel and displays results. The cost of such a feature is great for founders on a budget or for someone who is looking to check if this is real and then grow and scale. I wanted founders to have no customization limits and own their custom API’s code and database. PagePalooza was born.

I am super grateful to have worked with multiple amazing founders with building their apps and that I will be writing about after the holidays since I am hoping that it could also get them some traffic after the holidays. Founders are controlling their front-end websites, creating custom tasks and paying for less than a year worth of subscriptions on other SaaS builders. Hoping next year will be better for everyone and happy holidays!

Stats:

According to Google Analytics - 3.2K Users since launch. $0 paid Ads. Full on SEO.

Built With - .Net Core and Angular.

First Paid Client - Mid June - June Peeked With Visitors around 300 in 1 week. I was consistent with blogs, social media posts, and videos (YT + Shorts, Instagram, TikTok) that I created daily on Canva. Hoping this could motivate others to keep learning, adjusting and being consistent.
We would watch 5-7 of them take off and fly the exact same route. They weren’t police drones. They’re training.

Edit: my $dayjob is unmanned vehicles
So… we should limit both? I mean McDonald’s is awful, both in taste and quality.
But my questions aren't extremely general, i even asked very specifically if you are supposed to attach an external programmer to the component like keyboard or cam etc but you can't even answer that. You can't even give one example. Are you saying there is nothing at all in common with different device models like camera model b and camera model c? You don't physically manipulate with them in any way? Don't attach anything or what? Or do you shine a light on one model and breath on another? When you can't even make one example that makes it hard to believe you. You are just constantly deflecting and refusing to explain. It just seems like you are spreading FUD when you say it can be done but wont explain how. I'm not even asking for full step by step instruction, just a simple overview of what kind of process it is in general.
But now you're arguing for right-to-repair laws or similar rather than prohibiting manufacturers from making direct sales.
These are all excellent examples of how MAID should be used, I think the concerning thing is the widening of the eligibility criteria - especially when things like mental illness start to make you eligible.

Like... If your illness makes you suicidal... Is offering assisted suicide REALLY the best we can do? That starts to feel a lot like "eghh you're too hard for society to care about... We'll just let you die".

As horrible as this might sound, often it's failed suicide attempts that actually are the catalysts for people being able to get their lives back on track... What happens in a society where the government helps facilitate suicide and there's never any "attempts" anymore... Just successes...
> doesn't come anywhere near capturing real-world variation affecting sexual and romantic behavior.

I haven’t even looked at the images myself. But just speaking from personal experience - sometimes one can feel more attracted to the person who doesn’t look as conventionally attractive. Some people see a person who looks like a supermodel and they immediately think “I have zero chance” and so they don’t really feel any attraction. Then they see someone of (judged by conventional standards) more average looks and they feel like they actually might have a chance with them, and that feeling makes them feel attracted to them.
Ah, got it mixed up with GLONASS.
>They stated that they see specifically a lot of Mullvad ads. Not general VPN ads.

I've only seen VPN ads from one company actually plastered in metro stations and inside subway cars: Mullvad. I've never seen physical ads for any other VPN provider.

I've seen lots of horribly annoying ads (or "sponsor segments") from various other VPNs, and I'm sure I've blocked orders of magnitude more of them by using SponsorBlock. But for real, in-person ads? Only Mullvad.

I'm not criticizing Mullvad here. In fact, this is probably a smart strategy on their part: if you're too clueless to use an ad-blocker online, you're not going to see other VPN providers' ads very much. But if you're highly privacy-focused, you'll already be using an ad-blocker and probably SponsorBlock too if you watch YouTube videos, so you really won't see other companies online ads much. But you can't miss physical ads on your subway ride. Their ads are also cute and clever, pointing out that a piece of paper stuck to the wall isn't tracking you the way most internet advertising does.
I got a newish RF cat tracker lately and really like it: https://tabcat.com/

It's not app or Bluetooth based (has an included detector) and it works pretty well. Battery is supposed to last a few months. It easily fits on a cat collar and doesn't bother mine at all. I've been looking for something like this for years and someone finally made one!
Here in Canada it begins, the glorification of death necessitated by socialized healthcare. It's horrifying the kinds of propaganda people will write for just a little bit of power isn't it?
> This seems to me like good enough safeguards, don't you think?

No. I think it’s too much.

Nobody else should be deciding that my mind is unsound.

And if my body being “unsound” is a reason that makes it OK to want to die, why should an “unsound” mind be different?
> ASPDAC ’25, January 20–23, 2025, Tokyo, Japan

> Experimental results demonstrate that our design maintains a top-1 accuracy of 70.95% on the ImageNet dataset and achieves a throughput of 1627 images per second on a single Alveo U280 FPGA, outperforming other FPGA-based MobileNet accelerators.

Well, other accelerators are smaller with fewer resources and apparently cheaper.

The conference is yet to be held, but the hardware is already obsolete.

Alveo U280 (launched 2019) is obsolete according to digikey and not mentioned on [1], page [2] is gone.

V100 GPU is outdated (launched 2017) either. Last prices (with VAT):

- V100: 7000 / 8900 / 9800 Euro (seems to be still available)

- U280: 10200 Euro (only 16 GB instead of 32 GB) (seems to be not easy available)

vs. prices from the article:

- V100: $11458

- U280: $7717

Looking at performance:

- nVidia V100 GPU: 112TFLOPs (FP16 Tensor)

- AMD RX 7900 XTX GPU: 131 TFLOPs (FP16) (not obsolete!) for 1000 Euro

Comparing an FPGA solution to an affordable and very easy available GPU would be more practical.

[1] https://www.amd.com/en/products/accelerators/alveo.html

[2] https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/alveo/u280.h...
In that it's tricky to identify the right mean to measure the regression against.
I would love for this to be a thing, but it’s always going to be super niche. There have been other similar tools, with limited success: Nomad List, Doppler, TripIt’s now-gone social features, Apple’s Find My. So far, the best way has just been to share travel plans in friend chat groups.

I just connected Mozi to my nearly 1000 contacts and it found zero matches, meaning I’m the first one in my network to use it. I suspect to be solo for a very long time.
I could see making the decision and then chickening out as soon as it was time to get to business.
That's just it: I wouldn't trust myself to be expert enough to do it properly. That, of all the things I might be asked to experience in life, begs for a knowledgeable, caring expert. You're right, of course, but that raises the endlessly fascinating question of why more people don't make that choice.
Android privacy improvements break key attestation
Why does it matter the language? C++ built in the tooling to allow hot swapping, no?
"We Need This Done in a Hurry " How to Prepare for a Rushed Project
I was assuming that VR headsets or AR glasses would become mainstream at some point, like smartphones or tablets, with various Chinese manufacturers competing for the best price. But maybe you are right and that's too optimistic.
A while back on a similar story about English scrabble posted here, someone commented with a story about how they were in a tournament where their opponent played some super esoteric word, and then they played the word "twig", which their opponent immediately challenged.

I have to imagine that at the highest levels play, people who are good at memorization will dominate regardless of fluency.
Ukrainian state of 1917-1921 is unfortunately missing on the map
The Paper Billionaire Argument
Isn’t fuel on satellites very limited?
I honestly can’t tell if you’re serious or not.
FUTO is mediocre with swiping and predictions in my experience, but the 70M parameter voice model is stunningly good at 30-second voice to text. It has completely changed how I think about using my phone to draft prose - my first drafts are now often from my phone, snippets collected in moments when it occurs to me on-the-fly. It's been a really significant shift in the utility of my phone, and because it's installable through F-Droid, I have it on my Amazon tablet, and Boox reader. It's worked really well across all of them.
Google unveils unique and eco-friendly mass timber office
> Just insist on Lean (or some other formal verifier) proofs for everything

Lean is too inflexible for this, in my opinion. Maybe I'm not dreaming big enough, but I think there'll have to be one more big idea to make this possible; I think the typeclass inference systems we use these days are a severe bottleneck, for one, and I think it's very, very tedious to state some things in Lean (my go-to example is the finite-dimensionality of modular forms of level 1 - the contour integral is a bitch and has a lot of technicalities)
In regards to Figure 3 I think the most easily observable difference, particularly by comparing men's short-term prediction and women's long-term preference, is the inner eyebrows' tilt and upper eyelid height.

Also the chin is slightly shorter and less sharp in the women's preference in both short and long-term cases. But yeah it's true that the women's replies seem to not deviate that much from the neutrally dimorphic male face.

Otoh it's surprising to see how both men and women thought the preferred female faces have to possess more than double the neutral dimorphic one.
thank you, I came looking for this as well and didn't want the predictable community drama of asking or pointing out how the article fails
Ahem https://lichess.org/@/lichess/blog/introducing-maia-a-human-...
Bureaucracy is usually added for the win. But people only notice when it's not.
Nice. The excitement certainly is there in some circles. <checks date> wasn't one of the biggest lessons learned over the past 15 years not to build your product on top of someone else's platform? Yeah yeah, I know this is more open/protocol...but still. Who's going to take the plunge especially with Bluesky developing in the open/making stuff up as the go like they have been. I'm happy to doing fun stuff with the API right now but every week something is changing/wonky so I'm wary to put any more effort in